Out of the three county-level divisions of Diqing Prefecture, Weixi has lower elevation in average, forming some beautiful patty fields where rice are growing fast nowadays.

However, Weixi also boasts high mountains, forming the Tacheng national park where around 500 Yunnan snub-nosed monkeys inhabit.

While entertaining tourists from afar, the cute creatures also provide job opportunity to villagers around the park.

Yu Janhua is a Lisu man who has worked long as a monkey feeder in the mountains.

Yu feed the monkeys with nut, cooked eggs, fruits, vegetables and peanuts twice a day, which brings him a monthly income of 1500 yuan. 

Yu is 66 and he has been serving the mokeys for over 20 years. Yu also grows crops, earning his family an extra income of around 10,000 yuan yearly.

Yu can even "talk" to the monkeys with a whistle, drawing the monkeys closer to the watchers.

Among the monkey watchers this morning are a young couple from eastern China's Zhejiang Province, who brought their 2.5-year-old baby to Yunnan to see the monkey and get closer to the nature.

"The monkeys in the forest are quite different from those in the zoo, and they are wilder," said the couple.

The Tacheng park is located at the heart area of the Three-Parallel-Rivers world heritage.

To attract more visitors, Weixi also stepped up effort in intangible cultural heritage conservation.

Now, 65-year-old Tibetan man He Mingyuan is encouraged by local tourism authority to train more singers specializing King Gesar chanting.

King Gesar is a legendary Tibetan king famous for brave fighting. And his story was complied into an epic by later generations.

Reporting in Weixi by Eric Wang

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