Paradise on earth, Shangri-La, an ancient city at the junction of the three provinces, is seriously commercialized. What else is there to see?

The last time the black fat man came to this city, it was called Zhongdian, and now it has a new name: Shangri-La.

The name is new and the scenic spot is unheard of-Dukezong Ancient City. But the skin is still skin, not thoroughly remoulded.

Shangri-la, a paradise on earth, finally fell into a rut.

It's already very much like Dayan ancient city in Lijiang. It takes half a day to go around. It's amazing at first glance, but it's boring at second sight.

Excessive commercialization makes the ancient meaning of the ancient city disappear, and the rows of shops make it difficult for people to shift their eyes from those tourist souvenirs to the ancient buildings themselves.

What's more, most of the so-called ancient buildings can only be regarded as antique buildings.

Unfortunately, most of the so-called ancient towns in China are like this.

The homogenization of goods is very serious, so many shops are crowded together and sell the same goods. Apart from dealing with tourists, it is hard to believe that there will be real friendship between neighbors.

The black fat man saw a special wooden bowl exhibition hall in Diqing Museum, and introduced that the wooden bowl is a specialty of Benzilan, which is very close to Shangri-La. Tibetans can only use a wooden bowl all their lives.

This greatly touched the black fat man. He wanted to buy one for the female wolf as a souvenir, but there was no wooden bowl seller in the whole ancient city!

In these stores, you can find souvenirs sold in all the scenic spots in China, but you can't find the real local specialty wooden bowls. It's really weird.

Maybe I should stay here and open a wooden bowl shop, but I'm afraid to wake up the next morning and find that all the neighbors have started selling wooden bowls.

Fortunately, the ancient city can also give people a few surprises.

For example, if you walk on the street of the ancient city, you can look up from time to time and see the Big Buddha Temple built on Guishan Mountain.

Guishan almost concentrates all the highlights of this ancient city, and most of the local tourist attractions are on or near Guishan. So that it was packaged into a scenic spot: Guishan Park.

Guishan Park is in the east of Moonlight Square at the end of Dukezong ancient city. Built in the reign of Kangxi, it is the commanding height of the ancient city. Climbing can overlook the whole picture of the ancient city.

At the entrance of Guishan Park, the ancient well at the foot of Guishan is worth seeing. There is a big pool with clear and transparent spring water, which is said to be used by people in the past.

The water quality should be good. A mother and daughter came directly to get water to drink, but the spoon for getting water was common, so they were really worried about the little girl's health.

At the moment when the epidemic has not disappeared, scenic spots should no longer provide such public drinking water supply. But who knows, maybe people here have been like this for generations, have been integrated into life and have not suffered from the epidemic.

Walking to the top of Guishan Mountain, you can have a bird's eye view of the whole ancient city, and a large brand-new roof also makes the name of the ancient city even more unworthy.

Dukezong has two meanings in Tibetan pronunciation, one is "castle built on stone" and the other is "moonlight city". The ancient city is built on the mountain, and the road surface is uneven. The old stones are still there, but they are gradually replaced by new ones. Maybe it's all made of old ones.

This is the best preserved and largest Tibetan residential complex in China. As the years passed, these ancient buildings were gradually replaced. The ancient city, the ancient city, is probably just a nominal memorial to the ancient tea-horse road.

I don't know how many deep horseshoe prints have been left on the stone road, and the souvenirs left by the caravan to the years.

In any case, the Kameyama Buddhist Temple (in Kameyama Park) at the top of the mountain is a real ancient building.

The Buddha statue in the temple is extremely beautiful, and the giant prayer wheel beside it attracts many tourists. It is said that three turns can be worth 37.2 billion times of the six-character Daming mantra! ! ! Yes, it is 37.2 billion times! If you really recite the scriptures honestly, I'm afraid you won't be able to do it so many times in your life.

It is said that Tibetans invented the prayer wheel instead of chanting because they can't read, but this giant who is said to have infinite magic is a super liar in my opinion.

No offense to Tibetan Buddhism, but we are ignorant.

There are ten thousand more difficult ways in the world, but none of them can get the right result. If the Buddha's eyes are fixed on the world, it should not be because someone turned three times.

The west says that when human beings think, God laughs. The Buddha's expression when he saw the tourists turn this should not be too different.

There is a museum on both sides of Moonlight Square.

One is the Diqing Museum, which tells the history of Diqing. One is the Diqing Red Army Long March Museum. People who are interested in this history should go and see it. There are not many exhibits, but there is a lot of background knowledge. Even if they are not interested in this period of history, they should go to the central town court built in the second year of Yongzheng. The three-headed, six-armed Buddha statues in it are still good.

In the ancient city behind Guishan, there is a small pagoda. I especially like it. It's a bit like going back to Bataan Square in Nepal, with buildings behind it.

There is also the Tea Horse Ancient Road Museum in the ancient city, and Chen Zhandao is relatively novel. Use the personal life experience of a patriotic overseas Chinese to connect the whole history of the ancient tea-horse road.

Many old photos are very interesting.

The building is a three-story building, which should be a private museum. The first floor is a museum, and the hotel is above it.

It is worth mentioning that there are several real ancient buildings in the alley opposite the main entrance of the Tea Horse Road Museum, but they are the most interesting in the whole so-called ancient city.

The whole alley looks a little shabby and messy, but it is more like what the ancient city should look like.

Although commercialization is serious, I don't know whether it is an epidemic or other reasons. Most of the streets in the ancient city are empty, and many shops are closed and locked or hung with transfer notices.

Even in the shop with the big sign "The earth won't explode, we won't have a holiday" hanging at the door, the lock on the door is covered with dust. Passing by a cafe, the poster on it reads in English: Winter is coming.

Look at the silence around, think about this year's epidemic, and there is only a sigh.