How to arrange a one-day tour route in Dali, Yunnan

Introduction: Dali Bai Autonomous Prefecture is located in the west of central Yunnan Province, with an altitude of 2,090 meters. It borders Chuxiong Prefecture to the east, Pu'er City and Lincang City to the south, Baoshan City and Nujiang Prefecture to the west, and Lijiang to the north. city. When traveling to Dali, it is best to spend one day visiting Cangshan Mountain and Erhai Lake to appreciate the beauty of the scenery. DAY1 Erhai Lake - Butterfly Spring - Xizhou - Three Pagodas of Chongsheng Temple - Dali Ancient City

In the morning, take a boat trip to Erhai Lake at Longkan Pier. On the boat, you can watch the authentic Bai three-course tea performance and taste the true meaning of life. Along the way, you can visit Erhai Park, Erhai Three Islands, Nanzhao Customs Island, and view Jinsuo Island and Little Putuo from a distance. At noon, we arrive at Butterfly Spring. Visitors can dine at the hotel next to Butterfly Spring and go to Butterfly Spring to watch. Around 13:30 in the afternoon, you can visit Xizhou folk houses, then go to the Three Pagodas of Chongsheng Temple, and finally reach the ancient city of Dali. Overnight in Dali Ancient City, tourists stay in local houses and appreciate the Bai folk customs.

Catering:

Dinner at the Butterfly Spring Hotel at noon, and dinner at a local residence in the evening.

Erhai Lake

The ancient name of Erhai Lake is "Ye Yu Water", and it is also called "Xi'er River", Er River, Ye Yu River, Ye Yu Ze, Mi River, Kun Mi River, Kunming Pool, etc. It is a plateau lake formed by the collapse of the Xi'er River. Its shape is like an ear, so it is named Erhai. Although the area is not as large as Dianchi Lake, due to the deep water level, the water storage capacity is larger than that of Dianchi Lake. Cangshan Mountain and Erhai Lake are interconnected by mountains and rivers. Erhai originates from Pibi Lake in Eryuan County. Its source comes from Bagu Mountain. It is fed by Mi Zhi River in the north, Boluo River in the southeast, and 18 streams in Cangshan Mountain in the west. The total runoff area is 2565 square kilometers, with an area of ??about 251 square kilometers and a storage area of ??2565 square kilometers. The water volume is 3 billion cubic meters, the average water depth is about 11.5 meters, and the deepest is 20 meters. It is the seventh largest freshwater lake in China.

Butterfly Spring

Butterfly Spring is located at the foot of Yunong Peak in Cangshan Mountain, Dali. It is like a transparent gem set in the green shade, attracting tourists from far and near with its unique wonders.

Butterfly Spring takes a bus from Xiaguan and drives north along the Yunnan-Tibet Highway for more than 30 kilometers. On the left side of the car, an antique stone archway comes into view. The three characters "Butterfly Spring" written on the archway are the ink marks left by Guo Moruo when he visited Dali.

It is about 100 meters from the archway to the Butterfly Spring. The spring pool is two to three feet square and is surrounded by translucent marble railings. The spring water is crystal clear, with strings of silver bubbles slowly gushing out from the sand and stones, gurgling out of the water and causing splashes of water. This spring has the power of turning snow from Cangshan Mountain. Not only is the water quantity stable, but the water quality is also very good.

Since ancient times, many literati and bachelors have visited here and written many important poems.

Xizhou

Xizhou has beautiful mountains and rivers and many places of interest. In particular, the town has a large number of unique Bai residential buildings from the Ming, Qing, Republic of China and contemporary periods that are unique in the architectural history of China and the world. They have attracted the attention of domestic and foreign tourists and have extremely high historical and cultural value. They were announced by the State Council It is a national key cultural relic protection unit.

The Bai folk residential buildings in Xizhou, with their unique style and profound cultural connotation, have deeply attracted historians, tourists, architects, artists, folklorists, economists throughout the ages. scientists, and sociologists. Xizhou is a microcosm of Bai society. Only through this microcosm can we truly understand and understand the Bai people’s yesterday and today.

From the layout point of view, Xizhou folk houses are typical of "three squares and one screen wall", "four in five patios", "one entrance and two courtyards (sixth year of spring)", "walking horse and turret", etc. Bai courtyard pattern. The colorful decorative art of these residences with carved beams and painted beams, overlapping brackets, cornices, gate towers, screen walls and gables fully reflects the architectural talent and artistic creativity of the Bai people. It is famous for its simplicity, elegance, generosity and practicality.

With the rise of tourism, Xizhou began to carry out Xizhou Bai folk custom tourism in 1992 with the purpose of promoting Dali and showing the traditional and excellent culture of the Bai people to domestic and foreign tourists. In recent years, Xizhou Town has formed a tourism resource development-oriented small town with tourism as the leader by improving the tourism investment environment, standardizing the architectural style of Bai residential buildings, and strengthening the protection and utilization of the ancient town.

The Three Pagodas of Chongsheng Temple

The Three Pagodas of Chongsheng Temple are among the first batch of national key cultural relics protection units announced by the State Council. They are the symbol and symbol of Dali, a famous historical and cultural city and an outstanding national tourist city. , is an important cultural landscape in the Dali National Tourist Scenic Area and one of the oldest and most majestic buildings in southern China. There is harmony in the changes, unity in the opposition, and they are mutually dependent and natural. Behind them is the snow-covered Cangshan Mountain all year round, and in front is the rippling blue sea. They are integrated with the "Yu'er Silver Cang", showing a kind of harmony. Natural and elegant oriental beauty.

Exhibited in the Exhibition Hall of Unearthed Cultural Relics is the largest renovation of the Three Pagodas since the Jiajing Period of the Ming Dynasty from 1978 to 1980. During the maintenance, more than 680 precious cultural relics from the Nanzhao and Dali Kingdoms were unearthed. The items are the richest and most important batch of cultural relics from the Dali Kingdom in Nanzhao discovered so far, and have attracted the attention of the Chinese and foreign cultural relic circles.

The exhibited scriptures, scriptures, Dharmakaya relics, gold models of the Three Pagodas, bronze mirrors, jade and crystal Buddha statues, etc., take people into the long river of history. In a moment, they can go back a thousand years and see The prosperous economy and splendid culture of the Erhai area during the prosperous Tang Dynasty provided extremely valuable material for studying the politics, economy, culture and Buddhist art of the Nanzhao and Dali Kingdoms.

Dali Ancient City

Dali Ancient City is referred to as Ye Yu, also known as the Purple City. Its history can be traced back to the Yangjume City built by Luofeng, the king of Nanzhao, during the Tianbao period of the Tang Dynasty (today's (near the Three Pagodas in the west of the city) as its new capital. The ancient city was built in the fifteenth year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty (AD 1382). It has a radius of twelve miles, and the city wall is two feet five feet high and two feet thick. There is a gate each in the east, west and south, each with a tower and turrets at the four corners. At the beginning of liberation, the city walls were demolished. In 1982, the South City Gate was rebuilt. The word "Dali" on the front door was a collection of Guo Moruo's calligraphy. Entering the city from the South Gate, Fuxing Road leads directly to the North Gate and has become a bustling street market. Shops line the street selling marble, tie-dye and other ethnic crafts as well as jewelry and jade. Some old houses in the streets and alleys can still retain their former style, with sparse flowers and trees in the courtyards, the sound of birds chirping, and the gurgling water of the outdoor canals. The scene of "three houses with one well and one house with several pots of flowers" is still there.

The Huguo Road running east-west in the ancient city is called "Foreigner Street". There are Chinese and Western restaurants, cafes, teahouses and handicraft shops here one after another. The signs and advertisements are mostly written in foreign languages, attracting blond and blue-eyed "foreigners" to linger here, looking for the ancient charm of the East, gradually becoming a unique scenery.

On February 8, 1982, the State Council announced that Dali Ancient City was one of the first 24 historical and cultural cities in China.