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Email Newsletter Name: China Trivia: Which Chinese Ethnic Miniority Has The Largest Population?
Date Published: July 17, 2007


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QUESTION:

We all know that there are 55 or so ethnic minorities in China. Now, which of these has the largest population?

a) Bai Zu
b) Min Zu
c) Yi Zu
d) Wa Zu
e) Beijing Zu

ANSWERS:
If you answered:

a) Dui, and double dui ("Dui" means "correct" in Chinese). With a population of about 1,339,000 people, the Bai minority is one of, if not the largest such groups in all of China. The Bai Minority is centralized in Da Li, a pleasant region of the beautiful Yunnan province. Due to Yunnan's location on the border of Burma, Laos, Vietnam, and it relationship to Tibet, this province, historically, has been a crossroads of culture and trade. This interaction has enriched the Bai minority in many ways.

They enjoy their own spoken language and distinct culture. However, they have no written language, or more precisely, they have too many written languages. Many Bai scholars have devised their own method of writing down the complex 8-tone Bai dialect. As of yet there is no standard. Their traditional music is played on a simple four stringed pipa. Their sounds are based on the natural scenery in which they have lived for three thousand years, mostly Er-hai lake and Tangshan.

#Reality Check: Even though all the minorities of China combined only make up 7% of China's overall population, that is still over 84 million people!

b) Wrong, this isn't even a minority. It is in fact the Chinese word for "Minority".

c) Sorry to say no. This Sichuan-based minority is small in number.

d) Ha, so wrong! This beautiful dark-skinned minority has a very small population.

e) The Beijing Zoo? Stop monkeying around and go find the right answer.

   
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