Modern lifestyle appears in China's last primitive tribe

Mang Ren (莽人) had been regarded as an unidentified ethnic minority in China before 2009. Today Chinese categorized them as a part of Bulang Nationality (布朗族). They are living in southwest China, where the region bordering Vietnam and Laos. According to a recent statistics, there are 681 Mang Ren people in China. They are usually short (the tallest men are generally not over 160 cm), with tanned skin and strong legs, for which people can carry many goods while walk about 70 kilometers daily with bare foot.

In the morning on June 18, Mang Ren resident Luo Kaiwen of Niu Chang Ping Village, Jinping County in Yunnan Province, opened the door of his home and a brand new day began. Recently, he and a few hundred Mang Ren people moved to two storied houses built by local government. For many years, they had been living old thatched cottages. Now the last primitive tribe in China lives modern lifestyle, as others do.

New residential houses for Mang Ren people in the mountains, the top right of the picture is the old village.

Lei Gong Da Niu Zhai (literally "Village of the Thunder God Hit Cattle"), where Mang Ren people had been lived.

The medical condition is quite bad in the mountainous area that Mang Ren people have to collect herbs to cure illnesses and diseases.

When people are having a bath, they must have to brave the cold water from the mountain spring. One keeps alive if one can endure.

Local young girls wear new ethnic costumes to celebrate the moving to new houses.

Today people can know what is happening in outside world through watching television.

(This news article is a translation from Chinese texts for travel reference. It does not represent the views of AbsoluteChinaTours)

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