Lijiang is a village full of stones. American botanists have lived here for 27 years and never got married.

Lijiang, many people only know Old Town of Lijiang and the shogunate, but they don't know that it is about18km away from Old Town of Lijiang. There is a place called Yuhu Village at the southern foot of Yulong Snow Mountain. What is the Naxi language of Yuhu Village? Uluken? , translated into? Silverstone feet? That is, the village at the foot of the snow-capped mountains.

Speaking of Yuhu Village, can't you avoid one person, Joseph? Locke, 1884 was born in Vienna, Austria, and is an American professor of plant taxonomy.

It can be said that he first spread the national culture of Naxi nationality to the west. In addition to constantly introducing Yunnan and Dongba culture to the world, he also brought the world to a closed small place in this mountain.

1922 February, arrived in Lijiang from Simao. From then until 1949, as a writer, photographer and explorer of the Institute of Botany of Harvard University, he was stationed in this small village at the foot of the snowy mountain for 27 years.

The third one from the left is Joseph? locke

During this period, he collected Dongba Scriptures and various materials, and later wrote Ancient Naxi Kingdom in Southwest China and Naxi Language? Encyclopedia of English dictionaries, known as? Father of Western Naxi Studies? .

However, for a long time, his achievements in anthropology were not accepted by the mainstream of American anthropology. In order to study Naxi culture, he lost everything, never married, and lived by friends in his later years.

The first one from the left is Joseph? locke

For Yuhu Village, he once wrote in the book:? Wuluken, a small village with beautiful environment, is located on the hillside of the pure Lijiang Snow Mountain. The main peak of the Snow Mountain is steep and protected like a protector? .

Even before his death, he was still worried about coming back here, and wrote in a letter to his best friend: If all goes well, I will return to Lijiang to finish my work? I would rather die in the flowers of Yulong Snow Mountain than wait for the call of God alone in the white-walled ward in Hawaii. ?