Native Fish and Lakeside Plants in Erhai’s Highland Wetlands
Erhai is not only a lake beside a city. Conservation records identify native fish and aquatic plants that make its wetlands habitat.
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Dali Bai Autonomous Prefecture
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Cangshan’s Forest Belts: How a Mountain Enters Conservation
Cangshan rises behind Dali as a mountain landscape, but conservation records reveal geography across elevations and jurisdictions.
Weishan: Nanzhao Memory and an Old Town
In Weishan’s old town, a Ming-era street grid and a museum incorporating Dengjue Temple give Nanzhao memory a setting within later architectural layers.
Market Streets and Courtyard Forms in Xizhou
Sifang Street and Xizhou’s courtyard compounds connect a town’s caravan trade with the spaces of household life.
Sideng Street in Shaxi: The Space Left by a Valley Market
A documented route connects Yujin Bridge, village gates, Sideng Street and its market square, showing how passage and exchange shaped Shaxi.
Zhoucheng and Xizhou: Two Views of Local Bai Culture
Zhoucheng’s tied cloth and Xizhou’s painted courtyards belong to connected places. Looking at their different materials makes local cultural history more precise.
Inside Zhoucheng’s Bai Tie-Dye Museum
At the Pu Zhen museum, courtyard architecture, family craft histories and a dyeing workshop bring different parts of Zhoucheng’s textile world together.
How Bai Courtyards Organize Everyday Life
Xizhou’s courtyard houses use wings, screen walls and small light courts to shape movement, shade and shared domestic space.
Tie-Dye Workshops and Changing Household Economies in Zhoucheng
Household teaching, new materials and village workshops show how Zhoucheng’s tie-dye economy has changed without reducing craft to a single story of tradition or commerce.
Where Zhoucheng’s Tie-Dye Patterns Come From
Butterflies share Zhoucheng cloth with flowers, landscapes and commissioned designs; their meanings are multiple rather than fixed.
Zhoucheng Tie-Dye Begins with a Needle
Before a Zhoucheng cloth reaches the indigo vat, its maker has already shaped the pattern with thread, folds and knots.
Objects Found in the Pagodas and the Buddhist Worlds of Nanzhao and Dali
A small beaded Garuda found inside Qianxun Pagoda opens a view onto Buddhist imagery, metalworking and the wider assemblage recovered from the towers.