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Pumi nationality is one of the ethnic groups with a long history and ancient culture in China. The national language is Pumi, which belongs to the Qiang branch of the Tibeto-Burman family of Sino-Tibetan languages. There are northern and southern languages, and there is no national language, so Chinese is widely used. Lanping County of Nujiang Prefecture, ninglang county, Yulong County of Lijiang City and Weixi County of Diqing Prefecture are the main settlements. The rest are distributed in Yunxian, Fengqing, Zhongdian, Muli, Yanyuan, Jiulong and other counties in Sichuan Province.
Pumi people believe in Bonism, Korean proselytism and Tibetan Buddhism. According to the statistical yearbook of China -202 1, the population of Pumi nationality in China is 450 12.
surname
Pumi language is a transliteration of Pumi language, which means "white people" and is a national proposition. Pumi people in different places have different self-names, such as the Pumi people in Lanping, Lijiang and Yongsheng who call themselves "Puyingmi"; The Pumi people in Ninglang call themselves "Pumi people" or "Pemi people", and "Mi" means Pumi people.
Pei, "Puying" and "Puri" all mean "white", so Pumi means white. Pumi people claim to be white, which is related to their worship of white since ancient times and their belief that white is a symbol of good luck.
history
According to China's historical records, national legends and ethnological data, Pumi nationality originated from the frontier Qiang nationality in ancient China. According to historical documents, the Pumi nationality, formerly known as Xifan, originated from ancient frontier ethnic groups. Pumi ancestors first lived in the south of Gansu Province and the east of Qinghai Province, then entered the east of Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and gradually moved south along Jinsha River and Yalong River.
Before the 7th century, Yuexi, Mianning, Hanyuan, Jiulong and Shimian in Sichuan were one of the main ethnic groups in Xichang at that time. The White Wolf Qiang is one of the Qiang people who moved south. "White Wolf" is a self-proclaimed, namely "Brown", which was called "Yu" in China ancient books and "Xifan" after Song and Ming Dynasties.
Tribal alliance headed by "White Wolf" tribe is the foundation of Pumi nationality. National legends can prove the origin of Pumi nationality from another level.
According to the legend of Pumi people, their ancestors first lived on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and first lived in the snow collapse in Muliwa, Kunlun Mountain. They are nomadic people on the borders of Qinghai, Gansu and Sichuan. Later, they gradually moved from the plateau along the Hengduan Mountains to warm and lush areas, and moved south to the Dadu River west of Qionglai Mountain in Sichuan.