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What do you mean pull up?

Pull up means goodbye.

"Shanglaru" in Yi language is a word for "goodbye", which is similar to "goodbye" in Chinese. This is one of the greetings commonly used by Yi people in their daily life. In the traditional culture of Yi people are very enthusiastic and like to express their feelings and concerns through greetings and blessings.

Yi nationality is the sixth largest minority in China, and its national language is Yi language, which belongs to the Yi branch of Tibeto-Burman language family of Sino-Tibetan language family. There are six dialects in North, East, South, Southeast, West and China, including five sub-dialects and twenty-five dialects.

Yi people are mainly distributed between the plateaus and coastal hills in Yunnan, Sichuan, Guizhou and Guangxi provinces, and mainly gather in Chuxiong, Honghe, Liangshan, Bijie, Liupanshui and Anshun. Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture is the largest Yi inhabited area in China.

Yi people's writing culture;

Yi language is an ideographic language, also called syllabic language. It is called "literature and art", "Shu Shu" or "Luotan" and "Tam" in history books, and is generally called the old Yi language. This script was formed in13rd century. It is estimated that there are about 10,000 words in the old Yi language, and more than 1,000 words are commonly used.

Each glyph represents a meaning without radicals. There are many different writing formats for the same glyph, mainly from left to right directly or horizontally. The bronze bell of Ming Dynasty found in Dafang County, Guizhou Province was cast in the 21st year of Chenghua in Ming Dynasty (1485), and the Yi language engraved on the clock face is the earliest surviving inscription in Yi language.

Many Yi areas still have books copied in the ancient Yi language, such as Leoteyi, Mamutuyi, Amnya and Su. These books can be divided into nine categories, namely, sacrificial scriptures, divination, calendars, genealogy, poetry, ethics, history, myths and translated works.

There are a large number of homophone loanwords in ancient Yi language. Because there are six dialects in Yi language, dialects vary greatly from place to place, and the phonetic characters are different from place to place, so the glyphs and pronunciations of ancient Yi language are not uniform.

In order to make Yi language serve the masses better, Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture 1975 of Sichuan Province, taking Xide pronunciation as the standard pronunciation and Cha Sheng dialect as the basic dialect, formulated a pilot scheme for the standardization of Sichuan Yi language, determined 8 19 standard characters, and designed a "Yi phonetic symbol" to facilitate phonetic learning. The State Council approved the plan on 1980. It has been popularized and used in Sichuan Yi area.