THE BLANGS!

LANGUAGES

• The blang language belongs to the Palaung - Wa branch of the Mon-Khmer family of languages.
• Within the Palaung -Wa branch, blang belongs to the Waic subgroup
• That contains the language Was and Lawa
• Two systems of writing based on the Latin alphabet have been developed and they are
• Totham is the xishaungbanna and tolek from Dehong and Linchang.

HISTORY

• Chinese ethnographers identify the Blangs as descendants of tribes
• They lived in the Lancang river valley during ancient times

CULTURE

• Traditionally the Blangs considered teeth blackened
• They did this by chewing betel nuts, it was a beauty to them.
• Women dressed in jackets with black skirts
• The men had tattoos on their torso or their stomach.
• Their turbans were either made of black or white fabric.

THE WAY THEY LIVED

• They usually divided into two small clans, each owned their own land
• Their houses were two stories, 1st stories was for food and stables
• The second was for their family, and their chimney was in the middle of it
• Every blang town had there own cemetery's, they buried the deceased
• And cremated the ones who's died of unnatural causes.

RELIGION

• The Blangs believe in Buddhism
• And animism
• Christianity is - 0.06%
• And their population is 100,000

LOCATION

• They live in china
• Their continent is Asia
• Region is in northeastern Asia

TRADITION

• The Blangs seek spouses outside their own clans and practice monogamy.
• mainly parental interference, young Blangs are fairly free to choose marriage partners.
• Most traditional festivals of the Blang nationality are related to religious activities,
• the most characteristics festivals among them are Guonian Festival and Close the Door Festival, etc.
• There were almost no schools in the Blang areas before 1949