Kam-Sui peoples (Dun-Shui peoples) - a group of peoples in the south-east of China who speak Kam-Sui languages . They live mainly at the junction of the provinces of Hunan , Guizhou and Guangxi Zhuang AR , separate groups also in western Guangdong , northeast Yunnan , northern Laos (kang) and Vietnam (Shuya).
Composition
- Dun (kam) - 3.7 million people. in the east and southeast of Guizhou , in the west of Hunan, and in the north of Guangxi Zhuang AR.
- Cao-Miao - Miao group, speaking one of the northern dialects of the Danube language ; 93 thousand people in the south-east of Guizhou ( Liping County), south-west of Hunan ( Tundao-Dun AU ) and in the north-east of Guangxi Zhuang AR;
- shuytsy (sui, shui) - sv. 500 thousand people in the south of Guizhou, the north of Guangxi Zhuang AR, the northeast of Yunnan and the north of Vietnam ;
- Mulao (Mulam) - 247 thousand people. in Guangxi Zhuang AR and Guizhou border areas;
- Maonan (self-name; Yinan) - 62 thousand people. in the north of Guangxi Zhuang Aut. District (Huanjiang-Maonan Autonomous District and neighboring counties of Hechi County);
- biao - sv. 50 thousand people in the west of Guangdong (west of Huaiji county and adjacent districts of Finkai County );
- Mo (Mohua, Poppy) - 22 thousand people. in the south of Guizhou; included in the buoys;
- tokhen (yanhuang, rau) - 25 thousand people in the south of Guizhou (east of Pintan County, part of Dushan, Qiangnan-Bui-Miaos Autonomous District); buoys are included in the nationality;
- i-cham (Jiamuhua, Jinhua, Atsam) - approx. 3 thousand people in the south of Guizhou (Libo County Qiannan-Bui-Miaos Autonomous District); buoys are included in the nationality;
- kang (tai khang) - approx. 82 thousand people in Laos (Prov. Huaphan and Xieng Khouang , are included in the Thai people) and China (in the south-west of Yunnan, are included in the Dai people). The question of attributing to the Kam-Sui peoples remains controversial.
The small nations of mo, thang, and ay-cham in China are officially included in the nationalities of buoys .
Languages constitute the Kam-Sui (Dun-Shui) group of Thai-Kadai languages . Chinese ( Hakka and southwestern dialects of Guanhua ) and Zhuang are also common .
Mainly traditional beliefs , shamanism are preserved (women have ancestors especially honored by Kam), there are Buddhists , Taoists , among the Shuys and Maonan in the 20th century. Christianity spread.
The ancestors of these peoples supposedly at the turn of 2-1 thousand BC. er separated from the prototai community, formed on the territory of modern Guangxi Zhuang AR and the adjacent part of Guangdong, and migrated north along the river. Rongjiang
Traditional culture is typical of the peoples of East Asia . The main activities are plowed and manual farming, animal husbandry. Experienced by the Chinese (especially the duna), Zhuang and other neighboring nations.
Literature
- Reshetov A. M. Dun // Peoples of East Asia. M.-L., 1965;
- Reshetov A.M. Maonan // Peoples of East Asia. M.-L., 1965;
- Reshetov A. M. Mulao // Peoples of East Asia. M.-L., 1965;
- Reshetov A. M. Shui // Peoples of East Asia. M.-L., 1965;
- Geary N. & RB, Ou Chaoquan, Long Yaohong, Jiang Daren, Wang Jiying. The Kam People of China. L.-NY, 2003.