What does Shangri-La mean? Why are Hong Kong and Wuhan named hotels?

James hilton's novel The Lost Horizon tells the story of four westerners, including Conway, who were taken to the Blue Moon Valley in Shangri-La by a mysterious oriental hijacker when they were transferred to Peshawar from a place called Basku in the South Asian subcontinent during the war. Throughout Shangri-La described in the novel, various faiths coexist peacefully, and there are Christian churches, Buddhist temples, Taoist temples and Confucian ancestral temples everywhere. People adhere to the doctrine of the mean, and maintain a doctrine of the mean for everything, even for happiness. Shangri-La is a natural scenery-snow-capped mountains, glaciers, canyons, forests, meadows, lakes and wealth-rich in gold mines and pure air. It is a beautiful, clear, safe, leisure, long-distance, satisfying, quiet and harmonious destination for all beautiful human ideals. Here, in fact, Shangri-La has become an ideal country with a kind of harmony and tranquility. When this novel was published by Macmillan Publishing Company in London, England in April 1934, it caused an unexpected sensation among publishers and writers in Europe and soon sold well in the United States, Japan and other countries. After the novel was published, it was immediately made into a movie by a Hollywood production company with unique vision. This film is popular all over the world, and the theme song Shangri-La is sung all over the world. Later, the word Shangri-La was bought out by the Kwok family, a Hong Kong-Singapore entrepreneur, and became a hotel firm, which became popular all over the world and became one of the highest symbols of global hotel brands, confirming the great significance of Lost Horizon in humanities. The lost horizon has become the peach blossom source of westerners. The great significance of Lost Horizon lies in that it has implanted the artistic conception of paradise on earth into western cultural values. As the British Writers' Dictionary pointed out when commenting on the Lost Horizon, its merit lies in creating the word Shangri-La, a "paradise" for English vocabulary. Since then, this imaginary paradise on earth has become synonymous with Eden, Xanadu and Utopia. Due to the extensive influence of novels and later films, Shangri-La has become a recognized paradise or secret place. During World War II, when the US Air Force bombed Tokyo for the first time, US President franklin roosevelt (1882- 1945) said that these planes took off from Shangri-La. Roosevelt also named a villa of the President of the United States in Virginia Shangri-La. Later, Eisenhower changed it to Camp David in memory of his grandson David. On this point, the understanding of the East and the West is roughly the same, and so is China's "Xanadu" and "Utopia", both of which show people's pursuit of beautiful things and their yearning for peace and harmony. Shangri-la first rose in the west. First of all, it is worth noting that "The Lost Horizon" was written after World War I, when World War II was about to begin. At this time, the western economy was not very prosperous, and the people were generally in ecstasy, which can be proved from the social background of Hitler's coming to power. People generally want to be rich, but in reality they can't get this satisfaction. This is a spiritual desire. It is also the deep social background of the emergence and sensation of Lost Horizon. Just like today's real society, people's yearning and helplessness for the real society can be seen from the hit of anti-corruption blockbusters and the secret history of the Qing Dynasty. The topic is beside the point. Shangri-La [xiāng gé lǐ lā] is located in the northwest of Yunnan Province. It is the hinterland of "Shangri-La" tourist route. From Dali, 3 15km north along Yunnan-Tibet Highway, you can reach the central town of Zhongdian County, the capital of Diqing Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, 659km away from Kunming, and it takes 50 minutes by plane. Diqing means "auspicious place" in Tibetan. Located at the southeast edge of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and the northern end of the southern section of Hengduan Mountains, in the hinterland of "Three Parallel Rivers", it has formed a unique landscape integrating snow-capped mountains, canyons, grasslands, alpine lakes, virgin forests and ethnic customs, and is a multi-functional tourist scenic spot. There are many snow-capped mountains in the scenic area, such as Kage Peak, the highest peak in Yunnan Province. Zhongdian County alone has 470 snow-capped mountain canyons with an altitude of more than 4,000 meters. The most famous are the Tiger Leaping Gorge in Jinsha River and the Lancang River Gorge. There are also vast alpine grassland pastures, vast virgin forests and dotted alpine lakes, which make Diqing's natural landscape magical, steep and clear.