Many encounter Yi culture through staged performances or souvenir stalls. In a quiet Yi village near Dali, you enter Jiexiumen, a 200-year-old courtyard turned embroidery sanctuary. Hear the inheritor's story of taking Yi knotting to Nordic fashion weeks and returning home to train local women. Then sit with the grandmother-artisans who stitch every day — and feel how one person's vision keeps a whole culture alive.