Xishuangbanna Located in the southern part of China's Yunnan Province, Xishuangbanna is a tropical rainforest ecosystem blessed with unique natural conditions. With dense tropical rainforests, abundant animal and plant resources and unique national culture, it is known as the "Kingdom of Tropical Rainforests" and "Kingdom of Animals and Plants". The tropical rainforest of Xishuangbanna is one of the best-preserved at the same latitude on Earth and is an important part of global biodiversity.
Xishuangbanna ethnic minorities.
There are 13 ethnic groups and 12 ethnic minorities in Xishuangbanna. Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture, located in the southernmost part of Yunnan Province of the People's Republic of China, is an ethnic minority autonomy under the jurisdiction of Yunnan Province, in addition to the Han nationality, there are Dai, Han, Hani, Yi, Lahu, Brown, Jinuo, Yao, Miao, Hui, Wa, Zhuang, Jingpo 12 ethnic minorities.
Xishuangbanna Ethnic Minority Festival
Dai: Sangkan Bimai Festival, that is, Songkran Festival, April 13-15 in the Gregorian calendar. In addition, there are activities such as bag loss, dragon boat rowing, high lifting, sand stacking, and cockfighting. The climax of the festival is splashing water, the so-called soaking the whole body, and happiness for life.
Hani people: Ga Tongpa Festival: (the meaning of remembering ancestors, abandoning the old and welcoming the new), January 1 to 4 in the Gregorian calendar. People feast on rice cakes, sacrifice to the gods of the family, and hold banquets. Young men and women are invited to go up to the mountains to pick wild flowers and fruits. Men of all ages play spinning tops.
Lahu: The Lahu festival is held at the same time as the Han Chinese New Year. The main food is glutinous rice and baba. On the morning of the first day of the new year, I went to the mountain spring to grab new water. The first to the third day of the new year is called the year of the woman, by the man to entertain guests, housework, the fourteenth to the sixteenth year of the man, the man can go up to the mountain to hunt, indulge in wine and sing, the main activity of the festival is to dance the reed sheng dance.
If you don't want to shiver in the freezing cold of minus 10 degrees, then you can come to Xishuangbanna to take a walk, experience how warm the winter is here, come to get close to the elephants, and go to the Starlight Night Market at night to enjoy the exotic atmosphere. There are breezes, mountains, half Southeast Asian, half Amazon rainforest.
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