What is Nanzhao?
{{Infobox country | native_name = | conventional_long_name = Nanzhao | common_name = Nanzhao | status = Kingdom | status_text = | empire = | government_type = Monarchy | life_span = | year_exile_start = | year_exile_end = | event_start = Established | year_start = 738 | event_end = Overthrown | year_end = 937 | event1 = | date_event1 = | event2 = | date_event2 = | p1 = | s1 = Dali Kingdom | image_map = Nam Chiếu.png | image_map_caption = Kingdom of Nanzhao as of 879 AD | capital = Taihe (also named Yangxiemie, near present day [[Dali Old Town|Dali]]) | latd = | latm = | latNS = | longd = | longm = | longEW = | national_motto = | national_anthem = | common_languages = | religion = [[Buddhism]] | currency = | leader1 = | leader2 = | leader3 = | leader4 = | leader5 = | year_leader1 = | year_leader2 = | year_leader3 = | year_leader4 = | year_leader5 = | title_leader = | today = [[China]]<br>[[Laos]]<br>[[Myanmar]] }}{{Infobox Chinese | t = 南詔 | s = 南诏 | p = Nánzhào | w = Nan-chao | lang1 = [[Shan language|Shan]] | lang1_content = လၢၼ်ႉၸဝ်ႈ (lâan tsāw) }} '''Nanzhao''' are a [[Sino-Tibetan languages|Sino-Tibetan]] kingdom that existed southern China and [[Southeast Asia]] during the 8th and 9th centuries. It was centered in [[Yunnan]], [[People's Republic of China|China]]. == History == Most Nanzhao were [[Bai people]].<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=J99vAAAAIAAJ&q=kingdom|title=China, Volume 10|last=Joe Cummings, Robert Storey|publisher=Lonely Planet Publications|year=1991|isbn=0-86442-123-0|edition=3, illustrated|location=the University of California|page=705|access-date=15 May 2011}}</ref> They spoke Nuosu (''Yi''), a [[Tibeto-Burman languages|Tibeto-Burman language]] related to [[Burmese language|Burmese]].<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qz3vdkxBt4AC&dq=nanzhao+erhai+lake+capital&pg=PA195|title=Exploring nationalisms of China: themes and conflicts|last=C. X. George Wei|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|year=2002|isbn=0-313-31512-4|ed