China: Bai handicrafts, Fuxing Lu, the old city's main street, Dali. Dali is the ancient capital of both the Bai kingdom of Nanzhao, which flourished in the area during the 8th and 9th centuries, and the Kingdom of Dali, which reigned from 937-1253. Situated in a once significantly Muslim part of South China, Dali was also the center of the Panthay Rebellion against the reigning imperial Qing Dynasty from 1856-1863.

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