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 The office of Ping'an Villager's Committee. |
Ping'an Villagers' Committee belongs to Shilicun Country
of Jinping Autonomous County of Miao people, Yao people and Dai people.
Shilicun Country is in the southeast of Jinping County. It is located
in north latitude of 22°39' and east longitude of 103°11'.The distance
between Shilicun Country and the county seat is 13km. Ping'an Villager's
Committee is built up by three natural villages, Ping'an Village,
located in border beyond Vietnam, is the bigest one. Furthermore,
Ping'an Village is also the bigest Yao people's community in Yunnan
Province. In 2000, there were 305 families, 1430 persons in Ping'an
Village. |
 Sacrifice (pay attention the chook). |
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Surrounded by mountains, Ping'an Village
includes four branch-communities, three of which are built along three
ridges and one is in mountain lap. The narrow rugged paths lead to various
directions. All the villager get stuck in a complicated traffic net,
which is also the net of interpersonal relationships, information of
community and social control of community. Along these paths, everyday
children go to school and leave school, graze cattle and bear firewood.
Women are always taking these paths as their starting point to go to
the out world.
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 Cragged upland path |
 Women are carring cement, earning 0.2 RMB per bag. |
 Traditional handmade trousers of Yao people. |
Women of Ping'an Village have many common grounds
with other minority' women: their social status is inferior to that
of men. In the educational level, among the 12 women we talked to
at random, only one woman accepted the education of middle school,
the ratio is 8.3%. But the same ratio of man is 15.8%. |
 Old women of Red Head Yao people. |
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