"... Like many other ethnic peoples of Burma, the Shans or Tai once had their homeland in China. Some historians believe that the Tai people originally were from the north of the Yellow River (Huang Ho), occupying the region known as Hebei and Shanxi round about 2515 B.C. The Chinese annals also mention Tai settlements in the middle basin of the Yellow River in 850 B.C. They made their homeland there for a long time, establishing small feudal kingdoms and spreading their ?Na? culture to neighboring regions..."