 An ethnic Hani girl with a typical Hani headgear for children. Near Yuanyang, Yunnan Province, China. The Hani people (own name: Haqniq, Chinese: 哈尼族 Hānízú, Vietnamese: người Hà Nhì) are an ethnic group. They form one of the 56 nationalities officially recognized by the People's Republic of China. They also form one of the 54 Vietnamese nationalities. There are 12,500 Hanis living in provinces Lai Chau and Lao Cai of Vietnam. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (900x585, 137 KB) Summary Typical daily attire of ethnic Hani (哈尼) in China. ...
Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (900x585, 137 KB) Summary Typical daily attire of ethnic Hani (哈尼) in China. ...
Rice terraces just outside of Yuanyang. ...
Yunnan (Simplified Chinese: 云å—; Traditional Chinese: 雲å—; Hanyu pinyin: ) is a province of the Peoples Republic of China, located in the far southwestern corner of the country. ...
Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (900x585, 105 KB) Summary An ethnic Hani (哈尼) girl with a typical Hani headgear for children. ...
Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (900x585, 105 KB) Summary An ethnic Hani (哈尼) girl with a typical Hani headgear for children. ...
Rice terraces just outside of Yuanyang. ...
Yunnan (Simplified Chinese: 云å—; Traditional Chinese: 雲å—; Hanyu pinyin: ) is a province of the Peoples Republic of China, located in the far southwestern corner of the country. ...
The Peoples Republic of China officially describes itself as a multinational unitary state and as such officially recognizes 56 nationalities or Mínzú (民族), within China: the Han being the majority (>92%), and the remaining 55 nationalities being the national minorities. ...
Lai-Chau is a province in northwest Vietnam. ...
Lao Cai is a city in Vietnam. ...
Over ninety percent of the Hani live in the Southwestern province of Yunnan, scattered across the Ailao Mountains (Chinese: 哀牢山) between the Lancang Jiang (Mekong River) and the Yuan Jiang (Red River, called Lalsa baqma in the Hani language, Chinese: 红河，元江). One half of the population is concentrated in the Yuanjiang Hani, Yi, and Dai Autonomous County Autonomous County (Yuánjiāng Hānízú Yízú Dǎizú zìzhìxiàn 元江哈尼族彝族傣族自治县), of which Yuanjiang is the capital. Yunnan (Simplified Chinese: 云å—; Traditional Chinese: 雲å—; Hanyu pinyin: ) is a province of the Peoples Republic of China, located in the far southwestern corner of the country. ...
The Aliao Mountains are located in Yunnan, China. ...
View of the Mekong before the sunset The Mekong is one of the worlds major rivers. ...
Flowing from China through Vietnam to the South China Sea, the Red River (Vietnamese Sông Hồng, Chinese Hónghé) is also known as the Yuan Jiang (元江, pinyin yuan2jiang1), which means Primary River. ...
The Peoples Republic of China has created, following Soviet nationality policy, a number of administrative divisions designated as autonomous, although many disagree of their actual autonomy. ...
Yuanjiang City (沅江, pinyin: YuánjiÄng) is a county-level city of Hunan province, in China. ...
The origins of the Hani are not precisely known, though their ancestors, the ancient Qiang tribe, are believed to have migrated southward from the Qinghai-Tibetan plateau prior to the third century AD. The Qiang people (羌æ—; Pinyin: qiÄng zú) are an ethnic group. ...
Qinghai (Chinese: é’æµ·; Hanyu Pinyin: ; Wade-Giles: Ching-hai; Postal System Pinyin: Tsinghai) is a province of the Peoples Republic of China, named after the enormous Qinghai Lake (Koko Nor). ...
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The Hani oral traditions state that they are descended from the Yi people, and that they split off as a separate tribe fifty generations ago. One of their oral traditions is the recital of the names of Hani ancestors from the first Hani family to oneself. The Yi people (own name in the Cool Mountain dialect: ê†ˆêŒ , official transcription: Nuosu, IPA: [nɔ̄sÅ«]; Chinese: å½æ—, Pinyin: Yìzú; the older name Lolo is now considered derogatory in China, though used officially in Vietnam as Lô Lô) are a modern ethnic group in China and Vietnam. ...
Language The language of the Hani is of the Yi branch of the Tibeto-Burman linguistic family. Oral tradition tells of an ancient written script, tradition says it was lost on the migration from Sichuan. They now use a romanization of the Luchun dialect as a written script.
Sample Text | Hani | English | | Aqsol liq yoqdeivq yoqpyuq bo, meeqyaovq ssolnei colpyuq qiq kov dei. Davqtavcolssaq neenyuq bel neema meeq ya siq, laongaoq meilnaol nadul meil e gaq ssol hhyul hha bavqduv nia. | All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood. |
External links - Hani gallery
- The Hani ethnic minority on China.org.cn
- ハニ和辞典 (Hani-Japanese glossary)
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