Habitat

Nu people mainly live in Gongshan, Bijiang and Fugong counties in the Nu and Lisu Autonomous Prefecture in Yunnan, mixing with the Lisus, Drungs and Tibetans. In Tibet Autonomous Region, Nu people are mostly live at Qamdo Area near Yunnan province, many are also found in Weixi County in the Diqing Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture.

The high mountains and deep gorges have made their lives difficult, but the rigors have also tempered the character of this nationality: courageous and tenacious.

In the Hengduan Mountain Region, running south along the Gaoligong and the Biluoxue Mountain is the Nu River, carving out a deep narrow valley between the two mountains. The climate there is very special: four seasons assemble in the same mountain and the weather is different every 3 miles. More than 27,000 Nu people live on the slopes and flatlands beside the Nu River. They had struggled for thousands of years to live and develop in this place, which was almost cut off from the rest of the world.