水族 Ethnic Sui Chinese

According to Sui's legendary, a Sui couple hidden in a gourd and helped by fish survived in an ancient flood. Their descendants become Sui people. The artistic design of "Two Fish Holding a Gourd" is often seen in Sui people's stone carving. The gourd symbolizes propagation while the fish symbolize life. Two symbols, put togeter by Sui people, carry subtle meanings.

传说在洪荒时代，水族躲藏在葫芦里的兄妹俩得到鱼的帮助，才幸免于难，其后代繁衍形成了水族，因此在水族的石刻中常有双鱼托葫芦的艺术造型。水族把象征人口繁殖的葫芦和生活紧密相关的鱼巧妙连在一起，组成美好的装饰石雕图案，又蕴含了很深的民俗意趣。

An ethnic Sui Chinese girl in a traditional Sui costume

An ethnic Sui Chinese girl in a traditional Sui costume

An ethnic Sui Chinese woman in a traditional Sui costume

A group of ethnic Sui Chinese girls

Mao Festival (水族卯节), the Valentine's Day of ethnic Sui Chinese. Thousands of young people gather together to look for their loves.

Duan Festival (水族端节), Sui people's New Year

Sui Characters, an ancient written language of Sui People

Sui people's horse-tail embroidery (白族马尾绣). It was listed as a Natinal Intangible Cultural Heritage in China.

A Sui ethnic village at Bamao, Sandu County, Qiannan Buyei & Miao Autonomous Prefecture, Guizhou Province of China (贵州黔南布依族苗族自治州三都县巴茅水族村寨风景)

A cartoon image of Sui Chinese

A postcard of Sui Chinese