Colorful Yunnan: The costume contest festival of the Yi people
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CGTN
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2023-08-04
An undated photo shows women from the Yi ethnic group ready to show off their costumes during the "Saizhuang Jie," a folk "costume competition festival," in Zhiju Village, Chuxiong Yi Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province. /Photo provided to CGTN
In Yongren County of Chuxiong Yi Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province, local people of the Yi ethnic group have been staging a traditional fashion show for over 1,300 years. In the deep mountains, "Saizhuang Jie," a folk "costume competition festival," is the time when Yi people wear their colorful, traditional hand-embroidered clothes – and indulge in singing and dancing along with the melodies of the lusheng and the four-stringed zither.