Bai de Yunnan

Presenting the Bai: One of the minorities with major population in the south of China, and that better relation has supported with the Chinese along the history.

History of the Bai: Although his origin is still not clear, if there is clear his participation in the two most important systems of South-west of China: the Kingdom of Nanzhao and the Kingdom of Dali

The Bai in 1909: Described in the book "On foot for China" of Edwin Dingle. 1911

The religion of the Bai: His educated individual has turned the "local gentlemen" to every village into a world with his own mythology and his different temples.

Holidays of the Bai: His most important holiday, the Fair of March, mends his origin to the times of the Kingdom Nanzhao.

Literature of the Bai: A literature characterized by the historical works, and the variety of myths that corresponds to his religion benzhu or of the "local gentlemen".

Proverbs bai: pearls of secular knowledge: Small aphorisms in which the philosophy of this people becomes condensed.