The Zhuang are China痴 largest minority group and they mainly reside in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, west of Guangdong province, east of Yunnan and borders Vietnam. A great number of the Zhuang live in villages in the mountainous areas, specifically in the western two thirds of Guangxi. The Zhuang may also be found in most of Guangxi痴 major cities, in each case making up to a third of the population while the remaining live in Yunnan, Guangdong, Guizhou, and Hunan Provinces.

The Zhuang are an offshoot of a Thai-related people group that over 2,000 years ago who existed over a large area of Southern China. The Zhuang probably emigrated from the south in Vietnam. Archaeological remains in Bai-lian Dong near Liu-zhou and Zhen-pi Yan near Guilin have turned up burial sites with burial styles common not to China but to Vietnam. These burial styles also suggest a relationship between the Zhuang and the Haobinhian (9000-5600 BC) and Bacsonian (8300-5900 BC) cultures of Vietnam.

For more information on the Zhuang and for an introduction to the learning of the Zhuang language please see the Iroha Project blog at http://www.projecth2o.org/irohaproject

Hear and compare languages here:
http://www.projecth2o.org/irohaproject/2008/08/26/mandarin-bai-hua-cantonese-southern-zhuang

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What is the meaning of tourism? I cannot seem to make sense as to why anyone would want to go to some place just for the purpose of picking something which will eventually end up in the garbage. You go someplace small in the hopes to relax and yet see big tour buses speeding down side streets without any respect for people or the surroundings. Filled with rich people from the city who just want to take a few photos of themselves and the group in front of some stupid fake attraction. Eat something expensive and buy over priced poorly manufactured foreign junk. In the end what does the community get? more pollution in all forms and disturbance to their life.

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