Funing County, Yunnan

Funing County (Zhuang language: 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.

Administrative divisions
In the present, Funing County has 6 towns, 6 townships and 1 ethnic township.
 * 6 towns
 * 6 townships
 * 1 ethnic township
 * Dongbo Yao Ethnic Township (洞波瑶族乡)

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


 * Han Chinese (84,337 people)
 * Zhuang people (199,784 people, including the Buyang)
 * Min Zhuang
 * Dai Zhuang ("Dai Tho")
 * Yei Zhuang
 * Buyang people
 * Gelao people (121 people)
 * Yi people (11,249 people)
 * Miao people (24,414 people)
 * White Miao 白苗 (autonym: )
 * Lopsided Miao 偏苗 (autonym:  蒙刷)
 * Red Miao 红苗
 * Yao people (36,591 people)
 * Landian [Blue Indigo] Yao 蓝靛瑶 (Kim Mun; autonym: )
 * Daban [Large Board] Yao 大板瑶 (Iu Mien; autonym: )
 * Shan [Mountain] Yao 山瑶 ("Buya 布亚"; autonym: )

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

Zhuang
The Funing County Ethnic Gazetteer (Lu and Nong 1998) identifies the following Zhuang subgroups.
 * Butu (布土)
 * Tianbao (天保)
 * Bu’ao (布傲)
 * Jiazhou (甲州)
 * Longjiang (龙降)
 * Mayang (麻央)
 * Yangwu (洋乌)
 * Buli (布俚)
 * Buyei (布越)
 * Long’an (隆安)
 * Buyang (布央)

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).

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

Ethnic Yi are found in the following villages of Funing County.
 * Xinhua Township 新华乡
 * Gedang Village 格当村
 * Banlun Township 板仑乡
 * Longyang Village 龙洋村
 * Longmai Village龙迈村
 * Mula 木腊
 * Zhegui 者归
 * Longzhong 龙中
 * Longxing 龙兴
 * Long'an 龙安
 * Lida Township 里达镇
 * Ligong Village 里拱村
 * Mulun Township 睦伦乡
 * Muyang Township 木央乡
 * Mengmei, Puyang Village 普阳村孟梅
 * Mushu Village 木树村
 * Musang, Daping Village 大坪村木桑
 * Mugang Village 木杠村
 * Tianpeng Township 田蓬镇

Transport

 * Nearest airport: Wenshan Airport

Historical sites

 * Liuyi Hall of Elders 六宜村老人亭
 * Poya Hall of Elders 坡芽村老人亭
 * Guichao Old Town 归朝古镇
 * The ancient village of Pingkun 坪坤村