Abstract: Traditional handicrafts of the Dai people usually have long history, high artistic value, cultural value and distinctive national traits. Based on several field investigations of brocade of the Dai, this paper first analyzes cases of current productive protection of traditional Dai brocade of Xishuangbanna, then proceeds to sum up some methods for productive protection and inheritance of traditional brocade techniques of the Dai people before finally attempting to suggest a reference-worthy theoretic basis and some feasible methods for productive protection of Dai brocade, hoping that the State, the local government, the inheritance subject, non-governmental organizations and other sectors should take joint efforts to promote development of Dai brocade to help local economic growth of areas inhabited by minority ethnic groups to inherit and advance their national cultures.

Key words: productive protection, tradition, the Dai people, brocade