His third wife, Zhuo Lin, was the daughter of an industrialist in Yunnan Province.

** It is also the traditional new year of the Dai peoples of Yunnan Province, China.

The larvae of the bamboo borer ( the moth Omphisa fuscidentalis ) of Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and Yunnan Province, China, feeds off the pulp of live bamboo.

In the mid-1990s, a population of 600 – 800 individuals may have lived in Yunnan Province, with the majority occurring in Xishuangbanna National Nature Reserve.

They take their name from Maotianshan Hill () in Chengjiang County, Yunnan Province, China.

The Yuanshan Member is extensive, covering tens of thousands of square kilometers of eastern Yunnan Province, where there are numerous, scattered outcrops yielding fossils.

Haikouella lanceolata, Maotianshan Shales, Chengjiang County, Yunnan Province

Increasingly, however, Soviet bomber and fighter squadrons took over from China's battered units, and in the summer of 1938 Chennault went to Kunming, the capital of Yunnan Province in Western China, to train a new Chinese Air Force from an American mold.

Terrace rice fields in Yunnan Province, China

* The Three Parallel Rivers of Yunnan Protected Areas, in Yunan Province, within the drainage basins of the upper reaches of ( from north to south ) the Yangtze River, the Mekong River, and the Salween River.

In China, they live in compact communities in the Ximeng ( in Va: Mēng Ka or Si Moung ), Cangyuan, Menglian ( Gaeng Līam ), Gengma ( Gaeng Mīex or Gaeng Māx ), Lincang ( Mēng Lām ), Shuangjiang ( Si Nblāeng or Mēng Mēng ), Zhenkang, and Yongde counties in southwestern Yunnan Province in China.

Camellia reticulata, a plant native to Yunnan Province, is the emblem of this province.

The Yunnan Province during the Yuan Dynasty also included significant portions of Upper Burma after the Burmese campaigns in the 1270s and 1280s.

Yunnan Province has less than 4 % of the land of China, yet contains about half of China's birds and mammals.

Guizhou adjoins Sichuan Province and Chongqing Municipality to the north, Yunnan Province to the west, Guangxi Province to the south and Hunan Province to the east.

Women with bound feet in one village in Yunnan Province even formed an internationally known dance troupe to perform for foreign tourists, though age has since forced the group to retire.

It appears, by a vast number of experiments made at Peking, that its colour is owing to no mixture ; on the contrary, all mixtures diminish its beauty, for, when it is rightly managed it looks exactly like silver and were there not a necessity of mixing a little tutenag or such metal to soften it, it would be so much more the extraordinary as this sort of copper is found no where but in China and that only in the Province of Yunnan ".

Amiskwia is a large, soft-bodied invertebrate of unknown affinity known from fossils of the Middle Cambrian Lagerstätten both in the Burgess shale formation in British Columbia and the Maotianshan shales of Yunnan Province, China.

Descended from ancient peoples known to the Chinese as the Yue and the Ai Lao, the Tai tribes began migrating into South-East Asia by the beginning of the 1st millennium, but large-scale migrations took place between the 7th and 13th centuries AD, especially from what is now Sipsongbanna, Yunnan Province and Guangxi.

Kūnmíng (, UN / LOCODE: ) is the capital and largest city of Yunnan ( 云南 ) Province in Southwest China.

Dai have a population of 1, 025, 128, mainly inhabiting Yunnan Province.

The ancestors of the Dai in Yunnan were the Dianyue ( 滇越 ) group mentioned in the Records of a Historian by Sima Qian.

" (;, Tai Nüa: ;, ) is one of several ethnic groups living in the Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture and the Dehong Dai and Jingpo Autonomous Prefecture ( both in southern Yunnan, China ), but by extension can apply to groups in Laos, Vietnam, Thailand, and Burma when Dai is used to mean specifically Tai Lue, Chinese Shan or even Tai in general.

Originally, the Tai, or Dai, lived closely together in modern Yunnan Province until political chaos and wars in the north at the end of the Tang and Song Dynasty and various nomadic peoples prompted some to move further south into modern Laos then Thailand.

Most of the Jino concentrate in the Jinoshan Mountain, in a series of mild hills with wet climate near Mengyang Township in Jinghong Municipality, Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture of Yunnan Province.

Wenma 文马 ( Dai )-95, 000 speakers: Yunnan Wenshan, Malipo, Guibian

Johnson ( 2011 ) distinguishes four distinct Zhuang languages in Wenshan Prefecture, Yunnan, China: Nong Zhuang, Yei Zhuang, Dai Zhuang, and Min Zhuang.

* Lijiang, Yuanjiang County ( 澧江镇 ), a town in and a county seat of Yuanjiang Hani, Yi and Dai Autonomous County, Yunnan

It is also used in pockets of Kachin State in Burma, in northern Thailand, and in Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province, China.

The costly expedition spurred rebellions of a Yunnan official, Song Longji, and the Gold-Tooths ( ancestors of the Dai people ) in 1301 – 03.

The town sign, in Dai and Chinese scripts, Xinzhai, Yunnan, China.

It is also celebrated by the Dai people in Yunnan Province in China, and in Laos, Cambodia and Myanmar during the traditional New Year.

* Longtan Township, Yuanjiang County, in Yuanjiang Hani, Yi and Dai Autonomous County, Yunnan

* Longtan Li and Dai Autonomous County ( 龙潭彝族傣族乡 ), in Simao District, Pu ' er, Yunnan

Tai Nüa ( also called Tai Nɯa, Dehong Dai, or Chinese Shan ; own name: lə6, which means " upper Tai " or " northern Tai ", or < font face =" MPH 2B Damase "> ᥖᥭᥰᥖᥬᥳᥑᥨᥒᥰ </ font > ; Chinese: Dǎinǎyǔ 傣哪语 or Déhóng Dǎiyǔ 德宏傣语 ; Thai: ภาษาไทยเหน ื อ or ภาษาไทใต ้ คง ) is one of the languages spoken by the Dai people in China, especially in the Dehong Dai and Jingpo Autonomous Prefecture in the southwest of Yunnan province.

The Déhóng Dai and Jingpo Autonomous Prefecture ( Zaiwa ：; Chinese: 德宏傣族景颇族自治州 ; pinyin: Déhóng Dǎizú Jǐngpōzú zìzhìzhōu ) is located in Yunnan province, China.

It is to be part of the city's intermediate people's court and will have jurisdiction over appeals by companies that have been found guilty of violating environmental laws in cities throughout Yunnan province.

Hand-painted Chinese New Year's duilian ( 对联 " couplet "), a by-product of Chinese poetry, pasted on the sides of doors leading to people's homes, at Lijiang City, Yunnan

In 738, the kingdom of Nanzhao was established in Yunnan by Piluoge ( 皮罗阁 ), who was confirmed by the imperial court of the Tang Dynasty as king of Yunnan.

Gesar wages war against King Sa-dam of ' Jang ( sometimes located in Yunnan ), and king Shing khri of Mon ( sometimes located in the southern Himalayan region ).

To ensure Shidebala's succession, he was rewarded with the title of king of Chou and relegated to Yunnan in 1316 ; but fled to Esen Bukha-ruled Chagatai Khanate in Central Asia, as a pro-Khayisan official advised, after a failed revolt in Shaanxi.

In 1658 Zhu Youlang retreated to Kunming in Yunnan, from where he sought refuge under the protection of Pindale ( 1608 – 1661 ), ninth king of the Taungoo dynasty of Burma.

* In 1961, a one thousand seven hundred years old, thirty two meters ( 105 feet ) tall and more than one meter ( 3. 3 feet ) diameter wild tea tree was found in the rain forest of Yunnan, this is the king of tea trees.