According To Chinese Tradition, The Pa-Y
Descended From Muong Tsiu-Ch'u, Ninth Son Of Ti Muong-Tsiu, Son Of
Piao-Tsiu-Ti (Asoka).
Deveria gives (p. 105) a specimen of the Pa-y writing
(16th century).
(Deveria, Front., 99, 117; Bourne, Report, p. 88.)
Chapter iv. of the Chinese work, Sze-i-kwan-k'ao, is devoted to the
Pa-y, including the sub-divisions of Muong-Yang, Muong-Ting, Nan-tien,
Tsien-ngai, Lung-chuen, Wei-yuan, Wan-tien, Chen-k'ang, Ta-how, Mang-shi,
Kin-tung, Ho-tsin, Cho-lo tien. (Deveria, Mel. de Harlez, p. 97.) I give
a specimen of Pa-yi writing from a Chinese work purchased by Father Amiot
at Peking, now in the Paris National Library (Fonds chinois, No. 986). (See
on this scrip, F.W.K. Mueller, T'oung-Pao, III. p. 1, and V. p. 329;
E.H. Parker, The Muong Language, China Review, I. 1891, p. 267; P.
Lefevre-Pontalis, Etudes sur quelques alphabets et vocab. Thais, T'oung
Pao, III. pp. 39-64.) - H.C.
[Illustration: Pa-y script.]
These ethnological matters have to be handled cautiously, for there is
great ambiguity in the nomenclature. Thus Man-tzu is often used
generically for aborigines, and the Lolos of Richthofen are called
Man-tzu by Garnier and Blakiston; whilst Lolo again has in Yun-nan
apparently a very comprehensive generic meaning, and is so used by Garnier.
(Richt. Letter VII. 67-68 and MS. notes; Garnier, I. 519 seqq. [T.W.
Kingsmill, Han Wu-ti, China Review, XXV.
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