According to Baidu Encyclopedia, Naxi people call women "fat girls" and men "fat brothers" (this explanation is not credible, because some tour guides explain it to tourists. )。 It is so called because the drinks in Shuigu Town of Lijiang contain more minerals, so people there are fatter and darker, so they regard fatness as beauty and black as value. They think that the fatter black people are, the more honest they are, and the thinner they are, the whiter they are, because bad people are quick-talking. If you marry a daughter-in-law, you must marry a fat one, because she has great strength, more work and more money. The homonym of Naxi girls "Pajimei (the last word is light to read)" is somewhat similar to "Fat Golden Girl". Calling Naxi girls "fat golden girls" may be a myth of tourists or a creation of local tour guides.
Naxi nationality is one of the 56 ethnic groups in China, and it is also one of the unique ethnic groups in Yunnan. Most of them live in Lijiang, northwest Yunnan, the rest are distributed in other counties and cities in Yunnan, Yanyuan, Yanbian and Muli counties in Sichuan, and a few are distributed in Mangkang county in Tibet. Naxi nationality has its own national language, and Naxi language belongs to Yi branch of Tibeto-Burman language family of Sino-Tibetan language family.