Black Eagle Flights News Today

In Chinas Yunnan province, the Salween River is known as the Nujiang (怒江). It gives its name to the provinces westernmost prefecture and derives from the name of the earliest inhabitants of the valley — the Nu minority. In their own language nu means dark.

In Chinas Yunnan province, the Salween River is known as the Nujiang (怒江). It gives its name to the provinces westernmost prefecture and derives from the name of the earliest inhabitants of the valley — the Nu minority. In their own language nu means dark.

At first glance Heijing is just a charming little town along a clean but shallow river in the mountainous middle of Chuxiong Prefecture in central Yunnan. Terraced fields step up the slopes on both sides. The blue-grey humps of higher mountains loom to the north. Smooth red sandstone lines the Longchuan River banks and is the main building material in the town.

December 24, 2015 In Chinas Yunnan province, the Salween River is known as the Nujiang (怒江). It gives its name to the provinces westernmost prefecture and derives from the name of the earliest inhabitants of the valley — the Nu minority. In their own language nu means dark. So its the dark people and the dark river. But the Chinese character used to represent nu is the word for angry. It may be the wrong choice for designating the people, for they are a small, placid and easy-going ethn...