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December 3, 1997, the UNESCO World Heritage Committee unanimously agreed to the inclusion of Lijiang ancient city, “the World Heritage List.”

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