68 NOTES ON NAMES OF NON-CHINESE 



" Chiang" with the six " Yi " and nine " Ti " we must 

 remember that the west was the great asylum for human 

 fugitives ; and the zone of contending armies. And such 

 areas are not conducive to ethnic purity. In any case, the 

 name ' ' Chiang "was applied not only to refugees from Hunan 

 and .frontier hordes, but also to forced migrations inhabiting 

 ulterior and anterior Tibet. So says the "T'uK'ao" (as 

 regards Tibet) and Chinese History is about the best aid we 

 have in such studies. 



The writer with Eev. J. K. Muir found the Ch'iang 

 at Wen Chwan in 1907 and described them ' ' as different in 

 religion, language and customs from the Chinese." The 

 name may owe its persistency to the Chinese authorities 

 rather than the natives themselves. The same people are 

 ' ' Fan "or ' ' Yi " (officially) in Lif an. And ' ' Fan " m and 

 " Fan " ll are interchangeable. 



Can the word " Chiang " be a corruption of Hsi Yong or 

 Hsiung ? or what will a study of phonetics make of Gya- 

 Yung or Gyarung ? 



As regards the ■ ' Po-lo-tze " to the north of Mao Chow 

 a tradition insists that they are a transported colony of 

 Lolos from the Chien Ch'ang valley. Chinese claim the 

 character is iH 3& but # fH seems more likely. 



NOTE ON CHIANG SACRIFICE AND 

 LITHOLATRY. 



An account of Ch'iang Sacrifice is here produced as 

 written by one of their leaders at Wei Chow : — 



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