What are the fun places in Dali, Yunnan? What special dishes are there?

Dali, the full name of Dali Bai Autonomous Prefecture, is located in the west of central Yunnan Province. The city borders the Erhai Lake in the east and the Diancang Mountains in the west. The climate here is mild, the land is fertile, and the mountains and rivers are beautiful and colorful. It is one of the earliest areas in China's southwest frontier to be developed. As far back as more than 4,000 years ago, there were activities of primitive residents in the Dali area. Dali is known as "Wind, Flowers, Snow and Moon", that is, Xiaguan wind, Shangguan flowers, Cangshan snow, and Erhai moon. It is 2090 meters above sea level, adjacent to Chuxiong Prefecture in the east, Pu'er City and Lincang City in the south, Baoshan City and Nujiang Prefecture in the west, and Lijiang City in the north. The capital of the autonomous prefecture is located in Xiaguan, Dali City, 338 kilometers away from Kunming City. The total area of ??the autonomous prefecture reaches 29,459 square kilometers. The mountainous area accounts for 83.7% of the total area, and the dam area accounts for 16.3%. The maximum horizontal distance from east to west is more than 320 kilometers, and the maximum longitudinal distance from north to south is more than 270 kilometers. The main cultural and historical tourist attractions in Dali: Three Pagodas of Chongsheng Temple, Yunnanyi Ancient Town, Weishan Ancient City, Bai Village Zhoucheng (the hometown of tie-dye), Yanjiayuan, Jianchuan Wood Sculpture, Millennium Bai Village, Yunlong Tai Chi Picture, Daci Temple Cremation tombs and Hutoushan ancient buildings. Scenic Spot Cangshan Erhai Lake Cangshan Erhai Lake is located in Dali Bai Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province. It is a place longed for by tourists from ancient to modern times. Yang Sheng'an, a famous scholar in the Ming Dynasty, described it as "the mountains are green and verdant, and the sea is half-moon covered in blue". Today there is Chen Yunhe's poem "Dali Short Ode": "The snow in Cangshan Mountain, the moon in Erhai Lake, the flowers in Shangguan, and the wind in Xiaguan add to the charm of the "Four Wonders" of the ancient city. The Southwest Silk Road and the new expressway are in love." Cangshan Mountain, also known as Diancang Mountain, has nineteen peaks, each with an altitude of more than 3,500 meters, and the highest peak is more than 4,000 meters above sea level. The scenery of Cangshan Mountain has always been famous for its snow, clouds and springs. The snow on Cangshan Mountain that persists through the summer is the most famous of the four scenic spots in Dali called "Wind, Flowers, Snow and Moon". On a sunny day in March, the top of Diancang Mountain looks crystal clear and quiet, worthy of being a pure and pure crystal world. The clouds on Diancang Mountain change in many shapes, sometimes as light as blue smoke, sometimes as thick as splashed ink. At the turn of summer and autumn, white clouds like jade belts appear from time to time on the green mountainside. They stretch for hundreds of miles and never disappear, which is charming and charming. On the top of Cangshan Mountain, there are many alpine moraine lakes, surrounded by primeval forests that block out the sky and sun. There are also 18 streams flowing between 19 peaks, nourishing the land in the foothills of the mountain and dotting the scenery of Cangshan Mountain. Cangshan is still a world full of flowers. There are not only dozens of species of rhododendrons, but also rare azaleas and hydrangea-like lantanas. Erhai Lake is a beautiful plateau lake with a long and narrow shape, 40 kilometers long from north to south, and an area of ??about 240 square kilometers. Boating on the Erhai Lake on a calm day, the clean and transparent sea surface is like the clear blue sky, giving people a peaceful and distant feeling. In Tuanshan, the southernmost tip of Erhai Lake, there is an Erhai Park, which is a good place to enjoy the scenery of Cangshan and Erhai Lake. At the foot of Cangshan Mountain and on the shore of Erhai Lake, there is also a famous tourist attraction - Butterfly Spring. The fame of Butterfly Spring is related to Xu Xiake's description in his travel notes. He wrote: "The big tree on the spring will bloom like a butterfly in early April, with lifelike whiskers and wings, just like a living butterfly. There are also tens of thousands of real butterflies, with whiskers and hooked legs, hanging upside down from the tree. On the surface of the spring, there are colorful flowers and colorful flowers. "There are indeed times like this when there are countless colorful butterflies coming here to gather, and the colors are gorgeous, like clouds and brocade. In the past few years, the number of butterflies has decreased. According to relevant inspections, the main reasons are firstly that the local climate has turned drier, causing butterflies to migrate, and secondly that large amounts of insecticides have been used in rural areas, which accidentally injured many butterfly larvae. However, in the past two or three years, with the gradual restoration of ecological balance and people's conscious efforts to protect butterflies, the number of butterflies gathering every year has increased day by day. Foreigner Street In the ancient city, Dali Foreigner Street was originally called "Guoguo Road", which means that in the early Republic of China, the people of Yunnan opposed Yuan Shikai's proclaimed emperor and raised troops to protect the country. Huguo Road runs east-west, 1,000 meters long and 7 meters wide, and is paved with bluestone slabs. It starts from the Yunnan-Tibet Highway in the west and intersects with Boai, Fuxing and other major streets.

Later, in order to meet the needs of open tourism, the ancient city of Dali was designated as the main attraction for open tourism, and the Red Mountain Tea Hotel was designated as a foreign-related hotel. The Red Mountain Tea Hotel is located in the western section of Huguo Road in the ancient city. As a result, Huguo Road became a foreign Tourist distribution center in Dali. Chinese and Western flavor shops, jewelry stores, antique shops, tie-dye shops, and galleries have sprung up and various businesses have sprung up. The shops are lined up on both sides, and it has become a dazzling array of things to see, making it the famous "foreigner street in Dali" at home and abroad. Nowadays, the name of Huguo Road in the ancient city of Dali is actually called "Foreigner Street" in some foreign drawings. It can be seen that Dali Foreigner Street has become famous all over the world and has become a place that foreign friends yearn for and a warm home for them living in Dali. The Three Pagodas of Chongsheng Temple are the symbol of Dali, the symbol of ancient Yunnan history and culture, and one of the oldest and most majestic buildings in southern China. In 1961, the State Council announced it as one of the first batch of national key cultural relics protection units. Chongsheng Temple was originally located to the west of the Three Pagodas, close to Cangshan Mountain. Its mountain gate is about 120 meters away from the main tower of the Three Pagodas. It was built by the 10th king of Nanzhao Kingdom Quanfengyou (824-859 AD), when it was Nanzhao. Late period of the country. In the middle period of the Nanzhao Kingdom, the worship of Buddhism rose, and by the time of Quan Fengyou, it had reached its peak. Buddhist temples were all over Yunnan, with 3,000 small temples and 800 large temples. In the Dali Kingdom after Nanzhao, Buddhism was more developed than in Nanzhao. Therefore, Dali Kingdom is known as the "Buddha Kingdom" and the "Miaoxiang Kingdom". After the completion of Chongsheng Temple, it became the center of Buddhist activities during the Nanzhao and Dali Kingdoms. The "holy" worshiped by Chongsheng Temple is Guanyin. At that time, Guanyin worship was very popular in the Dali area. According to relevant documents, when the Chongsheng Temple and the main pagoda were built, the base of the temple was 7 miles wide, there were more than 800 houses, more than 10,000 Buddhas, more than 40,000 kilograms of copper was consumed, and more than 700,000 people worked. The existing main tower is 69.13 meters high and has 16 floors. It is a square hollow brick tower with dense eaves and is one of the tallest existing towers in China. The small tower among the three towers is to the west of the main tower, equidistant from the main tower by 70 meters; facing each other from north to south, 97 meters apart. They were built by the Dali Kingdom during the Five Dynasties period. The two towers have the same shape, with 10 floors and a height of 42.4 meters. They are octagonal hollow brick towers with dense eaves. After the completion of Chongsheng Temple and the Three Pagodas, they have gone through thousands of years of vicissitudes and wind and rain erosion. Chongsheng Temple was destroyed during the Xianfeng period of the Qing Dynasty, but the West Three Pagodas still stand tall. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, the government attached great importance to the protection of the Three Towers. In 1978, it carried out large-scale repairs. During this maintenance, more than 600 Buddhist cultural relics were discovered in the base of Qianxun Pagoda, including a large number of Buddha statues and Buddhist scriptures. Among them was a gold statue of Guanyin, weighing 1135 grams and 24 centimeters high, which is extremely precious. This is the richest batch of cultural relics from the Nanzhao and Dali Kingdoms discovered so far. It is of extremely high value and has attracted attention at home and abroad. This discovery has unveiled a mysterious veil of ancient Dali, a "Buddhist country". Regarding the architectural style of the three pagodas, it is generally said that it is similar to the Small Wild Goose Pagoda in Xi'an, which is a typical Tang pagoda style. It shows the close connection between Yunnan and the mainland during the Tang and Song Dynasties. There is no doubt about this. Ancient City of Dali The ancient city of Dali (now Dali City), referred to as Yucheng, is one of the first 24 historical and cultural cities in my country approved by the State Council in February 1982. It is also one of the 44 key scenic spots in the country. It is located in Nanzhao and the capital of Dali. The eastern part of the site was first built in the 15th year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty (1382 AD) and has been built many times in the past dynasties. Dali is known as "a country famous for its literature". The long history has left many important cultural relics. Dali Scenic Area has 4 national key cultural relics protection units and 19 provincial key cultural relics protection units, which can be summarized as the "three ancients", namely the ancient city, ancient towers and ancient monuments. The ancient cities of Dali City include Taihe City, Yangju City, Dali City (now Xizhou Town), Longwei City (now Xiaguan), and Dali City; the ancient pagodas include the Three Towers of Chongsheng Temple, the First Tower of Hongsheng Temple, Snake bone pagoda, fish bone pagoda; ancient steles include Nanzhao Dehua stele, Yuan Shizu Ping Yunnan stele, Wuhua Tower stele group, Shanhua stele, etc. The long history also gave birth to many outstanding figures. Prominent ones include the fourth, fifth and sixth kings of Nanzhao, Piluoge, Geluofeng and Yimouxun; Qingping official (prime minister) Zheng Hui, Duan Siping, the founder of Dali, and the famous painter Zhang Shengwen; Ming Dynasty poets and writers Yang Fu, Yang Shiyun, and Li Yuanyang; modern democratic revolutionary patriots Li Xiexi and Zhang Yaozeng; outstanding military theorist Yang Jie; and Northeast Anti-Japanese Allied Forces leader Zhou Baozhong.

The first pool of Qingbi Creek is a small semicircular pool with dazzling green water. From there, we climbed up a steep mountain rock covered with moss, and then reached the second pool. This pool is hidden in the cliffs on three sides. It is not large in area, but it is the most beautiful. Standing in front of the pool, I saw the stream flowing straight in from a stone wall four to five feet high and falling into the pool. The water in the pool is unexpectedly green, dazzlingly green, and smooth, and there is no longer a road to this point. If you want to see the third pool, you have to go around four to five hundred meters from Malong Peak to get a glimpse. You can see spring water gushing out from between the rocks and forming a round pool. The water in the pool is clear and the stones on the bottom of the pool are clearly visible. Since the Tang and Song Dynasties, many literati have recorded the beauty of Qingbi River. Yang Shen, the number one scholar in the Ming Dynasty, described in his article "A Journey to Dian Cangshan": "There is a stream in the southwest, with cascading currents. The water is crystal clear, and the stones in it are sparkling and green, just like the beauty of jade. Its name is Qingbi Stream. "Specialty Catering Speaking of the characteristics of Dali catering, Bai three-course tea, casserole fish, and Dengchuan milk fan should be the first to recommend. Most of the best restaurants in Dali are concentrated in the ancient city. If you want to taste them, you can go to Renmin Road in the ancient city, where many foreign tourists gather. On Huguo Road, Western food cafes with characteristics of Bai, Tibetan and other ethnic minorities can be seen everywhere. Many restaurants sell both Chinese and Western food. Visitors can taste Yunnan-style dishes and local Bai dishes. Each restaurant here has its own unique characteristics, and each restaurant has its own unique recipes. Among them, Taibai Tower, which is well-known at home and abroad for its Bai "Three Course Tea" and Tibetan "Butter Tea", is a representative one. Drinking tea here and looking around are all blond and blue-eyed, and you will feel as if you are in the United Nations. Of course, the attraction of the ancient city is not only the food, but also the peaceful and relaxing atmosphere provided by the cafes and restaurants here, where people can listen to music, drink cold beer, and spend a leisurely afternoon.