Ethnic Groups
 
 
Yao Ethnic Group
 

      Yao ethnic group is one of the minorities settling down in Xishuangbana, which numbers around 16,000 and makes up 2.6% of the total in the prefecture. They speak Yao ethnic language but have no written form of their own. Living in the mountainous area, they are mainly distributed in Yao communities of Mengla county.
 
  The Yaos are pious worshippers of their ancestors, but at the same time they are also followers of Buddhism and Polytheism.
 
 
 
 
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