Arrived into Lijiang, meeting many new and old colleagues. We stayed at the the Jade Dragon Hotel  Here the staff are being drilled.
   
I asked my Chinese host how the kids date (everyone being so socially formal. But I witnessed an example the first night. There was a "Spring Festival" of outdoor song and dance. After the end of  the festival two groups of teenagers in costume lined up facing each other and had a singing/shouting contest. My hosts pointed out - this is the social interplay.

The view out the hotel window of the pagoda roofed old town leading up a forested hill was spectacular. Here are scenes out our hotel conference room window. All roofs in Lijiang are in the pagoda style and many have intricate carving.
 
Each night the hotel featured a Naxi cultural show of song and dance. The first night was fun, after the third night we were compelled to eat elsewhere. A "Fire Warning" on the hotel room door...- It must be said, while many English translations provide easy amusement, a westerner must be humbled that the Chinese can learn our languages but we rarely theirs. The UNESCO Cultural Heritage Fund City of Lijiang has a busy touristic Old Town with a waterwheel shown below.

 
We took a walk to hear the Naxi Orchestra within the Naxi Music Academy. Thousand year old songs were played on instruments - some picked up from the Silk Route - from 1000 years ago.

Naxi Orchestra Movie (11 Mbytes)

That Night I watched Han Tourists dancing (movie 1.7 Mbytes)  in the street. Lijiang is the sort of town in which the visitors are likely to dance in the street.