Jino People
The Jino
nation has a population of 20,899. Most of the Jino are concentrated in the Jinoshan, a
series of mild hills with a wet climate near Mengyang Township in
Jinghong Municipality,
Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous
Prefecture of
Yunnan Province.
The Jino
nation is one of the less numerous of the recognized minorities
(ethnic group) in China and it is also the last one to be included
as "national minority" because they were not recognized
until June of
1979.
The name "Jino" means in their language: "Descending from the uncle"
(the uncle here indicates mother's brother) what shows that the Jino people lived in a matriarchal society until recent times, in
which the maternal uncle's authority was the most important in the
family.
*According
to the census in 2000
