What are the interesting places in Dali, Yunnan?

Erhai

Cangshan Erhai Lake, located in Dali Bai Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province, 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". The beautiful Cangshan Erhai Lake

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.

Yang Ren Street.

Busy foreigner street

Dali foreigner street in the ancient city, formerly known as "protecting the country road", means that in the early years of the Republic of China, the people of Yunnan opposed Yuan Shikai's claim to be 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 Dali and ancient Yunnan history and culture, 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. Three towers are reflected in the water.

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

Dali Ancient City (now Dali City), referred to as Yucheng for short, is one of the first batch of 24 famous 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 (AD 1382) and has been built many times. Dali ancient city south gate

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 feeling 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 20 minutes. The fare is1.The 5 yuan bus card is 1.2 (driverless bus). In addition, tourists can also take minibuses located on Jianshe Road and Wenhua Road, which takes about 30 minutes to reach the ancient city. Tourists visit the ancient city of Dali mainly by walking.

belleville 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". Why do thousands of butterflies gather here to form such a spectacle? Experts and scholars have observed and studied this, and the common understanding is: First, in the middle of April of the lunar calendar and some time before, the rain has not yet arrived, and the summer harvest in dozens of rural areas around butterfly spring and far and near will be exhausted, and the countryside is half empty and the climate is hot. In contrast, next to butterfly spring, it is cool and humid, with lush vegetation and flowers, suitable for butterfly growth. Second, the "butterfly tree" on the edge of butterfly spring is in its flowering period. Bloom is full of trees, flowers are shaped like butterflies, leaves can secrete thick mucus, and butterflies like to eat. Therefore, this tree can attract butterflies. Third, it is in the season of butterfly mating and spawning. The above three factors make thousands of colorful butterflies gather at the edge of butterfly spring, head to tail, forming thousands of butterfly strings hanging upside down on trees, which is a strange landscape that makes people feel surprised, throw stones and reunite. 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 style island

Nanzhao Fengqing Island is one of the three islands in Erhai Lake, which is located in Shuanglang Township, Eryuan County, and a prime location in 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.

Xishou Bai folk houses

Bai folk houses in Xizhou, Dali (5 pieces) Xizhou is located in the north of Dali ancient city 16 km. It is a famous town in western Yunnan and Dali, and Xizhou House represents the style of Bai folk houses in Dali. [2] The enclosed courtyard with "three squares and one wall" and "four entrances and five patios" is a typical pattern, with a single courtyard and multiple courtyards. The plane is square, and the shape is herringbone roof with two floors and double eaves; 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. "

Edit this paragraph Dali four musts

Dali is picturesque all year round. Among many scenic spots, wind, flowers, snow and the moon are the most famous and fascinating. There is a riddle poem of the local Bai people about the four scenic spots. The poem says: when a bug enters a phoenix nest, it can't see (the wind), and seven people have grass (flowers) on their heads; There was a heavy rain (snow) in Hengshan Mountain, and half of my friends disappeared (month). 1962 65438+ 10, the famous writer Cao Jinghua was deeply moved by the wind, flowers, snow and moon in Dali, leaving a poem about the wind, flowers and snow in the moon: Xiaguan wind, Shangguan flower and Xiaguan wind blow the crown; Cangshan snow, Erhai moon, Erhai moon shines on Cangshan snow. Wind: Shimonoseki wind, there are strong winds all year round in Shimonoseki, and sometimes the wind reaches more than eight. There is also a beautiful legend about the wind in Shimonoseki. According to legend, there lived a white fox on the sunset peak of Cangshan Mountain. She fell in love with a Bai scholar in Shimonoseki, so she became a character and interacted with the scholar. Their love affair was discovered by luoquan, a mage of luoquan Temple in Erhai Lake. He refused to let them be together, so he cast a spell to drive the scholar into Erhai Lake. In order to save the scholar, the fox went to the South China Sea to ask Guanyin for help. Guanyin gave her six bottles of wind and asked her to dry the Erhai Lake water with the wind in the bottle to save the scholar. When Fox Girl returned to Tiansheng Bridge in Shimonoseki with six bottles of wind, she was ambushed by Master luoquan, fell to the ground and broke five bottles of wind, so all the winds gathered on Tiansheng Bridge, so the wind in Shimonoseki was particularly strong. According to the scientific explanation, it is because the 19th peak of Cangshan Mountain is too high, which blocks the air convection on the east and west sides, and the Tianshengqiao Canyon in Shimonoseki between the sunset peak of Cangshan Mountain and Zhemo Mountain in Ailao Mountain Range is only the outlet of air convection in Shimonoseki, so the wind in Shimonoseki is particularly strong, especially in winter and spring. People walking on the street opposite Tianshengqiao Canyon can't stand it. Flower: Shangguanhua, located at the foot of Yunnong Peak in Cangshan, Dali, is a fortress formed to defend Dali since the Tang Dynasty. There is a flower tree named "Shilixiang" in Huashu Village outside Guanwai, which is said to have been planted by the immortal Lv Dongbin. Flowers are as big as lotus, with 65,438+02 petals per year and 65,438+03 petals per year. It is yellow and white, beautiful and charming. The shell of the flower is black and hard, which can be used as pearls, so it is also called pearl flower. By the end of the Qing dynasty, there were too many tourists, especially the government dignitaries, who had to be entertained by the local Bai people to enjoy the flowers. People couldn't stand the burden of free food, so they closed the flower gate. According to research, the flower of Shangguan is Manglietia, which can be seen everywhere in Dali. Snow: Cangshan snow, why the snow on Cangshan does not melt for thousands of years, there is a beautiful legend among Dali people. According to legend, in ancient times, there were a group of athel lore gods who rampaged through Dali Bazi, causing "ten people to get sick and nine people to die". In order to save the suffering people, two Bai brothers and sisters returned from studying Buddhism under the guidance of Guanyin, and drove the god of plague to the top of Cangshan Mountain, where they were frozen to death by heavy snow. In order to make the plague never resurrect, my sister turned into a snow god, which bound the plague on Cangshan forever, so the snowman peak in Cangshan had a thousand years of snow. In fact, it is because Cangshan is too high above sea level and the temperature at the top of the mountain is low. Month: Erhai Moon. Every year on the Mid-Autumn Festival night of the fifteenth day of the eighth lunar month, Bai families living near Erhai Lake in Dali have to paddle wooden boats into Erhai Lake to enjoy the golden moon reflected on the sea. The sky, clouds, moon and sea water correspond to each other one by one, forming a beautiful picture. The most popular story about the moon in Erhai Lake is the story of Princess Tiangong coming down to earth. Legend has it that a princess in the heavenly palace envied the happy life on earth, went down to a fishing village near Erhai Lake and married a fisherman. In order to help fishermen live a well-fed life, the princess sank her precious mirror to the bottom of the sea so that fishermen could catch more fish. Since then, Baojing has become a golden moon under the sea, shining on generations of fishermen and becoming the "Erhai Moon" for people to watch.

Optimal travel time

Dali has a low latitude plateau monsoon climate, with no obvious seasonal variation and small annual temperature difference. The annual average temperature is 15℃, with no obvious severe winter and summer heat, moderate temperature and spring-like seasons. Many festivals and major events of the Bai nationality are mostly concentrated in March and April every year. At this time, you will feel rich ethnic customs when you visit. Someone once sang, "Dali has beautiful scenery in March", so spring is the best. Generally speaking, Dali is a good place to travel in all seasons, and it is also one of the "Top Ten Tourist Cities" in China.