Manual craft in the Yi ethnic group's daily life and production play an extremely important role. Not only guarantee their daily needs, but also from manual production process derived form the trail effect of the concentrated expression of the Chinese ethnic folk arts and handcrafts style characteristics.
Yi ethnic group's handicraft is beautiful and diverse. There are typical of ethnic characteristics of the traditional manual process mainly wooden lacquerware, silver, textiles, embroidery arts, paintings and many others. The most important are their wooden lacquerware and silver arts that have been famous in the domestic and overseas.
Specially, Wooden lacquer ware is in the tradition of their daily necessities, but also very unique handicrafts, has a few thousand years of history. Now some of exquisite wooden lacquer ware, such as wooden plates, wood bowls, wooden cups, etc. in Qing Dynasty is still preserved in the Palace Museum in Beijing. The Yi ethnic group's wooden lacquerware is used to be made of high-quality Chinese wood and unique paiting by the pure hand-made fully. Each handcraft demonstrates the ethnic talent and the superb skills. As a valuable appreciation and collection, the wooden handicrafts are is popular among people in many countries such as Britain, France, Japan, Switzerland and so on.
