Especially in the prosperous Tang Dynasty, tie-dyeing has become a folk fashion in Bai areas, and tie-dyeing products have also become court tributes. In the sixteenth year of Tang Zhenyuan, Nanzhao Dance Team went to Chang 'an to perform. The dresses they wore were covered with birds, animals and plants, and the characters were tie-dyed with eight colors of miscellaneous skins.

In the 10 century, Song Renzong explicitly prohibited tie-dyed articles for civilian use, and regarded them as special articles for the court. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the dyeing and weaving skills in Erhai Bai area reached a high level, and a cloth dyeing guild appeared. Erhai red cloth in Ming Dynasty, Xizhou cloth and Dali cloth in Qing Dynasty are all famous best sellers.

By the time of the Republic of China, tie-dyeing at home had become very common, and towns such as Chenzhou and Xizhou, which were famous for their intensive tie-dyeing workshops, had become famous tie-dyeing centers in all directions. Since modern times, the dyeing and weaving industry in Dali has been developing continuously, and Zhoucheng has become a well-known hometown of hand-weaving and dyeing. 1984 A tie-dyeing factory was built in Zhoucheng, which drove nearly 5,000 women to take part in flower-tying, and more than 80% of them were sold to Japan, Britain, the United States, Canada and other countries and regions 10, which was in short supply. Here, women tie flowers and every household dyes them, which has become an important origin of tie-dyed fabrics.