The original singer of the Yi toasting song is A Guo.
The Yi, the sixth largest ethnic minority in China, speak the Yi language, which belongs to the Yi branch of the Tibetan-Burmese language family of the Sino-Tibetan language family, and have six dialects in the northern, eastern, southern, southeastern, western, and central parts of the country, including five sub-dialects and 25 dialects.
The Yi ethnic group is mainly distributed between the plateau and coastal hills in four provinces (regions) of Yunnan, Sichuan, Guizhou and Gui, and mainly gathered in Chuxiong, Honghe, Liangshan, Bijie, Liupanshui and Anshun, etc. The Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture is the largest Yi ethnic group settlement area in China.
According to the China Statistical Yearbook-2021, the population of the Yi within China is 9,830,327.
Before the founding of New China, due to the different regions and dialects, there were many different branches of the Yi, with many different titles and self-names, the main titles being "Yi", "Black Yi", "White Yi "Yi", "Black Yi", "White Yi", "Red Yi", "Gan Yi", "Flower Waist", "Miqiao" and so on.
The main self-proclaimed name, Zhaotong, Wuding, Luquan, Mile and Shiping in Yunnan, and the Yi in the big and small Liangshan Mountains in Sichuan call themselves "Nuosu", "Nasu" and "Nie Su". This part of the Yi ethnic group accounts for about 1/2 of the total population, while the Yi ethnic group in the Mianlong Mountains, Wuliang Mountains and the areas around Kaiyuan, Wenshan and Maguan in Yunnan call themselves "Misar (Pou)", "Lasu (Pou)", "Pu Lapou", "Niepou", "Niepou" and "Niepou". ", "Nipu" and so on.
The Yi in Guizhou call themselves "Nuosu", "Na", "Nuo" and "Nie".
After the founding of New China, after the national identification, in accordance with the majority of the Yi people **** agreed to wish to Ding Yi "Yi" as a unified national name.