Historical origin: Its name comes from "Southwest Yi" recorded in Hanshu (the collective name of southwest ethnic minorities).

According to the records of historical masterpieces such as Yi Yuan and Southwest Yi Zhi, they call themselves Ni, whose ancient Chinese pronunciation is foreign, so Chinese records are often called Yi nationality. 1956, during the period of getting rid of ethnic discrimination in the old society, Yi representatives sent people to Beijing to pay a visit to Chairman Mao. Chairman Mao understood the situation, listened to opinions and put forward suggestions. Because the name of "Yi people" is derogatory (barbarians), he changed "Yi" to "Yi", which means there are "rice" and "silk" under the house.

2. Bai people call themselves "Bai Zi", "Bai Ni" and "Bai Gang", which means "Bai" in Chinese.

Historical origin: This ethnic group has more than 60 other names for the Bai nationality, 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.

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". After the Yuan Dynasty, people with cultural attributes close to the Han nationality were recognized as a nation and 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.

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