Sentence examples for the qiang from inspiring English sources

Mu, who is from the Qiang ethnic group, one of the minorities of China, suggested to Yao that Qiang studies be emphasized in rebuilt Sichuan.

Many are of the Qiang ethnic minority.

The other is to turn the Qiang ethnic minority into a tourist draw.

Walking arm in arm, the newlyweds promenaded past stone bridges, fortresses and watchtowers, all rebuilt to look like an ancient village of the Qiang ethnic minority.

The xiao first appeared in the Han dynasty (206 bc–220 ad), possibly imported from the Qiang people of what is now northwestern China.

The quake did the job in an instant, leveling 80 percent of the town's buildings and killing an estimated two-thirds of its 22,000 inhabitants, many of them members of the Qiang ethnic minority.

The Wenchuan earthquake, which happened on May 12th, 2008, caused severe damage to settlements of the Qiangs in the upper reaches of Min River, including the "Tangping Qiang village," which plays a prominent role in Qiang stockaded villages.

Between the 10th and 12th centuries, the Chinese developed the huo qiang ("fire lance"), a short-range proto-gun that channeled the explosive power of gunpowder through a cylinder initially, a bamboo tube.

According to Han-language historical records, during the Han Dynasties the Tibetans belonged to the western Qiang people.

The Fa Qiang were one of many tribes on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau at the time; they had significant intercourse with the Gansu Qiang tribe.

There were two types of situations in which Han peoples were integrated into other groups; one situation was by force, for example those made captives of the Huns, Qiang, and Turks, or those forcibly resettled to the border regions by the rulers of the Central Plains, such as soldiers, poor people, and criminals; the second situation was voluntary relocation as a result of natural disasters.