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Photo Exhibition China : Beijing to Lhasa, from Evariste Huc (1813-1860) until now
Section 4 - Autonomous region of Inner Mongolia
Discover the evolution of this area during history.
EXTRACT OF TEXT FROM THE DESCRIPTIVE PANEL :
With the passage of Evariste Huc
Inner-Mongolia ,
a dependence of the Manchu Empire
XIIIth century, Inner-Mongolia belongs to the Mongolian Empire of Gengis-khan (1167?-1227).
From the XVIIth century, the Manchus conquer this part of the world and annex it under the dynasty Qing (1644-1911).
In 1691, the Mongols of the South (of the area of Tümet, Ordos and Tchakar) are the first to be subjected. The princes of these tribes make act of allegiance to the emperor Kangxi (1652-1722), 5th sovereign of the Qing dynasty. These various territories constitute the essence of Inner-Mongolia at time of Evariste Huc and today.
Europeans name "Outer-Mongolia" the external region of the Manchu Empire, and "Iner-Mongolia" the annexed southern zone most part of the Mongolian territory...
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Thematic canvas :
Autonomous region of Inner Mongolia
Discover the old and comptemporaine history of this China area.
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Modern Mongolian yurt at the border of Inner-Mongolia and Hebei
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Certain Mongols of the area settle themselves and build their dwelling on the traditional model of the yurt. At the origin, the word yurt that the Kazakh and the Turks employ indicated the territory on which the nomads of High-Asia camped. By a progressive restriction, this term indicated the camp and finally the round tent of felt, which in Mongolian says ger. Today, this word returned in the occidental vocabulary, called "yurt"... |
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Sacred tree of chamanic tradition insulated in the Gobi Desert
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" The deserts of Tartarie if are generally deforested and a so monotonous nudity, that no one cannot prevent oneself from testing an certain well-being, when one meets, of time to other, some trees on his passage. "
Évariste HUC — Memories of a journey in Tartarie and Thibet.
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Bactriane Camels in the desert of Ordos
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Previously, the Bactriane camel (Camelus bactrianus) missed Gobi Desert. It was domesticated there has 4 500 years, to Bactria (currently in the north of Iran) and was brought to China by the Silk road 2500 years later... |
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Beginning of the XXth century photographs (Congrégation de la Mission des Lazaristes de Paris)
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" The camel whose robust and hardened temperament is put up with the most sterile mountains, comes to compensate the Tartars of Ortous (Ordos). This animal, true treasure of the desert, can remain fifteen days and even a month without drinking nor to eat. Some poor wretch that that is to say the country, it always finds what to satisfy itself, especially if the ground is impregnated of salt or from niter... Its ordinary load goes up to seven or eight hundred books (approximately 400 kg), and it can thus make ten miles per day (approximately 40 km) . Those which one employs to carry of the dispatches... carry only the rider "
Évariste HUC — Memories of a journey in Tartarie and Thibet.
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Modern wedding
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A recent investigation shows that young people in age to marry are ready to spend 90 % of their economies for a marriage (more than 10 million people marry each year in China). The industry of the marriage in China created an immense very lucrative market.
More than 250 billion yuans (10 yuans = one euro) are spent each year, so much so that currently, the specialized companies cannot satisfy the needs for the market...
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Beginning of the XXth century photographs (Congrégation de la Mission des Lazaristes de Paris) :
" The Chinese get married very young... Nothing is not more ordinary than to conclude the marriages a long time before the contractors reached the age of puberty. It even often arrives that the parents pledge before the birth of the engaged couples... It is obvious that contracted marriages in this manner are based with difficulty on the suitability and the sympathy of the characters "
Évariste HUC — Chinese Empire. |
And 14 other photographs accompagnied by captions...
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