The four words "ethnic minorities" represent mystery and simplicity.

When talking about ethnic minorities, many people's first reaction is to the southwest region, because there are many ethnic minorities distributed here and it is one of the areas with the strongest ethnic minority culture.

Yunnan is the province with the largest number of ethnic groups in China. In addition to the Han, there are 25 ethnic minorities living here.

Yunnan has 16 second-level administrative regions, 8 of which are minority autonomous prefectures, Bai, Yi, Hani, Tibetan, etc. Today we will take an in-depth understanding of one of the eight minority autonomous prefectures-Dali, whose full name is "Dali Bai Autonomous Prefecture."

Two ethnic regimes were also born in Dali-the Nanzhao State of the Tang Dynasty and the Dali State of the Song Dynasty, leaving behind a large number of small cultural crystallization, which still influence Dali today.

Dali is the ethnic origin of the Bai people, and 80% of the Bai people in the country live here, so the Bai culture here is the strongest and purest.

Bai culture can be traced back to thousands of years, originating from the pre-Qin period to modern times. It has accumulated for thousands of years and has a profound culture.

Developed and evolved from the pre-Qin period, it has formed a culture in language, habits, singing and dancing, painting, wood carving, architecture, clothing, festivals and other aspects.

These cultures have always been topics that people talk about, and they are also the different things in Dali that outsiders want to know most.

Dali Butterfly Spring was once named after the butterflies in the garden. Today it has become the "Butterfly Culture Expo Park" and the "Bai Culture Exhibition Park".

The main reason why Butterfly Spring has become a Bai cultural exhibition park is that the traditional Bai festival-Butterfly Festival (Bai Valentine's Day) is held here every year.

The Butterfly Festival, a traditional folk festival of the Bai people, is only popular in Dali. It is held every year on the 15th of the April lunar calendar. Because this season was the time when there were the most colorful butterflies by the Butterfly Spring a long time ago, it is named "Butterfly Festival".

The Butterfly Festival is one of the three important festivals among the Bai people. It is a grand festival celebrated by the Bai people with singing and dancing. It can be seen from the scale of the celebration and the level of excitement that it is a very important festival.

Once upon a time, the colorful butterflies in Butterfly Spring were as big as the palm of your hand and as small as coins, flying all over the sky and were very spectacular. Therefore, nearby villagers would spontaneously come to admire the butterflies, play ancient music from the cave scriptures, and sing and dance. Young people looked for their loved ones here. In the long run, the Butterfly Festival became the Valentine's Day for the Bai people.

In my opinion, the Butterfly Society is a "living epic" of the Bai people, because it has always developed with the development of the times and has never been divided.

Let's walk into the Butterfly Spring, where picturesque mountains and rivers are interdependent, and explore the living Bai culture together!

If you haven't walked into Butterfly Spring, your impression of it may only stay in a "spring pool", but if you walk through the long bamboo forest trail and enter the core tourist area of Butterfly Spring, you will find a unique place here.

Entering Butterfly Spring, the archway "Butterfly Spring" titled by Mr. Guo Moruo is a landmark in the park and the only way to enter the core tourist area.

The entire Huadian Spring Park is decorated with flowers no matter what season, the trees are evergreen all year round, and the streams are endless all year round. From Huadian Spring to Lover Lake, the Bai culture is full of concrete or image.

Here, Butterfly Spring represents the legend of the Bai culture in Dali. There are no butterflies flying in the spring, leaving only interesting legends and a pool of rippling spring water and thick acacia trees.

Although it is a pity that the scene of butterflies flying across the sky in Butterfly Spring is no longer visible, legends and scenes about it have been passed down among generations of Dali population.

The living butterflies flying in the Butterfly World and the lifelike butterfly specimens in the Butterfly Museum all demonstrate the magic and butterfly culture of Butterfly Spring.

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The small stage next to Butterfly Spring and the large stage at Lovers Lake are the most important Bai cultural display areas in the entire park. Bai songs and dances are regularly performed here every day, which is a concentrated display of Bai culture's "living".

Bai culture is displayed from the costumes on the performers to the musical instruments and dance equipment in their hands!

The Bai costumes worn by dancers have distinctive traditional characteristics. The Bai people advocate white, so most costumes are mainly white, but they are very different from traditional Bai costumes.

The color differences between men and women's costumes are particularly large. Traditional male Bai costumes are white inlaid with blue, while women's costumes are mostly white inlaid with red.

Women's clothing is very distinctive, with many decorations on them, such as silver ornaments and embroidered streamers embroidered with patterns such as butterflies and bees.

Among the Bai costumes, the most distinctive ones are the Bai hats. Men's hats are white or blue "baotou".

Women's hats are very particular. Dali's most classic "scenery of" scenery, flowers, snow and moon "are displayed on the hats. The hats are beautiful in color and colorful.

From exquisite embroidered hats, slim-fitting clothes to "white festival shoes", the charm of Bai costumes is displayed in the dancers 'every frown and smile.

The musical instruments and props used in the performance are also unique to the Bai people, such as Longtou Sanxian. The music played during the performance is the most special, such as Overlord Whip, Raosanling, etc. Although you can't understand it, the cheerful rhythm will unconsciously lead people to join it.

There are also many interesting folk songs and minor tunes in the Dali area, the oldest of which is "Dongjing Ancient Music".

The ancient music of the Bai Dong Jing is a living fossil in the Bai music. I had the honor to hear it once and was very shocking. The music is majestic, elegant and solemn, elegant and flexible, and has a stabilizing power.

In Butterfly Spring, you can feel the charm of singing and dancing in Dali Bai culture. You can also hear descriptions of the grand scene of the Butterfly Spring Festival. You can also feel the unparalleled natural scenery of Butterfly Spring. Although the area is not large, there are many mountains, water, flowers, springs, and trees!

[Editor] Reading Yunnan Yijing

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