Ethnic minorities in China
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Ethnic minorities in China are the non-Han population in the People's Republic of China. The PRC officially recognizes 55 ethnic minority groups within China in addition to the Han majority. As of 202
An 8th-century Tang dynasty Chinese clay figurine of a Sogdian man (an Eastern Iranian person) wearing a distinctive cap and face veil, possibly a camel rider or even a Zoroastrian priest engaging in a ritual at a fire temple, since face veils were used to avoid contaminating the holy fire with breath or saliva; Museum of Oriental Art (Turin), Italy.
The Long-horn tribe, a small branch of ethnic Miao in the western part of Guizhou Province
Manchu people
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The Manchus are a Tungusic East Asian ethnic group native to Manchuria in Northeast Asia. They are an officially recognized ethnic minority in China and the people from whom Manchuria derives its name
Aguda, Emperor Taizu of Jurchen Jin
An imperial portrait of Nurhaci
Prince Zaitao dresses in modern reformed uniform of late Qing dynasty
Wanrong, the last empress consort of China, wearing Manchu clothing in 1922