Mianning County
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, listed a number of major ethnic groups in the region, including the Tosu, Lizu, Yi, and the Namuzi peoples.Climate
Mianning County administers 1 subdistrict, 15 towns, 2 townships, and 1 ethnic township.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, Fuxing, Hui'an, the former township of Haha, the former township of Linli, and the former town of Shaba.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.