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Funing County, Yunnan

Funing County (; Zhuang language: ) is located in Wenshan Zhuang and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, in the southeast of Yunnan province, China. It is the easternmost county-level division of Yunnan, bordering Guangxi to the north, south and east, and Vietnam's Hà Giang Province to the south.

Geography

Funing is located in the east of Wenshan Prefecture. It borders Youjiang District and Jingxi, Guangxi to the east, Napo County, Guangxi to the south, Guangnan County to the west, Xilin County and Tianlin County of Guangxi to the north, and Malipo County across the Nanli River to the southwest. It also borders the Đồng Văn District and the Mèo Vạc District of Hà Giang Province, Vietnam to the south.

Administrative divisions

Funing County has 6 towns, 6 townships and 1 ethnic township.

6 towns
  • Xinhua ()
  • Guichao ()
  • Bo'ai ()
  • Lida ()
  • Tianpeng ()
  • Muyang ()
6 townships
  • Banlun ()
  • Gula ()
  • Zhesang ()
  • Naneng ()
  • Ayong ()
  • Huajia ()
1 ethnic township

Ethnic groups

Ethnic groups of Funing County include the following. Population statistics are from 1990, and are sourced from the Funing County Ethnic Gazetteer (1998).

The Zheyuan people of Dongbo and Guichao , Funing County, are classified as ethnic Han (You 2013:290, 361-363). They numbered 1,033 persons as of 1960, and call themselves the "Yuexi people" (), while some also refer to themselves as the Buhong . The Zheyuan people migrated from Xuanhua County , Guangxi (currently the southern banks of the Yong River , in Nanning City, Guangxi) about 150 years ago. The Zheyuan people speak a Yue Chinese dialect.

Zhuang

The Funing County Ethnic Gazetteer (Lu and Nong 1998) identifies the following Zhuang subgroups.

  • Butu (布土)
  • Tianbao (天保)
  • Bu’ao (布傲)
  • Jiazhou (甲州)
  • Longjiang (龙降)
  • Mayang (麻央)
  • Yangwu (洋乌)
  • Buli (布俚)
  • Buyei (布越)
  • Long’an (隆安)
  • Buyang (布央)

Yi

According to the Funing County Ethnic Gazetteer 富宁县民族志 (1998), ethnic Yi numbered 11,249 as of 1991, or 3.15% of the total county population. The Zhuang exonym for the Yi is Bùměng 布孟 (also Měngrén 孟人).

There are 92 villages with ethnic Yi (in 38 administrative villages), consisting of 54 pure Yi villages and 38 ethnically mixed villages.

Ethnic Yi are found in the following villages of Funing County.

  • Xinhua Township 新华乡
  • Gedang Village 格当村
  • Banlun Township 板仑乡
  • Longyang Village 龙洋村
  • Longmai Village龙迈村
  • Mula 木腊
  • Zhegui 者归
  • Longzhong 龙中
  • Longxing 龙兴
  • Long'an 龙安
  • Lida Township 里达镇
  • Ligong Village 里拱村
  • Mulun Township 睦伦乡
  • Muyang Township 木央乡
  • Mengmei, Puyang Village 普阳村孟æ¢Â
  • Mushu Village 木树村
  • Musang, Daping Village 大坪村木桑
  • Mugang Village 木杠村
  • Tianpeng Township 田蓬镇

Climate

Transport

Historical sites

  • Liuyi Hall of Elders 六宜村老人亭
  • Poya Hall of Elders 坡芽村老人亭
  • Guichao Old Town 归朝古镇
  • The ancient village of Pingkun 坪坤村

References

Further reading

  • Hsiu, Andrew. 2014. "Mondzish: a new subgroup of Lolo-Burmese ". In Proceedings of the 14th International Symposium on Chinese Languages and Linguistics (IsCLL-14). Taipei: Academia Sinica.
  • Wu Zili. 1994. A preliminary study of the Gasu language of Guangnan County, Yunnan Province [云南省广南县嘎苏话初探]. Minzu Yuwen 2.

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