Presenting the Daur

The Daur, also called Dadaer, are one of the peoples indigenous to the north of China. His current population exceeds 130.000 inhabitants concentrated in most cases on the oriental part of Interior Mongolia and the nearby areas of Heilongjiang. Especially the Autonomous Flag Daur de Morin Dawa. There is also a small group of Daur, approximately 5.000 persons, who live in the western Xinjiang end.

The Daur speak a language of the branch mongola about the Altaian family. For it it is supposed that his ancestors were living in the regions placed to the north of the Chinese border. Some authors relate them to the Kitan, which founded the dynasty Liao that governed the north of China in the Xth and XIth century. Others think that he is the progeny of the kingdom called Heishui, a diet established in these grounds does more than thousand years of that few news have. In fact, the tribal and migratory character of the societies of Altaic languages makes possible that you Daur descends both from the Kitan and from the Heishui, since the tribal confederacies were organized and were dissolving in these grounds with relative facility.

As other peoples of Altaian culture, the religion of the Daur was formerly a shamanism, with influences also of the Tibetan Buddhism that his Mongolian neighbors believed.

The spirits of the nature and those of his ancestors have a lot of importance for them. They venerate with major interest these gods who can help them in his activities, like the God of the Mountains for the hunters or the God of the Rivers for the fishermen.

The Daur live through a typical rural economy of these regions, in which they use all the resources to his scope: he hunts and goes fishing, agriculture and cattle.

The Daur made fond of the music like other nearby peoples, are provided with a special instrument, called "mukulian".

His most important holiday is the New Year, which they celebrate simultaneously that the Chinese.

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