Bo people (China)
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The Bo people (Chinese: 僰
History
[edit]The Bo people were native to southeastern Sichuan. By the Zhou dynasty, they were called Pu (濮) (Old Chinese (B-S): *pˤok) and mentioned among allies of Zhou against Shang.[2] The Pu or Hundred Pu (
The Bo fortress of Lingxiao (
Culture
[edit]Hanging coffins carved from a single log and bronze drums are widely found in the areas once inhabited by Bo people.[1][8][9]
Possible descendants
[edit]The Lachi people of Vietnam and China may be descended from the Bo, based on the archaic exonym Labo (喇僰) in Chinese records.[10] The Lachi language belongs to the Kra subgroup of the Kra-Dai language family. Today, the Lachi refer to themselves as qu31 te341, with qu31 meaning 'people' (from Proto-Kra *khraC1 'people').[10]
The Ku of Qiubei County currently speak a Loloish language, and still practice hanging coffin traditions. According to their own records, the Ku people's ancestors had migrated from Yibin, Sichuan province a few centuries ago in order to escape wars.
Possible languages
[edit]Languages spoken by the Bo people(s) may have included:
Words of Bo origin that still exist in the local dialect (tuhua
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b "Suspended Coffins of the Bo People". China Culture. Archived from the original on 2008-08-30. Retrieved 2008-12-13.
- ^ Book of Documents "Speech at Mu"
- ^ Tapp 2003, pp. 69–70.
- ^ "Bo Descendants Found in Xingwen" (in Chinese). Chinacourt.org. 2005-04-05. Retrieved 2008-12-13.
- ^ 悬棺
之 谜 Archived July 7, 2011, at the Wayback Machine - ^ 珙县僰人悬棺[permanent dead link]
- ^ 僰人
后 裔有新 说 Archived July 7, 2011, at the Wayback Machine - ^ 僰为
越 论 [Bo Weiyue Theory].法律 版 . YUXI network. 2000–2001. Archived from the original on 2011-07-07. - ^ 兴文县境
内 民族 [Nationalities in Xingwen County]. Sichuan Provincial Rural Economic Comprehensive Information Center. Sichuan Provincial People's Government. 2008-09-02. Archived from the original on 2009-09-27. - ^ a b Edmondson & Li 2003, p. 165.
- ^ Huang & Li 2006, p. 25.
- Huang, Hualiang [
黄 华良]; Li, Shiwen [李 诗文] (2006). 悬崖上 的 民族 :珙县僰人及悬棺 [Ethnic groups on the cliff: Bo people and hanging coffins in Gong County]. Chengdu:巴 蜀 书社 [Ba-Shu Publishing]. ISBN 7-80659-916-9. - Edmondson, Jerold A.; Li, Shaoni (2003). "Review of Lajiyu Yanjiu by Li Yunbing" (PDF). Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area. 26 (1): 163–181.
- Tapp, Nicholas (2003). The Hmong of China: Context, Agency, and the Imaginary. Leiden: Brill. ISBN 9004121277.