Zhuang people
Tai-speaking ethnic group of Southern China
The Zhuang people (Chinese: 壮族; pinyin: Zhuàngzú; Zhuang: Bouxcuengh) are a Kra-Dai speaking ethnic group who mostly live in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region in southern China. Some also live in the Yunnan, Guangdong, Guizhou and Hunan provinces. They form one of the 56 ethnic groups officially recognized by the People's Republic of China. With the Buyi, Tay–Nùng, and other northern Tai speakers, they are sometimes known as the Rau or Rao. Their population, estimated at 18 million people, makes them the largest minority in China.
 Zhuang people in ethnic clothes, Guangnan, 2008 | |
| Total population | |
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| 18 million | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
 China (Particularly Guangxi) | |
| Languages | |
| Zhuang languages, Cantonese, Mandarin, Pinghua | |
| Religion | |
| Indigenous Zhuang Shigongism (Moism) Minority Christianity, Buddhism and Taoism | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Buyei Tày, Tai/Dai and Nung (Vietnam) |
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| Simplified Chinese | 壮族 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 壯族 or 僮族[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Hanyu Pinyin | Zhuàngzú | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Chinese | 佈僮 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Hanyu Pinyin | Bùzhuàng | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Thai | จ้วง | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| RTGS | Chuang | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Zhuang name | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Zhuang | Bouxcuengh (pronounced /pou˦˨ ɕueŋ˧/) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
References
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change- ↑ 常用國字標準字體筆順學習網. Stroke-order.learningweb.moe.edu.tw (in Chinese (Taiwan)). Archived from the original on 21 December 2016. Retrieved 17 August 2018.
Sources
change- Barlow, J. (2005). The Zhuang: A Longitudinal Study of Their History and Their Culture. https://web.archive.org/web/20070206210848/http://mcel.pacificu.edu/as/resources/ZHUANG/index.html
- Wang Mingfu, Eric Johnson (2008). Zhuang Cultural and Linguistic Heritage. The Nationalities Publishing House of Yunnan. ISBN 978-7-5367-4255-0.
A Senior City Police Officer Pursues His Roots In China, By Marvine Howe, New York Times, November 14, 1985.
Further reading
change- Kaup, Katherine Palmer (2000). Creating the Zhuang: Ethnic Politics in China. Lynne Rienner Publishers. ISBN 978-1-55587-886-3.
- Barlow, Jeffrey G. (1989). "The Zhuang Minority in the Ming Era". Ming Studies. 1989 (1): 15–45. doi:10.1179/014703789788763976.
Other websites
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Zhuang people.
- The Zhuang: A Longitudinal Study of Their History and Their Culture, by Jeffrey Barlow
- 壮族在线
- Map share of ethnic by county of China Archived 2016-01-01 at the Wayback Machine
