A teacher of the Naxi ethnic group teaches a student to perform traditional dance of Dongba culture at a primary school in Lijiang, southwest China's Yunnan Province, Sept. 4, 2009.
No other ethnic group in China is more passionate about water than the Dai people in Yunnan Province.
Lijiang, where the ethnic Naxi people live, is a hot destination for tourists visiting Yunnan province. Cultural customs of the region such as papermaking, copper smithing and weaving have been protected as cultural legacies.
The "Yunnan Dianchi Pan-Asia Art Festival" opened on July 25 in Kunming, capital city of southwest China's Yunnan Province, with the goal of strengthening cultural exchanges between China and other Asian countries and advancing economic cooperation.
Six painters from Yunnan province made a debut of their traditional Chinese paintings in Shanghai on April 16.
An ethnic Yi man and a Russian tourist jump over a fire during a sacrificing ceremony in Honghe autonomous prefecture in Yunnan province on March 18.
Ethnic dancers perform on stage during a Nanshou Culture Festival in Weishan county, Yunnan province on March 23, 2010. Over 310,000 ethnic people joined in the pageant.
Folk singers came from Australia, Italy, Canada, Britain, France and the United States to celebrate the festival with the local people in Wuding County, in the Yi Autonomous Prefecture of Chuxiong, a mountainous region in Southwest China's Yunnan province, on March 15, 2010.
Fishing with cormorants in Erhai Lake goes back a long time. But now, only 12 families continue this practice.
Sha Village, seated by the Erhai Lake in Xizhou Town, Dali Bai Autonomous Prefecture, has been a fishing village for centuries.