Do Yi people have their own writing?

Yi language is an ideographic language, also called syllabic language. It is called "literature and art", "Shu Shu" or "Luotan" and "Tam" in history books, and is generally called the old Yi language. This writing was formed in13rd century. It is estimated that there are about 10,000 words in the old Yi language, and more than 1,000 words are commonly used. Each glyph represents a meaning without radicals. There are many different writing formats for the same glyph, mainly from left to right directly or horizontally.

Yi people's diet:

The staple foods of the Yi people are potatoes, corn, buckwheat and rice. Non-staple foods include meat, beans, vegetables, spices and drinks. Carnivores are mainly cattle, sheep, pigs and chickens, and they kill animals when entertaining guests. Killing cattle is the most expensive, followed by sheep and pigs. Beans are mostly soybeans, beans, peas and so on. There is a way to eat soybeans, which the Yi people call "Dulaba", that is, grinding soybeans into pulp and cooking them with sauerkraut.

Seasoning mainly collects three kinds of wild plants, one is the leaves of "Halagu", the other is the roots and flowers of the tree "Muku" and the other is the roots of the herb "Qipaicheke". All three plants have peculiar smells.

Reference to the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Yi people