Ashima Rock

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Also known as

阿诗玛

City

Kunming

Coordinates

24.8201062, 103.3274966

About Ashima Rock

Ashima, local traditional folk literature in Shilin Yi Autonomous County, Yunnan Province, is one of the national intangible cultural heritages. Ashima uses oral poetic language to tell or sing Ashima's story. The story of Ashima's unyielding struggle against powerful forces reveals the human ideal that light will eventually replace darkness, goodness and beauty will eventually replace ugliness, and freedom will replace oppression and confinement. It reflects the national character and spirit of the Sani people of the Yi ethnic group who are "unable to bend". On May 20, 2006, Ashima was approved by the State Council of the People's Republic of China to be included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage lists, with heritage number: Ⅰ-28.

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