Zimageni means good luck, good health and good health. It is also the most commonly used blessing word by the Yi people. Before meeting, while drinking, in prayer, after parting... the Yi people all Use this word to express each other's blessings and wishes. The words are short but profound, the words are clean and affectionate, and the four characters and five tones convey the original intention of the Yi people to be kind and simple.
The Yi people are the sixth largest ethnic minority in China. Their national language is Yi, which belongs to the Yi branch of the Tibeto-Burman family of the Sino-Tibetan language family. There are six dialects: northern, eastern, southern, southeastern, western and central dialects. , including 5 sub-dialects and 25 dialects.
The Yi people are mainly distributed among the plateaus and coastal hills of the four provinces (regions) of Yunnan, Sichuan, Guizhou and Guangxi. They are mainly concentrated in Chuxiong, Honghe, Liangshan, Bijie, Liupanshui and Anshun. The Liangshan Yi people The autonomous prefecture is the largest Yi inhabited area in the country.