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Yunnan
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The spring,
some 30 kilometers north of Dali, draws, as many a Chinese tourist
destination, its rating as an attraction not just from
its physical features but also from a particular legend associated
with it. In the case of the Butterfly Spring, the Chinese
believe that once a pair of young lovers committed suicide
by jumping into the water, in order to escape a cruel king.
However, the two didn't die but were transformed into two of those
butterflies that favor the spot. Alas, for the butterflies,
one has to come in late spring or early summer.
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