Achang
Bai
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Chaoxian(Korean)
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Daur(Tahur)
Deang
Derung
Dong
Dongxiang
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Gaoshan
Gelao
Han
Hani
Hezhen
Hui
Jing
Jingpo
Jino
Kazak
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Lahu
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Lisu
Li
Man
Maonan
Miao
Monba
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Nu
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Primi
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Russian
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Xibe
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Yi
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Zang
Zhuang

When you walk into villages lying on the south bank of Red River, what greets you is 'cockscomb' with silver sparkling. The simple Yizus' girls who wear caps with shape of cockscomb are getting more graceful and charming. And nearby Longwu and Shaochong area in Yunnan Province, a branch, who is named 'Huayao Yizu', has it's the most beautiful clothes 'Huakou Shenda'. The clothes is made of by multi-color cloth, silk thread and silver with different kinds designs of paper flowers, paper butterflies. Girls use the material to embroider flying butterflies and vivid flowers, and a delicate Shuit will take half a year.

They hate people call them Lao Yibao or Manzi, which badly insult them, the one speaks in that way will be beat. When visit a Yis' family, fireplace cannot be tramped. What the master gives you to eat and you have to get it, even if you don't like wine, you had better have some to thank. Otherwise, they think you look down upon them. What they gives to you to eat, you must have before them and not to get them away, in which way you are not friends.

Corn, buckwheat, oat and potato are the staple-food. Paddy is rare. The utensil is made of wood or fur. They carved the bowls, trays, basins and cups with red, black and yellow, the images of which are cloud, thunder, water wave and others. They like to drink wine. A saying is tea is important for a Hans' people but for a Yis' it is wine. A meal is often accompanied by wine. They are also used drinking wine without dishes. They sit on the ground in a circle, no matter friends or strangers hold a bowl of wine drink in turns, which they call 'zhuang zhuang jiu'.

Before a meal, a master must bake livers of cattle or sheep for visitors to show respect. After a meal the upper arms and head of a sheep will present for the guests heads of chickens are for the most distinguished visitors or the eldest. It is impolite to get more when eating up.

The Firebrand Festival is a common festival for all branches. Villagers hold firebrands go around houses and fields to expel insects. Secondly, whole villages will collect together around needfire, playing instruments, sinJingg and dancing a night and a day to celebrate harvest.

In the Firebrand Festival, boys wearing flowerage waistbands is to tell girls that they have lovers. Those boys who have not flowerage waistbands can find their lovers with single girls.

Besides, Festival of Ikebana is a royal conventional festival. In March, there are camellia, azalea and mayinghua all over mountains and plains. Boys and girls climb mountains to pick up fresh flowers with attire and songs. In jungles, on sides of fountains, zigzag hill ways, happy sounds and joyful laughing can be heard everywhere. Flowers are interposed around houses and doors, and even cattle and sheep wear flowers. They celebrate the spring's arrival and pray for prosperity. Lovers interpose flowers to each other.

A famous film in China is called A Shima, which is told a girl who was called A Shima fought for her free love and was killed by flood. A Shi Ma had turned into stone carving in legend, but her love story has spread all over China. A Shima was a girl of Yis. Yis' people create so many beautiful poems, stories and fables.

Collection dance is popular. The participators stand a circle, hands in hands, dancing accompanied by reed, yu-kin and other music instruments. A Xi Tiao Yue is a kind of famous Yis' dance.