The original song of Yi people's toast

The original song of Yi people's toast is Aguo.

Yi nationality is the sixth largest minority in China, and its national language is Yi language, which belongs to the Yi branch of Tibeto-Burman language family of Sino-Tibetan language family. There are six dialects in North, East, South, Southeast, West and China, including five sub-dialects and twenty-five dialects.

Yi people are mainly distributed between the plateaus and coastal hills in Yunnan, Sichuan, Guizhou and Guangxi provinces, and mainly gather in Chuxiong, Honghe, Liangshan, Bijie, Liupanshui and Anshun. Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture is the largest Yi inhabited area in China.

According to China Statistical Yearbook -202 1, the population of Yi people in China is 9,830,327.

Before the founding of New China, the Yi people had many branches due to different regions and dialects, and had many different appellations and self-descriptions. The main appellations are Yi, Hei Yi, Bai Yi, Hong Yi, Gan Yi, Huayao and Micha.

Among the main self-names, Zhaotong, Wuding, Luquan, Maitreya and Shiping in Yunnan, and the Yi people in Liangshan and Xiaoliangshan in Sichuan call themselves Sunuo, Nasu and Niesu, accounting for about 1/2 of the total population. Yi people in Ailao Mountain, Wuliangshan, Kaiyuan, Wenshan and Maguan in Yunnan call themselves Misa (Po), Lasu (Po), Prapo and Nipu.

The Yi people in Guizhou call themselves Na, Nuo and Nie.

After the founding of New China, after national identification and in accordance with the consent of the broad masses of Yi people, Ding Yi's "Yi" was adopted as the unified name of the whole country.