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Of the more than 9 million Yi people, over 4.5 million live in Yunnan Province, 2.5 million live in southern Sichuan Province and 1 million live in the northwest corner of Guizhou Province. Nearly all the Yi live in mountainous areas, [ citation needed ] often carving out their existence on the sides of steep mountain slopes far from the cities ...
The Luoshi Kingdom (Chinese: 羅氏國 / 羅施國), commonly referred to in Tang documents as the Luoshi Ghost Kingdom (Chinese: 羅氏鬼國; "Spirit kingdom of the Luo Clan"), was a Nasu speaking ethnic Yi state located in modern-day Guizhou during the Tang and Song dynasties.
According to the Guizhou Ethnic Gazetteer (2002), [2] Yi autonyms include Nasu 哪苏, [3] Tusu 兔苏, [4] Lagou 腊勾, [5] Guo 果, [6] and so forth.. Most of Yi people of the Luquan area do not have the autonym Luoluo and Nasu (transliterated into Chinese as 纳苏) means "black", hence the Black Yi (黑彝 Hei Yi), [7] though Black Yi is an aristocratic caste distinction among the Yi ...
She Xiang (Chinese: 奢香; pinyin: shēxiāng) (1358-1396) was a member of the Yi people（彝）. She Zi（舍兹） is her Yi（彝） name. Guizhou female Shui Xi soil department during the Ming Dynasty. She is well-respected for her accomplishments in constructing roads and bridges as well as mediating conflicts between the Yi and Han ...
In the 1520s, 50,000 soldiers were settled in central Guizhou. By the 1560s, the Yi people in the region had learned Chinese agricultural techniques and were thoroughly integrated in the Chinese trade network. In 1600, the Chinese population of Guizhou reached three million. [13] Many of them were captured by the Yi people and sold as slaves. [14]
Liujia 六甲: 4,000 (1999) people classified as Han, in Congjiang County, Guizhou. Hou Jingrong (2009) considers the Liujia language to be a Yue Chinese dialect. [ 4 ] In Guangxi, Liujia is spoken in Sanjiang County (in the townships of Guyi 古宜镇, Chengcun 程村乡, Doujiang 斗江镇, Zhouping 周坪乡, Laobao 老堡乡, and Zhouzhou ...
The Gelao people (also spelled Gelo) (Gelao: Klau, Chinese: 仡佬族; pinyin: Gēlǎozú) are an ethnic group of China and Vietnam. They form one of the 56 ethnic groups officially recognized by the People's Republic of China. However, many Gelao are also variously classified as Yi, Miao, and Zhuang by the Chinese government.
Traditionally, the Qixingmin have also been considered an Yi subgroup. The Yi of the western extreme of Guizhou province have been divided into five subgroups, namely the Black Yi 黑彝, Red Yi 红彝, White Yi 白彝, Green Yi 青彝, and Luoju 罗苴 (a traditional name for the Qixingmin).