Serving dishes while dancing to the rhythm... Take a glimpse of the time-honored "Tiaocai dance" of the Yi ethnic group in southwest China's Yunnan Province. #AmazingChina | China Xinhua News

China's ethnic minorities are long known for their diverse and distinctive folk music and dancing styles. Here in southwest China's Yunnan Province, the Yi ethnic group boasts a unique dancing style with tobacco cases. Yanhe dance, literally meaning tobacco case dance, takes round tobacco cases, usually made of bamboo and wood, as props. Dancers hold the upper and lower flaps of the case in the hand and make rhythmic sounds with their fingers alongside music played with Sixian, a traditional ins

White cloak of the Yi ethnic group The white cloak, called chaerwa in Chinese, is a hand-sewn woolen poncho-like garment worn by people of the Yi ethnic group in Liangshan Yi autonomous prefecture. It usually takes about one month to finish making one white cloak. Yi people wear it to keep warm in daytime and use it for bedding at night. Check out this video to see how beautiful it is. #China #Sichuan #traditionalculture | WE ARE CHINA