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Mountains to collect a “tobacco •Lincang tax.” He died on the way back. The government used this •Mojiang incident to accuse the mountain •Lancang Pu’er • VIET- people of poisoning the tax •Menglian NAM Menghai • collector. The KMT “sent • LAOS Mengla soldiers to loot, burn and kill. Scale • 0KM80 The Jino people rose up and Population in : notified the villages of the Tai 1,000 (1991) Lu, Yao, Lahu, Akha and Han 1,260 (2000) nationalities by urgent letter that 1,620 (2010) Location: Yunnan their delegates should assemble Religion: Polytheism on Jino Mountain. There they Christians: 20 pledged in the blood of a slain ox to rally to the support of the Overview of the Jino people. The armies Buyuan Jino attacked unmercifully and numerous Jino were Countries: China slaughtered. Despite the failed Pronunciation: “Boo-yooahn-Jee-nor” uprising, the Tai Lu sing, ‘The Other Names: strongest animal in the forest is Buyuan, Pu-yuan Chi-no the rhinoceros, the bravest Population Source: people on the mountain are the 1,000 (1991 EDCL); 2 Out of a total population of Jino!’” 18,021 Jino (1990 census) Location: SW Yunnan: Customs: An aspect of Jino

Buyuanshan District of Jinghong Paul Hattaway culture unique among China’s County Location: One thousand speakers of the peoples is the longhouse. Whole Jino Status: Officially included under Jino Buyuan Jino language were listed in a 1991 extended families live together in the same 1 Language: Sino-Tibetan, study. They live on the Buyuan Mountains home. In the early 1950s the largest home 3 Tibeto-Burman, Burmese-Lolo, in Jinghong County, Xishuangbanna contained 127 people! In the past, the Lolo, Southern Lolo, Jino Prefecture, located in the extreme ears of newborn babies were pierced and Dialects: 0 southwest corner of China. Despite their inserted with decorated pieces of cork or Religion: close proximity to Laos and Myanmar, there bamboo.4 The Jino’s village boundaries are Polytheism, Animism, Christianity is no evidence of Jino being found in either marked by wooden or stone tablets bearing Christians: 20 country. The Buyuan region is a thickly an emblem of a sword or spear.5 Scripture: None forested area. Over 200 wild elephants, as Jesus film: None well as leopards, golden-haired monkeys, Religion: The Buyuan Jino are polytheists, Gospel Recordings: None and wild oxen still roam the unspoilt worshiping a multitude of demons and Christian Broadcasting: None forests. Small bears also inhabited the gods. They also worship Kong Ming. Jino ROPAL code: JIY00 jungle, but their numbers have been homes are constructed in the shape of a reduced to near extinction by the expert cube with a pointed roof to resemble the Status of Evangelization Jino hunters. hat Kong Ming reputedly wore into battle. 68% Jino boys wear shirts with a circular pattern Identity: Although the Buyuan Jino belong embroidered on the back, alleged to be the 30% to the official Jino minority group, they eight diagrams Kong Ming used in his speak their own distinct language. divination.6 2% Language: The exact genetic affiliation of Christianity: A small number of Buyuan Jino A B C the Jino languages is yet to be determined. have been won to Christ by evangelists A = Have never heard the gospel It is known that they are members of the from Jinghong in recent years. All the new B = Were evangelized but did not Tibeto-Burman language group. The Christians are teenagers. This has become Christians C = Are adherents to any form of speakers of Buyuan Jino must speak prevented the gospel from permeating the Christianity Chinese or Tai Lu in order to communicate authority structures of the Jino and from with the Jino who live in the Youle winning favor with the leaders of their Mountains. communities. Most older Buyuan Jino view Christianity with suspicion. History: In 1942 the Kuomintang authorities dispatched an officer to the Jino

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