Midu was once known as Midu. According to legend, it used to be a vast water town, Zeguo, and travelers were easily lost, hence the names "Midu" and "Midu". In order to avoid floods, it was renamed Midu in Qing Dynasty. It is like a jade inlaid in the western Yunnan Plateau. In the Tang Dynasty, Midu was the heart of Nanzhao Kingdom. More than 1, soldiers and merchants from the Central Plains have not only brought agricultural technology to this fertile land, but also spread the Yellow River culture to this sentimental place. As a result, Midu had the saying that "lights came from the Tang Dynasty and art began from the Tang Dynasty". During the Hongwu period of the Ming Dynasty, the migration activities of military, civilian, commercial and Xinjiang continued, which brought the lingering and tactful Yangtze River culture here. After the vicissitudes of history, Midu has exchanged and infiltrated with the cultures of the Han nationality, Yi, Hui and Bai nationalities in its territory, integrated the strengths of its local national culture and absorbed the essence of the north and south cultures of the motherland, forming a splendid traditional culture with unique local national characteristics.

Midu is the hometown of lanterns, folk songs and folk songs. "Streaming Water" originated from Mi Zhi. Mr. Yin Yigong, songwriter, was born in Mizhi, Midu County in 1924. He recalled one night in the spring of 1947 when he wrote this piece of music, and said, "The beautiful melody of herding sheep reminds me of the moon, deep mountains, forest breeze and winding rivers in my hometown, and I chose the title of" The Moon Comes Out Bright ". Jiang Xun, editor-in-chief of Teaching Singing in Yunnan University, suggested that it is better to use "Little River Dripping Water". After this song was published, it gradually spread. " Mizhi is not only a beautiful tune of folk songs, but also an important birthplace of Yunnan lanterns. The Dragon Lantern Festival here originated in the Qianlong period of Qing Dynasty and has a history of nearly 3 years. On the 15th and 16th day of the first month of every year, people from 18 villages gather in the Mizhi Temple, where lions, dragons and phoenixes dance on the spur of the moment, and men, women and children sing together, partying day and night, with a warm atmosphere. It is really rare and is known as the "Carnival of the East".

Midu lanterns and folk songs are vast. There are more than 4 Midu lanterns and folk songs, and more than 25 traditional plays. Ten Big Sisters, Embroidered Pockets, Midu Folk Songs, and The Wind Blows the Tree's Head, etc., have been sung for a long time and are well-known.

successive leaders in midu county attached great importance to the inheritance and development of local ethnic culture, and put forward the slogan of "singing" Little River Dripping Water and dancing red Midu Lantern "for the construction of local ethnic culture. In 1999, from more than 4 Midu folk songs, 13 famous songs, represented by "Running Water in a Small River", were selected, and a 6-minute VCD music art film named "Midu Tour" was produced and distributed to domestic and foreign audiences. Over the past few years, Midu County has held a large-scale lantern show every year during the Spring Festival, carried out large-scale lantern singing backbone training and lantern group dance competition, and a professional lantern troupe and more than 13 folk amateur lantern teams have been active in urban and rural areas all the year round.

"When we get to Hongyan Slope, we can hear songs everywhere" and "Ten Midu people, nine can sing lights". Midu, the place where the river drips, is presented to the world with its charm full of local traditional culture.