What's the difference between Bai Yi and Heiyi in clothing?

Yi nationality is one of the important ethnic minorities in western China, with a population of nearly 10 million, and it is the sixth largest ethnic minority in China!

Compared with the appearance of the Han people, the costumes of the Yi people are obviously different. Yi people are obviously taller, men's clothes are wrapped in green cloth, and they usually wear cloth shirts and vests. Women mainly wear pleated skirts, while men mainly wear pleated pants. Both men and women wear earrings instead of socks.

Their ancestors were part of the Tibetan people in Myanmar, who lived from Dianchi Lake to Jinsha River for a long time and once ruled the southwest. During the Sui and Tang Dynasties, the Yi people dominated the "six imperial edicts".

Daliangshan area in Sichuan is the largest settlement of Yi people. In the long history of ancient and modern times, the Yi people here are in a very backward social state.

It may be unexpected to many people that even during the Republic of China, the Yi tribe here practiced the oldest slavery in human history.

Under this slavery system, there is a distinction between black Yi and white Yi.

Yi people use these two colors to distinguish the status of Yi people abstractly.

Heiyi is a noble slave owner, while Baiyi is a slave who works for the slave owner.

In ancient history, all dynasties tried to educate the Yi people, but they all failed.

The Han Dynasty set up a management organization to manage the Yi people, but it was difficult for both sides to communicate. The Yuan Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty advocated the use of force and demanded that the Yi people accept the Central Plains culture, but they failed.

In the Republic of China, the Yi people still maintained the tradition of slavery, among which the slave owners were Mozi and Noh, collectively known as men in black. Slaves are divided into three classes, namely, Qunuo, Aga and Xiaxi, collectively referred to as Bai Yi.

Mozi in Heiyi is a formal Tusi family granted by the imperial court, which is hereditary. Nuohe is the Yi people's own aristocratic class, which is also hereditary. Whether their descendants are rich or not, they belong to the aristocratic class. They control most of the local land resources and have great power.

Compared with the black Yi nobles, Bai Yi's Qunuo came from a relatively low background and could only submit to the black Yi nobles from generation to generation.

But they own their own land, and they only need to work for the master in black for a fixed period of time every year to complete the task, which is a bit like paying taxes.

Therefore, the Qunuo people are the highest-ranking among the Bai Yi people. It is not appropriate to say that they are slaves, but more like civilians under the rulers! It's also true Bai Yi.

Aga in Bai Yili is even more tragic. Generally speaking, they are not Yi people, but may be Han, Tibetan and other ethnic groups.