The Bai People hold the white colour in high esteem and call themselves "Baizi", "Baini" or "Baihuo", which means white people. In 1956, of their own will they were named the Bai Nationality by Chinese Authorities.
Location
Bai people live mostly in the provinces of Yunnan , and in neighboring Guizhou and Hunan provinces. Of the 2 million Bai people, eighty percent live in concentrated communities in the Dali Bai Autonomous Prefecture in Yunnan Province.
Language
An estimated 1,240,000 of the Bai speak the in all its varieties. The tongue is either a member of the or the of the or possibly part of an independent branch of this family.
Cormorant Fishing
Cormorant fishing is a way of using cormorant birds for fishing and is practiced among the Bai fishermen.
See also
* Nanzhao
* Kingdom of Dali
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