What kind of ethnic group are the Duiqing people?

The Duiqing, also known as the Chuanqing and Duiqing, are an ethnic group in the People's Republic of China (PRC) whose ethnicity is disputed, and do not belong to the list of 56 ethnic minorities in the PRC.

The "Wearing Young People" are also known as the "Riminzi" in some areas, and they do not have a proper name for themselves, but are sometimes called the "Big-footed Ones".

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The name "Wearing Green" is mainly used to distinguish them from the Han Chinese, who are known as "Wearing Orchid", and was first used in the Qing Dynasty. The local ethnic minorities do not call them "Wearing Green", but add an adjective before the name of the Han Chinese, such as "White Han Chinese", "Big Foot Han Chinese", "Penny pole Han people", "eat buckwheat Han people", "wearing big sleeves of Han people", "when the Han people of the Rimin " etc.

Nowadays, the wearing of young people are mainly distributed in Bijie, Anshun, Liupanshui, Qianxinan and other places in the western part of Guizhou Province. According to the data of the fifth national census in 2000, the number of wearing young people is about six hundred and seventy thousand people, more than half of which live in Zijin and Nayong counties, with more than two hundred thousand people in each county.

Previously, the mark that differentiated young women from Han Chinese women was that they did not have feet wrapped, and they liked to wear thin ear straw shoes and three-jointed clothes, and combed three heads. The so-called three sections of clothing, refers to the two sections of the sleeves of the flower dress. The body of the garment is made of two colors of cloth, blue and green, with the upper section of blue reaching to the waist and the lower section of blue reaching to the calves. Each layer of the sleeves is embroidered with cloud-hooked lace, looking like three sections joined together.

The most embodied wearing young people's culture, in addition to their iconic clothes, there is a unique Nuo opera. Wear green Nuo opera is their "Celebration of five obvious altar" ritual ceremony by the master of the altar and Nuo Nuo altar class artists interspersed with performances of Nuo instrumental theater and dance. Wear green family home five obvious altar for generations, the form of worship five obvious altar is "every year or between years of brewing and killing animals, Yan good singer and dancer to the home dipped into the superstitions, jumping like a play, said Qingtan".

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People's Daily Online - Wearing young people is not an ethnic group, just a member of the same body