Achang
Bai
Blang
Bonan
Bouyei
Chaoxian(Korean)
Dai
Daur(Tahur)
Deang
Derung
Dong
Dongxiang
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Gaoshan
Gelao
Han
Hani
Hezhen
Hui
Jing
Jingpo
Jino
Kazak
Kirgiz
Lahu
Lhoba
Lisu
Li
Man
Maonan
Miao
Monba
Mongol
Mulam
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Nu
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Russian
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She
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Tatar
Tu
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Uygur
Uzbek
Va
Xibe
Yao
Yi
Yugur
Zang
Zhuang

'Were you cold last night?' the first greeting you will hear next morning when you stay over at a Hanis' family. You will be welcomed by the whole family when you step up the wood stairs. A longlast friend-the expression will be imprinted in your mind. And this is the simple, zest and bright Hani nationality.

The Hani nationality distribute between the Yuanjiang River and the Lancangjiang River in south Yunan Province. The famous Ailao Mountain and Mengyue Mountain guard around them. Honghe County, Yuanyang County, Lvchuan County and Jinping County collection most of the Hani people.

The navy blue cloth for their clothes is woven and dyed by themselves. A man wraps his head with a piece of black or white headband. In Xishuagn Banan area, the buttons of a jacket are set on the right. Along the right collar of the jacket, there are two piece of big silver piece as a kind of decoration. A woman commonly wears a jacket with no collar, the buttons of which are on the right. Colorful laces are embroidered on the parts of shoulder, chest, sleeves and on the edge of the trousers. In Xishuang Banna area and near Lantsang Rive, a woman wears short skirt and tangles leg guard. She hangs bunches of silver ornaments and has a round silver hubble-bubble hat on. In Mojiang, Yuanjiang, and Jiangcheng areas, women like to wear long skirts.

They build their villages against the shape of mountains.

They are kind to the elder and their children. A special respectable name is for an elder. The young will not sit with one leg lift up on another before an elder. Walking, eating and drinking are always elders first. Fine things are also present to the elders.

Straw sandals and white clothes are not allowed when sacrifice dragon trees; the picked leaves and green things can not be brought into villages on that day; and business is prohibited.
Divine tables, tripods on fireplaces can not be moved freely.
A stranger is not welcome when a woman has a new baby in nine days.
In Xishuag Banna: shouldering water and pound rice in morning are bad. Hair can not be cut in morning. Clothes can not be wrapped around when entering a village. A bamboo pole can not be held up straight.

Young people can fall in love freely. A boy will find any cause to date his girl. Pregnancy before a marriage is not welcome. From engagement to getting married, three to nine rites will be held.
One or two words of a son's name come from his father's last name. They keep this tradition generation by generation, which is called joint-name system.
If someone is dead, the whole villagers will come to assistant. The master will entertain them for reward. Wood coffin - inhumation is more popular. The tomb is chosen by running an egg, where the egg is broken, where is for the tomb.

October Festival and Six Festival are the main festivals.
They take October as a new year's beginning. To celebrate October Festival is to live New Year. The festival will last a week or a half-month. The relatives visit each other.
Six Festival is held on July 24, lasts three to six days. They will offer sacrifice to gods. For young people, they will play swing, compete wrestling, dance and sing. In some area, some family will light pine firebrand to resist evils out of villages.
In Neihe and Honghe area, Spring Festival, Dragon Boat Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival are also held.

The staple-food are rice and corn. People who live on the south bankl of Red River can make bean sauce, which is very special. Chewing pinang is popular in Xishuang Banna.

They believe gods and ancestors. They hold rites on certain time. Longba Men ( gates of villages) will be offered sacrifice to in Xishuang Bannan. The Longba Men is divine. The one who lives in a village will get protect from the village gods and can get help from villagers, but if he leaves the village, he will alone without any protection. A dragon tree is also protective god for human being. The rite for worshiping it is grand. A wizard preside to kill livestock to offer sacrifice to the tree god; and people bring wind and food to dragon tree woods to cerlebrate.

A Hani person is skillful at singing and dancing. They have folk and national instruments to play melodies and they perform vigorous and graceful dance accompanied with the lucid and lively rhythm. Oral literatures record their fable, legends, poetry and stories.