What is "dimaluo"

Dimaluo ( Chinese: 迪麻洛) is a village in Gongshan County located in a side valley of the Nu Jiang Valley in the north-eastern part of Yunnan, China. The Dimaluo River flows through the village and is a tributary of the nearby Nujiang River. Although "Dimaluo" is a Lisu word meaning "plains", the village is a small enclave of Tibetan culture in a county that also contains people of Lisu, Nu, and Dulong descent. Tibetans do not actually form a majority of the village's population, but the dominant language and the public displays of culture (music, dance, and traditional dress) are all Tibetan. As the original population of the valley was predominantly Nu, many of the families here are now mixed Nu-Tibetan descent.