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The competitor of the Dayan troupe opened its doors right in front of the Naxi music show, and starts its show exactly at the same time! Here the decoration is a complete kitsch, with fountains in false stone peinturlurées stones of Nixa symbols. The show presents Nixa musics and dances, a culture derived from a mixture of Naxi Shamanisme and practices imported from the rest of China and Tibet. Nixa is also the name used to designate the writing of the Naxi, a very symbolic writing closer to Egyptian hieroglyphs than Chinese characters. The Nixa culture has been reborn in Lijiang for two or three years since the day when the city's inhabitants understood the commercial potential of these perdition traditions. While only an old scholar was still interested in these ancient writings, and sought to decrypt them and, above all, to keep a written record of their meaning, the streets of Lijiang are now invaded Écritures, he is not a temple merchant that offers wooden decorations adorned with Nixa symbols. So tourism may have saved this endangered culture. But Shamans's shamans must come back in their grave, finding out how much their culture is now marketed and distorted.