Culture of the Jingpo

The Jingpo live through the mountainous forests of the South-west of Yunnan. The houses of the Jingpo are two apartments, with several rooms in his interior, between 4 and 9. Constructed of bamboo usually, 8 is necessary to reconstruct them again happened ó 9 years.

In the past the Jingpo they have been much affected by the consumption of the opium. It is anticipated that in the years previous to 1949 between 10 and 20 % of the population was addicted to the opium. Although the proportion is great less now, it keeps on being a serious problem in the society Jingpo.

In the traditional society Jingpo the ground was a communal property, but the different transformations that China has suffered in the last years it has finished almost completely with this system.

The men usually dress a black louse-fitting shirt, the elders take a type of black turban, and the young people target. The women also with black blouse and stamped skirt.

Very keen of the dance, sometimes they dance up to 1000 persons, to the sound of the drums.

The burial is in ground, but if he has suffered strange death, like dying drowned, burned for beam, or devoured by a wild animal, first he is burned and then his ashes are buried.

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