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Cao Miao Language
Cao Miao (; autonym: ') is a variety of Dong (Kam) according to Shi Lin (2012).Shi Lin ³ζ(2012). The Cao Miao language of three provinces and its relationship to Dong' Έηε‘θθηθ―θ¨εε ΆδΈδΎθ―ηε ³η³» In ''Minzu Yuwen'' °ζθ―ζ2012, no. 4. Beijing: China Social Sciences Academy Έε½η€ΎδΌη§ε¦ι’ Dialects include Liushi ("Sixty") Miao ε εθ, Sishi ("Forty") Miao εεθ, and Ershi ("Twenty") Miao δΊεθ (also known as Flowery Miao θ±θ). The Flowery Miao θ±θ do not consider themselves to be Cao Miao θθ, although their language is similar to Sixty Miao and Forty Miao (Shi 2012). Subdivisions There are various ethnic subgroups within Cao Miao (Shi 2015:7). *Inner Miao ε ι¨θ (or ε ε²θ / ε ε Ίθ) ('): 2 subgroups **Sixty (60) Miao ε εθ ('Shi (2015:42)) **Forty (40) Miao εεθ ('), also called Diao εζ (') *Middle Miao δΈι¨θ (or δΈε²θ / δΈε Ίθ) ('), also called Twenty (20) Miao δΊεθ (') or Flowery Miao ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
China
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and borders fourteen countries by land, the most of any country in the world, tied with Russia. Covering an area of approximately , it is the world's third largest country by total land area. The country consists of 22 provinces, five autonomous regions, four municipalities, and two Special Administrative Regions (Hong Kong and Macau). The national capital is Beijing, and the most populous city and financial center is Shanghai. Modern Chinese trace their origins to a cradle of civilization in the fertile basin of the Yellow River in the North China Plain. The semi-legendary Xia dynasty in the 21st century BCE and the well-attested Shang and Zhou dynasties developed a bureaucratic political system to serve hereditary monarchies, or dyna ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liping County
Liping County () is a county in the southeast of Guizhou province, China, bordering Hunan to the east and Guangxi to the southeast. It is part of the Qiandongnan Miao and Dong Autonomous Prefecture. History The county was affected by the Miao rebellion of 1736-36. The county is home to many Dong people. *1322 (years to two years) set up a long lawsuit in Liping. The Liping government started to set up in 1413 to 1913, with a history of 500 years. *In 1283, eighty thousand people in the ancient state of the military and civilian (ancient state, this Leigh Bing Rory). To rule for two years (in 1322), the abolition of Zongguan Fu, Li Ping Village renamed Liping Zhai, in Ping lawsuit change Liping lawsuit, jurisdiction over 12 executive our, Huguang province state think appease our thought state, this cengong), Li Pingshi name. *On 1385, the abolition of Liping long lawsuit, built five Wei command division, military duct, administer 15 2 villages, 14 executive secretary. Ming Yongle e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rongshui Miao Autonomous County
Rongshui Miao Autonomous County (; Standard Zhuang: ) is under the administration of Liuzhou, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China. The seat of Rongshui County is Rongshui Town. It borders the prefecture-level divisions of Qiandongnan (Guizhou) to the north and Hechi to the west. Rongshui Miao Autonomous County is the only Miao majority county in Guangxi, with 40 percent of the total population representing the Miao nation. Demographics Rongshui County has a total population of 485,120 (2007). More than 70 percent of the population represents various ethnic minorities, such as the Miao, Yao, Dong, Zhuang and others. 40,81% of the total population belong to the Miao minority (2007). official website of Rongshui County ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jingzhou Miao And Dong Autonomous County
Jingzhou Miao and Dong Autonomous County (; usually referred to as Jingzhou County, commonly abbreviated as Jingzhou, ) is an autonomous county of Miao and Dong peoples in Hunan Province, China, the county is under the administration of the prefecture-level city of Huaihua. It was known as "Jing County" (), renamed to the present name on February 19, 1987. Jingzhou is located on the southwestern margin of Hunan Province, adjacent to Guizhou Province. It borders Jinpin, Liping and Tianzhu Counties of Guizhou to the west, Tongdao County to the south, Suining County to the east, Huitong County to the north. The county covers , as of 2015, It had a registered population of 271,403 and a resident population of 253,000. oahmhxc.com/ref> The county has six towns and five townships under its jurisdiction, the county seat is the town of Quyang ()., also see oxinhuanet.com/ref> Etymology The name "Jingzhou" appears on official papers dated 1103, when the local leader Yang Shengzhe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rongjiang County
Rongjiang County () is a county in southeastern Guizhou province, China. It is under the administration of the Qiandongnan Miao and Dong Autonomous Prefecture. Administration Rongjiang County is divided into 9 towns and 4 townships and 6 Ethnic townships An ethnic group or an ethnicity is a grouping of people who identify with each other on the basis of shared attributes that distinguish them from other groups. Those attributes can include common sets of traditions, ancestry, language, history, .... Guzhou Town is the county seat which houses Rongjiang County Government and Rongjiang County Council. *Towns: Guzhou (), Zhongcheng (), Zhaihao (), Pingyong (), Leli (), Langdong (), Zaima (), Pingjiang (), Bakai () *Townships: Congyi (), Pingyang (), Liangwang (), Jihua () *Ethnic Townships (all for the Sui people except Tashi): Renli (), Sanjiang (), Dingwei (), Xinghua (), Shuiwei (), Tashi Yao and Sui () A 2019 video clip of three young girls in Rongjiang county's Jiatui vill ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jingzhou
Jingzhou () is a prefecture-level city in southern Hubei province, China, located on the banks of the Yangtze River. Its total residential population was 5,231,180 based on the 2020 census, 1,068,291 of whom resided in the built-up (''or metro'') area comprising two urban districts. Jingzhou's central urban area has grown out of Shashi City and Jingzhou Town (historically also known as Jiangling); their names were preserved in the names of Shashi District and Jingzhou District, which include the city's historical center, as well as Jiangling County, which administers the suburban areas of the larger historical area of Jiangling. The name "Shashi" also remains in the names of a number of local facilities, such as Jingzhou Shashi Airport and a railway freight station. Toponymy The contemporary city of Jingzhou is named after Jingzhou (ancient China), ancient province of the same name, which was one of the nine provinces of ancient China. Said province was named after the nearb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Congjiang County
Congjiang County () is a county in Qiandongnan Miao and Dong Autonomous Prefecture, Guizhou, China. It is divided by the Duliu River (), the upper reaches of the Liu River, and borders Guangxi to the south. It is an important transit point as the first county inside Guizhou on China National Highway 321 between Sanjiang (Guangxi) and Guiyang, the provincial capital. A large bridge spans the river and connects the city's two halves. Languages In Congjiang County, Miao consists of the following three dialects (''Congjiang County Gazetteer'' 1999:129). *''Dialectal area 1'': parts of (); Zhaiping Township () of (); Shangang () and Gaodiao () of Bingmei () *''Dialectal area 2'': Zaibian (), Xishan () (similar to Rongshui Miao) *''Dialectal area 3'': Xiajiang (), Tingdong (), Kongming () Communities The county seat is known as Congjiang. The community of Biasha or Basha is within the county. The population are Miao people, and the residents are allowed under the Chinese govern ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tongdao Dong Autonomous County
Tongdao (the full name: "''Tongdao Dong Autonomous County''", ; usually referred to as "''Tongdao County''", ) is an autonomous county of Dong people in Hunan Province, China, it is under the administration of the prefecture-level city of Huaihua. Tongdao is also the 5th least-populous county of the province (after Shaoshan, Guzhang, Shuangpai and Yanling). Located on the south western corner of Hunan province, Tongdao borders Guizhou to the west and Guangxi to the south. The county lies in the southernmost part of Huaihua, it is the least populous and least densely populated county-level division of Huaihua. Tongdao borders to the northwest by Jingzhou County, to the northeast by Suining and Chengbu Counties, to the southeast and the south by Longsheng and Sanjiang Counties of Guangxi, to the west by Liping County Liping County () is a county in the southeast of Guizhou province, China, bordering Hunan to the east and Guangxi to the southeast. It is part of the Qiandong ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sanjiang Dong Autonomous County
Sanjiang Dong Autonomous County (; Standard Zhuang: ) is under the administration of Liuzhou, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China. It is a region traditionally inhabited by the Dong people, bordering the prefecture-level divisions of Qiandongnan (Guizhou) to the north, Huaihua (Hunan) to the northeast and Guilin to the west. It has an area of and a population of 297,244. official website of Sanjiang County Government Transportation * *Reach by bus from about 1.5 ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Naxi Yao Language
Nuoxi Yao (), or Nuoxihua π¦°‘ζΊͺθ―, is a KamβSui language of Nuoxi Township , Dongkou County, Hunan Province, China. Even though they are classified as ethnic Yao people by the Chinese government, the Nuoxi Yao speak a KamβSui language closely related to Dong. Shi (2015:132) considers Nuoxi Yao to have split off from Dong about 600 years. Names The Nuoxi Yao call themselves the '1See Proto-Tai_language#Tones for an explanation of the tone codes. (Shi 2015:107) or '2 '1 (Shi 2015:125), and refer to their own language as '1 (Shi 2015:107). The town of Nuoxi (the first syllable is pronounced ''nuΓ³'' in Mandarin (Shi 2015:107)) is referred to in the local Hunanese dialect as '2 '1. Demographics Shi (2015:107) estimates a total of 2,500 speakers and 5,000 ethnic Yao in Nuoxi Township. According to the ''Shaoyang Prefecture Gazetteer'' (1997), language varieties closely related to Southern Kam are spoken in Nuoxi , Dongkou County (which had 4,280 ethnic Yao in 1982 (Chen 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guizhou
Guizhou (; formerly Kweichow) is a landlocked province in the southwest region of the People's Republic of China. Its capital and largest city is Guiyang, in the center of the province. Guizhou borders the autonomous region of Guangxi to the south, Yunnan to the west, Sichuan to the northwest, the municipality of Chongqing to the north, and Hunan to the east. The population of Guizhou stands at 38.5 million, ranking 18th among the provinces in China. The Dian Kingdom, which inhabited the present-day area of Guizhou, was annexed by the Han dynasty in 106 BC. Guizhou was formally made a province in 1413 during the Ming dynasty. After the overthrow of the Qing in 1911 and following the Chinese Civil War, the Chinese Communist Party took refuge in Guizhou during the Long March between 1934 and 1935. After the establishment of the People's Republic of China, Mao Zedong promoted the relocation of heavy industry into inland provinces such as Guizhou, to better protect them fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yue Chinese
Yue () is a group of similar Sinitic languages spoken in Southern China, particularly in Liangguang (the Guangdong and Guangxi provinces). The name Cantonese is often used for the whole group, but linguists prefer to reserve that name for the variety used in Guangzhou (Canton), Wuzhou (Ngchow), Hong Kong and Macau, which is the prestige dialect. Taishanese, from the coastal area of Jiangmen (Kongmoon) located southwest of Guangzhou, was the language of most of the 19th-century emigrants from Guangdong to Southeast Asia and North America. Most later migrants have been speakers of Cantonese. Yue varieties are not mutually intelligible with other varieties of Chinese. They are among the most conservative varieties with regard to the final consonants and tonal categories of Middle Chinese, but have lost several distinctions in the initial consonants and medial glides that other Chinese varieties have retained. Naming The prototypical use of the name ''Cantonese'' in English ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
