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Xiangxi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture (湘西土家族苗族自治州; pinyin: Xiāngxī Tǔjiāzú Miáozú Zìzhìzhōu) is an autonomous prefecture of the People's Republic of China. It is located in western Hunan province. Zhangjiajie and Sangzhi used to be a part of this autonimous prefecture. It consists of 8 counties: Baojing, Fenghuang, Guzhang, Huayuan, Jishou, Longshan, Luxi, Yongshun. The capital is Jishou. Pinyin (拼音, pīnyīn) literally means join (together) sounds (a less literal translation being phoneticize, spell or transcription) in Chinese and usually refers to Hànyǔ Pīnyīn (汉语拼音, literal meaning: Han language pinyin), which is a system of romanization (phonetic notation and transliteration to roman script) for Standard Mandarin used in the... Prefecture, in the context of China, is used to refer to several unrelated political divisions in both ancient and modern China. ... Hunan (Chinese: 湖南; pinyin: ) is a province of China, located in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River and south of Lake Dongting (hence the name Hunan, meaning south of the lake). Hunan is sometimes called 湘 (pinyin: Xiāng) for short, after the Xiang River which runs through the province. ... Jishou is a city with more than 100 000 inhabitants in Xiangxi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture in Hunan province of the Peoples Republic of China. ...
The Tujia live along the Wuling Range in the Xiangxi Tujia-Miao AutonomousPrefecture and the Exi Tujia-Miao AutonomousPrefecture in Western Hunan and Hubei provinces.
In this prefecture, the Tujia are the "majority minority." On December 1, 1983, they established the Exi Tujia, MiaoAutonomousPrefecture in southwest Hubei Province.
The Tujia have a popular dance that is at least 500 years old-the Beishou.
The Miao (苗), also known as Hmong, are an Asian ethnic group whose homeland is in the mountainous regions of southern China (especially Guizhou) that cross into northern Southeast Asia (northern Vietnam and Laos).
According to Chinese legend, the tribe under Chiyou (蚩尤 chi1 you2) was defeated at Zhuolu (涿鹿 zhuo1 lu4, a defunct prefecture on the border of today provinces of Hebei and Liaoning) by Huang Di (黃帝 huang2 di4), leader of the Huaxia (華夏 hua2 xia4) tribe as they struggled for supremacy of the Huang he valley.
Qiandongnan Miao and Tong AutonomousPrefecture (黔东南), Guizhou
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