Buyei

Buyei

people
also spelled  Bouyei , Wade-Giles romanization  Puyi , formerly  Zhongjia , also called  Jui  or  Yoi 

      an official minority group inhabiting large parts of Guizhou (Kweichow) province in south-central China. They call themselves Jui or Yoi. There are also some 50,000 Buyei living in Vietnam, where they are an official nationality. They had no written script of their own until 1956, when the Chinese communists supplied them with one based on the Latin alphabet. Most Chinese Buyei are bilingual, speaking both a Tai dialect and Chinese.

      A Chinese account of 1730 relates that the Buyei were a Chinese group banished to Guizhou in pre-Christian times. More likely they were a Tai group forced from more favoured agricultural lowlands into the poorer valley lands of the Guizhou plateau and hills. In the early 21st century they numbered nearly three million and still inhabited Guizhou, distributed mostly at the south of the province and in the valley of the Nanpan River. The related Dong people, with a population of roughly equivalent size, inhabit the districts east of them.

      Many of the Buyei have become so Sinicized that they are no longer counted as members of the group. The culture and religion of the Buyei are thus not unlike those of the Han Chinese around them. Their traditional beliefs involve numerous gods and spirits like those of the Chinese folk religion, although some of them are Buddhists and a few Christians.

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