September 2001, Kunming,Yunnan | 2001 | A Dai young man with tall narrow drum in a village near Guan (Nongyue), the upper part of Salween River. | Photograph
September 2001, Kunming,Yunnan | 2001 | The banyan trees mostly becomes sacred place to ritual practices of the community for Dai people in China, Burma and Vietnam. | Photograph
September 2001, Kunming,Yunnan | 2001 | Dai people in Xiaguan near Dali in Yunnan. Intermarriage between Dai people and Lolo people practice in the area. | Photograph
September 2001, Kunming,Yunnan | 2001 | Dai people village. Formerly there were local governors (men from Ah Clan), engraved on the inscription in the village. At present there is the intermarriage between Dai people and Bai people, only 30 families declared that they were Dai. | Photograph
April 2004, Yuanjiang, Yunnan | 2004 | The Tai La community is named Zhe Ge. The households are heavily populated. The roof shape of the house is quite straight cut. The walls are adobe (sub-dry brick). The technique is similar to the house-building technique of Yi people (Lolo in the group of Tibetan-Burma language). Yi people were powerful in the reign of Nan Chao Kingdom. Today The Tai La community is located in the autonomous area of the Hani-Yi-Dai where the Red River (Yuanjiang in Chinese) flows through. The Tai La is called | Photograph
