Category Archives: Yunnan

Hill Tribe Music 0

Missing You (Karen – harp) Before Harvesting (Karen – hom) Big Feast (Hmong – big gourd-pipe) Courting (Hmong – jew’s harp) Good Bye (Hmong – girl singer) Nice To Meet You (Lahu – gourds-pipe) Courting (Lahu – jew’s harp) Courting (Lahu – pipe) Respect To Elder (Mien – oboe & cymbal) Marriage (Mien – oboe) [...]

Vocal Music of Contemporary China Volume 2: The National Minorities – The Uighurs and The Kazakhs, The Inner Mongolians and the Dongs (Ethnic Folkways Records FE 4092) 0

Guangyin-axinshang (Dong) Selection from liner notes: Over half of China’s fifty-five national minorities are concentrated in the southwest, Most share some cultural features with the ethnic minorities in northern mainland Southeast Asia. One such group is the Dongs who live in the mountainous border of southeastern Hunan and western Quizhou Provinces and northern Guangxi Zhuang [...]

Monkeys Carrying a Big Drum 0

            Excerpt from Folk Tales and Legends of the Dai People Edited by John Hoskin and Geoffrey Walton Translated from Chinese text by Ying Yi