Romantic view of Dali

 Xiao Yang
walk from the bottom up, which is like clouds on the mountain, ride the cable car up once they got into the clouds; casual, a pair of stone elephants and they leap into the eyes Aquarius , is said to respect the stone in the bushes and vines the year before last was found, and no stone found in many Nanzhao; full of ancient houses of the Bai Uva white walls, walking in quiet lanes, a rise of a music; the lights in the ancient street, suddenly a power cut, I saw one after another lit candle, and suddenly the sky between the stars are lit up, sitting on the second floor, as if sitting in between the hh
brilliant light and shadow Dali, the city has long been familiar, when you actually walk in the hills between Erhai Lake, into the The Province in the northwest, is the capital of Dali; population of 3.45 million, one-third of the total population Bai; is a prototype of low latitude and high monsoon climate, annual average temperature is 15 degrees Celsius, there is no obvious winter heat, Four Seasons is lush at this time I am in Dali, the night had to wear a coat, and winter was also wearing short-sleeved shirt; Dali landscape known as the Erhai month, when I walk into marble, the feeling here both seasons, regardless of mountain light clouds, whether ethnic customs, regardless of history and culture, all in the Dali
a clock day mountain landscape, a pool of water, which will be wrapped in a city, this city is the marble, this mountain is the hills, the water is the Erhai Lake.
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slowly upward as the cable car, the mountain is covered Cuise be blowing, it Cuise the top, that is, the clouds, that clouds are not floating in the air, and as if on top of the hill, along the rolling the mountain has been stretched into the distance. have seen the clouds in front, and just like a wall cloud wall, cable car, the cloud into the room, surrounded by mist Visible, muddle, look back, just there is a bright and sunny, here we into another world, like a flash came to the Ming short dark moment, confront unpredictable, adding a lot of travel was.
In fact, the hills of the cloud is also very famous for the the formation of clouds floating over the pine forest, and gradually gathered in the hills halfway, then quickly extended to the ends, into a white jade, lie hundreds of miles, Jingri leave and has always been known as the Bai farming proverb says, Yu Council summit, which clouds appear immediately after the blustery Erhai, setting off bursts of stormy sea, fishing boats can not sail, so Wang Fu Yun, also known as love and run away, hiding in the hunt to build a house to live Feng Yu Bureau, the Princess have lost the cold mountains, the hunter went to the temple to steal the Master Hai Dong Luo Quan Dongnuanxialiang into a stone spiral into Erhai Lake. Princess Wang Fu did not return, depression, death, fine gasification cloud. Whenever this cloud appeared turbid Erhai emptying it, which is a public water main blowing, see the bottom of the sea's husband.
addition to clouds, hills of the stream is also very special. Cangshan is a cross-sectional mountain, 19 peak, peak valley between the rivers have a total of 18 stream. I Bixi zigzags along the clear, the line to the depths of the canyon go all the way only two cable bridges and two wooden kiosk, the other without any sign of man-made and commercial atmosphere. empty mountains, knowing about, only I alone in the valley, on the hope that the two peaks towering, folder-day line, Look under the plants and flowers on every side, water rocks, leaving the path, marching a few stones to the point of the middle stream, reclining on the rocks, listening to the faint gurgling mountain stream and the ensemble, I seem to just pass through the sea of clouds from start, been through time and space, of Painting in the ancient literati poet poetry is vividly in the mind at this time, On the many troubles of urban life, let me in this landscape between the The Diancang camp, Diancang swordsmanship are derived. a sense of communication within the temple area near a pair of giant chess board, each piece has a round table big table, chess game has begun: horse a bit, finally Linhe hh in which the body, as if their own has become a pawn; next two games on those stone, mountain valleys in the air, staring stone, easy to produce illusion, chess master, will suddenly bayan will play pieces for hidden weapon hh this is the hills , weight 65 kg per piece, the use of glass fiber reinforced materials, the landscape has income Guinness World Book of Records.
Tips: 1 marble from the next town taxi related to the hills south gate of about 30 national geological parks yuan ( RMB following the same) 2 Tickets: 30 yuan, cable: 80 3 Note: the novel is Jane Long chess game chess, chess became a scenic 4 conversion, clear the Grand Canyon area Bixi terminal until Men Guan, tourists scarce, fallen off the way there are several stone steps need to be careful.
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Bai down from the hills, then to Lake, Tengen under the rain. Erhai total area of 250 square kilometers, north to south and east-west narrow, shaped like a human ear. take the boat tour from south to north, you need three to four hours. overcast cloud water, forming one of just Amidst the Rain , west of the Mountain is visible, take the east coast of the ship, so dimly, and the east coast of the south bank of the jade Ailaoshan mountains turn to the case of micro-emerges, it is only a rough outline; sight back, close The urgency of the rain, the lake hit a small ripple, ripple numerous, contiguous, with the undercurrent of the lake, even in the formation of a lot of levels on the river, there are deep with short, far stretch blank and, different levels of heaven, the clouds gradually melt in the one place, tell people up and down.
total of five boats, three or four months is a small private room, a karaoke OK for the road in the singing. just seated in the VIP, the radio will allow visitors to Layer 2 auditorium Bai song and dance. I went in when the show has begun, only to find white and red on the stage accompanied by vibrant and cheerful music . Bai white for your dress, in which relatively simple men of color, women are usually white shirt, red jacket, comes with apron, decorated with colored lace, is extremely bright. are immersed in the shadow of Bai Yan costumes, music screeching halt, the host says: The taste is very long, shallow to stay in the mouth, the Word of tea called tea, and came up second, and a taste is actually sweet mouthful, put the original brown sugar, cinnamon, and specialty food Rushan Bai, bitter taste sweet, the spirit of a people not help feeling cool, this Road ; take the first bitter sweet meaning; the third is called recollection of tea tea, seasoning with honey, walnuts and pepper, and drink this tea to shake Chazhong Road, whirring drink, this is when Bai festive welcome tea customs rain on the lake outside the window are woven into a kind of synesthesia, the distillation of my trip to Lake Erhai.
Erhai Lake cruise on the way the two parking spots, and the small island of Putuo Nanzhao style, one can only build a temple in the island was under the and customs on the island of Bai people worship like (Patron religion, almost every village in Dali district has its own local deities, it was a matter) enough to unforgettable.
Tips: 1, located in the port of Shimonoseki, the marble board 2, ticket: 142 per 20: 00mm22: 00 song, the reflection of light intertwine three towers and sea travel in the slowly agitated wings, the show reached its climax, the actors Zhang a coat of many colors dance on the stage, lights woven throughout the theater shaking hh Suddenly, the music turned gentle, melodious flute as the main theme, lighting is soft together, the stage preceding the pond, across a small boat floating in the air to the boat on the men and women in Qing Yin Bai sings, describing their love hh
Tips: 1, large ethnic style song and dance is Chao (6 large tribes), and later, with the support of the Tang Dynasty, one of the most powerful imperial master leather logic Court Nanzhao six imperial uniform was the king of Yunnan Chifeng court established Nanzhao, Nanzhao total mass of 13-bit generation, almost from beginning to the Tang Dynasty; Nanzhao death after he has gone through several short-lived kingdom of the sea during the Five Jie Du Duan Siping (Bai) to overthrow the righteous Ningguo, the establishment of Dali. Southern Song Dynasty Kublai Khan rate of force to move south, off of the Dali Kingdom, the establishment of Yunnan province. Ming and Qing dynasties are equipped with a county government, management, Dali. Nanzhao, Dali after Tang and Song dynasties, over 500 years, formed in Yunnan relatively stable political situation, a solid southwest border of the motherland and promote the rapid development of economy and culture in Southwest China.
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Speaking of ancient marble Nanzhao One of the most intact of the testimony so far, is located in the hills at the foot of the Three Pagodas, when the morning sun shines in one of three towers Chihiro tower, I have stood in this period built in Nanzhao Guta look it under the style of the millennium. Chihiro Miyan Shi hollow brick tower with a square tower, 16 floors, is typical of the Tang Dynasty style, similar to the Small Wild Goose Pagoda in Xi'an; other two small towers north and south is hollow brick octagonal Miyan Shi tower, 10 floors were built in the Dali Kingdom, their style is quite different from Chihiro tower, side towers near the Central Plains Song style.
different parts of the pagoda and the Central Plains, the Central Plains are mostly odd number of layers pagoda , which are even three towers.
Chong Sheng Temple Spirited Away the same period of the construction of the tower, and later destroyed, and now the magnificent temple worship Temple rebuilding in recent years, in full compliance with its original style. Chong Sheng Temple hillside built up step by step, standing upstairs viewing last courtyards, panoramic view of the city of Dali: Erhai Lake surrounded by hills of olive shape into an irregular, olive is the land of the north and south ends of off and on Shimonoseki is out of this self-sufficiency, dominating the party. According to friends, said Wu's Kublai year is over, surprise Dali; look back on a cloud surrounded by hills, several overlapping peaks, I do not know how the Mongol horsemen over the natural barrier that? Is it really as legend goes , have adequate guidance, fell from the sky? in wistful reveries of ancient, we left the area three towers, hit the road four to Beijing's things into the area, I immediately opened a joke: there is no back wall, as you can, as Khan, turned over from the other side of the mountain, from behind on the line directly into the hh , dusty past would occasionally away from the serious and the humor from the witty suddenly jumped out.
Tips: 1, Santa area not far from the hills .2 National Geological Park, Tickets: 121 yuan 12:00 mm13 : 00 Tian Long Ba Bu movie
light flashing, the women dressed in white head sword suddenly fly from the city, the wind caught her long hair, dancing in the hills under the mist on the diffuse, fluttering For hh cents away from the city of three towers near the Tian Long Ba Bu film, you may often see such a scene. movie is shot in the Mainland version of the tourists and costume film shooting. to say that the shadow of the ancient city of the modern town there, then here, you not only through time, the more the body in ancient times, and crossed the boundaries of reality and fiction, martial arts world in the GU Jian chrysanthemum to experience the feeling of floral Jianying: Walking through the the , here, but a very attractive place, as often is the costume drama was filmed martial arts, a lot of actors filming during the day and night to soak in Dali (from the movie close to) the Bar Street A local friend and Jimmy Lin played the game together in the cafes, fare: 52 yuan 13:00 mm16: 00 hi state style town houses
Bai town in the state hi vividly reflected in the three rooms of a screen wall (three sides of a room is white walls of the housing side pattern Court) Courtyard Five yards (surrounded by the house, the door opened at the corner of the house, the gap junction with the middle of the big yard for five yards) layout in the town can be seen, there are typically strict Courtyard. most of the tourists a Staff Committee to go, so the houses have been pulled designated tour watch the show. I left the crowd, into the deep alleys. town almost no other individual, quiet, dilapidated door, grassland clusters yard, the old lady reclining sun foot of the wall, closed courtyard of the branches out of trees and flowers, all the original look, all life is at your own pace during the town's commercial hh taste of travel seems to be alley walls get in the years beyond. every household on the door couplets are much less noisy atmosphere, and gave me the deepest impression. ; plum on the piano with Xuefei, willow Hanyan into wine, I went to the next journey.
Tips: 1, near Shimonoseki hi .2 Zhou Zhen, Yan Courtyard Tickets: 20 yuan 16:00 mm20: 00 Dali: occasional
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chance, walking the streets in the ancient city of Yunnan City I met Yang Jingkun cast, he is the ancient city of tourism development projects to do, he not talk about the project, but told me about ancient history, ancient city layout and then residential Qiaojiao cornices, brackets feature the art of painting.
now the city is the fifth year of Hongwu established, and dates back to Nan Zhao Dali Dali period. just Today, most of Wall street no longer exists, only a portion of the South Gate of the walls and repair, and Nan Zhao Dehua Stele years ago that people can recall the charm of the ancient city. Fortunately, the implementation of protection and development policies of Dali, the rational planning of various architectural features, Categories development, repair old as the effect of more and more obvious, the ancient city of ancient weathering clear up.
Tips: Dali, about 6 km away from the Metro.
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There is one in Dali called .
sitting on , filled the stars seemed twisted the switch, suddenly thrust, the uproar was lit up; this light, refreshing side to extend from the eaves to the side of the hills, hills are still, in the starlight, just along the shadow ; our street will be totally immersed in the city did not see it under the stars, but stars are not alone, because the front behind the bar next door, across the attic are already of age ;, I was surprised, even temporarily leave the feasting at the moment, there are so many people, leaning against the window, watching the stars hh
Tips: wine prices here cheaper than in Beijing, usually a bottle of Budweiser beer, 6-8 Yuan 21:00 mm23: 00 Weishan County arrived by car, living in Weishan, Dali Weishan is a county, more than an hour away from the station to the south of Dali passenger Weishan small CMB
third day County sites
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Wei Bao Shan State is the birthplace of Nanzhao, a total of four generations of the king in here to manage Nanzhao, leather logic after the Court moved from here Wo capital city (that is, Dali today), the Qing Dynasty, Mongolia Weishan set of health, and Weishan now the ancient city of ancient houses in the well-preserved Ming and Qing Dynasties. Nanzhao period, the various religious and cultural introduction Weishan, so here's diverse cultural heritage, Wei Bao Shan name of the first in which the loudest. Wei Bao Shan is a famous Taoist mountain, road viewers, incense is Sheng. But Wei Baoshan most unique and most interesting is that there was a land main temple, dedicated to the king of the first generation of fine Nanzhao Slave Law, the first lunar month every year sixteen, the local Yi people will worship in a large ceremony was held here, the structure of soil is the main temple buildings painted cornices, and the Taoist mountain in the very harmonious.
left the main temple of soil along winding stone steps, and this feeling of harmony with the surrounding light mist spread out, the stretch of the bamboo forest birds, stretch the concept of the pavilion buildings, stretching the once white walls of the channel flowing cursive words, stretch the Visitors heart of irritability, but also stretch the entire hh
eternal silence Wei Bao Shan Tips: Weishan also the source of the Red River, birds and other tourist attractions worth seeing Xiongguan Road, Weishan food surface ; the valley
Dali Kingdom Jianchuan Nanzhao popular Buddhism in India, sect of Tibetan Buddhism and the Central Plains have spread to the influence of Buddhism here, Bai A form of Buddhist culture, the unique culture of readers form of religious power, the sword Shi Zhong Chuan SHI Bao-shan Temple Grottoes scenic spot to demonstrate this point.
and Yungang, Longmen Grottoes compared to many here is really cold, empty mountains, knowing about, in the remote mountain road, then turn left a round, all the way, but gradually get roadside cliff see the stone carving stone Buddha or calligraphy. and these ruins are said to Ming and Qing Dynasties, the real Bell Temple was built was very interesting, is the gate leading to the caves after the road, but here is a passage like that behind the rocks, flowers, caves and trails have been put into the day as if for the top, for the base of the ; years. sihou stone is a stone bell, bell temple is said to stone shaped like upside down because of this huge boulder, named after the clock. over the top of the red sandstone rock weathering-stemmed , people began to enter the Buddhist lotus sing to that realm of Buddhism. slow down, slow heart go for tours, a cave of a cave to see the past, the gentle mood, tranquil mood, even after thousands of years of wind and rain, is still From a clear and vivid sculpture vividly convey to us bit by bit, with the quiet charm of the art of promoting the Buddhist mercy, Purdue realm of sentient beings. and that details of the pattern at the brackets are everywhere permeated with the local people's culture element. Here's our seventh laparotomy Guanyin Cave is very special in her heart of a square hole in the legend is the Goddess of Mercy in the area preaching preach Nanzhao, Purdue beings when being defamatory, and she will take Caesarean section heart, to show Dharma and sincere; Statue flowing lines, elegant clothing, called the stone quality, especially her smile, harmony Enron, meaningful, someone from an artistic point of view called 139 footer statues, statues removed, there are rules of procedure Wang Nan Zhao, Nan Zhao Wang fine slave logic family, Persians and other statues and the magic of female reproductive worship statues).
locals tell me, SHI Bao-shan area there are many undiscovered Lohan eight hundred caves carved; I saw the stone near the temple bell lion-shaped rock, which on the look under the deep, mountain breeze fluttering, I can not help the imagination: visual field in that grass, gravel, the in the end also in possession of many thousands of years hidden hh
Tips: 1, background Jianchuan County in the north of Dali, living in Dali, Lijiang, Diqing the middle of the three popular tourist area, is the highest proportion of the population of the counties Bai, who fifty years in China Red-level Mainland short film, Jianchuan from Dali to take about three hours, also return Jianchuan Terminal 3 bus Dali, accommodation: Jianchuan County, there are two small two-star hotels, some residents may stay at home, low-cost; recommend staying good big profits hotel, excellent facilities, service attitude is also very good, the room price 80mm150 yuan (regulation changes with the seasons) .4, Addendum: Jianchuan there are mountain lions in the Lion and has thousands of tea-horse ancient inn Town can see the sand.