A craftsman is making a silverware. [Photo/ Lin Jian]

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.

　　　　　Local villagers drive tourists to view sceneries in the village by paddling a wooden boat.[Photo/ Lin Jian]

A Bai nationality villager is playing his erhu (a kind of Chinese musical instrument) in the sun.[Photo/ Lin Jian]

Exquisite silverwares are scattered in a corner of a folk house in the Xinhua village.[Photo/ Lin Jian]

　　　Natural environment around the village is pure and clean. [Photo/ Lin Jian]

Underground water come together into a spring, which is outflowed in a folk house of the village[Photo/ Lin Jian]

　　A Bai-nationality old woman is arranging places of bronze wares near her living house in the village. [Photo/ Lin Jian]

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　　　 (Editors: Cathy Chen, Lynn)