YUNNAN, Southwest China — As the wedding party steps out into Lijiang’s old town square, curious tourists flock to the group, dazzled by their traditional Naxi attire. Many question whether the pomp ...

The ethnic Naxi group inhabit in the foothills of the Himalayas in the northwestern and southwestern parts of Southwest China's Yunnan and Sichuan province respectively. The heavenly atmosphere of the ...

The Naxi ethnic minority has a population of 308,839, most of whom live in concentrated communities in the Lijiang Naxi Autonomous County in Yunnan Province, the rest being scattered in Weixi, ...

A tour guide of the Naxi ethnic group (right) teaches a tourist how to write Dongba pictographs at a cultural center in Baisha village, Lijiang, Yunnan province. [Photo/Xinhua] The tour guide believes ...

LHASA, June 26 (Xinhua) -- Tibetans generally serve guests highland barley wine. In a township 1,000 km from Lhasa, capital of Tibet Autonomous Region, where some people of the ethnic Naxi group live, ...

Just as you might own a favorite piece of furniture from your parents’ house, Quentin Roosevelt II (1919-1948), Theodore Roosevelt’s Ritual Card; Northwestern Yunnan Province, China; 18th-20th century ...

"Lijiang Impressions" performance. A group of horses walk up the Chama Ancient Road. Horses in Yunan Province all have short legs. These horses cannot run fast, but they are good at walking in the ...

Dongba Art is the primitive religious art special of the Naxi ethnics who live in the frontier area of southwest China and believe in Dongba religion. Dongba religion got its name from the fact that ...

An aerial drone photo taken on March 10, 2024 shows tourists visiting a tea-themed park at Meiling Village of Naxi District, Luzhou City, southwest China's Sichuan Province. In recent years, Naxi ...

The Naxi people, like most people in every moderately developed country today, enjoy "three square meals" per day. The main evening dish consists of rice, corn, potatoes and pork – and of course Baba, ...