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Turnip Flower Village is located in the Nujiang Lisu Autonomous Prefecture, Lamping Bai Pumi Autonomous County, northwest of the village of 334 households, 1595 people, consisting of five natural villages. The per capita income is 748 yuan, and the average person has 389 kilograms of grain (2003).

The village is located in the alpine mountainous area in the hinterland of the Three Rivers Nature Reserve and is close to the mountains and the water. Nearby are famous natural scenic spots such as Luogu Turnip and Da Yangchang, with a forest coverage rate of more than 85% and a good natural ecological environment. Well-dried wooden houses account for 82% of the residential buildings, maintaining the traditional architectural forms of the Pumi ethnic group, and the village pattern keeps the traditional style. Turnip Flower Village has a long history, with good preservation of traditional agriculture and animal husbandry, clothing and apparel, food and drink, folk songs and dances, and hemp and wool spinning and weaving crafts, and the cultural inheritors have great influence in the region. The region's traditional village rules and regulations combined with new village rules and regulations, the village daily production, life, **** with the role of management constraints.

Turnip flower Pumi women's dress solemn and colorful, beautiful and generous. Wear linen lapel coat, with woolen long skirt, back draped in sheepskin, chest wearing silver chain. Each age group dress differently, like to use wide red, green, blue, yellow and other colors belt girdle waist, hand wear bracelet ring and ring, ear wear silver ring or jade pendant, with colorful beads for headdress and necklace. Wrapped in a large bandana, like yak tail and silk thread braided into the hair plait, coiled on top of the head, to the hair plait for the beauty of the thick. Men generally wear lapel linen clothes, with wide pants, cloak sheepskin neckcoat, obeisance like Tibetan wear. The men of rich families wear serge and woolen coats, with cloth or felt wrapped around the legs below the knees, and some wear homemade half-tube pigskin and cowhide shoes.

Specialty crafts are mainly leather products and wool products. Leather products mainly refers to the sheepskin cloak, mostly used to visit friends and relatives, weddings, funerals and festivals to wear, decorative, cold and as a girl's dowry and other functions. Wool products after various processing procedures that is the formation of wool, according to the different needs of the production of serge, felt, hats, shoes and so on.

The Pumi people believe in natural gods and spirits, more frequent ritual activities, the main sacrifice to heaven and earth, sacrifice Longtan, sacrifice mountain gods, sacrifice iron three feet, sacrifice ancestors, sacrifice in the pillar and so on. The main traditional festivals are the Gosho Festival, which is to be held to shoot guns and crossbows. Every festival, wedding and major rituals, the village people and neighboring friends and relatives gathered together, singing ancient songs, dance "rubbing the wrong".

The folk songs of the Pumi people are mostly traditional tunes handed down by their predecessors, with less improvisation. In the form of relatively free, not subject to the limitations of the meter. Rich in content and diverse forms, the main wedding songs are marriage, welcome the guest tune, receiving the bride song, stopping the door song, fruit plate tune, gather to talk about the tune, the top pillar tune, etc.; love songs are mainly "iron chain ring buckle life", "unless the scales floating on the water", etc.; sacrificial folk songs are mainly sacrificial The main folk songs for rituals are: "Sacrifice to the Three Legs", "Worship the Dragon", "Sacrifice to the Middle Pillar", etc.; the main songs for funeral ceremonies are "Guiding Songs"; and the main traditional songs are: "Jidian", "Malu", "Dawn", and "Bazhajianzhan". The tunes are mostly in pentatonic scale, the melody is closely related to the tone, recitation and singing are closely combined, and the melody is simple, fresh, beautiful and smooth. Some of the folk songs have a wide range, reaching or approaching two octaves. The rhythms are smooth and even, staggered in length, bright and active. The lyrics are generally odd-numbered, ranging from three, five, seven and nine syllables.

The four-string is a folk instrument of the Pumi people and the main accompaniment of the four-string dance. The repertoire is more varied, and in addition to the 12 tunes of the dance, there are also some ancient tunes, such as the mother tune of the four strings and the bird on the tree. The playing of the four-stringed instrument is not restricted by gender or age, and it is well inherited and protected in the Pumi area. The "rubbing" dance has been widely spread and has a good foundation among the masses, and is the main folk dance on festival occasions, accompanied by sheepskin, wooden bowls, wooden chopsticks and plywood, with the leader of the dancers tapping the sheepskin with his right hand, and the dancers accompanying him holding the bowls in his left hand and striking the chopsticks in his right hand with a number of pairs of chopsticks, and the plywood tied to the dancers' waists, and the sound is made when they hit the crotch on the left and the right sides.

The Pumi people have no written language, folklore for the oral heritage, villagers in the production process of labor to communicate with each other, or sitting around the fire at night, listening to the old man told or sung, and more in the inauguration of the new house, the marriage of the bride, festivals, funerals, sacrifices, and other occasions for the telling of the singing. In recent years, the widely circulated folklore of the Pumi people has been translated into Chinese and included in publications such as Anthology of Lamping Folklore, Integration of Pumi Stories, Integration of Pumi Songs, Integration of Lamping Folktales, and Integration of Lamping Songs.

Flower Village is a large village of Pumi settlement, with a long history, traditional agriculture, living customs and national culture inheritance is better, there are a number of inheritors, and have a certain influence and popularity.