Tibetan students getting ready for their Xmas Party performance
There are 3 studio art depts- Chinese Painting, Sculpture and Oil Painting
The candidates...
One student couldn't make it today
Boys don't dress up
Pork Skin and fat, fish ,cauliflower with pork fat, celery with pork fat
Children wear pom-pom hats
The Lyrics-the Yao have their own spoken languange but not written
Steaming pork in bamboo
Intestines
We shared my Saltines
The Groom with his men
Fish and Pork- offering pork symbolizes welcoming the guests
The Red Hat Yao of 8 1 Village.
Pan Xiao Mei is Hong Tou Yao.
An unmarried girl wears a turban-red cone hats are for the married.
| Xishuangbanna literally means "twelve thousand rice fields". It straddles the Lancang River, has Asia’s last elephants, and is in a tropical climate surrounded by rainforest and most medicinal plants that are available in China. Returning here I had a sense of dread since the last time I was here for the Dai Water Splashing Festival my big camera got blessed by water and broke, and my smaller one got stolen. Panhu, which is also called Panwang and Pangu, is the name of a legendary dragonlike dog- a totem to the Yao people. Many Yao people believe that Panhu is their first ancestor. They worship, offer sacrifice, and gradually began to celebrate him during their Panwang Festival. The festival was being held in Yaoqu, NE of Mengla- one of the main counties of Xishuangbanna. On the way from Jinghong, the capital, I got a phone call from a lady from Mengla. Her daughter was doing her master’s at the minority school in Kunming, my teacher told her I was coming. She picked me up at the bus station and took me to her home. Her friends came by shortly after and drove us to Yaoqu. She was born there, is Yao minority, so we stayed in her relative’s house. The Yao are hunters so we ate a lot of pork roasted in bamboo. | |||
Dai Barbecue
Lunch-Yao fish, pork stewed in bamboo, chicken, cold noodles, pork skin, fried peanuts
Dinner
Dai Marinated Chicken Feet
Dai Spicy Chicken
Yao Babas- purple sticky rice cooked in bamboo leaves with a piece of pork lard in the middle
Red Bull, coconut milk, milk tea, water or orange drink
Auntie-so many babas
Ya Ling is the first Yao girl in her village to get her Master's
Yao Dog
Less women now are wearing the elaborate hairpieces due to balding.
Dai Barbecue
Yao"watermelon" hats
Making the Babas
Eye pencil sharpener
Yao Cucumbers
Yao Fish and Pork in Bamboo. Yao fish is similar to Dai fish but not as spicy.
Roosters make excellent trouble shooters, detectives, doctors, nurses and psychiatrists.
Akha
Bulang
Bulang-clothes that younger women usually wear
Bulang
Sticky rice
Puer Tea
Garbage Disposal
More Dai Barbecue
Tea fields
Bulang
Lahu
The Well
Northeast of Jinghong is Jinuo Mountain. The Jinuo people were named after the mountain and are China's last officially recognized minority group.
The Jinuo people are animists
The women chew on a black plant that supposedly protects their teeth
Typical Jinuo house
And than back to Jinghong-Uyghers selling their fruit and nut cakes.
86 Yellow Buffalo were slaughtered
Fried BEEF
Wet tofu
Preparing the Lotus
Ground Beef with hot green pepper
Families volunteer to take charge of individual tables
Breakfast-Beef Congee
Coal to fuel the massive stoves
Elder women cut the beef, men cooked the beef, young girls and middle-aged washed dishes,
Boiling the meat
A store where I noticed only kids were working and buying... candy.
To the top of the Mosque
The new Mosque, for men only, was built in 2004 and replaced the old mosque from 1340 that was destroyed during the Cultural Revolution. It is the largest in Yunnan.
Graduation
Daidas?
Lotus Pancake with a hint of ginger!
19Y store
Pounding Rice
Yao Girls
Fashion show in Kunming
Rice Cakes with chicken and red pepper, scallion pancakes, and chicken cabbage
Dressing up as a Dongba Priest
Silk
Rufu- Fermented tofu paste
Yi Women outside of Dali
Making Tie-Dyes in Dali
Plants that make the natural dyes
Dali Aunt's new Guesthouse
Nu River
A Lisu Woman
In the 1900's, American missionaries came and built churches for the Dulong
Nu Woman of Binzhongluo
Dulong Woman
Nu
Nu Man of Binzhongluo
Nu Woman of Demaluo
Admiring Yan Xia's Hemp Backpack
Demaluo Market
Road washed away
Nu Woman of Fugong
Nu Woman of Binzhongluo
Persimmons
Dulong Cloth
Tuo Tuo Rou (Pork chunks), Rice and Soup
Many Mosuo families will send at least one male to be trained as a monk.
Yak Cheese
Yi women here tattoo their hands
Yan Xia was Yunnan female snooker champion (although this is pool)
A Pumi Lady- they dress just like the Mosuo here
Xiao Liangshan Yi in Yongning
Plastic Bags will be banned in China in 2009
Yongning Temple
We passed by Lugu Lake
The Mosuo culture is most frequently described as a matriarchal culture. In fact, the Mosuo themselves frequently use this description, to attract tourism and interest in their culture. The Mosuo culture defies categorization within traditional Western definitions. They have aspects of a matriarchal culture, in that women are, in many households, the head of the house, property is passed through the female line, and women tend to make the business decisions. But political power tends to be in the hands of males, which disqualifies them as a true matriarchy.
Probably the most famous and most misunderstood aspect of Mosuo culture is their practice of “walking marriage”, so called because the men will walk to the house of their ‘partner' at night, but return to their own home in the morning. The Mosuo generally live in large extended families, with many generations (great grandparents, grandparents, parents, children, grandchildren, aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews, etc.) all living together within the same house. For the most part, everyone lives within communal quarters, without private bedrooms or living areas. However, women between certain ages (see the section on “coming of age” above) can have their own private bedrooms.
Traditionally, a Mosuo woman who is interested in a particular man will invite him to come and spend the night with her in her room. Such pairings are generally conducted secretly, so the man will walk to her house after dark, spend the night with her, and return home early the next morning. While it is possible for a Mosuo woman to change partners as often as she likes – having only one sexual partner would be neither expected nor common – the majority of such couplings will actually be more long term. Few Mosuo women will have more than one partner at a time. More than one anthropologist has described this system as “serial monogamy” as many of these pairings may last a lifetime. Even when a pairing may be long term, however, the man will never go to live with the woman's family, or vice versa. He will continue to live with and be responsible to his family; she will continue to live with and be responsible to her family. There will be no sharing of property.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosuo
Pigs living downstairs
3 Wheeled Motorbike over
In Buzhan village, due to a landslide, the gov't build these rowhouses for them
Shoe fetish
Tobacco
Garlic
The train to Guizhou
Fuyuan is a Shui/Miao Autonomous Prefecture (Miao skirt)
Leeks
I made it to the top 30 for the Sovereign Asian Art Prize, if you get a chance, go to the website, register, and vote for me!
Peace had come. Now China needed unity. Last week Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek acted decisively to unify his country.
Deposed Dragon. First he moved against China's strong war lord, one-eyed General Lung Yun, the rascally "old dragon" of Yunnan. By gun and guile, Lung had ruled that strategic southwestern province of China since 1927. His capital, Kunming, was the biggest U.S. air base in the country, and during the war he had played host to many a U.S. officer and touring bigwig. Last week Chiang deposed the "old dragon" of Yunnan, completing a political conquest of the vast western hinterland.
Six years ago, when Chiang Kai-shek retreated into western China rather than come to terms with the Japanese, he was forced into an area barely under his control and hardly touched by the national revolution. The two principal provinces of west China are Szechwan (pop.: 60 million) and Yunnan (pop.: 11 million). Both were dominated by old-style war lords. In 1941 Chiang ousted the war lord of Szechwan, appointing an honest and progressive governor.
When the Dragon of Yunnan's turn came last week, General Lung was caught with his military pants down: obeying Chiang's orders, a good part of his private army of over 100,000 men was far away, in Indo-China. Chiang ordered Lung to take a face-saving job in Chungking. Lung refused: the Dragon's teeth were not to be pulled so easily. That night rifles cracked in Kunming: next morning a score of bodies lay at the South Gate.
For four days the excitement continued. Soldiers of Chiang Kai-shek's army were all over the place. Only a few companies of Lung's troops did any shooting, and the Dragon never had a chance. On the fourth day Premier T. V. Soong flew down from Chungking. He and the Chinese commander in chief, General Ho Ying-chin, had a morning conference with General Lung, that afternoon escorted the amiable old scoundrel by air to Chungking. General Lu Han, Lung's former aide, took over the Yunnan government for the Generalissimo.
Soon, from nearly every shop and house in Kunming, the national flag of the new China was flying.
Report in the North. Unity in the west had hardly been established before stories of even more drastic unification came out of the Communist area of northern China. They were Communist stories, unconfirmed at week's end by Chiang or anybody else in Chungking. Their substance: while the Generalissimo was negotiating with Communist Mao Tse-tung in Chungking, three of Chiang's armies had attacked Communist forces in Communist-controlled Shansi province, Kwantung, the Yangtze basin, and north of the Yellow River. In some instances, said the Communists, Chiang's troops had invoked the aid of Japanese and puppet forces. Already the Communists, by their own account, had yielded 19 towns.
Chungking dispatches maintained that
1) the reports were distorted reflections of maneuvers for position by both sides. 2) Chiang and Mao were no closer on the fundamental issue—who should control the Communist armies and the Communist state-within-a-state—than they had been at the start. A.P. predicted that the talks would probably end this week. It looked as if Chiang Kai-shek might have to find other means to complete the unification of China.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Yun
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