Bai Minority Group Baby-Carriers from Yunnan Province, China

The Bai people live in what is now Yunnan Province of southwestern China. The women have kept much of their traditional dress.

If the first born baby is a girl, she is carried in an embroidered baby-carrier called a guobei, which is unique to the Bai nationality.

Figure 1: Bai embroidered baby-carrier

Figure 2: Bai embroidered figure

The guobei is embroidered with peony flowers in the center and plum blossom and chrysanthemum on both sides, all surrounded by dancing butterflies and a phoenix above and lotus with green leaves, magpies, animals, and flowers at the bottom (from Daughters of Mount Changshan and Erhai Lake, The Bais, by Yang Guocai).

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