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Before the mid-13th century, Yunnan was held by many war-like independent states such as the Nanchao and Dali Kingdoms.

After the expulsion of the Mongols from China in 1368, the Ming Dynasty destroyed the Yuan loyalists in Yunnan under Basalawarmi in 1381 and occupied it.

In 1381, "Ming Dynasty troops routed the Yuan army by the shore of the Baishui River.

The Mongol soldiers, their hopes to return to their homeland having been dashed, had no alternative but to settle down in the province.

"[citation needed] In the early 1980s, village elders sent a delegation to Inner Mongolia to re-learn their long lost Mongolian culture.