文档介绍：TheEthnicMinorityOfDai梅若雨HomelandTheDaiisoneofthe56officialethnicminoritiesinChina,-lion,mainlyliveinDaiAutonomousRegionandDehongDai-JingpoAutonomousRegioninXishuangbanna,knownas"TheLandofPeacocks"insouthpartofYunnanProvince,south-,theywerecalled'Baiyue',,.,whenEmperorWuDioftheHanDynasty(.-.)setupYizhouPrefectureinsouthwesternYi(thenameusedtosignifytheminorityareasofwhatarenowSichuan,YunnanandGuizhouprovinces).TheDaisinsubsequentyearssenttributetotheHancourtinLuoyang,"GreatCaptain." Inthe12thcentury,aDaichieftainnamedBazhenunifiedallthetribesandestablishedtheMenglelocalregimewithJinghongasthecapital,andcalleditthe"JinglongGoldenHallKingdom."Accordingtolocalrecords,thekingdomhadapopulationofmorethanonemillion,andwasfamousforwhiteelephantsandfine-,hewasgivena"tiger-headgoldseal"bytheEmperor,andthetitle"LordoftheRegion."Previously,theDaisintheDehongregionhadestablishedtheMengmaoKingdom,(1271-1368),theDaiareawassubordinatetoYunnan