List of publications on a keyword: «народность северо-востока КНР Хэчжэ»
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Fish skin products as a factor in preserving the ethnic identity of the Hezhe people
Research Article
Ethnic Culture Volume 8 No 1- Authors:
- Yulei Ma, Raisa G. Zhamsaranova
- Work direction:
- Ethnography, Ethnology and Anthropology
- Abstract:
- The technology of making fish skin by the Hezhe people is a unique technique of material production that is currently being actively reconstructed in order to preserve the traditional culture of China's ethnic minorities. It is known that the Hezhe people are related to the Russian Nanai people, a small indigenous ethnic group of the Russian Far East that lives along the banks of the Amur River and its tributaries, the Ussuri and Sungari Rivers. In China, they are known as the Hezhe people. Fishing and hunting technology is an element of the traditional culture of the peoples of the northeastern territories of Russia and China. It is known that the Heze people have been engaged in fishing since ancient times, and they have mastered various methods of fishing, such as harpooning, net fishing, and so on. This article describes the process of fish cutting in order to further use fish skin as one of the promising trends for the revival of ethnic culture.
- Keywords:
- ethnic culture, Northeastern Chinese ethnic group Hezhe, fish leather tanning technology, material cultural heritage, and tradition reconstruction