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3. Embroidery of Bai ethnic group

The embroidery is quite popular among the women inhabiting in the Bai ethnic group community, and is widely used in daily necessities such as clothes, headwear, shoes, hats and pillow cases.

It usually uses patterns involving flowers, plants and animals with auspicious meanings, such as the camellia, azalea, orchid, fish, bird, bat, butterfly, as well as dragon and phoenix.

Before the stitch work, one needs to paint the pattern or use paper-cutting as the foundation, and then embroiders with different colored threads. Each piece of embroidery is an exquisite artwork, which has high ornamental values.

The embroidery technique of Bai ethnic group, with mature techniques and abundant colors, was listed as a provincial-level intangible cultural heritage in 2009.