The origin of Buyi surname

Buyi people have long lived in the north-south Panjiang River basin. Buyi nationality originated from the lunar branch of Baiyue people in ancient times. According to historical records, during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, Luoyue people belonged to the subjects who offered their country, and now northwest Guangxi and southwest Guizhou are ancient Luoyue places. Buyi people still retain many living customs and cultural characteristics of Guluoyue people. Today, Buyi people such as Heping Le, Beixiang, Huazhang, Lugou, Longguang and Muzan in Nanpanjiang River Basin still follow the "Gan Lan" style buildings inhabited by Guluoyue people, namely "Diaojiao Building" and its evolved "ground floor" and "half floor". The expensive bronze drums of Buyi people are also the cultural characteristics of Guluoyue people. Buyi language is similar to Luoyue language. According to Zhou Qufei's A Generation Beyond the Ridge in Song Dynasty, Luo Yue called his mother Mi Nang (ME 33 na: TJ2) and Buyi called his mother Mi Nang (ME 33). Luo Yue called her mother-in-law (ti53) and Buyi called her (ta:i53). Many Buyi villages or nearby hillsides and fields are named after the prefixes Wei, Ping, Luo, Ba, Na, Lang, Ban, Qiao, Ba, Redundancy, Zhe, Yang, Nei and Da in the Guluoyue language.

Buyi people were called Pu Yue before Qin Dynasty, Pu Liao in Han and Six Dynasties, Man and Fan in Tang, Song and Yuan Dynasties. From the Ming and Qing Dynasties to the end of the Republic of China, it was called Zhongjia. Since the name of Zhongjia appeared for the first time in the history of Yuan Dynasty, Buyi people have been called Zhongmiao, Zhong Man and Guzhong in some historical books of Ming and Qing Dynasties. During the Republic of China, Buyi people were also called Yi people, Yi people, Shui people, Shui people, natives and natives. However, Buyi people have always called themselves "Puyue" (Yi language), "Puliao" (Rao) (the first and second dialect areas) and "Puri" (Yi language) (the third dialect area) according to the ancient national names. These propositions retain the meanings of "race" and "people" and contain national pride. After the founding of People's Republic of China (PRC), the party and the state respected the national will. At the meeting of representatives of Buyi nationality who agreed to unify the national name in the winter of 1953, the appellations that were not claimed by Buyi nationality such as Zhongjia, Shuihu, Yijia and Tubian were cancelled, and according to the history claimed by Buyi nationality, Pu was replaced by Bu and Yue.

In the process of the formation of Buyi nationality, all ethnic groups influenced and merged with each other. In history, the ethnic migration and integration of "you have me and I have you" are mostly due to war, immigration, trade and asylum. According to historical records, since the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, there have been more than ten large-scale immigrants in this county, with the largest number of immigrants from the Northern Song Dynasty to the late Qing Dynasty. In the early Ming dynasty, "transferring the north to conquer the south" and "transferring the north to fill the south"; During the reign of Qing Qianlong and Jiaqing, people were recruited to cultivate seeds. After Xian Tong, commercial roads were opened, and many residents moved to Jiangnan, Huguang and Sichuan. Some of these immigrants intermarried with local aborigines and later became Buyi people.