In China s Yunnan province, the Salween River is known as the Nujiang (怒江). It gives its name to the province s 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 China s Yunnan province, the Salween River is known as the Nujiang (怒江). It gives its name to the province s westernmost prefecture and derives from the name of the earliest inhabitants of the valley the Nu minority. In their own language nu means dark .
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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 China s Yunnan province, the Salween River is known as the Nujiang (怒江). It gives its name to the province s 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 it s 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 ethnic group, much outnumbered by the Black Lisu, who make up the majority of the prefecture s population. But it seems quite appropriate to call the river angry , especially during the rainy months of spring and summer, when it roars through the 300 kilometer-long Nujiang canyon at seven meters per second, creating long stretches of class four and five waves.