Are the Dai people in China and the Thais in Thailand a nation?

The Dai people in Xishuangbanna, China and the Thai people in Thailand are a nation with similar blood relationship. Both of them use Thai, and their cultures and living habits are very similar, even geographically continuous. In fact, the Dai people in China and the Thai people in Thailand belonged to the same nation in ancient times. Broadly speaking, the Dai people in China, the Thais in Thailand and many other ethnic groups belong to the Dai-Thai ethnic group.

In ancient times, Dai-Tai people were thought to have originated from Ailao people in Han Dynasty in China history. The first regime of Dai and Tai people in history was actually a country of mourning and imprisonment recorded in China's history books. Later, Ailao State belonged to the Han Dynasty, so the Han Dynasty established Yongchang County to rule.

Later, due to the large-scale migration of Dai and Thai ethnic groups to the surrounding areas, more Dai and Thai ethnic tribes migrated in East Asia and West Asia, and they merged with local aborigines, gradually forming today's numerous Dai and Thai ethnic groups, and also gradually forming today's Dai and Thai ethnic groups in China. However, among the numerous Dai and Thai ethnic groups, the country with the largest number of Dai and Thai ethnic groups is actually Thailand, and the most successful among the numerous Dai and Thai ethnic groups is Thailand today. Because they established the first dynasty in Thailand's history in the13rd century, and later established Dacheng dynasty, Wuli dynasty and Bangkok dynasty today, while Zheng Xin, the founder of Wuli dynasty at that time, was the son of a China businessman and married a local Dai woman, which shows that Thai people in Thailand married Dai people in China.

So in fact, the Dai people in China and the Thai people in Thailand are actually one nation. Because of the influence of Thailand, they are called Thais internationally, but Thais actually mixed with a large number of Monkmel lineages, and the Dai people in China are purer than the Dai people.