Yuxi is a multiethnic residence in Yunnan. The ethnic customs are the most fascinating on the tourist way.
　　Refer to the Spring City, Kunming, you may not be strange to it. However, you can not image that “Kunming” is an address to a local ethnic group in Yunnan. The nationality called “Kunming” is the Yi Nationality which distributes in all the directions in Yuxi. Yi Nationality is a persistent and plaint ethnic, which has many addresses due to its various branches. Chairman Mao Zedong, chose “Yi” as the unified address, which gained the supports and acknowledgements of all Yi Nationality. Since then, Yi Nationality has opened a new page in history.
　　Yi Nationality is a hospitable and skillful ethnic. The Torch Festival, which symbolizes unity, celebration and carnival, is an important festival in the life of Yi Nationality, for they worship fire.
　　If the torches held by Yi Nationality burned their feelings and endless seeks, it would be the same with the Hani Nationality. Hani Nationality contributes more by their hardworking hands. Whoever goes to the Hani villages in Yuanjiang County in Yuxi, he will fascinate with the boundless terraced fields. Hani Nationality is one of the earliest nationalities who engaged in farming. Harmoniously existing with the mountains for hundreds of years, Hani Nationality contributes their lives to the beautiful terraced fields. The superior agricultural biological system is built on the basis of natural biological system, so that many scholars consider it as a miracle in the agriculture of human history.
　　Hani Nationality in Yuxi is an ethnic to carve mountains. Although they have not their own wordage, they have rich knowledge in calendar and farming. The plain songs and dances of Hani reflect the cultural melody of roughness and self-confidence.
　　Huayaodai in Xinping and Yuanjiang, is a hospitable and soft ethnic, distinctly different from Hani Nationality. Huayaodai Nationality has the eldest cultural blood of Dai Nationality, with unique customs and colorful clothes completely different from the other Dai Nationality in Yunnan. Huayaodai has close relation with water. Yuxi Huayaodai Nationality keeps a lot of traditional customs and cultures, which become a dispatched nature estate of the world in the research of Dai Nationality.
　　When the Huayaodai maids with colorful clothes are walking on the Flower Street Festival, everybody could remember the ancient ethnic-- Yuxi Huayaodai Nationality and the legend kingdom-- Yuxi.

Source: http://glamour.yuxi.gov.cn