Slideshows Yunnan
Dali Bai Autonomous Prefecture 大理白族自治州

Yang Ling 杨铃, a carpenter from Zhoucheng 周城 north of Dali, shows off his skills.

The annual fair at Shaba, called the Fishpond Fair 渔潭会, starts every year on the day of the Midautumn Festival 中秋节, and runs for a week. Attracting a local crowd, it remains a much more rustic fair than the massive Third Month Fair 三月街 and livestock is still traded here.

Changchundong Temple on Weibaoshan is one of the best preserved Daoist temples in Yunnan.

The archery competition is an integral part of the Dali Third Month Fair.

The horse races at the Third Month Fair, made famous in the movie Five Golden Flowers 五朵金花, are getting ever more professional.

A forrest fire burning on the eastern side of Erhai during the dry season in 2024.

The old town of Weishan 巍山 at night.

The flowering of rapeseed turns the fields of Weishan 巍山 a splendid yellow in late February and early March.

The Xianfeng Bookchain 先锋书店, an upmarket bookseller known for innovative architecture, has opened a store in the Ming dynasty Chongzheng Academy 崇正书院 in the centre of Weishan 巍山.

A blacksmith in Fengyi's Jiangxi village 凤仪江西村 still makes farmtools by hand. In the village once most households were blacksmiths, today only a handful remain.

Followers of Jianchuan Azhali Buddhism perform a candle dance in Shaxi.

Zhang Ruilong 张瑞龙, 7th generation generation Jiama master, demonstrates the art of making "Jiama" 甲马, woodcut prints used in rituals.