Yi, the Chinese mountain tribe

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Yi, the Chinese mountain tribe | VPRO Documentary

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Yi is a Chinese mountain tribe. They live in a region that, in earlier days, was not accessible. The Yi are totally different than the Han Chinese. Our documentary shows how the Yi are living and how the mountain tribe is more and more disappearing.
In Chinese dreams, documentary maker and China expert Ruben Terlou travel further through China, driven by his fascination for the Chinese and with the rapidly changing society as a compass.
The Yi, one of the 56 official Chinese ethnic minorities, live in the mountains of southern China. Their history is complex, and their future is uncertain. Through assimilation, there is a good chance that their culture will disappear. Where do the Yi come from, and what are they looking forward to?
Ruben travels to the remote Liangshan Mountains, where he meets an unknown mountain tribe. With an age-old shamanic ritual to dislodge ghosts, Ruben is shocked that a dead cock can still cry. He also sees how the young generation is being deployed to achieve full assimilation of China’s ethnic populations.Original title: Xi en de Yi
Original title: Xi en de Yi
Director and Sound: Jeroen de Greef
Presentation and Photography: Ruben Terlou
Camera: Peter Vancraesbeek & Joost van Herwijnen
Editing: Jan van der weken
Research: René van ´t Erve
Executive producer: Marit Gerritsen
Production: Jorike Verlaan
Mixage: Joost Oskamp
Colour correction: John Thorberg
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@xt3384 4 жыл бұрын

Very good documentary. I'm from China and have read about them in books, but I've never met one in real life. Citizens outside the area don't know much about the southwestern minorities and often consider that they are all the same. This video gives me a lot of information about the Yi people. Thank you.

@bossel 4 жыл бұрын

You're shocked by the openness, but you publicise it without even pixels. For someone who speaks Chinese, you're quite oblivious to the danger you put these people in.

@sharkb8754 4 жыл бұрын

You've been brainwashed mate lol 😂😂😂

@162playboyz Жыл бұрын

Hmong practice similarly shaman rituals. The Hmong have brought their culture from the mountains of China all the way to America. The Yi's culture is unique and should be maintained l.

@RollyBalondo 4 жыл бұрын

that chief perhaps drank a cup more than to keep his emotion in check. ahahha

@jianxinbi 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you to introduce my ethnicity. I'm also yi people from shilin,kunming,yunnan province,china. We really similar with chinese version of "native american",living on the mountain,most children drop out school at junior high schools. most of them didn't realized the assimilated through han culture or even American culture. I could even foreseen my ethnicity gonna extinct not far future. However, if we don't learn mandarin or english how to make our life better.This is my view, weak culture gonna extinct silently.

@tooshy8099 2 жыл бұрын

do you live in the US at the moment?

@duongooo9137 2 жыл бұрын

I AM YI TOO!! My family is 彝族 and from Lolo group in vietnam! Teshile

@jianxinbi 2 жыл бұрын

@@duongooo9137 That's interesting. could i add you on Instagram?

@tamsalingnetworknepal2705 Жыл бұрын

Indigenous hill people travelled towards tibet and myanmar and became indigenpus people of nepal and north east india

@Lulougonz 4 ай бұрын

Do you mean Yilong? I am a Naga, from North East, India, bordering Myanmar.The recent Genomics study of the Rongmei Naga people revealed, their DNA matched with the Chinese & Koreans. It is believed that we( Naga) people might have been migrated from Yunan, China during the reign of Shi-Huang-Di ( Qin dynastyv300-221BC). According to our oral history, we once lived in Mahou Taubei( Minhau). One of our folk song spoke about a famine whilst in Minhau. The main reason for ( migration of the Naga people) from China was, forced labors and floods. How far is it true. Can you shed some light on this. I'm just curious to know.

@michaellee9295 3 жыл бұрын

The Miao and Yi people are very similar both facing the same predicament in China. I think that its best for them to learn the Han language and culture but yet have the legal right to maintain traditions and history. The CCP shouldn't reject the fact that the Qing Dynasty took their lands and treated them as serfs and social outcasts denying them opportunities to flourish. Additionally, they shouldn't be discriminated against. My great grandfather fought in the second Miao rebellion against the Qing Dynasty, fleeing his home and moved aboard to escape persecution after the defeat.

@st4r444 Жыл бұрын

When did your great grandfather fight in the rebellion?

@juamu1132 21 күн бұрын

you do know the miao and yi supported the ccp? the kmt treated them like garbage the ccp did not. they are most loyal ethnic group in china.

@hellohello1247 4 жыл бұрын

I cried when her mom asked the son to cook for you.

@pikeman80 3 жыл бұрын

I got a lump in my throat too. I would have taken them up on their offer.

@amaliapedro4568 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing this video,very interesting but sad that the YI people might loose their culture and language,I hope that they would teach the younger generations their culture and language for further generations ahead

@juliusebola9712 3 жыл бұрын

This Dutch guy is really impressive. First of all his Chinese is outstanding, but more than that he almost seems Chinese in the way he interacts with locals. He is very disarming and manages to get real insight into a these people's lives. Absolutely fascinating documentary

@juamu1132 21 күн бұрын

his chinese is terrible.

@baniboo 3 жыл бұрын

Very interesting documentary

@budilewiyanto7798 Жыл бұрын

We indonnesian has around 700+ ethnics in 1 national language, many ethnic culture, like Bali, Dayak in kalimantan etc, the culture not gone, but attracted to foreigners.

@juamu1132 21 күн бұрын

ah yes remember the race riots in kalimantan in 98?

@cobidbeksin5200 3 жыл бұрын

The Yi had a great kingdom called Nanzhao before the Chinese conquered them. They followed Buddhism and had their own written culture.

@cpa314 3 жыл бұрын

But the Yi people are Chinese....

@zuffin1864 3 жыл бұрын

@@cpa314 China is a region with many independent cultures and people. a long time ago many villages, tribes and cities were all practically independent with their own cultures, traditions and even language. I believe that should they have had personal freedoms and private property rights for longer, they would pull themselves up without the risk of the CCP potentially overwriting their culture with their own just as many kingdoms in china once did to other smaller cultures before.

@cpa314 3 жыл бұрын

@@zuffin1864 Yeah, but thats just world history no? The same could be said for India, South America, North America, Russia, etc

@zuffin1864 3 жыл бұрын

@@cpa314 so is your logic that people in America should assimilate towards some one culture because they are in America? I'm talking about cultural genocide here, and it isn't a good thing no matter the time or place. Now if people choose to if their own fruition, that's fine, but that is clearly not the case here......

@cpa314 3 жыл бұрын

@@zuffin1864 I'm simply stating a historical fact and reality. If you want to use America as an example American Indians and Hawaiians never wanted to be part of America but it's a historical reality that that is what happened. Would you say that Hawaiians and Native Americans are not American then? I didn't make any comment on cultural genocide whatsoever. I'm simply stating that stating that the Yi people are not Chinese is a disservice to them and simply untrue. Stating that the Yi people are not Han Chinese is correct but the term Chinesedoes not necessarily equate to being Han Chinese. It's the equivalent of saying that African-Americans are not American because they are African.

@khinsushein4906 3 ай бұрын

The Yi ethnics is very close to Burmese , language and culture - Burmese is the mix of Yi, Tibet and original SEA (those who arrived from Africa 6000 years ago). Yi has also their own language that is also close to Burmese language, and i think they should learn Yi language as well. And also the Lisu people spread mostly in Thailand/Vietnum are of the same group and Yi, Lisu, Ngaga are of the same group with similar language. Yi are probably one of three groups ansactors of the Burmese (Maynmar). It is sad to see that they can not learn Yi language. I feel very sad ! now Myanmar is also falling into several pieces, Lisu are also assimilaited in Thailand, the last time i visited - the 3 elders who still can speak Burmese no longer alive - the lisu children are now going to Thai schools and speak thai - they are also going disappear very soon.

@elkiinricon8378 4 жыл бұрын

Genial documental gracias por compartirlo.....

@WeatherMoon 4 жыл бұрын

the Yi are a beautiful peoples.

@Kalparkr 4 жыл бұрын

love these documentaries!

@raulcubacuba2723 4 жыл бұрын

The Best!!

@zuffin1864 3 жыл бұрын

That child said "I'd rather learn Yi, but they don't teach us that in our school" that made me sad because it seems the more power they give to ccp to take care of, the more their traditions and cultural identity will whither away... this is a form of genocide

@rongmeilive666 3 жыл бұрын

Ok so you think Americans destroying red Indian language and culture not a genocide?

@zuffin1864 3 жыл бұрын

@@rongmeilive666 never said that, that is indeed a form of genocide

@andyandy5705 3 жыл бұрын

@@zuffin1864How dare you use the word genocide to even try to describe what is going on here. You insult the dead who were systematically killed simply because they were "alien" or "worthless" to the culture that committed the crime. How is modernization in any way comparable to genocide, like slaughter of the Jews in ww2? Typical western chauvinism, blaming others for the deeds their cultures has inflicted upon others. Why must these people not be allowed access to interact with morden society? To be gawded at like a museum exhibit of a living tribe? These people are NOT being kill in any way or form.

@Tu51ndBl4d3 Жыл бұрын

wow you're right, reminds me of the Angles destroying all celtic languages in the british isles, and till today trying to supress welsh and scottish and impose english, or the French suppressing all languages that aren't french, the european americans imposing english on the indigenous population, or spaniards imposing spanish on all of latin america or the british, french, portuguese imposing their languages on Africans. You're right, just like the CCP.

@Naga-Nation 11 ай бұрын

@@zuffin1864 Glad you know how to type in English. Did you lose everything when you started to learn english? Is learning English a mistake to you?

@dekad5200 3 жыл бұрын

Wow, this is amazing! 辛苦了！

@brumasbusiness 4 жыл бұрын

You are doing a great job, but you might put this people in danger. What they are showing to you might get them in trouble.

@kingslydevadas3952 Жыл бұрын

Nice presentation.

@afrikainfo-doku 4 жыл бұрын

nice video!

@rongmeilive666 3 жыл бұрын

The Nagas of North East Indian states were one of the ethnic descendants of Dian people who migrated to North West Burma somewhere between 200 BC to 100 BC when the first emperor of China, Shi Huangdi conquered the Dian kingdom in 107 BC. Miao, Yi, Hmong were also part of the ethnic groups of Dian tribes. During the Tang dynasty in 700 AD, there were lots of persecution and torture on Miao tribes which resulted in mass migration to South East Asian countries. The Nagas of India and the Yi people are of same origin. They follow animism and loves to wear Cowrie shells. They practice slash and burn cultivation and bury their deaths in a vertical position. During exorcism and rituals, animals and birds are sacrificed and the omen is predicted by looking at the parts of the hen.

@st4r444 Жыл бұрын

Proof? I understand they all worship the buffalo horn and they live in Myanmar. Doesn't the jinpo or Singpo people also worship chiyou warlord too? Miao, mien and lahu in Myanmar seem to honor bamboo flute mouth organ music instrument alot. Naga, miao, and Dai use the gong drum while yi and mien use a wooden or cloth drum. I don't think miao fully migrated to south east asia in 700ad. At least not in laos or vietnam yet. Some were there but their mass migration to Vietnam and laos took place in 1700s-1800s and 95% of hmong who fled from the last rebellion against the chinese to laos were likely from yunnan or myanmar because hmong people from laos speak a dialect closer to yunnan miao and their rituals are closer to yunnan too. Yi and Naga both speak tibeto language. All Naga, yi, miao and mien use chicken parts to foretell fortune during sacrafice. Provide your source please?

@touchmesama2590 Жыл бұрын

@@st4r444 well Nagas for one don't have any source to trace their history. It's all oral and much have been changed since and lost. The guy up there talking as if he's so certain and thers a proper study behind it is just blatant bs. I do agree that we did perhaps migrate from China but we don't have proof. However we do have some tribes who speak strikingly similar sounding language namely the Angami and the Mao tribes.

@st4r444 Жыл бұрын

@@touchmesama2590 the guy up there seems to be Naga too lol his videos are all Naga. Alot of myanmar tribes are similar to Naga and Burmese has a common ancestor with Chinese. They all have this similar dance in Yunnan and myanmar where they stand in circle of unity where more members join in.

@touchmesama2590 Жыл бұрын

@@st4r444 so many studies out there but none with definite evidence. It's jusy speculations and assumptions. I'm Naga too and it embarasses me when people read one study and take it for face value without having any ability to question

@st4r444 Жыл бұрын

@@touchmesama2590 right. History is hard to dig unless everyone come together to fund facts, visit places, meet people and agree. The only thing we know for sure is science of early sino tibet migration and the clues left behind or written and recorded by Chinese

@sinoraysinc8445 Жыл бұрын

BI MO is the wise man of Yi people, he can not only ready and also write Yi Scripts. so the spirits and caulture of Yi people handed down from generation to generations.

@akouafray8616 4 жыл бұрын

The man drank extra cups and went off mind for a while .

@pvkjhilk8323 4 жыл бұрын

they remind me of Peruvians

@janicegreen3836 4 жыл бұрын

Good too no very nice

@Hes12378 3 ай бұрын

Are you ingu Jesaf of Maromi Village V.K Area , Zunheboto District Nagaland, India?

@nwogamesalert 4 жыл бұрын

What a shame to see such an interesting report made a nuisance to watch due to so called "background" "music" The modern sickness. And it is not even done in a subtle way.

@purplepeoplesparty2368 4 жыл бұрын

Modernization homogeneity does a great disservice to indigenous peoples around the world. Is worth all the loss...

@artman7780 4 жыл бұрын

Ahhh... It would be nice if more Westerners understand this, and if they don’t try to force their culture and beliefs onto everyone else while completely destroying native cultures by the logic that the Western way is the right way.

@Stonefeather53 10 ай бұрын

Why preserve a culture that was evil and enslaved its own people. The Yi People had a strict 4 castes system. The lowest caste were chattel slaves that could be tortured, sold or killed for sport according to Wikipedia.

@alicealice8339 9 ай бұрын

By same logic every culture could be described as evil

@ruheerizvi5293 4 жыл бұрын

What about English subtitles do we can understand???

@xi7232 3 жыл бұрын

这哥们中文不错👍

@hanhan2360 4 жыл бұрын

很有感触，之前大学里面学人类学的课就讲过彝族的仪式，身边也有人做大凉山的扶贫项目。第一次看到bimo仪式。Impressed

@zuffin1864 3 жыл бұрын

This reminds me of Cajuns being forced to learn English in schools in the south, no French was allowed or else they'd be punished... they should let these people control their schools themselves

@kawaiiharuu8852 3 жыл бұрын

hello ! i just want to say that yes they must continue to speak their language but they have to learn Mandarin too to find a work. but it would be very cool to have yi class in middle school for example ! (sorry for my English I'm French)

@TCWG87 2 жыл бұрын

China is 92% Han. So it's simply a requirement to master Madarin if you want to live and work outside of your ancestral village...it's the same for all Chinese citizens

@aspirewot8408 Жыл бұрын

@@TCWG87 so ? They can learn their native language as well as Chinese . Why not both ??

@RKarabeckian 4 жыл бұрын

Reminds me of American Appalachia in the 1950's.

@hingnamzeliang1461 4 жыл бұрын

i hope these folks wont get in trouble!

@yokkyk635 3 жыл бұрын

Learning another language or gaining new knowledge will never make anyone forget their original culture. I am a Chinese living in Malaysia, I learn Malay and English languages other than Chinese, I don't see Chinese here lost any culture value at all.

@alejandroteodorus7926 3 жыл бұрын

Lolo people has an ancient atlantean heritage Accord to Blavatsky

@suomotophoenix3450 Жыл бұрын

You should let them speak in their tribe language

@Octwavian 4 жыл бұрын

Please don't use English titles for non English documentaries

@nwogamesalert 4 жыл бұрын

You have to click KZfaq's subtitle button under the video, and I don't understand why the producers do not mention this more clearly in the description.

@SM-ih6dt 4 жыл бұрын

remember me the german people in the small cities.....

@binthashim7354 9 ай бұрын

They look uncomfortable and scare to talk.

@zingtai7426 3 жыл бұрын

Yi and Nagas should connect and see if we are related.

@st4r444 Жыл бұрын

Going far back tibet origin

@vutliepqomo7332 3 жыл бұрын

彝族跟汉族彝语文字信仰习俗长相都不一样

@hagenwijaya7157 4 жыл бұрын

Shame on you dutch. Divide et impera once again

@73oxen 3 жыл бұрын

So if a Chinese studying English, it is considered as erasing his Chinese culture. The host speaks Chinese did he abandon his culture. Condescending rhetoric and presentation asking if these kids study Chinese it's about erasing their culture. Ruben, a "concerned" Chinese expert westerner about the preservation of an Eastern culture. Sorry his agenda is exposed behind that "smile" n concerned rhetoric.