Bai nationality information

The Bai people living at the foot of Diancang Mountain and beside Erhai Lake have always maintained distinctive traditional characteristics in terms of living customs and costumes. Bai men and women generally advocate white, and white clothes are the most important.

Dali Bai men like to wrap white or blue baotou, wear white double-breasted coat, black collar coat, wide trousers, towing, and some like to wear hanging bags embroidered with beautiful patterns.

In other areas, Bai men like to wear a melon hat, a big coat, a sheepskin collar or several leather collars, which are called "three drops of water". Look honest and handsome, free and easy.

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Bai's carving art is world-famous, mainly embodied in stone carving and wood carving. The stone carvings are represented by the Shi Zhongshan Grottoes in Jianchuan and the classic buildings in Dali Prefecture. Jianchuan Shi Zhongshan Grottoes, excavated in Nanzhao Dali State, is one of the most representative grottoes in southern China and enjoys the reputation of "Dunhuang in the Southwest". The classic architecture of Dali, also known as "the classic architecture of Dizang Temple".

Classic buildings are beautiful in shape and exquisite in carving technology, and have the characteristics of Tantric Buddhist statues, and are known as "the best art in central Yunnan". Bai woodcarving is mainly used for the decoration of palaces, temples and residential buildings, especially Jianchuan woodcarving. The doors and woodcarving screens of Yunnan Hall of the Great Hall of the People in Beijing were made by Jianchuan carpenters.

The three pagodas of Chongsheng Temple in Dali, built in the Tang Dynasty, are nearly 60 meters high, with a grade of 16. They are beautifully made, similar to the Little Wild Goose Pagoda in Xi 'an. Shi Baoshan Grottoes in Jianchuan have exquisite craftsmanship and lifelike figures. It has the similarity of China grottoes and strong national style, and occupies a high position in the history of stone carving art in China.