Nosu, Yinuo September 14

“broad-legged trousers • region.” “The striking • characteristic of men’s •Yuexi garments is the broad • YUNNAN • bottoms of the trouser legs. Ningnan• Zhaotong Women also like to wear •

wide pleated skirts. The Scale GUIZHOU number of pleats sometimes 0 KM 160 comes to more than one Population in : hundred. Girls wear multi- 400,000 (1989) 512,200 (2000) colored headscarfs made of 642,800 (2010) black cloth. Married women Location: Sichuan, Yunnan increase the layers of their Religion: Polytheism headscarfs. After having a Christians: 200 baby, they wear leaf-shaped bonnets.”4 Overview of the Yinuo Nosu Religion: The various Countries: China branches of the Nosu have Pronunciation: a detailed legend of a great “Yee-nuoh-Nor-soo” flood. They say there were Other Names: once three brothers. Yinuo, I-no, Yinuo Yi Population Source: “Because the eldest was 400,000 (1989 Shi Songshan); undisciplined, God sent a Out of a total Yi population of messenger to the sons to 6,572,173 (1990 census) Location: Midge Conner warn them of the flood. The S Sichuan: Meigu, Mabian, Leibo, Location: Chinese scholar Yunnan Province whose oldest wanted to kill the Ebian, Ganluo, Yuexi, Zhaojue, Shi Songshan listed a 1989 name is also sometimes messenger. The second son and Jinyang counties; NE Yunnan: Yongshan and Qiaojia population of 400,000 spelled Yinuo. bound the messenger and counties Yinuo Nosu people, living in asked him questions. The Status: remote northern areas of Language: Yinuo Nosu is third politely asked him why Officially included under Yi the Daliangshan (Big Cold part of the Northern Yi the flood was coming.… Language: Sino-Tibetan, Mountains) in southern branch of Tibeto-Burman. It The youngest son, named Tibeto-Burman, Burmese-Lolo, 1 Lolo, Northern Lolo, Yi, Sichuan Province. The main is related to Shengzha and Dum, built a boat out of Northern Yi concentration of Yinuo Nosu Tianba Nosu, yet speakers wood in 20 days. Twenty Dialects: 0 live in Meigu, Mabian, Leibo, from the respective groups days later the rains came. It Religion: Polytheism, Animism, and Ebian counties, and in who have not had regular rained seven days and Ancestor Worship, Christianity parts of Ganluo County. exposure to the other nights and flooded the Christians: 200 Smaller numbers of Yinuo dialects cannot understand whole earth. The two older Scripture: None Jesus Nosu live in Yuexi, Zhaojue, them. sons died. The boat landed film: None Gospel Recordings: None and Jinyang counties of in the snowy mountains of Christian Broadcasting: None Sichuan; and in Yongshan History: The Yinuo Nosu Tibet. Dum had three sons ROPAL code: None and Qiaojia counties of took slaves and fought who populated the whole 2 5 northeast Yunnan. against the Chinese earth.” Status of Evangelization authorities and other Nosu 93% Identity: Yinuo Nosu is a groups for centuries, until Christianity: Despite this distinct language within the they were disarmed and the and other similarities with larger Nosu group in slave system was abolished biblical stories, few Yinuo southern China. The Nosu by the Communists in the Nosu have ever heard the are officially considered part early 1950s. Still today, the gospel. Intimidating 6% 1% of the Yi nationality. There Yinuo Nosu remain an mountains, rugged terrain, are numerous subgroups aggressive and fierce and cultural and linguistic A B C and clans among the Nosu. people. barriers have prevented the A = Have never heard the gospel One study reports “24 gospel from spreading to B = Were evangelized but did not become Christians nationalities of Black Nosu Customs: Because of the the Yinuo Nosu. Today there C = Are adherents to any form of Yi in the Liang Shan.”3 The distinctive style of dress are only a few hundred Christianity Yinuo Nosu should not be worn by the Yinuo Nosu, the known Catholics among confused with the Jino region they inhabit is them. ethnic group of southern generally known as the

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