Chēlēi

Chelei was the country of a Yi branch in the hills around Yongning on the Sichuan-Guizhou border. Its lands had stretched from Xuyong to Bijie; under the Yuan, the hereditary She family held the Yongning tusi chiefdom.

Under the Ming the She continued as Yongning chiefs. In 1621, the Yongning chief She Chongming, pressed for troops and grain for the Liaodong war, seized Chongqing and proclaimed himself king. He joined the Shuixi regent An Bangyan in the She-An rebellion, which ravaged Sichuan and Guizhou until both leaders were killed in battle in 1629.