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  Ethnic Groups - china.org.cn
This shows that a portion of the Tu people in Huzhu County are descendants of Mongolians that moved in from Andingwei during the Ming Dynasty.
The Huzhu Tu Autonomous County was established in February 1954, in spite of the fact that the Tu people account for only 13.5 per cent of the population of the county.
People of the Tu ethnic group are renowned for their talent for singing and dancing.
www.china.org.cn /e-groups/shaoshu/shao-2-tu.htm   (1771 words)

  
 Chinese life/society
The Tu people are known as the "rainbow people," and their homeland is referred to as "home of the rainbow." The Tu people worship nature and have a special affinity for the rainbow, which is reflected in their clothing and headgear.
Bending the body to face the earth expresses the Tu people's worship of the land, while reaching up with their hands represents their reverence for heaven, and their outstretched arms are to show their sincerity towards friends.
The Huzhu Folklore Village in the western suburbs of the county seat is 6.3 square kilometers in size and represents the folk lifestyle of the Tu, Tibetan, Hui and Han people.
www.chinavoc.com /life/focus/tulife.asp   (1440 words)

  
 China Source
The Tu The Tu are a people group that lives in northeast China and believes they are descended from white feathers that were left behind by a flock of cranes.
Tu and Mongour are so different that the Tu and the Mongour cannot communicate with each other through their own languages; they must use Mandarin to communicate.
What distinguishes the Tu dress from other groups nearby is their elaborate and complex use of needlework, and the "rainbow" effect given to most of their clothes (even their shoes!) through the use of bright colors.
www.chsource.org /Tu.htm   (875 words)

  
 Arutz Sheva - Israel National News
Tu B'Shvat, the 15th day of the month of Shvat in the religious calendar, has been deconstructed in recent years and converted into a holiday of ecology and environmentalist political agitprop.
Tu B'Shvat is nominally the "New Year of the Trees" (called this in the Talmud), but I doubt if one in 100 Jews can correctly explain in what sense it is or what this means, and I doubt that any reader of Tikkun magazine on the planet could explain these things correctly.
Tu B'Shvat is the "New Year of Trees" precisely because it is when trees are not blossoming and when it is the very worst time to be planting saplings.
www.israelnationalnews.com /article.php3?id=1863   (778 words)

  
 Kungfu Magazine: Magazine Feature Article
A veteran martial master, Tu was born into a martial family and began his training under his father in Shaolin kungfu at the young age of six.
Tu has dedicated his life's work completely to the martial arts and founded his own unique style of qigong kungfu.
Tu figures 20 to 24 of his top students, by strapping their penises, 6 to 8 men per wheel, can generate combined penis pulling power to move the 18,000-kilogram (39,780 lbs!) 747.
ezine.kungfumagazine.com /magazine/article.php?article=315   (1542 words)

  
 Tu B'Shevat
Tu B'Shevat translates as the 15th day of the Hebrew month of Shevat; Tu is not a word, but a representation of the number 15.
A harbinger of spring, Tu B'Shevat usually falls between the end of January and the middle of February and it is during this time that the trees in Israel begin to sprout flowers and fruits.
Tu B'Shevat is believed to have the same meaning for trees as Rosh Hashanah does for people; on this day God decides how bountiful the trees will be in the coming year.
www.92y.org /content/tu_bshevat.asp   (908 words)

  
 The Tu Ethnic Group
The Tu ethnic minority, known for their simplicity and industriousness, lives in the northwestern part of China – to the east of Qinghai Lake and south of Qilian Mountain Range and along the banks of the Huangshui and Datong rivers.
It is concentrated mainly in the Huzhu Tu Autonomous County in
The Huzhu Tu Autonomous County was established in February 1954, in spite of the fact that the Tu people account for only 13.5 percent of the population of the county.
www.china.org.cn /english/features/EthnicGroups/136953.htm   (1711 words)

  
 Arutz Sheva - Israel National News
Tu B'Shvat, the 15th day of the month of Shvat in the Jewish calendar, has been deconstructed in recent years and converted into a holiday of ecology and environmentalist political agitprop.
Tu B'Shvat is the worst part of the year in which to try to plant trees and get them to grow.
People who want to preserve national parks and natural areas are free to lobby for these, but they will find no theological support for their position in the real Tu B'Shvat.
www.israelnationalnews.com /article.php3?id=3308   (841 words)

  
 Historical Sites of the Mao Naga
Oratu, Okhetu and Omei tu were erected before the three brothers (God, Tiger and Man) departed from the middle land, Our tradition believed that the Tiger became a rare animal due to the fall of his stone.
People used to enquire any specific information from this menhir which always responded what exactly it was and what should be done.
It is our traditional belief that people who have long desired for a son used to climb up on this monolith without the support of their hands.
www.angelfire.com /nm/nagalim/maoland.htm   (666 words)

  
 Tu Ethnic Minority - China Style   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
The Tu ethnic group, with a population of about 191,624, is concentrated in the Minhe and Datong counties and the Huzhu Autonomous County in the eastern part of Qinghai Province.
The Tu people used to be very particular about their hair, limited to seven or eight particular styles.
Throughout the festival, the entire Tu nationality celebrates, and all the villagers enjoy themselves by singing and dancing to the lively rhythm of drums.
library.thinkquest.org /05aug/01780/chinese-ethnic-group/tu.htm   (745 words)

  
 The Collegian Online: TU works to enable the disabled   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
Fischer was injured in a car accident during the first week of her senior year of high school, leaving her paralyzed from the waist down and with limited mobility in her fingers.
She decided to come to TU because it was close to home and she knew that it could offer her the help that she would need.
Peoples’ names in the Talkback Forums cannot be verified and are not guaranteed to be accurate.
www.utulsa.edu /collegian/article.asp?article=2241   (1055 words)

  
 Cyberwink
People leave TU on a rolling basis as they find sponsors out in the company who are willing to take them on.
During their three months at TU, they are not only exposed to Liemandt's latest ideas about the direction of the company, they're also engaged with him as partners in developing and implementing those ideas.
TU is the impetus and the process for improving Liemandt and his senior people as leaders.
www.cyberwink.com /don/reading_trilogy.html   (4675 words)

  
 STG - Textile Art from the Hmong, Dao & Co-Tu People of Vietnam   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
Relationships among members of the same lineage are always very close and the Dao can define people of the same lineage by their middle names and his or her position in that lineage.
The Co-tu have nearly 50,000 people inhabiting in Hien and Giang districts of Quang Nam province and A Luoi and Nam Dong districts of Thua Thien-Hue.
The rituals are held mainly by each family and some big rites are held by whole people of the village, in particular the buffalo-stabbing rite.
www.sidewalkgallery.com.au /stg_viet_textiles.html   (1297 words)

  
 Exploring Chinese History :: Culture :: People :: Minorities (text only)
People of the Dongxiang ethnic minority live in the part of the Linxia Hui Autonomous Prefecture situated south of the Yellow River and southwest of Lanzhou, capital city of the northwest province of Gansu.
People of this ethnic group were oppressed, bullied and discriminated against by the Tibetan local government, manorial lords and monasteries under feudal serfdom in Tibet.
People who lodge in an Oroqen home would often hear the housewife say to the husband early in the morning: "I'm going to hunt some breakfast for our guests and you go to fetch water." When the guests have washed, the woman with gun slung over her shoulders would return with a roe back.
www.ibiblio.org /chinesehistory/contents/02cul/c06s01to.html   (19252 words)

  
 Noteworthy People 3 Fall 2006
She estimates that TU employs roughly 85 paid staff nationwide, and the rest are volunteers.
She places equal importance on the people she works with and the relationships she has formed—not only at TU, but also at the DEQ and at GM in Detroit where she worked in waste management prior to moving to Idaho.
But she has a special gratitude for the people at TU and the kind of people you come to meet working for a nonprofit organization.
www.idbsu.edu /history/issuesonline/fall2006_issues/p3_notepeople06fall.html   (796 words)

  
 WUJS: World Union of Jewish Students - Tu B'Av   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
After the destruction of the temple and the exile of the Jewish people the holiday was rarely celebrated, but with the establishment of the modern state many Kibbutzim adopted the day as a sort of Jewish Valentine's day.
It was on Tu B'Av that the desert generation stopped dying in punishment for the sin of the spies.
Tu B'Av is also a day on which a number of restrictions on women were lifted.
www.wujs.org.il /activist/learning/festivals/tu_bav/index.shtml   (613 words)

  
 Tu people - Medbib.com, the modern encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
The Tu (土) people are an ethnic group.
However, they are classified as a separate minority in the Peoples' Republic of China, partly due to the fact that they have intermingled with the Tibetan and Turkic people.
The Tu language, which has been recently identified as two separate but related languages—Mongghul (once known as the Huzhu dialect of Monguor/Tu) and Mangghuer (formerly the Minhe dialect of Monguor/Tu)—is a Mongolian language.
www.medbib.com /Tu_people   (1400 words)

  
 Tu Jie: ZoomInfo Business People Information
Tu Jie's summary was automatically generated using 1 reference found on the Internet.
This was the feeling Shanghai-born businessman and sculptor Tu Jie had some 20 years ago when he made a HK$60 million (US$7.7 million) bet on 600 tons of ancient rosewood he had discovered in a small village in India.
Sitting in his office filled with sculptures carved from wood, Tu, 44, is wearing spectacles and an upthrust hairstyle and it had not been easy arranging an interview with him.
www.zoominfo.com /people/jie_tu_723061942.aspx   (897 words)

  
 Tu Ethnic Minority - China tourist & travel guide for ethnic minorities of China
The Tus claim to be Monguer (Mongolians), Tukun or Tuhujia.
Some consider that the Tus probably originated from the ancient tribes of the Tuguhuen (a branch of the Xianpi people) or Shatuo Tujue, others say that they are the descendants of Mongolians.
The language of the Tu nationality belongs to the Mongolian branch of the Altaic language family.
www.orientaltravel.com /people/Tu.htm   (121 words)

  
 What Is Tu B'shevat? - Hashkafah.com
People who want to preserve national parks and natural areas are free to lobby for these, but they will find no theological support for their position in the real Tu-b’Shvat.
He thinks that Tu B'Shevat shouldn't be some sort of tutti fruiti holiday-- though it's interesting to point out the Dr Rabbi Chancellor Norman Lamm contributed to a Tu B'Shevat anthology entitled Trees, Earth, and Torah edited by Ari Elon, Naomi Mara Hyman, and Arthur Waskow.
And isn't endthemadness having/had a Tu B'Shevat seder?
www.hashkafah.com /index.php?showtopic=7254   (1544 words)

  
 Legend in the rock pillars: Wulingyuan: UNESCO Culture Sector
A minority ethnic group of Tu people had been living here in isolation from the outside world.
Tu people escaped from the war and found refuge in this mountain area about 2500 years ago during the spring and autumn warring states period.
However, Tu people believe that TianWan TianZi is still alive and training soldiers at the bottom of the valley.
portal.unesco.org /culture/en/ev.php-URL_ID=30371&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html   (333 words)

  
 VN Embassy : Hue Cultural Village “Back to the Source”
The soul of the Village is the guol, a Ko Tu traditional wooden house built with a bamboo floor and roofed with rattan.
According to Ko Tu people, the pole is the rice plant and is where a buffalo is often tied to before it is killed to worship the ancestors during the traditional buffalo-stabbing festival.
Mai Khac Ung, a researcher from Hue Research Centre for Folk Culture and one of the founders of the Village, said: “Through research, we find that Ko Tu culture is sparkling and it echoes to the sound of the Dong Son Culture in the era when the Hung kings built the country of Vietnam.
www.vietnamembassy-usa.org /news/story.php?datestamp=20030113173526&print=yes   (629 words)

  
 China Ethnic Minority: Tu People
Numbering 241,198 according to the national census of 2000, the Tu ethnic minority is located mainly in Huzhu, Minhe, and Datong Counties in Qinghai Province as well as some counties in Gansu Province.
The Tu people practice the faith of Animism and some are the followers of Taoism.
The Tu people's staple food is Qingke, a kind of highland barley, as well as wheat.
www.travelchinaguide.com /intro/nationality/tu/index.htm   (519 words)

  
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The size of typical Ka Tu male costumes are from 35-40cm in width and 1.5-8m in length, and are decorated with lead beads arranged in various patterns.
The precise techniques to cast the lead beads and weave such unique garmets were neglected by the Ka Tu people fifty years ago causing an irreplaceable loss in their cultural legacy.
With assistance from the U.S. government, the Ka Tu traditional ceremonies would be revived, bringing back pride in their culture, which is at risk due to a rapidly changing lifestyle and neglect of traditional cultural values.
exchanges.state.gov /culprop/afcp/proposals/bin/Proposal.doc   (751 words)

  
 TU - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Tu (in Spanish Tú) is an informal second-person pronoun in Romance languages.
It is also an informal form of the second-personal pronoun in Hindi and Urdu.
Tu is also an expression, commonly used in the United Kingdom.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/TU   (260 words)

  
 Tu B'Shvat
Tu B'Shvat, the fifteenth day of the Hebrew month of Shvat, is the New Year for trees.
A Tu B'Shvat Seder is a special way to celebrate the holiday.
Some people eat the fruits for which the Torah praises the Land of Israel.
www.bigdates.com /holidays/tubshvat.asp   (181 words)

  
 SignOnSanDiego.com > News > World -- Mysterious double crash puts Russia on edge
The wreckage of a Sibir airlines Tu-154 with 46 people aboard was spread over a few hundred yards in a rugged field near Gluboky in the region of Rostov-on-Don, some 600 miles south of Moscow.
Officials also said the crew of the other plane gave no indication anything was wrong, although people on the ground reported hearing a series of explosions.
Authorities said they recovered what they believed were the remains of all 43 people aboard the Volga-Aviaexpress plane, which had been en route to the southern city of Volgograd.
www.signonsandiego.com /news/world/20040825-1741-russia-planecrash.html   (1273 words)

  
 Peterson Tuners Forum 2007 - Is this thing REALLY as good as everyone says?
But the thing is that the TU-2 people never have tried the SS and are showing a conservative behavior.
They don't care about the SS, they don't want to test it, and even though SS people say they are better, they don't care to listen.
Some people say it's too hard to get the scope to stop entirely, and I can to some point agree, but getting them close enough to stop entirely will still sound better then with another tuner.
www.petersontuners.com /forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=1333   (340 words)

  
 Tu people - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Population and Culture of the Mongols, Tu, Baoan, Dongxiang, and Yugu in Gansu.
Death and Funerals Among the Minhe Tu (Monguor).
Tu • Tujia ;• Uyghur ;• Uzbek • Va ;• Xibe ;• Yao ;• Yi ;• Yugur ;• Zhuang ;• Undistinguished ethnic groups
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tu_people   (1432 words)

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