Chinese Nationalities (Jino Minority)

Jino Minority (Juno) (Junuo)

Some minorities had been so absorbed that their status as separate peoples was nearly lost. The Jino of Yunnan in the southwest were only designated a minority in 1979. The Jino are found in Yunnan Province. About 18,000 of them live in the Jinuo Mountains in Jinghong County. The rest are scattered in Jinghong and Menghai Counties. They have a long history of tea growing. The Jino have retained the custom that people with the same name live together. Ten or twenty small families with the same family names live together in one big house, with a big fireplace for public use and a small room for each family. They are part of the Sino-Tibetan Thai ethno linguistic group.