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Location: More than studied, but it is believed to them. When the Nanjingren SICHUAN 120,000 people who call be a variety of Tibeto- marry, the bride-price is themselves Nanjingren Burman. customarily paid with cows. GUIZHOU •Bijie (Nanjing People) live in Bijie, The traditional dress of the Weining • •Guiyang • Dafang, Lupanshui, Qianxi, History: The Nanjingren in Nanjingren women consists Lupanshui •Anshun Weining, Jinsha, Nayong, Guizhou are historically of short-sleeved shirts, long •Panxian YUNNAN Anshun, Qingzhen, and similar to the Chuanqing skirts, and a headdress. Scale GUANGXI 0 KM 160 Zhijin counties in western and Chuanlan groups. 1 Population in China: Guizhou Province. Nanjing is the large, former Religion: Most Nanjingren 80,000 (1982) capital city of China located worship their ancestors. 121,700 (2000) Identity: The official on the east coast. The Each home has an ancestral 157,000 (2010) classification of the Nanjingren claim their altar on the wall of the main Location: Guizhou Religion: Ancestor Worship Nanjingren by the Chinese ancestors were soldiers room. Offerings of incense Christians: 1,000 authorities has been sent from Nanjing during the and food are regularly made extremely problematic. In eighth and ninth centuries to the dead, in the belief Overview of the the 1982 census they were to fight against Miao that it will procure their Nanjingren placed in a list of insurgents in the mountains. souls a better existence in Undetermined Minorities. In the afterlife. When a Countries: China 1987 the authorities Customs: When a number of Nanjingren dies, Daoist Pronunciation: “Nahn-jing-ren” decided that most generations had passed priests are called in to Other Names: Nankingren, Nankingese, Nang Jing, Xienan, Nanjingren were after their arrival in the conduct the funeral Xiejing, Awutu, Shiye, Gejiaoren, assimilated, and that the area, the Nanjingren according to Daoist rites. Nongjiazi, Longjiazi remaining 2,000 people who adopted many minority Population Source: retain their ethnicity had customs, especially from Christianity: Although most 80,000 (1982 Minzu Shibie Wenxian Ziliao Huibian) become members of the the Miao, and no longer Nanjingren have never heard Location: W Guizhou: Bijie, Longjia minority group. The viewed themselves as Han the gospel in such a manner Dafang, Lupanshui, Qianxi, Longjia themselves, Chinese. Later, Han settlers as to intelligently accept or Weining, Jinsha, Nayong, Anshun, Qingzhen, and Zhijin counties however, were not granted entered the region in the reject Christ, there are about Status: Most have been officially status as a minority group. fourteenth century. Not only 1,000 Catholic Christians included under Bai since 1987, In the late 1980s they were did they not consider the and a few Protestants among but some have been counted “discovered” to be a branch Nanjingren as Han people, them. These believers are under the Gelao, Yi, or Han Chinese; of the Bai nationality, the but in many instances they the fruit of pre-1949 Previously they were in a list of majority of whom live around persecuted and despised mission work in the region. Undetermined Minorities. Dali in western Yunnan Language: Sino-Tibetan, Province. To complicate an Tibeto-Burman, Unclassified already confused situation, Dialects: 0 the Nanjingren were told Religion: Ancestor Worship, Daoism, Animism, No Religion, they could choose which Christianity nationality they wanted to Christians: 1,000 be under. As a result, today Scripture: None there are Nanjingren who Jesus film: None are classified as Gelao, Yi, Gospel Recordings: None or Han Chinese. In Qianxi Christian Broadcasting: None County the Nanjingren call ROPAL code: None themselves Xienan, and in Dafang they use the name Xiejing. The Yi call them Status of Evangelization Awutu; the Miao know them 83% as Shiye; and the Han call them Gejiaoren.

16% Language: The Nanjingren 1% speak the Guizhou dialect of Chinese. However, in some A B C locations where they have A = Have never heard the gospel retained their ethnicity B = Were evangelized but did not become Christians better, they speak the C = Are adherents to any form of Longjia language. This Christianity language has not been Paul Hattaway

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