Bulang people belong to the South Asian language family. They have no written language, learn Chinese, have extremely rich oral culture, and still retain the most distinctive national language, costumes, songs and dances, customs and habits. According to the data of the 2000 census, the total population of Bulang nationality is 965,438+900,000. Distributed in 3 1 province, city, autonomous region and municipality directly under the central government. One of the ethnic minorities in China. Population: 9 1, 89 1 (2000 census). Mainly distributed in Yunnan Province, Baoshan and other regions. Mainly engaged in agriculture. The Bulang people in Xishuangbanna, Simao and other places have their own national language and also speak Dai language, and most of them believe in Buddhism and spread to the south. There are more than 8,500 Bulang people in Baoshan City, mainly distributed in Shidian County and Changning County. The Bulang people in China are mainly distributed in Menghai and Jinghong in Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture of Yunnan Province and Shuangjiang, Yongde, Yunxian, Gengma, Lancang and Mojiang counties in Lincang area. According to the statistics of the fifth national census in 2000, the population of Bulang nationality is 9 1882. Brown language is used, belonging to the Wabenglong branch of the Mon-Khmer language family of South Asian language family, which is divided into two dialects: Brown and Awa. Some people can speak Dai, Wa or Chinese. If there is no mother tongue, some people can speak Chinese and Dai. Bulang people in Xishuangbanna, Lincang and Simao.
After years of practice in production struggle, the ancestors of Bulang people accumulated a lot of knowledge about astronomy, calendar and weather changes, and summed up the original method of distinguishing orientation, season and climate.
The Bulang people have their own names for the sun, the moon and the stars. They know the orientation according to the ups and downs of the sun, the moon and the stars and the back of the tree. Usually at night, you can tell the direction and time by the position of the Big Dipper. You can tell the direction by the direction of sunlight during the day. On cloudy days, you can tell the direction by the growth of plants. For example, the smooth side of bark under direct sunlight is the east, the trunk behind sunlight is light green, and the side with some fresh moss is the west. More interestingly, the Bulang people still retain some primitive methods to distinguish between seasons and climate change. For example, an agricultural proverb says, "It rains when the moon holds an umbrella, and it dries when the sun holds an umbrella"; "Long sunny munches, rainy days come, long rainy munches, and the sky clears up"; Frogs cackle in the river, it's going to rain. "Flying ants fly to the sky, it will rain heavily" and so on. There is a bird in the mountains, and its name is Yue in Brownlee. It lives in seclusion in the forest on rainy days. If you see the bird jumping out of the forest on a cloudy day, it indicates that it will clear up.
Bulang nationality is one of the oldest nationalities in Yunnan. Its ancestors first lived in Baoshan area on the west bank of Lancang River. Because they refused to accept the rule of Ailao people (ancestors of Dai people), they gradually moved south to the deep mountains in Zhenkang, Fengqing and Lincang.
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The ancestors of Bulang nationality were once called "Puziman", "Puzi", "Puzi", "Puman" and "Puren" by the Central Plains Dynasty, and they were more widely distributed. During the Tang and Song Dynasties, Pu people were ruled by Nanzhao and Dali regimes. In the Ming Dynasty, Shunning Prefecture was established, and Pu Touren was appointed as the local magistrate. Later, some ordinary people who originally lived in southern Yunnan developed into the Bulang people today.
After the founding of New China, according to the wishes of this nation, they were collectively called Bulang nationality. Before liberation, the Bulang people living on Brown Mountain still kept the remnants of the primitive commune to varying degrees. The Bulang people living in Pingba area entered the stage of economic development of feudal landlords because of the influence of the Han and Dai nationalities with relatively rapid economic and cultural development. The area where Bulang people live has a mild climate and rich products. They are mainly engaged in agricultural production and are good at planting tea trees, which is the origin of the famous Pu 'er tea. The Bulang nationality in Brown Mountain implements the mother-child joint name system. The child was named three days after birth, and the mother's name was linked with the child's name.