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Yunnan lanterns belong to the Yunnan region of what ethnic dance

Yunnan lanterns are a kind of folk song and dance widely circulated in the Han region of Yunnan, and have historically been passed down as part of the folk dances in the "social fire".

Yunnan, the People's Republic of China, is a provincial administrative region of the People's Republic of China, known as Yunnan, with Kunming as its capital. Located in the southwest of China's border, east of Guangxi and Guizhou Province, north of Sichuan Province, northwest of the Tibet Autonomous Region; is a subtropical monsoon climate, tropical monsoon climate. The province covers a total area of 394,000 square kilometers, with eight cities and eight minority autonomous prefectures under its jurisdiction; the resident population is 47.705 million (end of 2016).

Yunnan is one of the important birthplaces of human civilization; the Yunnan Yuanmou Man, who lived 1.7 million years ago, is the earliest human being discovered in China and Asia until 2013. During the Warring States period, it was the birthplace of the Dian tribe. Yunnan is known as "South of the Colored Clouds" and "Colorful Yunnan", or "South of the Cloud Ridge".

Topography:

The province's terrain shows a high northwest, low southeast, from north to south in a step-like decline, from north to south of every kilometer of horizontal straight-line distance, an average of 6 meters lower altitude. The north is the southern extension of the Tibetan Plateau, the altitude is generally in the 3000 ~ 4000 meters, there are GaoLiGongShan, NuShan, YunLing and other huge mountain system and the NuJiang, LancangJiang, JinShaJiang and other big river from north to south arranged in intervals.

The three rivers flow side by side with high mountains and valleys, and the terrain is treacherous; the northwest is the Hengduan Mountain Range, with mountains less than 3,000 meters above sea level, mainly the Mourning Firmament, Wuliang Mountain, Bonma Mountain, etc., and the terrain descends gently to the south and southwest, and the valleys are gradually wider and wider.

In the southern and southwestern border, the terrain gradually and gently, the mountains are shorter, wider valley basin more, the elevation of about 800 to 1000 meters, the individual areas down to less than 500 meters, mainly in the tropical and subtropical areas.