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Yi people mostly have their meals sitting on the ground.

aristocratic women mostly ride a horse and hold an umbrella when they are out.

at Northern Yunnan province, dressing in linen clothes, carrying poison arrow.

Near uncivilised Yi ethnic group's habitation. Yi ethnic people often wander around here and rob Han ethnic people's property in the fog.

This county is located to the east of Xi Chang. The county only has four houses, a single tree and nothing else.

A sheltered bridge passage on top of supporting structures upon a river

Sheltered furnace

Three workers walking out the mine cave

Alley in the night with lights and people

Deng Xiang Ying locates at the foot of the mountain Xiao Xiang Ling.

The largest copper mine in Big Liang Mountain and Small Liang Mountain area. During the Tongzhi era of Qing dynasty, money was raised to mining copper here but the threaten from Yi bandits forced it to stop.

The largest river in Yi ethnic group habitants in Big Liang Mountain and Small Liang Mountain area. There is no bridge but Liu Tong ("slippery cylinder"), a kind of rope bridge with bamboo cylinder.

Bridge in Yi area. A robe is tied across the river, on both sides of the bank. Yi ethnic people climb the rope to cross the river. Han ethnic people use bamboo-made cylinder to transport on the rope.

notice that the stones are put above the roof top to avoid strong winds blowing away wooden roof top.