What's the difference between Yunnan-Guizhou Yi people and Sichuan Yi people?

The Yi people in Yunnan and Guizhou are very different from those in Sichuan. Maybe they had an ancestor in the past, but after so many years of development, they may have exchanged and married with the outside world for so many years, and there was no communication between Yi areas. In the long run, brothers and sisters are very different after many generations.

From the clothing point of view, Liangshan-style clothing is mainly popular in Liangshan, Sichuan. Compared with Yunnan-Guizhou Yi people, Liangshan Yi people in Sichuan Province should be a problem of environment and topography. It's relatively closed here, so there is less external contact than Yungui Post. We also found that their costumes still kept the past traditions relatively intact.

Therefore, the tops of the Yi people in Sichuan, both men and women, are clothes with large rows of buttons on their right hands. Men are used to keeping a long hair on their heads, wearing a headscarf and tying a long conical knot in front of their foreheads, commonly known as the hero's knot. A symbol of male dignity.

Chuxiong costumes are mainly popular in the early Wei Dynasty and its surrounding areas, which is not the same as that in Sichuan. There is Wumeng in the east, Jinsha in the north and Qiang in the south. Here, the Yi people live in scattered places, not as dense as Daliangshan, so they communicate with the outside world a lot, and their costumes are more colorful and elegant. Moreover, there are more Chinese here than the Yi people in Sichuan.

There are also differences in language, scattered in various provinces. We are also Han people, and there are great differences in dialects in different provinces. They have 6 dialects, 5 dominant languages and 25 local languages. Many of them were established after New China, with different writing styles in different places, and then unified standards were established.

Besides, although they are all called Yi people now, in fact, before the new China, they all had their own names, which actually came from different places and races. However, it was only after New China that they were unified and called Yi people.