People and plants interact throughout time and throughout the world. To help the general public better understand the interactions between humans and plants, XTBG organized an exhibition themed “People and Plants” at the Museum, with items of wood carvings, medicinal plants, folk musical instruments and paper making technique of Dai people in Xishuangbanna showing.

   Plants have been enormously important to the welfare of people, not only for food, but also for clothing, weapons, tools, dyes, medicine, shelter, and many other purposes. In Xishuangbanna, people, especially ethnic minority groups and plants are closely connected. XTBG has kept on the study of humans and plants (termed ethnobotany) for many years and made much progress in research on traditional ethnic culture and biodiversity conservation.

In this small exhibition, paper-making technique is importantly introduced. The bark of Broussonetia papyrifera is used by the inhabitants of Xishuangbanna for making paper.

 XTBG is to organize summer holiday activity on popularizing the knowledge of making paper with the theme of “turning waste materials to treasures and making paper from plants” in the following two weeks