typical water promenade motive

the Bai minority and the valley of Erhai lake

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September 8th 2009
So my second part of Dali story will be more about the Bai people and their lifestyle. They call themselves BAI, which has a first meaning of white, but what they mean by it is actually PURE. Also their traditional clothing is basically white, with colorful highlights. Women wear special kind of head thing, which is wowen with symbols, representing feng , hua, xue and yue[ ... read more

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For centuries China stood as a leading civilization, outpacing the rest of the world in the arts and sciences, but in the 19th and early 20th centuries, the country was beset by civil unrest, major famines, military defeats, and foreign occupation. A... ... read more