What are the top ten surnames of Liangshan Yi?

The top ten noble surnames of the Yi are: Yang, Mao, Zhou, Ma, Bai, Xiong, Mu, Mo, Meng and Liu.

Yi names are mostly four-letter words, but many people have the same surnames as Han Chinese, and there is a wide variety of Liangshan Yi Han names and Han surnames. The Liangshan Slave Society Museum is located on Lu Mountain outside Xichang, facing the Liangshan Mountain Plain rising up on the other side of the Qionghai Sea from a distance.

According to the museum, in the late Qing Dynasty, the population distribution of the five classes of Liang Yi was as follows: Zimo accounted for 1%, Black Yi (Nuohe) 6.9%, White Yi (Qunuo) about 50%, Ajia 33%, gluttony West about 10%. Deputy curator Erbusha said this olive-shaped distribution is small at both ends and large in the middle, in line with the law of most things.

Yi girls into adulthood, in accordance with custom to hold a grand "skirt ceremony". At the ceremony, the girl will let her sisters change her original single braid into a double braid, which will be placed on top of her head. Also wear the original two ears of the white pendant piece or wear ear old line pulled off, replaced with red agate-like coral beads or silver glittering earrings, to show good luck. Finally, the girl took off the original red and white color skirt, replaced with embroidered lace blouse and black, blue, yellow, white and other colorful pleated floor-length skirt. After changing into the new dress, the girl can go to the "playground" to dance and sing, participate in social activities, and start looking for their sweethearts.