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Achang de Yunnan
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| Population: About 35.000 person. Location: The majority they live in the southwestern region of the province of Yunnan, in not very high mountainous areas.
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| ARTICLES |
| Presenting the Achang: One of the minorities worst known about the south-west of China. divided in two well differentiated branches, and with dispersed groups that could be related to them. |
| History of the Achang: A long way that along hundreds of years, took them from the northwest of China, where his ancestors Qiang were living, to the southwestern end. |
| Religion of the Achang: A system of beliefs based on the cult to the nature and to the ancestors, with interesting local differences and residual presence of goddesses. |
| Some taboos of the Achang: Curious regulations that they constitute in embryo of the habitual law of this people. |
| Customs of the Achang: Brief strokes on his life that help us to understand the meaning of his existence. |
| Marriage of the Achang: A simple, determined wedding organized by the parents, in which the young people has little election capacity. |
| Holidays of the Achang: A ritual cycle that seems to reflect his past and migraciones.en that the cult to the Mother Earth still plays an important role. |
| Zhepama and Zhemima: the myth Achang: brief summary of the myth of the creation of the Achang, from which his religion and culture departs. |
| Some books on the Achang: Basic bibliography in English and especially in Chinese. |
| The Achang in Internet: Few places, information that recurs. In general scarce presence in the network. |
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