Divining a future for heritage

Lu Wenxue's sacrifice for ethnic Hani customs is carrying on the tradition of ritual sacrifice and festivals.

The 60-year-old is a Yunnan provincial-level inheritor of this dimension of folk culture in Yuanyang county's Dayutang village, where all 394 residents from 101 families are pure Hani.

Lu and five younger inheritors divine the auspicious dates and host rituals in the Honghe Hani and Yi autonomous prefecture.