Bai invented its own character by referring to Han character, and it has a lot of borrowed words from Han language. Now, Chinese is widely used among Bai people. Bai minority has a long history. Bai minority mainly deals with agriculture and fishery.
Main crops are rice, winter wheat, beans, millet, cotton, rape, sugar-cane and tobacco.
People living in plains take rice and wheat as their staple food and those in mountain areas mostly depend on corn, yam and buckwheat. Pork is their normal meat. Pickle, brawn, and bean sauce are famous snacks of Bai people. Benzhu in different villages and regions has different meaning, in which some of them refer to the god of nature, some national heroes and some famous offices as well as loyal women. Bai also believe in witch ghosts and Buddhism in a small part.