Slideshows Yunnan
Dali Bai Autonomous Prefecture 大理白族自治州

Comical folk plays in the countryside, such as here in Jianchuan's Mijing village, often focus on agricultural themes, such as the stubborn draft animal.

The elaborate paper figures made for the Lantern Festival in Mizhi 密祉 are part of Yunnan's Intangible Cultural Heritage.

Since fishing has been banned on Erhai, fishing boats are rusting away on its shore.

The Dongjing Association 洞经会 in a village near Dali performs a day of ritual for the souls of the deceased during the Chinese 'Ghost Month'.

The flag poles stuck into the top of the torch at the Bai torch festival signify blessings for the future and can be real works of art.

The suona melodies in the region of Binchuan's Pingchuan town are part of Dali's intangible cultural heritage and are performed on festival days in the Pingchuan Guanyin Temple 平川观音寺.

This ancestral hall in a remote village near Binchuan's Pingchuan 宾川平川 is one of Yunnan's best preserved clan houses, built by the republican era general Yang Ruxuan 杨如轩.

For the Bai people temple fairs are not solemn but joyous affairs.

The "Lotus Pond Societies" 莲池会 are the associations of older women in charge of the rituals in Dali's temples.

The summer rainy season brings clouds to Dali's Cangshan.

Bai Tie-Dye is part of China's Intangible Cultural Heritage, still carried out in simple workshops using traditional techniques.

Fazi Temple is an abandoned clan memorial temple on a cemetery hill west of Xizhou.