What are the surnames of Dai people in Banna?

Dai people in Xishuangbanna generally have two male surnames: Yan (love) and Dao.

Generally speaking, knives are descendants of former nobles, while stones are ordinary people. No matter what the father's surname is, the woman named Yu is still in the majority, so it should be said that it is not a surname.

Dai people account for 35% of Banna's population.

Dai people are divided into three branches: Han Dai, Shui Dai and Hua Dai.

Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture:

Mengla County: Huabin Township, Manzhuang Township, Mo Long Township, Longmen Township and Huda Township, Shang Yong District.

The house is built by the mountain and the water. The house has two floors, the lower floor is a column (usually used to tie cattle and raise poultry), and the upper floor is a living room. In the early days, it was a bamboo-wood structure, but now it is a brick-concrete structure, and the style still maintains the style of diaojiao building.

Extended data:

Dai people originated in the middle and upper reaches of Lancang River and Nujiang River. A large number of ancient cultural sites have been unearthed in the middle and upper reaches of Lancang River and Nujiang River where Dai ancestors lived, among which Yushuiping Cultural Site (located in Tongdian Town, Lanping County, Nujiang Prefecture) has been identified for at least 10000 years, and Tangzigou Cultural Site (located in Pupiao Town, Longyang District, Baoshan City) has been identified for at least 8000 years.

At least 3,000 years ago, Dai ancestors had formed some small tribal countries in the middle and upper reaches of Lancang River and Nujiang River, among which Zhang means local and national, Zhang means elephant, Xiang means hometown or country, including the coast of Lancang River. Sima Qian, a historian of Han Dynasty, recorded "Meng Zhang" as "a country riding elephants" in Historical Records.

In the 5th century BC, Dai ancestors in the middle and upper reaches of Lancang River and Nujiang River formed an alliance country centered on Meng Zhang, and King Meng Zhang became the leader of the whole alliance country, and was called Zhaolong (translated as "Nine Dragons" in various ways, meaning "King") and Meng by all the people of Meng. Chinese classics such as Huayang Guozhi and the Book of the Later Han Dynasty recorded this allied country as "Ailao Country", while Dai classics such as Hey Mongolia recorded this allied country as "Mengdaguangguo" (transliteration means "central country" or "central country").

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