Funing County, Yunnan Explained

Funing County
Settlement Type:County
Mapsize:250px
Pushpin Map:China Yunnan
Pushpin Label:Funing
Pushpin Map Caption:Location of the seat in Yunnan
Subdivision Type:Country
Subdivision Name:China
Subdivision Type1:Province
Subdivision Name1:Yunnan
Subdivision Type2:Autonomous prefecture
Subdivision Name2:Wenshan
Seat Type:County seat
Seat:Xinhua
Area Footnotes:[1]
Area Total Km2:5352
Population As Of:2020 census
Population Footnotes:[2]
Population Total:396818
Population Density Km2:auto
Utc Offset:+8
Coordinates:23.63°N 105.6261°W
Elevation Max M:1851
Elevation Max Point:Mount Muhong (Chinese: 木洪山)
Elevation Min M:203
Dimensions Footnotes:[3]
Length Km:108.78
Width Km:109.89
Postal Code Type:Postal code
Postal Code:663400
Area Code:0876

Funing County (; Zhuang language: Zhuang; Chuang: Funingz Yen) is located in Wenshan Zhuang and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, in the east of Yunnan province, China. It is the easternmost county-level division of Yunnan, bordering Guangxi to the north, east and southeast, and Vietnam's Hà Giang Province to the south.[3]

Administrative divisions

In the present, Funing County has 6 towns, 6 townships and 1 ethnic township.[4]

6 towns
  • Xinhua (Chinese: 新华镇)
  • Guichao (Chinese: 归朝镇)
  • Bo'ai (Chinese: 剥隘镇)
  • Lida (Chinese: 里达镇)
  • Tianpeng (Chinese: 田蓬镇)
  • Muyang (Chinese: 木央镇)
6 townships
  • Banlun (Chinese: 板仑乡)
  • Gula (Chinese: 谷拉乡)
  • Zhesang (Chinese: 者桑乡)
  • Naneng (Chinese: 那能乡)
  • Ayong (Chinese: 阿用乡)
  • Huajia (Chinese: 花甲乡)
1 ethnic township

Ethnic groups

Ethnic groups of Funing County include the following. Population statistics are from 1990, and are sourced from the Funing County Ethnic Gazetteer Chinese: 富宁县民族志 (1998).

The Zheyuan Chinese: 蔗园 people of Dongbo Chinese: 洞波 and Guichao Chinese: 归朝,[6] Funing County, are classified as ethnic Han (You 2013:290, 361-363).[7] They numbered 1,033 persons as of 1960, and call themselves the "Yuexi people" (Chinese: 粤西人), while some also refer to themselves as the Buhong Chinese: 布红. The Zheyuan people migrated from Xuanhua County Chinese: 宣化县, Guangxi (currently the southern banks of the Yong River Chinese: 邕江, in Nanning City, Guangxi) about 150 years ago. The Zheyuan people speak a Yue Chinese dialect.[7]

Zhuang

The Funing County Ethnic Gazetteer (Lu and Nong 1998) identifies the following Zhuang subgroups.[8]

Yi

According to the Funing County Ethnic Gazetteer 富宁县民族志 (1998), ethnic Yi numbered 11,249 as of 1991, or 3.15% of the total county population. The Zhuang exonym for the Yi is Bùměng 布孟 (also Měngrén 孟人).

Yi group (Chinese name)!c=02
Local names (autonyms, exonyms)c=03No. of villages
c=01White Yi 白彝c=02Měngpiāo 孟瓢, Měngdǎi 蒙歹c=0359
c=01Gāokùjiǎo White Yi
高裤脚白彝 (高白彝)
c=02Měngkōng 蒙空, Měngpéng 蒙彭c=0313
c=01Black Yi 黑彝c=02Měngnà 孟那, Měngjí 蒙吉, Měngxìn 蒙信c=033
c=01Flowery Yi 花彝c=02Měngyī 孟衣, Kèduǒ 克朵, Měngyóu 蒙尤c=0314
c=01White Flowery Yi 白花彝c=02Měngbào 孟刨c=031
c=01Sinicized Yi 汉彝c=02Měnglàng 孟浪c=032
c=01Měngméi Lolo 孟梅倮c=02Měngtáng 孟堂, Kèliè 克列c=03?

There are 92 villages with ethnic Yi (in 38 administrative villages), consisting of 54 pure Yi villages and 38 ethnically mixed villages.[8]

Township!c=02
Ethnic Yi
population
c=03Percentage
within township
c=04Ethnic Yi subgroups
c=01Xīnhuá 新华乡c=02249c=030.75%c=04Měngdǎi 蒙歹 (White Yi)
c=01Bǎnlún 板仑乡c=022,786c=0311.61%c=04Měngkōng 蒙空 (High-Trouser Yi)
c=01Lǐdá 里达镇c=021,293c=036.02%c=04Měngdǎi 蒙歹 (White Yi), Měngkōng 蒙空 (High-Trouser Yi)
c=01Mùlún 睦伦乡c=021,774c=0310.11%c=04Měngdǎi 蒙歹 (White Yi)
c=01Mùyāng 木央乡c=023,454c=0312.47%c=04Měngdǎi 蒙歹 (White Yi), Kèliè 克列 (Mengmei Yi), Kèduǒ 克朵 (Flowery Yi),
Měnglàng 孟浪 (Sinicized Yi), Měngjí 蒙吉 (Black Yi)

Ethnic Yi are found in the following villages of Funing County.[8]

Transport

Historical sites

Further reading

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: http://www.ynfn.net/item/5211.aspx . zh:地形地貌 . Funing County People's Government . zh-hans . 2 June 2018.
  2. Web site: 文山州第七次全国人口普查主要数据公报 . Government of Wenshan Prefecture . zh . 2021-05-25 .
  3. Web site: http://www.ynfn.net/Category_1130/Index.aspx . zh:富宁简介 . Funing County People's Government . zh-hans . 2 June 2018.
  4. Web site: 国家统计局 . National Bureau of Statistics of the People's Republic of China . zh . 2021-12-07.
  5. Johnson, Eric C. 2011. "A Lexical and Phonological Comparison of the Central Taic Languages of Wenshan Prefecture, China: Getting More Out of Language Survey Wordlists Than Just Lexical Similarity Percentages." SIL Electronic Working Papers 2011-005: 170.
  6. Yunnan minzu shibie zonghe diaocha zubian 云南民族识别综合调查组编 (1960).Yunnan minzu shibie zonghe diaocha baogao 云南民族识别综合调查报告 . Kunming: Yunnan minzu shibie zonghe diaochazu 云南民族识别综合调查组.
  7. Book: You Weiqiong (Chinese: 尤伟琼) . 2013 . Classifying ethnic groups of Yunnan . zh:云南民族识别研究 . Beijing: Ethnic Publishing House (Chinese: 民族出版社).
  8. Lu Zhengyuan (吕正元) and Nong Lansheng (农览生), chief editors. 1998. Funing Xian Minzu Zhi [Funing County Nationalities Almanac]. Kunming: Yunnan Ethnic Publishing House.
  9. Web site: Archived copy . 2018-12-30 . 2018-12-30 . https://web.archive.org/web/20181230191547/http://www.ynszxc.net/villagePage/vIndex.aspx?departmentid=189946 . dead .
  10. Lama, Ziwo Qiu-Fuyuan. 2012. Subgrouping Of Nisoic (Yi) Languages: A Study From The Perspectives Of Shared Innovation And Phylogenetic Estimation. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Texas at Arlington.
  11. Web site: Archived copy . 2018-12-30 . 2018-12-30 . https://web.archive.org/web/20181230184430/http://www.ynszxc.net/villagePage/vIndex.aspx?departmentid=238706 . dead .
  12. Web site: Archived copy . 2018-12-30 . 2018-12-30 . https://web.archive.org/web/20181230193214/http://www.ynszxc.net/villagePage/vIndex.aspx?departmentid=238704 . dead .
  13. Web site: Archived copy . 2018-12-30 . 2018-12-30 . https://web.archive.org/web/20181230193245/http://www.ynszxc.net/villagePage/vindex.aspx?departmentid=238705 . dead .
  14. Web site: Archived copy . 2018-12-30 . 2018-12-30 . https://web.archive.org/web/20181230202153/http://www.ynszxc.net/villagePage/vIndex.aspx?departmentid=238831 . dead .
  15. Web site: Archived copy . 2018-12-30 . 2018-12-30 . https://web.archive.org/web/20181230193225/http://www.ynszxc.net/villagePage/vIndex.aspx?departmentid=238833 . dead .
  16. Web site: Archived copy . 2018-12-30 . 2018-12-30 . https://web.archive.org/web/20181230202039/http://www.ynszxc.net/villagePage/vIndex.aspx?departmentid=238837 . dead .
  17. Web site: Archived copy . 2018-12-30 . 2018-12-30 . https://web.archive.org/web/20181230193120/http://www.ynszxc.net/villagePage/vIndex.aspx?departmentid=238852 . dead .
  18. Web site: Archived copy . 2018-12-30 . 2018-12-30 . https://web.archive.org/web/20181230185840/http://www.ynszxc.net/villagePage/vIndex.aspx?departmentid=238832 . dead .
  19. Web site: Archived copy . 2018-12-30 . 2018-12-30 . https://web.archive.org/web/20181230182652/http://www.ynszxc.net/villagePage/vIndex.aspx?departmentid=259546 . dead .
  20. Wu Zili [武自立]. 1993. A preliminary study of the Mo'ang language of Funing County, Yunnan Province [云南富宁未昂话初探]. Minzu Yuwen 2. http://wuxizazhi.cnki.net/Search/MZYW199302009.html
  21. Web site: Archived copy . 2018-12-30 . 2018-12-30 . https://web.archive.org/web/20181230192157/http://www.ynszxc.net/villagePage/vIndex.aspx?departmentid=206684 . dead .
  22. Web site: Archived copy . 2018-12-30 . 2018-12-30 . https://web.archive.org/web/20181230190544/http://www.ynszxc.net/villagePage/vIndex.aspx?departmentid=206527 . dead .
  23. Web site: Archived copy . 2018-12-30 . 2018-12-30 . https://web.archive.org/web/20181230185913/http://www.ynszxc.net/villagePage/vIndex.aspx?departmentid=196662 . dead .
  24. There is a Gelao village here called Dingjiapo 丁家坡. http://www.ynszxc.net/villagePage/vIndex.aspx?departmentid=196701
  25. Web site: Archived copy . 2018-12-30 . 2018-12-30 . https://web.archive.org/web/20181230193311/http://www.ynszxc.net/villagePage/vIndex.aspx?departmentid=4905 . dead .
  26. Web site: Archived copy . 2018-12-30 . 2018-12-30 . https://web.archive.org/web/20181230184621/http://www.ynszxc.net/villagePage/vIndex.aspx?departmentid=4906 . dead .
  27. Web site: Archived copy . 2018-12-30 . 2018-12-30 . https://web.archive.org/web/20181230185903/http://www.ynszxc.net/villagePage/vIndex.aspx?departmentid=218792 . dead .
  28. Web site: Archived copy . 2018-12-30 . 2018-12-30 . https://web.archive.org/web/20181230185833/http://www.ynszxc.net/villagePage/vIndex.aspx?departmentid=219071 . dead .