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Originally appearing in Volume V16, Page 931 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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LOLOS , the name given by the See also:

CHINESE, JAPANESE AND

Chinese to a large tribe of See also:

ABORIGINES

aborigines who inhabit the greater See also:

PART

part of See also:

SOUTHERN

southern Szechuen. Their See also:

home is in the mountainous See also:

COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

country called Taliang shan, whicl} lies between the Yangtsze See also:

RIVER

river on the See also:

east and the Kien ch'ang valley on the See also:

west, in See also:

south Szechuen, but they are, found in scattered communities as far south as the Burmese frontier, and west. to the See also:

MEKONG, or ME NAM KONG (pronounced Kawng)

Mekong. There seems no See also:

REASON (Lat. ratio, through French raison)

reason to doubt that they were, like the Miaotze, one of the aboriginal tribes of See also:

CHINA

China, driven southwards by the advancing See also:

flood of Chinese. The name is said to. be a Chinese corruption of Lulu, the name of a former chieftain of a tribe who called themselves Nersu. Their See also:

LANGUAGE (adapted from the Fr. langage, from langue, tongue, Lat. lingua)

language, like the Chinese, is monosyllabic and probably ideographic, and the characters See also:

bear a certain resemblance to Chinese. No literature, however, worthy of the name is known to exist, and few can read and write. Politically they are divided into tribes, each under the See also:

government of a hereditary chieftain. The community consists of three classes, the " blackbones" or nobles, the " whitebones " or plebeians, and the watze or slaves. The last are mostly Chinese captured in forays, or the descendants of such captives. Within Lolo-See also:

LAND

land proper, which covers some 11,000 sq.m., the Chinese government exercises no See also:

jurisdiction. The Lolos make frequent raids on their unarmed Chinese neighbours. They cultivate See also:

wheat, See also:

BARLEY (Hordeum sativum)

barley and See also:

millet, but little See also:

rice.

They have some knowledge of metals, making their own tools and weapons. See also:

WOMEN

Women are said to be- held in respect, and may become chiefs of the tribes. They do not intermarry with Chinese. See A. F. See also:

Legendre, " See also:

Les Lolos. Etude ethnologique et anthropologique," in T'oung Pao II., vol. x. (1909) ; E. C. See also:

BABER

Baber, Royal Geog. Society Sup. Papers, vol. i.

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LONDON

London, 1882) ; F. S. A. See also:

Bourne, See also:

BLUE (common in different forms to most European languages)

Blue See also:

BOOK

Book, China, No. i (1888) ; A. Hosie, Three Years in Western China (London, 1897).

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