Yi people
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The Yi or Nuosu people are an ethnic group in southern China. Numbering nine million people, they are the sixth largest of the 55 ethnic minority groups recognized by the Chinese government. They live
Market Woman,Yi Minority
Zhongdian festival, Yi women
Black Nuosu Yi of Daliangshan
Carving of the king of Nanzhao Yimouxun (r. 779–808)
Ethnic minorities in China
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Ethnic minorities in China are the non-Han population in the People's Republic of China. The PRC officially recognizes 55 ethnic minority groups within China in addition to the Han majority. As of 202
Yi people
…pinyin: Yízú; see also § Names and subgroups) are an ethnic group in southern China. Numbering nine million people, they are the sixth largest of the 55 ethnic minority groups recognized by the Chinese government. They live primarily in rural areas of Sichuan, Yunnan, Guizhou, and Guangxi, usually in mountainous regions. The…
An 8th-century Tang dynasty Chinese clay figurine of a Sogdian man (an Eastern Iranian person) wearing a distinctive cap and face veil, possibly a camel rider or even a Zoroastrian priest engaging in a ritual at a fire temple, since face veils were used to avoid contaminating the holy fire with breath or saliva; Museum of Oriental Art (Turin), Italy.
The Long-horn tribe, a small branch of ethnic Miao in the western part of Guizhou Province