Mianning County (, , ) is a county of Sichuan Province, China. It is under the administration of the Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture.
History Mianning County has a long history of being a multi-ethnic region. The Annals of Mianning County (), published during the reign of the Xianfeng Emperor (1850-1861), listed a number of major ethnic groups in the region, including the Tosu, Lizu, Yi, and the Namuzi peoples.
Climate
Administrative divisions
Mianning County administers 1 subdistrict, 15 towns, 2 townships, and 1 ethnic township.
Name Simplified Chinese Hanyu Pinyin Yi Romanized Yi Administrative division codeSubdistrict Gaoyang Subdistrict 513433001Towns Manshuiwan Town 513433101 Daqiao Town 513433102 Fuxing Town 513433103 Lugu Town 513433104 Yihai Town 513433106 Shilong Town 513433107 Hebian Town 513433109 Jinping Town 513433110 Lizhuang Town 513433112 Hui'an Town 513433113 Hongmo Town 513433114 Zeyuan Town 513433115 Ruoshui Town 513433116 Miansha Town 513433117 Mofanggou Town 513433118Townships Xinxing Township 513433230 Jianmei Township 513433231Ethnic township Ho'ê Tibetan Ethnic Township(He'ai) 513433226
Ethnic groups A large number of the Tosu ethnic group, which comprises about 2,000 people, live throughout Mianning County. Sizable clusters of Tosu people are located within Gaoyang Subdistrict, the former town of Houshan (后山镇, now part of Shilong), Fuxing, Hui'an, the former township of Haha (哈哈乡, now part of Gaoyang Subdistrict and Ruoshui), the former township of Linli (林里乡, now part of Fuxing), and the former town of Shaba (沙坝镇, now part of Manshuiwan).
Languages Two of the three Ersuic languages, the critically endangered Tosu language, and the Lizu language, are spoken within Mianning County. A 2013 survey found nine partial speakers of the Tosu language, all of whom lived in Mianning County, and were proficient in Southwestern Mandarin, which they used for daily life.
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