What are the interesting places in Dali, Yunnan? What are the specialties?

Dali, the full name of Dali Bai Autonomous Prefecture, is located in the west of central Yunnan Province, with Erhai Lake in the east and Diancang Mountain in the west. The climate here is mild, the land is fertile and the scenery is beautiful. It is one of the earliest areas in the southwest frontier of China. As early as 4000 years ago, there were activities of primitive residents in Dali. Dali has the reputation of "wind, flowers, snow and moon", that is, Xiaguan wind, Shangguan flower, 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, 338 kilometers away from Kunming. The total area of the autonomous prefecture is 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 vertical distance from north to south is more than 270 kilometers. Major cultural relics in Dali: Three Pagodas of Chongsheng Temple, Yunnanyi Ancient Town, Weishan Ancient City, Zhoucheng of Bai Village (the hometown of tie-dyeing), Yan Jiayuan, Jianchuan Wood Carving, Millennium Bai Village, Yunlong Taiji Map, cremation tomb of Daci Temple, and Hutou Mountain ancient building complex. Cangshan Erhai Lake, the scenic spot Cangshan Erhai Lake, is located in Dali Bai Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province, and is a place that ancient and modern tourists yearn for. Yang Sheng 'an, a famous scholar in the Ming Dynasty, described it as "the mountains and Qinghai are blue and half moon" and "looking up at the sky without feeling refreshed, flying over the eaves and climbing over the walls". Today, there is Chen Yunhe's poem "Dali Short Fu": "The snow in Cangshan Mountain, the moon in Erhai Lake, the flowers in Shangguan and the wind in Xiaguan add to the" four wonders "of the ancient city. Now Nanzhao in the Tang Dynasty and the Southwest Silk Road in Dali in the Song Dynasty all fell in love with the newly built expressway. " Cangshan Mountain, also known as Diancang Mountain, has 19 peaks, each of which is over 3,500 meters above sea level, and the highest peak is over 4,000 meters above sea level. Cangshan Mountain has always been famous for its snow, clouds and springs. Cangshan snow, which is not needed after summer, is the most famous of the four scenic spots in Dali. In the spring of March, the top of Diancang Mountain looks crystal-clear and quiet, and it is worthy of being a crystal world. The clouds in Diancang Mountain have different shapes, sometimes as light as smoke, and sometimes as thick as splashing ink. At the turn of summer and autumn, jade-like white clouds appear from time to time on the green mountainside, stretching for hundreds of miles and charming. On the top of Cangshan Mountain, there are many alpine moraine lakes, surrounded by virgin forests that cover the sky. There are also 18 streams flowing between 19 peaks, nourishing the land on the foothills and dams, and dotted with the scenery of Cangshan Mountain. Cangshan is still the world of flowers. There are not only dozens of rhododendrons here, but also rare hibiscus flowers and hydrangeas-Malik Huaying. 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. On a calm day, boating in Erhai Lake, the clean and transparent sea surface is like a clear blue sky, giving people a sense of tranquility and distance. In Tuanshan, the southernmost part of Erhai Lake, there is an Erhai Park, which is a good place to enjoy the scenery of Cangshan Erhai Lake. At the foot of Cangshan Mountain and the shore of Erhai Lake, there is also a famous tourist attraction-butterfly spring. Butterfly spring's fame is related to Xu Xiake's description in his travel notes. He wrote: "There are big trees on the spring. In early April, flowers will be like butterflies, and their wings will be like butterflies. There are also tens of millions of real butterflies, all hooked on their feet, hanging upside down from trees and reaching out to the spring, which are colorful. " It is true that there are countless butterflies coming to this party, and their colors are gorgeous, such as summer. The number of butterflies decreased a few years ago. According to the investigation of relevant parties, the main reason is that the local climate turned to dryness, which led to butterfly migration, and a large number of pesticides were used in rural areas, which accidentally injured many butterfly larvae. However, in recent two or three years, with the gradual restoration of ecological balance and people's conscious protection measures for butterflies, the number of butterflies gathering every year is increasing day by day. Foreigner Street is located in the ancient city. The original name of Dali Foreigner Street is "Protecting the Country Road", which means that in the early years of the Republic of China, the people of Yunnan opposed Yuan Shikai's claim to the emperor and rose up to protect the country. Huguo Road runs east-west, with a length of 1 000m and a width of 7m. Paved with bluestone slabs, it starts from Yunnan-Tibet Highway in the west and crosses major streets such as Bo 'ai and Fuxing. Later, in order to meet the needs of open tourism, Dali ancient city was designated as the main attraction of open tourism, and Camellia Hotel was designated as a foreign-related hotel. Camellia Hotel is located in the west section of Huguo Road in the ancient city, so Huguo Road has become a distribution center for foreign tourists in Dali. Chinese and western flavor shops, jewelry stores, antique shops, tie-dye shops and galleries have sprung up like mushrooms after rain, and the pavements are lined up on both sides, making them a famous "Dali foreigner street" at home and abroad. Today, the name of the ancient city of Dali, Huguo Road, has long been called "Foreigner Street" on some foreign drawings. It can be seen that Dali foreigner street has become a world-famous place for foreign friends and a warm home for them to live in Dali. The Three Pagodas of Chongsheng Temple The Three Pagodas of Chongsheng Temple are symbols of the history and culture of Dali and ancient Yunnan, and are one of the oldest and most magnificent buildings in southern China. 196 1 year, the State Council was declared as a national key cultural relics protection unit. Chongsheng Temple was originally located in the west of the Three Pagodas, near Cangshan Mountain, and its gate is about 120 meters away from the main tower of the Three Pagodas. It was built by Wang Quanfeng Youshi (AD 824-859), the 10 generation of Nanzhao State in the late Nanzhao period. In the middle of Nanzhao, the worship of Buddhism rose, and by the time it was induced, it had won a great victory. There are 3,000 small temples and 800 large temples all over Yunnan. In Dali after Nanzhao, Buddhism is more developed than Nanzhao. Therefore, Dali is known as "the country of Buddhism" and "the country of Miao nationality". After the completion of Chongsheng Temple, it became the center of Buddhist activities in Nanzhao and Dali periods. The "sage" worshipped by Chongsheng Temple is Guanyin. At that time, Guanyin worship in Dali was extremely successful. According to relevant documents, when Chongsheng Temple and main tower were built at that time, the temple base was 7 miles, there were more than 800 houses and more than 0/0000 Buddha statues, which consumed more than 40,000 Jin of copper and more than 700,000 people. The existing main tower is 69. 13m high and 16 stories high. It is a square hollow brick tower with dense eaves, which is one of the highest towers in China. The three-tower small tower is in the west of the main tower, 70 meters equidistant from the main tower; North-South confrontation, 97 meters apart. They were built in Dali during the Five Dynasties. The two towers are of the same shape, with a floor of 10 and a height of 42.4 meters. They are octagonal hollow brick towers with dense eaves. After the completion of Chongsheng Temple and Three Pagodas, Chongsheng Temple was destroyed during Xianfeng period of Qing Dynasty after thousands of years of vicissitudes and wind and rain erosion, but the West Three Pagodas stood tall. After the founding of New China, the government attached great importance to the protection of the Three Towers and carried out large-scale maintenance on 1978. During this maintenance, more than 600 Buddhist cultural relics were found in the pedestal of Chihiro Pagoda, including a large number of Buddha statues and Buddhist scriptures, among which a golden Guanyin statue, weighing1135g and 24cm high, is extremely precious. This is the richest batch of cultural relics discovered so far in Nanzhao and Dali periods, which is of great value and has attracted much attention at home and abroad. This discovery unveiled the mystery of ancient Dali, a "Buddhist country". As for the architectural style of the three pagodas, it is generally said that it is similar to the Little Wild Goose Pagoda in Xi 'an, which is a typical Tang Pagoda style. It can be seen that there is no doubt about the close relationship between Yunnan and the mainland during the Tang and Song Dynasties. Dali (now Dali City), referred to as Yucheng for short, is one of the first batch of 24 historical and cultural cities in China approved by the State Council in February 1982, and also one of the 44 key scenic spots in China. Located in the east of Nanzhao Dali Capital Ruins, it was built in Hongwu 15 in Ming Dynasty (A.D. 1382) and has been built repeatedly in past dynasties. Dali is known as the "hometown of literature". The long history has left many important cultural relics. Dali Scenic Area has four national key cultural relics protection units and 19 provincial key cultural relics protection units, which can be summarized as "three ancient cities", namely, ancient cities, ancient pagodas and ancient monuments. The ancient city of Dali includes Taihe City, Yangmao City, Dali City (now Xizhou Town), Weilong City (now Xiaguan) and Dali City; The ancient pagoda includes three pagodas of Chongsheng Temple, one pagoda of Hongsheng Temple, snake bone pagoda and fish bone pagoda. Monuments include Nanzhao Dehua Monument, Yuan Shizu Yan Ping Monument, Wuhualou Monument Group and Hua Shan Monument. The long history has also given birth to many outstanding figures. Outstanding are Wang Pi Logue, Ge Luofeng and Yi Mouxun of the fourth, fifth and sixth generations of Nanzhao; Qing (Prime Minister), Duan Siping, founder of Dali, and Zhang, a famous painter; Poets and writers in Ming Dynasty: Yang Nai, Yang Shiyun, Li Yuanyang; Li Xiexi, a modern democratic revolutionist, Zeng Gala, Yang Jie, an outstanding military theorist, and Zhou Baozhong, the leader of the Northeast Anti-Japanese Coalition. Fiona Fang 12 in Dali City, with a wall 2 feet high and 2 feet thick; There is a gate in the east, west, north and south, and there are towers on it, which are called Tonghai, Cangshan, Chengen and Anyuan respectively; There are also watchtowers in four corners of the city, each with its own name: Yingchuan, Xiping, Kongming and Changqing. Today, there are some city walls and Chengnan Iron Pagoda in Nanbei Town (rebuilt in 1982). If Dali, the state capital, gives people the impression of being bustling and noisy, then Dali is simple and quiet, with clear Ding-dong streams flowing in it, and every household grows flowers and trees, full of flowers and fruits. The garden teahouse hidden deep in the streets is a good place for tourists to rest. After the reform and opening up, private snack bars with French flavor are also the favorite places for foreign guests. Traditional marble handicrafts are placed on both sides of the street for them to watch and buy. Transportation: Take bus No.4 and No.8 from Shimonoseki, and you can reach the ancient city in about 45 minutes. The fare is1.The 5 yuan bus card is 1.2 (driverless bus). In addition, tourists can also take minibuses located at Jianshe Road and Wenhua Road (2.5 yuan, before 22 o'clock), and they can reach the ancient city in about 25 minutes. Tourists visit the ancient city of Dali mainly on foot, followed by electric tour buses (charging). Butterfly spring, butterfly spring, 40km north of Dali, at the foot of Yunnong Peak in Cangshan Mountain. Due to long-term landscape erosion, sand and gravel are in pieces, and trees are scarce on the hillside. But when you walk slowly uphill for about half a mile, you will see a dazzling shadow. Walking past the antique stone workshop, there is an upright marble tablet about 3 meters high, which is prismatic. On the right side of the front, there are three characters "butterfly spring" inscribed by Guo Moruo. On the left, Lao Guo's poems chanting butterfly spring are engraved. There is a marble wall around the spring pool, and a tall old tree spans the spring. This tree is called "butterfly tree" because its flowers look like butterflies. Whenever summer comes, the "butterfly tree" blooms, and the butterflies of Xanthium come here in droves, gathering and dancing, which is very lively. The strangest thing is that thousands of colorful butterflies cross each other in spring and hang upside down on butterfly trees, forming countless strings of butterflies hanging vertically to the water, which are colorful and spectacular. The peak period is around April 15 of the lunar calendar, so April 15 of the lunar calendar is designated as the "Butterfly Festival". After passing the spring, the round gate climbed the stone steps and reached the newly-built hexagonal "Wanghui Pavilion". Looking at the pavilion from a distance: the cornice of Jizu Mountain, and the cold smoke tower on the top of the mountain is faintly visible; Houses in villages such as mountain depressions and double corridors are faintly discernible in the fields; Two waters are like mirrors; There are Shangguan in the north and Xizhou in the south, and the smoke trees are diffuse; Jiang Wei village on the right front is like a sword, which goes straight into Erhai Lake. This sea-looking pavilion is really a good place to see the sea. Nanzhao Fengqing Island Nanzhao Fengqing Island is one of the three islands in Erhai Lake, which is located in Shuanglang Township, Eryuan County, and the golden section of Canger National Scenic Area. The island is surrounded by water, with Jizu Mountain in the east, Shi Baoshan in the north, Dali in the south and Cangshan Erhai Lake in the west. Because of its unique tourism resources, it is known as "Dali scenery in Canger, Canger scenery in Shuanglang". It embodies the cultural heritage of Dali for thousands of years, and shows Nanzhao and Dali as the imperial capitals for 600 years. Xizhou Bai folk house Xizhou is located in the north of Dali ancient city 16 km, which is a famous town in western Yunnan and Dali. Xizhou folk house represents the style of Dali Bai folk house. The enclosed courtyard with "three squares and one wall" and "four in five patios" is a typical pattern, with a single courtyard and many courtyards. The plane is square and the shape is two-story double-eaved herringbone roof. The main landlord has three or five rooms facing south, with civil masonry structure, wooden frame combined with tenon and mortise, and one courtyard or several courtyards are connected into a whole. The external walls are mostly painted in white (lime) and gray (fine mud). The center of the wall is painted with lime, inscribed with four words in the book, or embedded with marble screen; Set fan-shaped, rectangular, circular and other patterns around, and draw with ink or powder. Doors and windows, especially the lattice doors in the principal rooms, are mostly precious wood such as spruce, beech and catalpa. And engraved with folk auspicious patterns such as golden rooster, jubilant, unicorn, etc., mostly through carving or round carving. The gables are painted with white ash, and the peaks are triangular, on which auspicious patterns such as moire, ruyi, lotus and diamond are painted with ink. Qingbi Stream Qingbi Stream, also known as Cuipen Water, is affectionately called "Sid" by Dali people. It is one of Diancang Mountain 18 streams. Between Malong Peak and Shengying Peak in Cangshan Mountain, the stream flows into the upper, middle and lower pools on the mountainside, and then flows downstream into Erhai Lake. The first pool in Qingbi Stream is semicircular, and the water is dazzling green. From then on, after climbing a steep mountain covered with moss, we reached the second pool, which was hidden among three cliffs. Although the area was small, it was the most beautiful. Standing in front of the pool, I saw a stream pouring down from a 45-foot-high stone wall and falling into the pool. The water in the pool is unexpectedly green, dazzling and smooth, and there is no road here. If you want to see the third pool, you must bypass Malong Peak for 400-500 meters to see it. I saw the spring water gushing out from among the stones and merging into a round pool. The water in the pool is clear and the stones at the bottom of the pool are clearly visible. Since the Tang and Song Dynasties, many literati have recorded the beautiful scenery of Qingbi Stream. Yang Shen, the top scholar in the Ming Dynasty, wrote in the article A Journey to Cangshan: "There is a stream in the southwest, which flows with ashes and clear water. Among them, the stone is crystal clear and green, just like the beauty of Baoyu, hence the name Qingbi Stream. " Three tea, fish in casserole and Deng Chuan milk fan should be the first choice when it comes to the characteristics of Dali catering. Most of the best restaurants in Dali are concentrated in the ancient city. If you want to taste it, you can go to Renmin Road in the ancient city, where many foreign tourists gather. On Baojia Road, western-style cafes with the characteristics of Bai, Tibetan and other ethnic minorities can be seen everywhere. Many restaurants also sell Chinese and western food, and visitors can taste Yunnan-style dishes and local Bai dishes. Every restaurant here has its own characteristics and different recipes. Among them, Taibailou, which is famous for its "three teas" of Bai nationality and "buttered tea" of Tibetan nationality, is a representative. Drinking tea here and looking around, you will feel as if you are in the United Nations. Of course, the attraction of the ancient city is not only food, but also cafes and restaurants here provide a quiet and relaxed atmosphere, where people can listen to music, drink cold beer and spend a leisurely afternoon.