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

The traditional torch festival of the Yi ethnic group lights up the night sky across Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture in southwest China's Sichuan | Xinhua Culture&Travel

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

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