There are u-shaped ruins of ancient civilizations between China's Yunnan and Taiwan provinces, said Li Zixian, a professor from Yunnan University, in the first cultural and academic seminar on China's Wa nationality.

Li said the ruins begin in Yunnan where the Wa nationality originates, pass the Indo-China peninsula, Indonesia, the Philippines, and then finish in Taiwan, where China's Gaosha nationality lived. He studied the differences in the Wa and Gaoshan nationalities and compared his findings with those from the ruins. Along this cultural route, traditions of apotheosis were almost identical.

Li also said, after conducting his own primary and secondary research, that the Wa and Gaoshan nationalities had a lot of cultural similarities and common implements, including the wooden drum.

By People's Daily Online