Taliu Ethnic People
Plan Yunnan ethnic culture travel of Taliu Ethnic Minority, visit the featured ethnic towns and villages of Taliu Ethnic Group, discover the History, Food and Dining, Clothing, Customs and Traditions, Architecture, Festivals, Crafts, Religion,Language, Population and Distribution of Taliu Ethnic Minority in Yunnan.
Taliu people(他留人), claiming themselves to be “Talu”（他鲁） or “Talusu”（他鲁苏）, has their own language but does not have common characters, they only have a few pictograms which specially used by “Duoxi”（多系） (priests of Taliu) . Chinese and Chinese characters are commonly used by them. The Taliu people(他留人) lives in Liude（六德） Township, Yongsheng （永胜）County and is a memberbranch of the Yi nationality（彝族）. The Taliu people(他留人) has original oral history, different puberty rites and romantic marriage mode in the “Youth Shed”（青春鹏）. In addition, the local residence and Taliu Baba are the epitome of their fire pond and food culture.
The Taliu people(他留人) mainly concentrates in the area of Taliu Mountain（他留山）Mountain,which is located in the northwest of the Lipan line of Sichuan-Myanmar, Liude Township, east longitude 101°, north latitude 26°33’, 45 kilometers away from Yongsheng County, and the straight distance is 18.9 kilometers. Taliu Mountain（他留山）located on the upper reaches of the Taliu River（他留河）. The mountains and valleys are interlaced. There are river valleys, half-mountains and mountainous areas. There are three village committees：Shuanghe（双河）, Yunshan（云山） and Yushui（玉水）. Known to history as Taliu Valley（他留河域）whose total area is 150 square kilometers and altitude is 1,500 to 2160 meters. Taliu Valley（他留河域） has a temperate continental climate to a cold temperate climate, with overlapped peaks, abundant forest grassland resources and great ecological environment. The torrent of Taliu River（他留河）originated from the highest mountain in Yongsheng（永胜） County, Taerboren Mountain（他尔波忍峰） (also known as Talubuzi Mountain（他鲁补子山）, at an altitude of 3,953 meters), eastwarding to the Jinsha River from the north to the south. The average annual flow of abundant water is 10.1m³/s which provides sufficient production and living water such as irrigation, drinking, bathing, etc. for the village. Most of the Taliu people(他留人) live in a certain place, there are a few Han people（汉族） live with them. The distribution between Taliu people(他留人) and the Han（汉族）, Yi（彝族） and Xiaoliangshan Dais（小凉山傣族） is stepped. The Taliu people(他留人) is composed of nine surnames: “Wang, Lan, Chen, Hai, Luo, Xiong, Duan, Qiu, Yang” among which “Wang, Lan, Chen, Hai” are the four major surnames, accounting for more than 90% of the total population.
Liude Tablets（六德碑林）of the Taliu people(他留人)
Liude Tablets（六德碑林）of the Taliu people(他留人) is 30 kilometers away from Yongsheng County（永胜县）. There are more than 10,000 tombstones on the hillside covering an area of 0.3 square kilometers, especially centralized cemetery area is 100 hectares. The tombstone is unique in format, carved by Phoenix, Kirin and Taiji. The patterns and patterns of the drawings and the like are different and the craftsmanship is exquisite. The tombs are built on the hills, and they are scattered and scattered. The Chinese stone monuments stand in stone, and the layout is rigorous and magnificent. This Tablet Forest is a grave mountain of the Taliu People（他留人）. Its ancient tombs have inscriptions engraved with standardized Chinese characters. Many stone tablets are engraved with the Taliu people(他留人) totems. According to the inscription, the tombs of the tombs began in the Jiajing and Wanli years of the Ming Dynasty, and in the Qing Dynasty, the four kings of Chen, Hai, Wang and Lan had the tombstones of the ancestors, and the list of the ancestors was listed on the tablet. At least seventh many of them reached the eleventh. The grave mountain of the Taliu People（他留人）can verify the history of Taliu People（他留人） ancestors’ settlement, the evolution of totems, surnames and the historical process of social, economic and cultural development. It is known as a great spectacle of Chinese monumental culture and has been listed as a county-level key cultural relics protection unit.
Translated by Wang Xiaofeng/王晓凤
