The older Lao are used to talk that their former homeland is Tali-fu in Yunnan. The island seen from a departure ship here is the Nanchao Island. At landing from an arrival ship, Saiyi Maria is waiting for you holding Fish. The story with her sons, the Ailao or Elder Lao that she got with a dragon at a sand beach of the Nhorng-shae (Saiyi Lake) is written on a stone stele beside her statue. It is very interesting to stop your eyes at a line: The Ailao were the ancestors of the Yi and the Bai and other ethnic groups of Yunnan (2010/03/13, Tali).