The ancient and unique Baima Tibetans are descendants of the Baima Fan people. A long time ago, a military troop stormed into the a village dwelled by Baima people, who despite valiantly resistinged the invaders in three battles times within a year, but failed in the end due to great disparity in the number of people. As a result, only a few more than 300 survived out of a total of overmore than 50,000 villagers:, these survivorswho had no choice but to retreat into the deep forest, living across the border between China's southwestern Sichuan and northwestern Gansu provinces.

Today, their descendants, numbering 10,000 in total, are scattered in 4 towns of Pingwu County and 11 towns of Jiuzhaigou County of Sichuan pProvince as well as another 10 towns of Gansu province, all together covering an area of 70 million square kilometers.

Author: Jessie

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