Culture

The Dulong ethnic group has fewer than 7,000 people who live primarily in Dulongjiang Township and Gongshan County on the west bank of the Nujiang River.

The De'ang people, numbering about 20,000 in Yunnan, is descended from the ancient Pu people who lived along the Nu River in the 2nd Century BC.

The Dai ethnic group numbers more than 1 million living primarily in the Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Region and the Dehong Dai-Jingpo Autonomous Prefecture in southern Yunnan Province.

There are more than 2.8 million Buyi in China, mostly in Guizhou, with some in Sichuan and about 55,000 in Yunnan.

Nearly all of the 120,000 Bulang people live in Yunnan. They are highly musical and their culture is driven by music.

There are nearly 2 million Bai people in China, about 1.5 million of them in the Dali Bai Autonomous County of Yunnan Province, as well as Lijiang, Kunming, Yuanjiang and Guizhou.