THE NAMA AND THE LEIMO

One believes that the Achang are progeny of the ancient Qiang, who were living in the frontier region between Sichuan, Shaanxi and Sichuan long ago.

There are numerous chronicles of the numerous wars that faced the Chinese and to Qiang till the end of the dynasty They Have. Possibly a nations movement due to the same ones, has forced the ancestors of the Achang to emigrate on the south at the beginning of our age.

His emigration led them to covering during hundreds of years almost 2.000 kilometers up to his current situation in the southern limits of China.

In the VIIIth and IXth centuries it is said that they were living between the Yue. Later they are mentioned in the chronicles like one of the vassal peoples of the Kingdoms of Nanzhao and Dali.

In the dynasty Song, the histories of the travelers speak about a confederacy of tribes Achang, name that they preserve till now.

Until the XVIth century they were much tied to the Jingpo, beginning in this date a clear differentiation between these two peoples.

During the dynasty Ming the Achang they are governed by the tusi or local chiefs, who, of origin achang, govern them on behalf of the emperor. This system was current until the end of the dynasty Qing (1911) being supported with few modifications during the Republic China.

After the establishment of the people's republic China in 1949 the culture achang turned out to be completely transformed. In the last years many of his traditions have recovered.

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