Xinhua Village, full of clang and clank,Yunnan Adventure Travel

Xinhua Village, full of clang and clank

Silverwares are displayed in a glass cabinet and sold in a silverware shop which is set in the Xinhua village. [Photo/ Lin Jian]

An aged woman, who is from Bai nationality, lives in the Xinhua village.[Photo/ Lin Jian]

Xinhua Village, which sits in Heqing county, Dali prefecture in Yunnan province, is a place full of clang and clank since Tang Dynasty in Nanzhao Kingdom, as some Bai people(a nationality of Yunnan province), who are villagers living in the village for generations, create delicate and elegant daily-use articles by hands.

Every traveler who passes by the village could hear ripples of beating sounds from Bai people’s living houses where villagers make silver and bronze handiworks.

The Xinhua village, also called Stone Stockade in the past, used to be a courier station for passengers on the Ancient Tea Horse Road.

Raw materials of the daily-use articles, nonferrous metals, are all exploited from mountains near the Xinhua village by local Bai villagers.

Hundreds of years ago, these hand-made daily-use articles had been brought out along the ancient tea horse road.

The Xinhua village, is indeed a renowned village for processing silver handicrafts.

Nine-Dragon Cup, for example, a world famous handiwork made in the village, has been highly appraised by both international and national visitors.

Besides handmade silver handiworks , the village also owns thousand-mu wetlands, clusters of springs, and beautiful reeds and poplar blossoms.(From InKunming)

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