Nightlife and Entertainment in Nujiang will tell you what to do in Nujiang at night, and where to relax. You can relax at cafes and bars, or watch local people dancing at the square, and you may also go to farmyards at daytime to have a close contact with the nature and experience local life.
“Canyon Nujiang” is a large-scale musical epic performance combining modern technologies such as acoustics, photoelectricity and so on. The performance is directed by Yang Xiaofan (杨晓凡), and is planned by Jiang Mingchu (蒋明初), a leading master in Yunnan's entertainment industry, and the overall planning is carried out jointly with the well-known series of evening party planning teams in China. “Canyon Nujiang” focuses on the local customs of Nujiang and integrates the rich and colorful life of Nujiang people. The whole play is divided into three chapters, focusing on Nujiang Rivers, Nujiang Mountains and Nujiang people. It integrates the unique natural landscape of Nujiang and the essence of ethnic culture as a whole, and meticulously prepares a visual and auditory feast for the audience.
Address: Lisu Folk Town, Lushui City, Nujiang 泸水市傈僳风情小镇
Tel: 0886-3060111
Show Time:19:30-21:00 everyday
Discovering traditional ethnic festivals and activities is an important part of Yunnan travel. As the major minorities inhabited in Nujiang, Lishu, Dulong and Nu formed their distinctive ethnic culture which is also revealed in their ethnic festivals. You can jion Nujiang Festival Tours arranged by Yunnan Exploration to have a site watch of the ethnic festival activities in Nujiang, such as the bath gathering, cattle-butchering sacrifice and climbing the knife poles. You can also appreciate the folk songs and dances of ethnic groups and enjoy the local food at the festivals.
As a traditional festival of Lisu ethnic minority, the Knife-Pole Festival expresses good wishes to everyone of the Lisu. A phrase describing bravery in China goes like this, “climbing the Knife Mountain and diving into the Fire Sea” and the Daogan Festival is a vivid depiction of this. On the eve of the festival, a grand bonfire is set alight with people dancing around it, later, some of the bolder men leap in the fire, extinguishing it barefooted. It is widely believed that through this act all manner of disasters will be averted.
“Kuoshi”in Lisu language means New Yeas. It is traditional festival for Lisu minority. On December 1988, the government of Lisu Antonomous prefecture set up (on) 20, December of every year as legal festival. On that day, Lisu people in different area come to special place to celebrate the festival in their ways, like dancing, singing, toothily, rope skipping, swing, race and so on. Usually before the festival, people prepare a lot of food, goods for the days: making rice bread, more wooden, kill pigs and goat, do cleaning to welcome the New Years. The people who work outside must come back to home before the New Year. Every family collects a lot of green pine needle and put them everywhere in and around their house. It means pine needle will clear away evil. The first early morning of New Year, people go to river to get spring water to drink, because there is a saying goes that who the first to get the spring water will be lucky all the coming year around. On the first day of New Year, people cannot visit any other family. They can go hunting, sacrifice mountain god, or do other activities to celebrate the festival.
The Bathing Gathering, also called ‘Tangquanhui’ 汤泉会, is a yearly bathing gathering held in spring among the Lisu people living in Nujiang. During the 2nd to 6th days of the 1st lunar month, the Lisu people will carry with them luggage and food, and go to the hot springs called ‘the 16 Hot Springs in the Valley’ to have a bath for getting rid of a year’s pains and misfortunes. In this spring bathing period, song competitions are also held.
Kaquewa Festival is the only New Year Festival of Dulong people. It is held during the 11th and 12th lunar months, there is no fixed date and the festivals lasts 3-5 days. Every family hangs up the colored tapestry as festival decoration on the first day. They honor the mountain god and hold shooting competition. On the last day, they hold the most exciting activity- cattle butchering for sacrifice. They keep drinking, singing and dancing until they enjoy themselves to their hearts’ content.
In recent years, agritainment is becoming more and more popular not only among local people but also the tourists. Local agritainment offer opportunity for tourists to have a close contact with the nature, taste local food and experience local life.