Jino

The Jino religion is the traditional faith of the Jino, a Tibeto-Burman people of the Jino Mountains in Xishuangbanna, whom Qing records called the Youle. It centres on nature spirits, with Apie'e honoured as the creator god.

Its myths tell of Mahei and Maniu, a brother and sister who married to renew mankind, and of the ancestress Yaobai, who made heaven and earth and scattered the first tea. At a death the village performed a painted-face dance, the face standing for the ghost that would devour the corpse, and a bamboo-pole dance to drive it off.