Lisu mainly inhabited by the Nu River in Yunnan Province in the Lisu Autonomous Prefecture Weixi and Lisu Autonomous County and the rest scattered in Lijiang, Yunnan, Baoshan, the Diqing, Dehong, Dali, Chuxiong, such as state, county, as well as the Xichang in Sichuan Province, Yanyuan and Muli, Johnson County, and so on. Lisu have their own language, but the text is not perfect, in 1957 to create a new Latin-based language. Lisu rich and colorful folklore, "Genesis", "our ancestors" and other myths, legends, is to study the Lisu much valuable information on modern history, China is also a treasure house of folk literature treasures. Lisu to engage in agriculture, planting corn, rice, buckwheat, and so on. This nation and the State Council in 2006 was included in the first state-level intangible cultural heritage: Lisu ethnic folk songs, Lisu Arbor Day, the Lisu ethnic Albanian-foot wooden scratch.

　　Lisu Zunlaoaiyou always have the character, or the younger generation of young people, the elderly or older, from language to the action of certain rules, to speak in harmony, lower tone, not loud roar; elderly can not sit at the top of the Sit, smoke-delivery before tea respect for the elderly, and with both hands Pengshang. Encounter on the road, to peer between affectionate with each other hello, even if it does not recognize the elderly run, but also to give way on their sides. Lisu also have reservations about the original habits of mutual aid, such as weddings married once married, to build housing repair, we should help each other. This help has never gratuitous, not Jiangjia Qian. Widows and Orphans of the elderly and poor, both to help carry out obligations. Lisu people go without food in general, whether known or not, which eat into which all the guests of honor of the United States and Germany.

　　Lisu traditional holiday season are wide (New Year), Arbor Day, Harvest Festival, Torch Festival, Bath Festival and the Spring Festival Mountain Festival. Wide season (New Year) is the most solemn of the annual folk festival, Chinese New Year festival for the Chinese New Year, the year Submit your food and brewing for a Gufeng pray five, each will be the first time that Chung's long rice cake or Waxy corn cake hanging out of trees do for the festival, but also a separate small bowl Weigou, folklore as a result of the dog is taken to the grain of the world; some areas we are the first of Chung Baba eaten by cows, in order to Thanks to help the human cattle land. On the first day of New Year, the family dinner and drinks together with the wine. She Nu competition is an important part of New Year, people gathering in song and dance at the same time, young and middle-aged men often come up with his beloved crossbow, at a hundred paces to an external target, and have a competition of their ability. Of the Lisu people, the crossbow is essential, almost everyone has, the man everyone mastery, the crossbow or the other mulberry field use made of hardwood, the crossbow line with indica. General young man with the crossbow requires a lot of effort in order to tighten, you can get that Jiang Nu, the crossbow arrow made of bamboo or hardwood.

　　Lisu swap love to sing, "salt, can not eat; song, can not not sing," said. Simple and moving folk songs, tunes rich, traditional dance is more Jiti Wu. Regardless of men, women and children, everyone singing, dancing, and especially like Duige, especially in the New Year, the singers can Duige the last few days in a row constantly. Shanghai water, Gongshan, Yunlong in the vicinity of the Lisu ethnic organizations, there are hot springs Duige the habit of the Chinese New Year every year, should bring in food, cooking utensils line the back of the Nu River rushed to the six state Treasury Department, 12 km north of the Hot Springs, to participate in the "Song of the Tang Quan game will be." By then Quanbian muddy tent on the proliferation of sea of people, all over the well-known singer and the last round, beautiful and moving songs one after another, that is, in the night, singing in the still raging bonfire to be the next to the echo, so that the annual "Tang Chi Chai Song", To have been carried out over 10 days.

　　Lisu ethnic Lisu young men and women love, affection contact way through most of the traditional way of singing swap. A popular local saying: "do not have a good voice, can never expect to find a good daughter-in-law." Can be seen singing in a swap of young men and women how important marriage life. Young men and women through labor and production, festivals, wedding to celebrate the harvest, social gatherings, as well as the string of business activities such as girls, have known each other and have had a heart of love, you can look for opportunities Duige with each other. If the encounter on the road in the small, Liusuo in the next meet, in four working in the dense forest of wood, can be sub-Bei Guoshen, ears and hands, people who love to throw a song in the past. To hear the other side, we will return to the song to. This one to each other to ask each other in Cantonese, the feelings between two of the more pull away from the nearer.

　　Lisu to be held on the first day of the wedding, the groom was dressed neatly, wearing a ribbon, accompanied by a matchmaker by the woman's family came to get married. In the woman's home, but went into hiding the bride, the groom to go everywhere, is Zhaolaizhaoqu could not find it. At this time, the bride will come to a female informant, finally find a bride and groom. To find a bride, who were married the woman's home hospitality. The night would also like to show the bride's dowry, dowry should be in a cupboard, containing 10 sets of flower skirt.

　　After breakfast the next day, the woman sent to the family composition of the popular pro team, carrying, carrying a dowry from the bride carrying the bride's uncle, firecrackers and fire guns in the woman to leave home. At this point, the bride's parents and sisters said that the separation could not bear to sexual etiquette to cry, cry, but generally not long sustained, guests sang on the (pro-song delivery). It can be said that the bride is crying and singing in the middle of the road. To the man at the door, Zhulou from the yard, gathered around a man Ying Qin. People on both sides of the sub-station, with a grand ceremonial welcome for the bride, welcomed guests to send pro.

　　Lisu more or less the same clothes, according to the color of the clothes into black Lisu, Bai Lisu, Lisu flowers. Living in the Nu River in the vicinity of the white, black and Lisu women, generally overlapping part of Chinese gown to wear the right shirt, linen dress, wearing a large hi Tonghuan, may Chui Jian, head to the coral, beads for decoration materials. The young girl like Zhuiyou Tony White of the Department of braided red line, and some women also like to wear their chests in a string of agate, silver or seashells, seashells and inscribed with the simple patterns or small round hole anyway. Yongsheng, Tengchong in the vicinity of the "flower Lisu," more beautiful clothes and beautiful women are like the T-shirt and dress many of lace embroidery on the set, Touchanhuabu scarf, earring or large Tonghuan multicinctus, and a long skirt, walking When swing dress swaying, graceful looks splendid. Bai Zhequn have to wear long trousers and black, apron system, with green cloth Baotou, he led the hand-sewing bag, wearing a white and red and white film Tridacna coral beads strung together "Oh music," some Colorful, elegant and some generous, very unique. Men generally wear long or short or linen shirt, under a knee-length black trousers, wearing a black Baotou, Zuoyao saber, hang Youyao Arrow package. Some also wear long, wearing a neck collar shells, hand-sewing Zhuiyou he led a small red Rongqiu green flower bag, wearing a white Leggings.

　　Lisu three meals a solar eclipse in general, are still accustomed to the one-pot meal cooking method, that is cooking, put rice into pot boiled, in the middle to replace two water meters to be instant, into the vegetables and cabbage Until the rotten vegetables. Usually very small single-cooking, the soup cooked meals-in-one, the whole family around the dinner Huotang. Zhu Yu is usually used for rice and corn have buckwheat. As a result of lower rice planting, only to receive guests at the festival, or when to do with rice porridge.

　 Lisu meat sources feeding a family of pigs, cattle, sheep, chicken and the hunting of Ji Zi, blue sheep, mountain donkey, bison, rabbits, pheasants and river fish, meat consumption in most of the methods used to clean the meat On the salt into post-eat barbecue in Huotang. Common vegetables are green vegetables, cabbage, carrots, taro and vegetables, potato, with orange, peach, red, pears, quarter and other fruit. As a result of the local rich Paints, all ishes are prepared with Paints. If Chaoji Paints, Paints stewed chicken, eggs, etc. Paints cooking wine. Paints cooking wine is considered to be the maternal Buxu good food. Lisu families have bee-keeping, at least four or five groups to as many as a dozen groups, each fall, every family is brewing, the raw materials used in addition to maize, sorghum, but also with hi Baizitian, and Baizitian the best wine. Wine, the first broken up raw materials, cooking equipment after the release Jiu Yao Tan sealed, 10 days can unseal Chong Yin, the degree is not high, light and alcohol, the efficacy of thirst-quenching pick-me-up. Lisu hi hempseeds a drink of tea. Ma lost the production of tea, the first hempseeds with Ru Guo Wei Huo-baked yellow, and then broken up into boiling water for 6-7 minutes to cook, remove the residue Lek, the soup still Ruguo salt or sugar to boil drinking. Hempseeds white tea, drink more alcohol, like the same can be intoxicating. Gongshan in the vicinity of the Lisu, the local Tibetan way of life, there are butter tea drinking habits.