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Traditional Naxi music performance
(Reuters)
Updated: 2006-07-25 17:24

An ancient painting is seen on the roof of a hall where an ethnic Naxi Orchestra is performing in Lijiang, southwestern China's Yunnan Province July 23, 2006. The orchestra performs music that has a history of more than one thousand years, and it claims to be the oldest orchestra in the world, with 440 years of history. The Naxi people are concentrated in northwestern Yunnan and are one China's 56 ethnic groups. Picture taken July 23, 2006.

An ancient painting is seen on the roof of a hall where an ethnic Naxi Orchestra is performing in Lijiang, southwestern China's Yunnan Province July 23, 2006. The orchestra performs music that has a history of more than one thousand years, and it claims to be the oldest orchestra in the world, with 440 years of history. The Naxi people are concentrated in northwestern Yunnan and are one China's 56 ethnic groups. Picture taken July 23, 2006. [Reuters]


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