Bai
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The Bai are one of the 56 nationalities recognized by the People's Republic of China . The Bai have 1,936,155 members (2010 census). Their mother tongue - the Bai of the same name - is only spoken by half of the people.
The Bai call themselves Bairt‧zix [pɛ tsz̩], Bairt‧zix‧Bairt‧yvnx [pɛ tsz̩ pɛ jṽ̩] , Bairt‧horx [pɛ xo] , Bairt‧ngvrt‧zix‧horx [pɛ ŋv̩ tsz̩ xo] and Bairt ‧Yin [pɛ ĩ] ; in Chinese they are officially called 白族 , Pinyin : Báizú , formerly also 民家 , Mínjiā etc. Other names or spellings for the Bai are Pai / Petsi , Minkia , Labbu , Nama , Leme etc.
The Bai live mostly in the Autonomous County Dali province Yunnan , in the city of Bijie province Guizhou and in the circle Sangzhi province Hunan .
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distribution
Distribution of the Bai at the provincial level according to the data of the 2010 census (reference date November 1, 2010):
area | number | proportion of |
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People's Republic of China | 1,936,155 | 100.00% |
Yunnan | 1,564,901 | 80.83% |
Guizhou | 179,510 | 9.27% |
Hunan | 115,678 | 5.97% |
Guangdong | 16,692 | 0.86% |
Zhejiang | 11,685 | 0.60% |
Sichuan | 9,449 | 0.49% |
Hubei | 6,410 | 0.33% |
Jiangsu | 4,020 | 0.21% |
Fujian | 4,008 | 0.21% |
Shanghai | 3,893 | 0.20% |
Beijing | 3,493 | 0.18% |
VBA | 2,645 | 0.14% |
Guangxi | 2,489 | 0.13% |
Jiangxi | 1,621 | 0.084% |
Chongqing | 1,569 | 0.081% |
Shandong | 1,247 | 0.064% |
Hebei | 859 | 0.044% |
Anhui | 692 | 0.036% |
Tianjin | 686 | 0.035% |
Henan | 581 | 0.030% |
Liaoning | 559 | 0.029% |
Shaanxi | 486 | 0.025% |
Inner Mongolia | 443 | 0.023% |
Xinjiang | 407 | 0.021% |
Tibet | 395 | 0.020% |
Qinghai | 320 | 0.017% |
Hainan | 305 | 0.016% |
Gansu | 291 | 0.015% |
Jilin | 276 | 0.014% |
Ningxia | 213 | 0.011% |
Shanxi | 183 | 0.009% |
Heilongjiang | 149 | 0.008% |
religion
A predominant part of the Bai profess Buddhism .
In the autonomous district of Dali there are also larger Christian (especially Roman Catholic and Protestant ) communities, to which many Bai belong.
literature
- Yuqing Yang: The Role of Nanzhao History in the Formation of Bai Identity. 2008
Web links
- The Bai ethnic minority
- Bai culture ( Memento from January 14, 2006 in the Internet Archive )