The total white population is 1933510 (2010). The main areas are yunnan, guizhou and hunan provinces, with the largest white population in yunnan province, and sichuan province and chongqing city。

The whites call themselves “whites”, “whites”, “whites”, “whites”, all known as “whites”. He claims that there are more than 60 members of his people's family, nama, lemo and leb. In the past, the han people used to call it a “minor family”, unlike the “military family”, as yuan, minghi called it a “white” or a “minster,” as nasee called it “leb”, “namar”, “lermo” and “lebo” in tibetan, as it called “lebo” and “lebon”, “roquipe”, as well as the whites in the area of guizhou, which had different names, such as “seven people”, “nine ethnicities”, “rojan”, “longjiang people” and “nakyung people”. Following the establishment of the new china, in november 1956, the “whites” were officially designated as a united nation, in accordance with the wishes of the large white people。
The area of the whites is in the cloud highlands. In the west, there is a deep-seated river valley, with a rich forest and a beautiful view, and in the east there is a river of gold and sand, which is wide open and suitable for crops. The mother's beach south-west of the jinsha river, which is warm and fertile in soil, produces two crops a year, mainly rice, wheat, beans, maize, cotton, oilseeds, sugar cane, tobacco leaf, etc., and is known as the area of grain cotton. Underground is rich in coal, iron, copper, aluminium and various rare metals。

There are also those who believe that the language is undefined and that many scholars have argued that it should be classified separately. The white language is divided by geographical area into three main dialects, south, central and north. The southern dialects and the central dialects are relatively close. They differ considerably from the northern dialects, but are able to communicate with each other and use the southern dialect more frequently. White has 22-29 ads. There are numerous chinese-language quotations, and the new terminology is directly in chinese, which is one of the languages spoken more frequently by the tibetan-myanmarese. Almost 60 per cent of the vocabulary is spoken in chinese, and most people know chinese。
In tang dynasty, the white language of the squares was written by the chinese. Historically, the whites have written their history in white, created literature, and left behind a certain number of ancient whites, ranging from white scriptures to white varnishes, white history books, white tablets, white rituals, white singers and white symmetry. In 1958, language experts, such as xue lin and zhao yanxian, prepared the white language program (draft) in the form of 26 latin letters. The original programme was revised in 1982 to read “new white”. There are 27 new white sound mothers and 37 rhymns. The revised white language is capable of writing scientifically and accurately the spoken language of millions of white members in the two great dialects of da lisi。

(excerpt from chinese minority volume of the five series on ethnic issues)









