Diversity

• Was grouped the Nisu, Nasu, Sani, Axi, Lolopo, Pu and other peoples.
  speaking more than six distinct languages with different dialects(in a single group called Yi)
  
  1. one Yi to not be able to communicate with another Yi
  
  2. not to agree that they are both Yi
  
• Mostly are farmers, herders of cattle, sheep and goats and nomadic hunters.A third of the Yi are literate and most had no written language.

A third of the Yi are literate and most had no written language.

Religion
The Yi are animists. (Daoism, shamanism and fetishism) Medicine men who are called Bimo officiate at births, funerals and weddings and often seen along the street consulting ancient scripts.

• Worship

1. spirits of ancestors,
2. hills,
3. trees,
4. rocks,
5. water,
6. earth,
7. sky,
8. wind,
9. forests.

• Magic is made an important role in daily life through..

1. healing,
2. exorcism,
3. asking for rain,
4. cursing enemies,
5. blessing,
6. divination and
7. analysis of one's relationship with the spirits

• Believe that dragons protect villages against bad spirits, and demons cause diseases.

In Yunna, some of the Yi have been influenced by Buddhsim through the Han culture. The Yi believe in numerous evil spirits. They believe that spirits cause illness, poor harvests and other misfortunes and inhabit all material things. The Yi also believe in multiple souls. At death, one soul remains to watch the grave while the other is eventually reincarnated into some living form.

In the beginning of the 20th century, some Yi people in China converted to Christianity, after the arrival of medical missionaries such as Alfred James Broomhall of the China Inland Mission. According to missionary organization OMF International, the exact number of Yi Christians is not known. In 1991 it was reported that there were as many as 150,000 Yi Christians in Yunnan Province, especially in Luquan County where there are more than 20 churches.

Culture
The Yi play a number of traditional musical instruments, including large plucked and bowed string instruments as well as wind instruments called bawu and mabu.