The Bai spiritual tradition consists of a set of syncretic beliefs, imbued with a strong local flavor, represented by the Benzhu or Local Lords/Gods tradition. Most of the Bai have believed in Buddhism since the 7th century. In fact, ...
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In China, there are 1.594,827 people of the Bai nationality Most of them reside around the Ehai Lake in the Dili Bai Autonomous Prefecture in the west of Yunnan Province. The rest live elsewhere in Sichuan, Guizhou and Hunan provinces. ...
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The main distribution of the Bai people is in the Dali Bai Autonomous County of Yunnan Province, together with Lijiang, Kunming, Yuanjiang, Guizhou and so on. According to the census taken in 2000, the Bai ethnic group numbered some ...
Speech by the Governor Yunnan, which means "South of The Rosy Clouds", is a multinational province located in west of China. Yunnan enjoys a prominent advantage to be open to Southeast Asia and South Asia, and served as a major route of ...
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Embroidery and dyeing skill, known as "skein tie" in the ancient time, is a kind of old textile dyeing workmanship in China which is named knot cloth in Dali. As it is mainly produced in Dali and most of the dyers are the people of Bai ...
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The women of the national minorities excel in these crafts.Pringting and dyeing in either monochrome paper matrix printing or color-process block printing are two different methods.In Za Ran(tie-dyeing),sewn and folded designs are immersed ...
Tags: Clothings, Brocade, colored silk, cotton threads
Dresses and accessories mark the lifestyles and production levels of the people of a geographic region during a historical period, and they vividly reflect the people's customs and aesthetic tastes. Headdresses play an important role in ...
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The color white is favored by both men and women of the Bai ethnic group when it comes to clothing. The Bai ethnic dresses are mostly light in color, forming stark contrast with dark colors that are used as a complement. The dresses, with ...
\ The Bai ethnic group mainly engages in agriculture and fishery. The Bai people are very hospitable. They treat their guests to baked tea whenever they come to visit. Colloquially called "three courses of tea", the tea is bitter in ...
The Bai enter in the history during the Tang dynasty, when together with the Yi established the Kingdom of Nanzhao whose first king Puluoge, was called King of Yunnan. The Kingdom of Nanzhao was the most powerful political structure in ...
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The Bai have a culture very elaborated with important works of history, religion, astronomy and medicine. Their most important myth is "Creation of the world" , which three sections well differentiated: Primordial times, Creation of the ...
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Third Month Fair This is one of the most important festivals celebrated in China, and one of the oldest. For most of the peoples who live in south China, this is the major yearly festival. For the Bai, it is the most important festival. ...
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The Nama are about 50,000 or 60,000 people that live in two western districts of Yunnan Province: Lanping and Weixi. 750 years ago, when the Mongolian troops commanded by Kublai Khan conquered the Dali Kingdom, many of their inhabitants ...
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The Nama have been separated from the Bai for about seven centuries. Today they still preserve traditions now lost among many of the Bai. They think that all things have a soul, and they practice a cult of nature similar to what the Bai ...
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The Third Month Street Fair is the grandest show of the year for the Bais. Held from the 15th day to the 21st day of the third lunar month every year at the foot of the Mount Diancang Shan,west to the ancient city of Dali, the Bais ...
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