Myths of the World

The Gin or Jing people ( Chinese :  京 族 ;  pinyin :  Jīngzú ;  Yale :  Gīng juhk ;  Vietnamese :  người Kinh  tại Trung Quốc) are a community of descendants of ethnic  Vietnamese people  living in China. They mainly live on an area called the Jing Islands (京族三岛) off the coast of  Dongxing ,  Fangchenggang , in the Chinese autonomous region of  Guangxi . These territories were administered by the  Nguyễn dynasty , but were later ceded by the  French  to the  Qing dynasty  due to the convention 1887 of  Sino-French war . Prior to 1958, the Việt were labelled as  Yue  with the Cantonese groups ( Chinese :  族;  pinyin :  Yuèzú ;  Vietnamese :  người Việt tại Trung Quốc ), before the name “Kinh”, “Gin” or “Jing” was used to classify Vietnamese ethnic group separately. The Gin population was 33,112 as of  2020 . This number does not in...

Bhil   or Bheel  is an  ethnic group  in  western India . They speak the  Bhil languages , a subgroup of the  Western Zone  of the  Indo-Aryan languages . Bhils are listed as tribal people of the states of  Gujarat ,  Madhya Pradesh ,  Chhattisgarh ,  Maharashtra  and  Rajasthan —all in the western  Deccan  regions and central India—as well as in  Tripura  in far-eastern India, on the border with  Bangladesh . Bhils are divided into a number of  endogamous  territorial divisions, which in turn have a number of clans and lineages. Many Bhils now speak the dominant later language of the region they reside in, such as  Marathi ,  Gujarati  or a  Bhili language  dialect. Some scholars suggest that the term Bhil is derived from the word  billa  or  billu  which means bow in the  Dravidian lexis . The term Bhil is used t...