Why should Bai people be called Bai people? What is its origin?

Since the Yuan Dynasty, people whose cultural attributes are close to those of the Han nationality in Yunnan-Guizhou area have been identified as a ethnic group, called "white people". "White people" is the earliest unified name of Bai ancestors today, and it has been called "home of people" since Ming and Qing Dynasties. After the founding of New China, 1956, 1 1 June, according to the wishes of the majority of Bai people, "Bai" was officially confirmed as a unified national name.

According to documents, the ancestors of the Bai nationality are a mixture of native Kunming people, Heman people around Erhai Lake, Miao and Qiang people in the south of Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, and some ethnic groups such as Bo people, Yi people, Bo people, Ailao people, Yunnan people and Han people. Before Yuan Dynasty, some ancestors of Bai nationality, Yi nationality and Dai nationality were all named as "Bai Man", "Wu Man", "Shang Yi", "Xia Yi", "Bai Yi" and "Bo Yi".

Bai people call themselves "Bai Zi", "Bai Ni" and "Bai Gang", which means "Bai" in Chinese. There are more than 60 nicknames of Bai people, including Jia Min, Nama and Lemo. Bai people living in Dali, Kunming and Sangzhi, Hunan Province, are called "Jia Min" in Chinese. The Bai people living in Lijiang, Diqing and Nujiang are called "Nama" in Naxi and "Lemo" in Lisu. Tibetan is called Laibo, and Yi is called Lop Nur, Robben and Rocky Slope.

Bai people in Guizhou have different names, such as "people with seven surnames", "people with nine surnames", "Luoju", "Longjiang" and "Nanjing". The Bai people in Weining, Guizhou are called "people with seven surnames" because they have seven surnames.

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After the founding of People's Republic of China (PRC), under the leadership of China, the Bai people have successively completed the land reform and socialist transformation. From 65438 to 0956, the Bai nationality was officially recognized as a national identity, and its national consciousness was formally recognized and strengthened.

1956165438+10, Dali Bai Autonomous Prefecture was established. After decades of socialist revolution and construction, the social history of the Bai people has entered a new stage of development.

Under the relaxed and equal ethnic policy, many hidden Bai people have made their national identities public. Under the current social transformation, the Bai people are facing the dilemma of lacking successors in cultural inheritance.

After the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, the areas inhabited by Bai people developed rapidly. Great progress has also been made in education, medical care and health care. The Bai people already have a considerable number of professors, writers, doctors and various scientific researchers. The economic development in the Bai area is becoming more and more prosperous.

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