Since the development of tourism in Keyi village, Mile city of southeast Yunnan’s Honghe Hani autonomous prefecture, the livelihood of Bi Kun and his family has been significantly improved.

As a culturally-diversified province lying in southwest China, Yunnan has long been famous for the arts and handicrafts created by local ethnic groups.

Nowadays, intangible cultural heritages are no long confined to arts, relics and craftsmanship; sports and games have also joined this big family.

Today, creative intangible cultural heritage programs not only help unveil the cultural values of many heritages themselves, they have become a brand new window for people from both China and abroad to know about Yunnan and its highly diversified ethnic cultures.

An exhibition on silver-inlaid black copperware is taking place at the Yunnan Nationalities Museum from May 18, featuring 126 art items and a live demonstration from a lineage holder in the making of black copperware.

The vine, brick, wood, stone bridges across rivers and hiding in the mountains integrate themselves into the nature. They are witnesses of Yunlong’s history.

Mr. Li Xingchang is the eighth-generation inheritor of the traditional Pu’er tea making skills in Ning’er Hani and Yi autonomous county in southwest Yunnan’s Pu’er city.

In the Gao's Leather Carving Workshop, which is located on Fengzhu Street in Kunming, artist Gao Yuwen was f...

The paper cutting of the Dai ethnic group originates from ancient rituals, where unique patterns are cut on the...

The silver-inlaid black copper is a traditional Chinese handicraft unique to Yunnan. It has a history of more th...

"The cultural relics restorers are more than just craftsmen. They must also have good knowledge of science, technology, history and culture."

The city of Gejiu is located in the southeast of Yunnan province. Every weekend the tin ware studio in the Tin...

In Cangyuan Wa Autonomous County, southwest Yunnan’s Lincang City, there is a Dai village where bamboo is w...

Student Zhong Xing from art institute makes Jueban woodcut painting at the woodcut studio of Pu'er University...

Featuring unique patterns and sophisticated techniques being involved, embroideries of the Yi ethnic minority are reputed as the “wearable history”.

Recently, Yunnan province announced a list of demonstration villages, leading enterprises, famous brands and demonst...

The unique Huize varicolored copper-ware craftsmanship of Yunnan province is recognized as Chinese national-level intangible cultural heritage.

Embroidered storage boxes are seen at the workshop "Fangcunjian" in Shilin Yi Autonomous County, southwest China&#3...

In Lijiang, artisans of the Naxi are passionate about learning and inheriting traditional techniques of making Dongba papers - which have been hailed as paper’s “living fossils.”

A total of 45 Bai embroidery suits from Dali Bai Autonomous Prefecture of southwest China’s Yunnan Province...

Workshops of textile and embroidery are particularly popular among Women participants in the Tuanjie village of Qujing city. Women from over 160 households in the villages have been engaged these workshops which help them achieve an income increase of 20,000 yuan per year.

Tile cats, known as “wamao” in Mandarin, are traditional clay roof ridge beasts prevailing in northwest Yunnan’s Dali area. Recently, these gargoyle-like statuettes have been made into souvenirs by Su Longxiang, a native-born clay sculptor, and enormous popularity has been gained among tourists ever since.

Craftsman Lhari Xorba works on a piece of Tibetan-style black clay pottery in Nixi Township, the Tibetan Autonomo...

In Chuxiong Yi Autonomous Prefecture of Yunnan Province, Yi ethnic group's embroidery is called "fingertip art"...

Xinhua, as a matter of fact, is an unusual place in which nearly every single household has been involved in the making of silverware for centuries.