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Kuoshi Festival, Nujiang, Yunnan, China

China Benzhu Temple, Yunnan, China

This is the most important festival for Lisu people, something like their New Year, and tradition dictates that the exact date of this festival each year must meet a series of phenological conditions(including when the cherry trees bloom), therefore varies among different villages -though since 1990, December 20th has been decided on as the official […]

Christmas, Northwest Yunnan, China

China Benzhu Temple, Yunnan, China

Homesick around Christmas? Make your way to the far northwestern reaches of Yunnan, to the villages along the Nu and Lancang Rivers, where an unexpected Christmas tradition prevails, the result of historical missionary activity in the area. In the 19th and early 20th centuries, European missionaries made their way through the plunging valleys and over […]