The history and culture of Yunnan

In the second year of Yuanfeng in the Western Han Dynasty (before 109), Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty opened west to south, and set up 24 counties, of which Yunnan was one. There are three ways to name Yunnan county. One is that when the county was founded, colorful clouds appeared in Longxing Mountain in the north of a village in Yunnan, and the county seat was called "Yunnan" in the south of Cai Yun.

Second, "Cloud Shan Zhinan" said that Yunshan is (now Binchuan Jizu Mountain, often with clouds several feet high, and the county seat is called Yunnan in YunShan Zhinan; Third, it is said that "Emperor Wu pursues dreams". According to legend, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty dreamed of colorful clouds at night and sent envoys to pursue dreams. He is chasing colorful clouds in Xiangyun County today because he is located in Yunnan County.

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Yunnan is a multi-ethnic province with rich and colorful languages. The Han language in Yunnan belongs to the northern language family (southwest mandarin), while the languages of other nationalities belong to the Sino-Tibetan language family and the South Asian language family respectively. There are four main types of language use: mother tongue, bilingual, multilingual and mother tongue conversion.

All ethnic groups in Yunnan have their own languages except Hui, Manchu and Shui, and 22 national languages are used. Among them, the written language of the Dai people has a certain historical origin with Thailand. Dongba culture of Naxi nationality has a long history, and Dongba characters are hieroglyphics still circulating today. ?

There are 83 kinds of Quyi in Yunnan, ranking first in China, including 56 kinds of Quyi of ethnic minorities and 27 kinds of Quyi of Han nationality. According to statistics, there are 72 kinds of tunes in Yi folk songs, the largest of which are Meige tune, Qingpeng tune and A tune. The folk art of Bai nationality in Dali area is mature, resulting in three cavities, nine boards and eighteen tunes. Hani folk art includes Baha 'i, Tara, Ulik and so on. Distributed in different branches of Hani nationality.

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