Far far away in the mountain there is village called Lutong. There I ran into the local folks with fragrance like grass and trees, who begin the day at sunrise and finish their work at sundown. They live a quiet life in such a busy world, pure as spring and peaceful like a mountain. 　　That’s Hani People in Yuanjiang County, from Suobi Tribe in Qingshui River area.20 days before Hani New Year, is a peaceful time for Hani people, when Ms. Yang Haonu gathered several female friends and relatives to collect cottons, knit cloth and dye them, with joy and singing. What a warm and beautiful scene in winter! 　　 　　If you’d like to know Hani people, you should start from their clothes. Their way of dressing is essential, conveying a lot of cultural information rather than just wearing. The color, design and patterns reflect their living surroundings. 　　Women take all the responsibility of making clothes, from collecting cotton,spinning, weaving, indigo dying to sewing the whole suit.Cotton, as an important material for clothing, equally important as silk, linen and leather, traveled to China from India and Arab, with its full bloom and warm flower, gently takes care of Hani People and tells us a story of natural warmth through years of changes in temperature, for Hani People is one of the pioneers to plant cotton. 　　Besides its natural material cotton, plain color is also a feature of Hani clothes. Anyone dressed in bright colors like red or purple is never to be seen in Hani village. They adore deep blue for clothing mostly, taking it a similar color of mountains after raining and a plain color of nature itself.It is a fashion indeed, with oriental philosophy and artistic conception. 　　Using natural materials, cotton for weaving and indigo-woad root for dying, Hani People takes from nature and gives back as well, making their world harmonious, warm and beautiful. 　　 　　布 衣 哈 尼

　　In the 1830 s, Darwin predicted it in his famous book "The Origin of Species" that if someone ever challenged his theory, it would be very likely to come from explanations of the sudden appearance of Cambrian animals. 　　From 1984 to 1994, over 50 paleontologists from more than 10 countries, came to Chengjiang Maotianshan region and collected about 50000 fossils, and so far, more than 80 kinds of animal fossils have been found here and files of more than 40 kinds of fossils have been set up. 　　Zhang Handong, an artist and professor, has been focusing on inheritance of national culture for decades, until he met fossils from Maotianshan. Zhang Handong’s idea of creating art works in a way that shows the theme of the fossil began from 2013, under the advocacy of the CPC Yuxi Municipal Committee and Municipal Government. That year, he led hundreds of college teachers and students spending two months to create a number of fossil art works, including ceramics, painting, wood carving, cloth art, etc. These works were exhibited in the municipal museum and caused a strong reaction. Themed at “ Art of Maotianshan, Knowledge of Cambrian”, this exhibition successfully brought Maotianshan fossils into Yuxi people’s life, with shrimp patterns manual necklace, the grandeur of the undersea world on comics , various ancient creature on carving works...... This time scientific knowledge was dancing on platforms with different arts and crafts. Countless children lined up for hours at the event, just to wait for a wooden board of a bug from the Cambrian printed on. 　　 　　The practice of "The Art of Maotianshan" is carried on further and further in municipal museum. Those Cambrian bugs now appear on works of wood carving, pottery, china and embroidery etc. The museum even made cards, CDs and stamp albums regarding those fossils as small gifts for tourists to get to know Maotianshan.

Artists from Yunnan came to Yuxi to celebrate the opening of the third art exhibition on Jan 21, 2016 ynci.cn reported.