Every language deserves to be guarded
Every culture deserves admiration
Dali Bai, ancient, unique and incomparably inclusive
They exalt all virtues
They create harmony and happiness
Their descendants are confident and humble
Inherit the wisdom of ancestors and speak for the national language and culture
Dong Qianyun, of Bai ethnicity, majored in Chinese Minority Language and Literature at minzu University of China.
Why did you run to Beijing to learn Mandarin? In Dali, I learned to use bai, and in Beijing, under the guidance of my teacher, I systematically learned bai.
From square bai to pinyin bai, from Dali bai to Nujiang bai to Jianchuan bai, vertical to horizontal, in this language I felt the spirit of the nation, felt the richness of local folklore, and the language wisdom of the ancestors.
Only when a nation continues to keep its language and writing from being annihilated in the torrent of the times can it always break through the waves. ——Dong Qianyun
Huang Wei, graduated from Dali No. 1 Middle School in high school, is currently studying in the fourth year of chinese ethnic minority language and literature at minzu University of China.
She summed up her professional learning as "one has one and one nothing", temperature, no utilitarianism.
She believes that language is both a link for communication and a carrier of spiritual civilization.
"Cultural identity is the deepest level of identity, the root of national unity and the soul of national harmony." Language is the bridge that strengthens national identity. --Huang Wei
Yang Chengzhang, a Bai ethnic group, was admitted to the Music Performance Ethnic Talents Class of the Conservatory of Music of the Central University for Nationalities with excellent results in 2019. He is currently studying under Wang Yu, a three-string player of the China Broadcasting Chinese Orchestra and a three-string teacher at the Central Conservatory of Music.
Participated in the collection and collation of traditional folk music in Yunnan, and created the Bai three-string work "Mountain Flower White Song" and so on.
What is national is the world. Bai traditional music has a unique origin and characteristics, and we should strive to inherit and protect the excellent traditional culture. --Yang Chengzhang
Li Yinzhu, born in Beiluojiuyi Village, Taihe Subdistrict, Dali City, graduated from Dali No. 1 Middle School in high school, and is currently studying at minzu University of China, and is a first-year student at the Chinese Ethnic Minority Language and Literature College in the class of 2021.
When I was a science student in high school, my experience of the countryside and my understanding of folklore simply stayed in the practice of surrounding life. For example, as far as the Bai myths and legends are concerned, what they have known before only stays in the "Big Koshi and The Little Koshi", "The Big Black Dragon, the Little Yellow Dragon", and "Wangfu Yun", which my grandmother often said, in fact, the Bai people still have many literary and cultural treasures. The Central University for Nationalities is the cradle for cultivating outstanding talents of ethnic minorities and the model of ethnic unity, and it is also the most suitable school for ethnic minority students to learn about diverse cultures and exchange diverse folk customs.
Dali provides us with the context, and going to Beijing to study is like entering a language learning institution, allowing us to learn the language and culture of our own ethnic group or other ethnic groups more systematically, professionally and more targetedly. --Li Yinzhu
Supporting unit of the column of "Speaking White Language": Dali Bai Culture Research Institute