Puzhehei National Tourist Resort of Wenshan

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(Provided to People's Daily Online/Guo Jianlin)

Puzhehei National Tourist Resort is located in Qiubei County, Wenshan in Southeast Yunnan, 280 km from Kunming. It takes on Karst geological features and covers a total area of 165 square kilometers. It was noted for the world- rare and domestic-unique karst landscape and pastoral scenery since 1993. The scenic area gets known for hills, lakes, underground Karst caves and ethnic villages etc. There are altogether 256 tourist sites, 312 isolate hills (peaks), 83 caves, 54 lakes and 40,000 acres of Karst wetlands. There are about 100 karst caves, most with two floors - a higher dry cave and a lower wet cave with an elevation of 1,450 meters. Puzhehei is deemed "the unique pastoral land with Karst landforms" and "beautiful paradise".

Ethnics living there are mainly Yi, Zhuang and Miao, all of whom have developed colorful ethnic cultures of their own. With the history of more than 1,000 years, most known in Puzhehei, Puzhehei Yi Painted-Face Festival is the unique traditional festival of Yis in Qiubei County, Yunnan. During the festival, there are activities such as grand performance for the opening ceremony, face-painting carnival, water splashing and fish catching competition. The climax of the activity is when people blacken faces mutually with pot soot to express good wishes. On the festival, lard and chimney soot is mixed into paste. People smear each other with paste to make fun.

Mizhi festival is one of the main traditional festivals spent by the Sani people living in counties such as Shilin, Mile and Qiubei etc. Functioning as a religious service of the Sanis, it is routinely held from the second Rat Day to the Horse Day of the lunar November, lasting about seven days; it's billed as "men's day" because many ceremonies are merely attended by male Sani villagers.

In the scenic spot there are 312 peaks standing independent from each other, 56 lakes which are clear and without any pollution, 83 all kinds of caves, a great many mus of water lilies which give off faint scents, and original folk customs. All these beautiful natural sights form a pattern of "three sections and two waterfalls".

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• Unique pastoral scenery in SW China (6)
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