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There are about 345,000 Shui people in China. Most of them reside in Guizhou Province. The rest live in Guangxi. The Shuis are the descendants of the ancient tribe of Luoyue that lived along the southeastern coast of China before 206 BC. The Shui language belongs to the Zhuang-Dong branch of the Chinese-Tibetan language family. The Shuis used to have an archaic writing script. Some of their words were pictographs, while others resembled Chinese characters written upside down. Apart from scores of these ancient words that are still used for religious purposes, the Shuis use Chinese in their daily live. Most of the Shui people are farmers. They mainly grow rice and corns. In Guizhou Province, the region where the Shuis live is famous for China firs.
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