Origins of the Names of Chinese Ethnic Minorities （5）

Bouyei
The Bouyei people have a long history. In their own language, ＂Bou＂ means ＂ethnic group＂ or ＂people,＂ and ＂yei＇＂ and its variants refer to the name of an ethnic minority. Thus, in the old local chronicles, the Bouyei nationality is sometimes recorded as ＂Yei nationality＂,＂Yei family ＂ or ＂Yei people.＂ As well as their self-appellations, the Bouyei people in different areas referred to other groups of Bouyei as ＂Bulong Buna Butu Budou Buyang ＂ and ＂Bulongha＂ etc.     

Origins of the Names of Chinese Ethnic Minorities

<正>Achang The Achang ethnic minority was called"Echang"in ancient Chinese documents,albeit with no consistency in how the name was written.But this is not what ...     

Nocturnal Eel Hunt

＂Lighting up yellow eels＂ or ＂pincering yellow eels,＂ are terms used by the Miao people to refer to their custom of eel catching. In Miao villages of western Hunan, the first ten days of May, just after plowing but before planting, is the time when the process of eels＇ sex change is at its height （When born all the eels are female, they mature and immediately after mating and spawning they turn male）. They swarm to the edges or to the center of the fields in order to spawn, preparing to become male. During this period, they always emerge from the mud at night, so it is easy to catch them, which the local people do, carrying torches and bamboo clamps to hunt their prey.     

A Special Dream of a Korean Couple

<正>What is the life like for a family with 13 disabled children? A Canadian-Korean couple, Zheng Ande and Zheng Zhuli, have such a special family full of love w...     

THE ELE GANCE OF QUYI——The Fourth Quyi Showcase of Chinese Ethnic Minority Groups

The history and tradition of Quyi （storytelling with music and periormance） are among the longest and most profound of China＇s folk art forms. Having evolved over centuries and centuries from folk oral literature and singing, Quyi is the catch-all name of various ＂art forms of talking and singing＂ in China. For millennia Quyi has been the vehicle by which Chinese people of whatever ethnic group have expressed their way of life and revealed their inner feelings.     

Liu Zhenduo and His Northern School Landscapes

Liu Zhenduo is regarded as a preeminent landscape painter in today＇s China, an artist renowned for his distinct Northern School style. As a representative artist from northern China, Liu paints with a mood and rhythm significantly different from those of southern China and the Central Plains.     

Scholarship and Folk Tradition Press On --Lang Ying,Scholar and Recorder of Manas

No mention of Manas scholarship, particularly that of recent decades, would be complete without citing Ms. Lang Ying of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences （CASS）. Her main field of research is the narrative literature of Turkik speaking peoples,