Introduction to Shangri-La!

Shangri-La appeared in the famous novel "Lost Horizen" by British writer James Hilton in the 1930s and became popular among the world. It was soon made into a movie of the same name and won multiple Oscars. The award made him well-known to the world.

Shangri-La City is the seat of the Diqing Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, the political, economic and cultural center of the prefecture, and the largest county in Yunnan Province.

Shangri-La is the intersection of Yunnan, Sichuan and Tibet, and is the hinterland of the world-famous "Three Parallel Rivers" World Natural Heritage. The terrain is high in the northwest and low in the southeast. Tibetans, Naxi, and other ethnic groups live in the territory. It is a plateau mountainous area where multi-ethnic groups live together, multi-religions coexist, and multi-cultures flourish.

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History and culture

Festivals of various ethnic groups in Shangri-La include the Jockey Club on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, "Damba City", "Gedong Festival" " are two religious festivals, "February 8th" of the Naxi people and "Torch Festival" of the Yi people.

The main songs and dances of the various ethnic groups in Shangri-La include: Guozhuang of Dazhongdian, Love Dance of Nixi, Reba of the Five Realms, which are both Tibetan dances, Akabala Dance of the Naxi people, Gourd Sheng Dance of the Yi people, Lisu people's foot dance.

There are 7 types of Tibetan costumes in the territory, and 3 types of Naxi costumes. The architectural styles of Tibetan residential buildings in the territory include almost all Chinese residential styles except Dai buildings.

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