Tày people

The Tày people, also known as the Thổ, T'o, Tai Tho, Ngan, Phen, Thu Lao, or Pa Di, is a Central Tai-speaking ethnic group who live in northern Vietnam.Most live in northern Vietnam in the Cao Bằng, Lạng Sơn, Bắc Kạn, Thái Nguyên, and Quảng Ninh provinces, along the valleys and the lower slopes of the mountains.However unlike the Nùng, they were more heavily Vietnamized due to their closer proximity to the Kinh and shared similar cultural practices with the Vietnamese such as lacquering their teeth black.[2] The patterns of this religion are inherited from Taoism and the Chinese folk religion: the god of the universe is the Jade Emperor,[2] in some local traditions (for example in the Quảng Hoà district of Cao Bằng) also identified as the Yellow Emperor (Hoàng Đế).A part of the modern-day Tày population encompasses Tày-ized Vietnamese who live mainly in what is now Lang Son.dispatched to the Sino-Annamese border by Annamese imperial governments to serve as governmental officials and local leaders (phiên thần thổ ty).
Provinces by percentage of Tày people (2009) [ 5 ]
>40%
30%–40%
20%–30%
5%–20%
1%–5%
<1%
Characters formerly used by the Tày people were added to Unicode in 2017. This one, U+2B86F, means "wealthy" and is romanized as giàu . It is a variant of 朝 , the corresponding character in Vietnamese. [ 10 ]
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