Chuaizhe “several more” m-sun and a restlessness, depressed heart, I came to Lijiang. Looking for that legendary quiet alleys, the old bluestone
Board Road, mysterious Dongba culture of Naxi … simple … choose to live in the Naxi net inn, one full of rich local Naxi style inn.

Walk in the smooth “streaky stone” paved small streets, feel the pulse of the ancient city, rich, really have a slow breath, time to stop feeling, with
Letter each to the Old Town of Lijiang’s people will feel this shock! Ancient buildings, narrow street, Chuanjie stream around the room, a “bridge, stream
Water, people “screen, if not close the Jade Dragon Snow Mountain, will people have a misplaced sense of time and space, so you think to the Waters
Township, no wonder people call it “Oriental Venice.”

Lijiang can be said is pure, peaceful place, where the sky seems to always be dark blue, river runs through the city, a small river forever
Becomes clear, from time to time you can see groups of small fish swim in the water reverse. Spring of the city were filled with rows of willow, long hair like the girls down to the River
Lane, facing the sunshine from time to time to show visitors the first Nongzi. Pink rose in full bloom everywhere in the trail wall, fence cottage casual and naive Department
Display with their own, without cover, that wild and the beautiful, Jieao the tenacity and amazing.

Immersed in Lijiang’s life is soft as satin, walking slowly, slowly watching, Lijiang hermit and celebrities as much more mysterious feel, more than a few
Sub secretly speculations. Here, different style of Chinese and foreign visitors and Tsing Yi Su Fu of the Naxi people embraced modern civilization and ancient old folk
Symbiotic culture of calm, snow on the Yulong Snow Mountain, the ancient city of brilliant sunshine, legend of the lake, the cool and pleasant town of Lijiang; wooden palace of
Rain Liufang, floating about the Naxi ancient music, natural landscapes and historical and cultural gap between the pay melting together to form a piece of elegant Southern Ink
Painting.

Especially the ancient city of night. Stream side of the bar sitting, a cup of bitter coffie, savored away from the hustle and bustle of the share of pleasure, and heart
Feel the charming Old Town of Lijiang. Each corner of the ancient city covered in a stone road, step on a few hundred years after the smooth surface like a mirror, at night
Under the glow of silver light light. Wooden buildings, painted in red paint, as the passage of time become dark brown, set off the entire city of Lijiang was more
Plain and full of flavor. Like Lijiang, like where the madding crowd, like there’s honest peace, like there’s bright sunlight, like there
The Naxi … …

Do not know whether to throw in the soul of Lijiang, came back to write the tourism travels, but his thoughts always emerge with some beautiful shots, as
False in a dream-like, not easy to write her, because some feel that I still can not use words to describe. Trance is always another walk in the ancient city that used
Blue flagstone-paved road, watching the clear water in that long, green plants, goldfish swimming against the stream, that small bridges people, stayed in a
Every family mini-bar, a small shop, laid-back people … …

Lijiang Ancient Town is very busy, people walking stone pavement was very smooth, narrow lanes on both sides is a rich Naxi characteristics of a small house, one by one in the store, buy something with a variety of characteristics, Dongba wood carving, painting. Bells, shawls …. also snacks, I see the most is the inn. There are many restaurants, cafes, bars. These restaurants, cafes, small bridges over the edge of downtown can choose if you like a coffee shop in the small bridges side, because normally this cafe is completed by the way coming and going places. If you like quiet, you can go as deep in the alley, choose a coffee shop located in the hills, drinking coffee, you can also enjoy the town while the whole picture. We are tired, it looked like a coffee shop called Hope Daren, the Yunnan arabica coffee there really is tasty, the owner calmly to you now wear, and then boil the food for thought, I found that the company’s coffee drink.

To the water side of a one night restaurants, coffee shops became a bustling bar. Sitting in water on both sides, the two people will shop across the water, under the leadership of the Naxi girl singing in antiphonal style with each other, good fun. We had to go the first day of the famous ‘Yimiyangguang’ bar, but not the window seat. Only to the next one is called ‘family’ of the bar, a window seat. Day of brisk walking to the ‘Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles’ bar, Lijiang toursthe three are next to of, ‘Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles’ live singing and dancing with the Naxi girl. Window seats can only point of food or wine, not tea. So, the bar should be advised to go prepared to avoid angry heart.

Talk about the ancient town of Lijiang in the eating, the whole is very expensive, casual meal would have two small 100. Lijiang snacks rather general, Lijiang Baba is actually puff pastries for dessert, there are sweet with salty; chicken bean jelly, fried bean jelly; fried rice bowel. In the ancient town of Lijiang eat more delicious, the Backstreet Naxi style spicy hot pot with a very good bacteria that we want is chicken hot pot, is a black-bone chicken with mushrooms taste very delicious with London, Naxi fried rice, East Pakistan grilled fish.

Let me say Beam River, this town is even earlier than the ancient town of Lijiang ancient town 200 years. Clean than a lot of Lijiang ancient town, where many people, all of the store are handmade, there are a lot of silver jewelry store, you can see the Naxi people hammering making jewelry, where the evening is even more pure, and dark alleys can not go on. The depth of the more day to go, the more we can find another piece of heaven and earth, tired still to find a coffee shop and sat down to drink a glass of Yunnan arabica coffee, and then the sun is very casual!

Talk about the bundle River to eat, have a wild strain of the restaurant, very good. Kunming toursMany wild mushroom, you can choose with a little bacon, ham, fried with food, again a delicious chicken soup bacteria Rong great! There is a private kitchens, a noon time only two of us, the store layout with large living room feel at home, where BBQ, Sausage, roast chicken, Bamboo Rice is very tasty. And the Beam River Ancient Town of Lijiang is cheaper than a meal.

Beam River from the hotel relatively close to, 2 km away. Can walk, you can also hit cars in the past 7 yuan.
Lijiang fast the night before leaving we again toured the Lijiang ancient town, bought some specialty snacks. The next morning flight back to Beijing Cheng ……

Lijiang is located in the Jinsha River, a long history, beautiful scenery, magnificent natural environment, the descendants of the ancient Qiang, Naxi home. Old Town of Lijiang elevation 2,400 m, Lijiang Naxi Autonomous County is the center of the city, one of China’s historical and cultural city, is a national key scenic spots.

Surrounded by mountains and water in the Lijiang County, according to legend because of the shape of one big named Yan “in the town.” To explore its past, it was found had been forgotten this piece of “Gu Naxi kingdom,” since ancient times human beings have lives and breeds. Today’s master Naxi nationality, is a descendant of the ancient Qiang people south. In thousands of years of a long years, their hard labor, and build their beautiful homeland.

Here is located in Yunnan, Sichuan and Tibet toursthoroughfares, frequent business travel activities in ancient times, enables local people to a flourishing population, soon became known far and near the market and town. Generally believed that the city of Lijiang Song and early Yuan Dynasty began. AD 1253, Kublai Khan (Yuanshizhu Emperor) Nanzheng Dali, there was a garrison here. Thus began the nearly five hundred years until the early Qing Dynasty, Lijiang area are all under the jurisdiction of the central dynasty Naxi ancestors and Chieftains Mu (1382 establishment) hereditary rule. In the meantime, had traveled in Yunnan in the Ming Dynasty geographer Xu (1587 – 1641), in the “Yunnan Tour Diary” was described in Lijiang City “houses community, tile roofs were crowded,” Ming city has a population of more than a thousand households, shows that urban construction have a considerable size.

Beitiao from Lijiang, Yulong Snow Mountain is a towering sky, magnificent scenery changes. Folk say it is “the same mountain four seasons, different weather in different.” Here is known as “treasure house of flora and fauna” reputation, but also a huge natural reservoir.

About Lijiang ancient stones paved streets, roaming Zhenbei Square Street Business Centre, will see water gurgling canals, riverside willows Fushui City restaurants with residential or front of the bridge, or a river behind the house, numerous streets trickle , winding away through the wall around the family. This Unit came from the north of the city clean the foot of Yuquan Xiangshan.

Years ago by the city built underground springs and many Seisensui Longtan white horse has surviving, people create “a pool of a well three ponds” of water means that the first pond of water, 2 ponds vegetables, three ponds laundry, water down the order, both scientific and sanitary. Residents also to wash Street, as long as the discharge gate blocking the river overflow water discharged homeopathic stone pavement can wash away dirty, to keep the market clean.

Mountain on the water in the town of Lijiang tours, neither tall siege, and no spacious and bright road, but it is quaint picturesque, always revealed a natural and harmonious. Town houses scattered due to topography and water fluctuations, people built a beautiful wood and stone and soil for the residential, integrated into the Han, Bai and Tibetan traditional houses, forming a unique style. Local common are the “three Square screen wall” type houses, or main room, rooms with traditional courtyard houses enclosed by walls. Each room three floors, south of the main room for elders living things generally Xiabei occupancy rooms. Housing more out of the eaves at both sides of the gable, decorative fish-shaped or leaf-shaped piece of wood, it is called “hanging fish” to pray for “luck and more than.” Many carved exquisite garden gate, courtyard with gravel, tiles, tile shop floor, facing main room usually has six lattice windows and doors, windows heart sculpture mostly seasonal flowers or auspicious birds and beasts. In front Langyan is mostly wide, is a warm and cozy space.

Lijiang Naxi culture has always been important to teach yet, many good poems piano paintings. In the ancient city of colorful festivals, in addition to the national songs and dances and local night drama, an amateur performance of “ancient music” the most famous. Among them, the “white sand fine music” as the set of songs, dance, music as one of the major classical music divertimento, known as “living musical fossil”; another Lijiang “hole through music” is derived from ancient Taoist music, it retains many of the Central Plains long lost song speech phonology. Lijiang Naxi ancient music has been invited to perform in many countries in Europe, was warmly welcomed by the audience and praise. As the band members are mostly elderly people from the folk over seventy years of age, so there “Naxi Orchestra birthday” in the world.

Lijiang is famous for murals, located in the ancient city and around the 15 temples, these Ming and Qing paintings with a variety of religious denominations and the salient features of the coexistence of content integration. Remains in Pak Sha Tsuen, Tai Po plot Lijiang Palace murals “Amitayus Tathagata will”, and Chinese Buddhism, Tibetan Buddhism and Taoism with a hundred deity statues painted to reflect the characteristics of the Naxi religious China culture tour.

Lijiang area has so far circulating a picture of pictograph “Dongba Culture.” This Naxi Dongba scriptures ancestors used to record the unique words, is the only surviving picture of Pictograph. Today, China and Europe and the United States are stored in a number of national libraries, museums, more than 20,000 volumes of Dongba ancient books and records of the Naxi culture thousands of years of glorious history. One is called “consultation model” Dongba dance spectrum, including dozens of ancient art of dance music and dance, is extremely rare precious artifacts. Known as the ancient Naxi “encyclopedia” of Dongba scriptures, the study of Naxi culture, China World Heritage Tourshistory of great value

Shopping guide
Lijiang ancient city was occupied by mostly Naxi people. I feels that Naxi people’s quality is very high. Asking directions will be got enthusiastic and detailed guide; chartered trips along the way, the driver will act as a guide for the attractions we are not familiar with; bubble tea can be heard free of charge to hear the explaination of the history of Lijiang Dongba Culture and so on.If the Naxi people opened a shop where to buy things, they are usually honest so that you need not bargin with them. However, many non-native gather here, they usually raise the price to do business, sell at a discount. Therefore, you  must bargain when shopping with them.
Here, all the houses along the street are stores. And the open hours are very long so that 10 pm You can also buy things. Prices are cheaper than the big cities in china, but more expansive than most general medium and small cities. Especially the supermarket, about 10% more expensive than Beijing (no exaggeration). Travelling to Lijiang, you’d better take with all daily necessities, especially snacks.

Clothing  guide
Lijiang, a great temperature difference between day and night in winter,and it is relatively dry.In early January, the temperature is 0 ℃ ~ 17 ℃,you must wear cotton clothing when you go out. You can seeeverywhere on the streets women wearing national costumes, dressed in well-known daytime clothes: a sheepskin shawls, embroidery above the wearing seven circle symbol of the Big Dipper. There are sheep in the back, a chill can be blocked, and second, in order to carry the weight Dianzhuo can be seen, Naxi women are hard-working. In addition, we must take note of them (especially older women) and cuff, all are rolled up, and repsent they are always working.

Food guide
” Lijiang cuisine “tastes spicy most. Famous cuisines in Lijiang are:
Lijiang Baba: fried noodles, sweet.
Chicken bean jelly beans: that mung bean jelly, suitable for four seasons consumption.

Accommodation guide
The ancient city within, the accommodation is relatively cheaper. Double standard room is about 80 yuan / night. Due to the protection of the environment, city hotel within few separate toilet room, mostly are public bathrooms. Living in old buildings, THE night is so quiet that the city people can’t imagine.

Transportation guide
Convenient transport, is the characteristic of all small cities. Many bus lines can be described as extending in all directions. There is a conductor on each bus, so you do not need to specially prepare small changes. Here, take a taxi, do not have to worry about blocking, and almost no “black car.”

Enjoying travelling to Lijiang!

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