Funing County, Yunnan


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

Ethnic groups

Ethnic groups of Funing County include the following. Population statistics are from 1990, and are sourced from the Funing County Ethnic Gazetteer 富宁县民族志.
The Zheyuan 蔗园 people of Dongbo 洞波 and Guichao 归朝, Funing County, are classified as ethnic Han. They numbered 1,033 persons as of 1960, and call themselves the "Yuexi people", while some also refer to themselves as the Buhong 布红. The Zheyuan people migrated from Xuanhua County 宣化县, Guangxi about 150 years ago. The Zheyuan people speak a Yue Chinese dialect.

Zhuang

The Funing County Ethnic Gazetteer identifies the following Zhuang subgroups.
According to the Funing County Ethnic Gazetteer 富宁县民族志, 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.
Yi group Local names No. of villages
White Yi 白彝Měngpiāo 孟瓢, Měngdǎi 蒙歹59
Gāokùjiǎo White Yi
高裤脚白彝 		Měngkōng 蒙空, Měngpéng 蒙彭13
Black Yi 黑彝Měngnà 孟那, Měngjí 蒙吉, Měngxìn 蒙信3
Flowery Yi 花彝Měngyī 孟衣, Kèduǒ 克朵, Měngyóu 蒙尤14
White Flowery Yi 白花彝Měngbào 孟刨1
Sinicized Yi 汉彝Měnglàng 孟浪2
Měngméi Lolo 孟梅倮Měngtáng 孟堂, Kèliè 克列?

There are 92 villages with ethnic Yi, consisting of 54 pure Yi villages and 38 ethnically mixed villages.
TownshipEthnic Yi
population		Percentage
within township		Ethnic Yi subgroups
Xīnhuá 新华乡2490.75%Měngdǎi 蒙歹
Bǎnlún 板仑乡2,78611.61%Měngkōng 蒙空
Lǐdá 里达镇1,2936.02%Měngdǎi 蒙歹, Měngkōng 蒙空
Mùlún 睦伦乡1,77410.11%Měngdǎi 蒙歹
Mùyāng 木央乡3,45412.47%Měngdǎi 蒙歹, Kèliè 克列, Kèduǒ 克朵,
Měnglàng 孟浪, Měngjí 蒙吉

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