Arts & Culture

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Just watched a big load of Chinese Tajik and Tashkurgan videos!

This video shows Persian style Mosque and Persian style historical ruins in China......the ruins look like the ruins in Yazd! The tour guide said that Chinese Tajiks are Shia muslims!

//www.youtube.com/watch?v=cabXT80sTfU

All the girls in Tashkurgan wear either scarf or hat:

//www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkFBKiwgdUI

Silk road passage point, Stone Tower, in Tashgurgan:

//www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRuM5qhrXAs

700 Year old Princess Castle....Tashkurgan people play Ney, Daf, and other Persian instruments:

//www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDKy5q2ajrw

Violin concerto "Sunshine on Tashkurgan"

//www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qd862g_NbH0

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Here is the description of this group of people in China's website: 

 Religion:  The Tajiks' ancestors were Zoroastrians, but in the late 11th century they started to convert to Islam, which remains the dominant religion. 

  The sad thing is that they can speak the Farsi-like language, but nobody can write in Farsi. All of them are illiterate in Farsi!

Persians in western China!

Extraordinary jearney towards the historical conservation of our heredity.  Love you China.

Dry Cleaning!

Their dry cleaning expenses must be high because of all that flour sprinkling on thier shoulders!!!  :)

Wonderful clip!

Hopefully one day getting there will become easier.

Thank you Mr. Khandan,

Alborz

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Very interesting video! I watched twice! They don't speak the exact Farsi spoken by Iranians, but their culture, language, music, and way they dance are very close to Iranians or Tajikis! Tashkurgan was once ruled by Persians!

Chinese Tajiki girl sang in Farsi:

//www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8-VAVJOXP8&feature=related

They dance like Iranians and they have fire festival

//www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuC7D1xhqdA&feature=related

//www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvAyQWU8-B4&feature=related

There is a Zoroastrian temple ruins in Tashkurgan!

I hope anthropologists, ethnologists, lingusits do more research on this group of people! It should be great Ph.D dissertation topics!

amazing

this is a proof of how the chinese government of chine is irrisponssibe and have no interest in preserving the littlest culture. this shows that china is not respecting other cultures and their governmet lie.

Priceless clip....

 Khasteh nabaashi Mr.Khandan.

Sepaas 

 //www.iranica.com/articles/chinese-iranian-xiii

Ebi aka Haaji

Thanks for this doc

Thanks Mr. Khandan. Indeed half of our culture is outside our borders,
and the more we learn about them, the better for understanding
ourselves.

It was in 1995, that Reza Deghati covered the region for the first time
for National Geographic Magazine. He was the first foreign
photojournalist (by chance an Iranian!) to reach Eastern Turkistan (or
Xinjiang by chinese official renaming) after 40 years of military
closure.

Beautiful!

It's so wonderful that you have found one of our "lost tribes". It's like watching Iranians and their custims of centuries ago. They have been neglected for so long. Lost in time. Forgotten. But not anymore. Thanks to you!