Sichuanese people
The Golden Sun Bird, a rediscovered artifact of the Ba–Shu culture, believed to be a totem of the ancient Shu people, and the emblem of Chengdu since 2011. | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
|---|---|
| Mainland China | Sichuan Chongqing |
| Taiwan | As part of Mainlander population |
| Languages | |
| Historically Ba–Shu Chinese, also known as Old Sichuanese. Presently Sichuanese dialects of Southwestern Mandarin. | |
| Religion | |
| Traditionally Mahayana Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism and Chinese folk religion, but also Christianity (see Christianity in Sichuan), Islam (see Islam in Sichuan), and historically Zoroastrianism (see Zoroastrianism in Sichuan) | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| other Han Chinese, Yi people, Tujia people, Qiang people | |
The Sichuanese people are a Han Chinese subgroup comprising most of the population of China's Sichuan province and the Chongqing municipality.