The population is about 23 thousand. The Jino people mainly reside in the Jinuo Township of Jinghong City in Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture of Yunnan Province and the others reside in the mountain areas surrounding the Jinuo Township. The Jino language is used, which belongs to the Yi branch of Tibeto-Burman languages of the Sino-Tibetan language family, and it does not have its own script. The Jino people call themselves “Jino” which means “the descendants of uncles” or “people who respect the uncles”. When the People’s Republic of China was founded, the Jino people did not form a class society and basically it was still a rural commune in the transition from the end of primitive society to the class society. Afterwards, the Jino people gradually changed the underdeveloped condition of slash-and-burn cultivation, bamboo carving for record-keeping, barter and offering sacrifices to ghosts to cure disease. The Jino people believe in animism and worship their ancestors. Their major festivals include “Offering Sacrifices to Dragon”, “Torch Festival” and “New Rice Festival”, etc. The date of their New Year is not fixed and is usually decided by “Zhuoba” and “Zhuosheng” (elders in the village). Hitting big drums by “Zhuoba” denotes the arrival of a new year. All villagers, men and women, young and old, rush to the homes of “Zhuoba” and “Zhuosheng”, singing and dancing to celebrate the arrival of New Year beside their homes.