When will Dali Ancient City open? Will reopen on March 10th

The ancient city of Dali in Yunnan is a world-class tourist attraction that preserves a large number of ancient buildings and excellent traditional culture. The ancient city of Dali was closed to the public during the Spring Festival last year. Now that the local epidemic has been alleviated, the ancient city has finally reopened to the public.

According to the announcement of the Dali Ancient City Protection Management Bureau of Yunnan Province on March 9, according to the "Implementation Opinions of the Yunnan Province Epidemic Response Leading Group Headquarters in Response to the New Coronavirus Pneumonia Epidemic Zoning and Hierarchical Prevention and Control" (Announcement No. 10) In accordance with the "Notice on Restoring Normal Production and Operation Order in Municipal Scenic Areas (Spots)" issued by the Dali City Novel Coronavirus Pneumonia Epidemic Response Headquarters, the Dali Ancient City Scenic Area opened to low-risk areas on March 10, 2000.

Dali Ancient City Scenic Area will provide tourists with a safe, orderly, civilized and harmonious tourism environment in accordance with national, provincial, state and municipal epidemic prevention and control requirements. Based on the actual situation of Dali Ancient City’s open scenic spots, five health checkpoints will be set up in Dali Ancient City Scenic Spots:

Before entering the city, tourists will undergo unified health inspections at the designated area of ??the South Gate Visitor Center; Health examinations are conducted at four locations: the square, the south entrance of Boai Road, the intersection of Dafeng Road and Honglongjing Road, and the intersection of Dafeng Road and Renmin Road. Please take the initiative to cooperate with the epidemic prevention management of people entering the Dali Ancient City Scenic Area.

Introduction to Dali Ancient City

Dali Ancient City is located in the west of Yunnan Province and is also known as Ye Yu City and Purple City. The history of the ancient city can be traced back to the Tianbao period of the Tang Dynasty. The new capital was Yangmao, which was built by Luo Feng, King Ge of Nanzhao. The ancient city was built in the 15th year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty (1382), covering an area of ??3 square kilometers. Dali is one of the first 24 Chinese historical and cultural cities announced by the State Council on February 8, 1982.

During the 500-year history of the Tang and Song Dynasties, the ancient city of Dali was the political, economic and cultural center of Yunnan. There are 14 key cultural relics protection units at or above the municipal level in the ancient city, which carry Dali's historical culture, religious culture and ethnic culture and are the core tourist area of ??Dali.

The ancient city of Dali is about 1,000 meters wide from east to west and 2,000 meters long from north to south. There are three main streets in the north-south direction and five or six alleys in the east-west direction. Houses in the city

Residences with earthen wood and tile roofs, and streets are mostly paved with bluestone slabs. Most streets have clear water flowing from Cangshan Mountain.

The ancient city has four gates and four turrets within a radius of ten miles. There are four gates around the city wall, namely the Erhai Gate (also known as Tonghe Gate) at the east gate, the Shuanghe Gate (also known as Chengen Gate) at the south gate, the Cangshan Gate at the west gate and the Three Pagoda Gate (also known as the North Gate). Anyuanmen). There is a moat outside the city. After many repairs in the Qing Dynasty, the city maintained its typical chessboard structure, with symmetrical north and south gates and criss-crossing streets, known as the "Nine Streets and Eighteen Alleys".

The layout of the city is a chessboard. The north and south gates are symmetrical to each other, and the east and west gates are wrong. Three streets in the north and south and six streets in the east and west constitute the main road pattern of Dali City. The city center is located in the west, and the north-south axis is not centered, forming an urban layout in which the west is heavy and the east is light. However, the difference between the east and west gates is due to the principle of "no middle between east, west, south, north" in Bai architecture.

The urban architectural style is unified, the scale is appropriate, and the city appearance is simple. The streets are surrounded by running water, and every household grows flowers. There are some old houses on the street with luxuriant flowers and trees, creating a scene of "three houses per house and several pots of flowers per house". The city still retains a large number of buildings from the Ming and Qing Dynasties and the Republic of China, dotted with temples, academies, churches and other ancient buildings, such as Jiang Gong Temple, Du Wenxiu's Mansion Site, Catholic Church and other historical relics.