Population density: 39 people/km2

Yanyuan County is located in the southeastern edge of the Tibetan Plateau, on the west bank of the lower reaches of the Yalong River, with an area of 8,398 square kilometers and a population of 335,000 people. It has beautiful scenery, abundant products, pleasant climate and simple folk customs. Historically, the "Southern Silk Road" and prosperity, and now to the benefits of salt and iron, mountains and rivers of victory and Lugu Lake Mosuo wedding customs and known far and wide, there is a mysterious "daughter of the country" said.

The county contains salt, iron, gold and other 41 kinds of mineral resources; habitat of the black-topped cranes, bears, roe deer and other rare animals; abundance of apples, jinbian melons, and other famous specialties, is the southwest region's largest apple production base. The former chief of the Sichuan Provincial People's Congress, Comrade Hao Torch, had this inscription Yanyuan: "the victory of the mountains and rivers, according to the lakes and the sea of the visit, with the benefits of salt and iron, with the length of forests and trees".

Yanyuan County jurisdiction over 8 towns, 25 townships, 1 ethnic townships: Yanjing Township, Weicheng Township, Meiyu Township, Baiwu Township, Shuhe Township, Huangcao Township, Pingchuan Township, Luguhu Lake Township, Shuanghe Township, Dry Sea Township, Shimohai Township, Cotton Pass Township, Gantang Township, Mallu Township, Fujiqiao Township, Tianwan Township, Deshi Township, Daxiang Township, Yiantang Township, Wumu Township, Dachao Township, Boda Township, Jinhe Township, the right townships, Bazhou Township, Asa Township Changbai Township, Taozi Township, Gaijian Township, Qianshuo Township, Wodi Township, Dapo Mongolian Township, Wali Township, Meiziping Township.

History

Yanyuan County has a history of 2140 years, and its name has changed several times. In Han, it was called "Tingxiao County", in Tang, it was called "Kunming County" (in the Middle Tang, it was renamed "Xiangcheng County"), in Song, it was called "Hetoudian In the Song Dynasty, it was called "HeTouDian", in the Yuan Dynasty, it was called "PaiXingFu" (later renamed "RunYanZhou"), in the Ming Dynasty, it was called "YanJingWei", and in the seventh year of the Yongzheng Dynasty of the Qing Dynasty, it was designated as "Yanyuan County", inherited to this day.

Yanyuan is famous for its "salt and iron", and is an important corridor of the ancient Southern Silk Road, a major town in the southwest and a famous historical county.

Location

Yanyuan County is located in the southern edge of the Tibetan Plateau, the west bank of the lower Yalong River. Geographic coordinates: east longitude 100°42′09″ - 102°03′44″, north latitude 27°06′31″ - 28°16′31″. It belongs to Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture. It is separated from Yalong River in the east and Xichang City, Dechang County and Miyi, connected with Yanbian County in the south, Ninglang County in Yunnan Province in the west, and connected with Muzhe Autonomous County and Coronation County in the north. It covers an area of 8398.6 square kilometers. The county town is located in Yanjing Town.

Population

Yanyuan County is home to 21 ethnic groups, including Yi, Han, Mongolian, Tibetan, Hui, Naxi, Lisu and Pumi, with a total population of 335,000 people.

Transportation

Yanyuan County is 153 kilometers away from Xichang City in the east, 103 kilometers away from Muli County in the north, and 118 kilometers away from Lugu Lake in the west.

Yanyuan has five highway corridors and one water transportation corridor. The five highway corridors are: ＄307 line (Xichang City - Yanyuan County - Lugu Lake); two salt road (Yanyuan County - Yanbian County); salt Ning Road (Yanyuan County --Ninglang County, Yunnan); Yanshu Road (Yanyuan County -- Ertan Reservoir); and Yanmu Road (Yanyuan County -- Muli County). A water transportation channel is the Yalong River Water Transportation Channel in Ertan Reservoir Area (to Panzhihua City). The county has formed a network of highways through the townships, with 1,650 kilometers of roads in the county.

Environment

Yanyuan County is 133km long from east to west and 129km wide from north to south. the elevation is generally between 2300m and 2800m, with the highest elevation of 4393m and the lowest elevation of 1200m. the county has a high mountainous terrain and a high mountainous terrain, with a high mountainous terrain and a high mountainous terrain. The topography is characterized by high mountains, steep slopes, deep valleys and basins. The basin (dam) covers an area of 1,080 square kilometers. The county has a good ecological environment, with a forest cover of up to 32%.

Climate

The four seasons are distinct, with a small annual temperature difference and a large daily temperature difference, with a frost-free period of 201 days throughout the year, an average temperature of 12.1℃ and a maximum temperature of 30.7℃. The county winter and spring drought, summer and autumn rainfall concentration, rain and heat in the same season, sunshine is sufficient, with "a mountain divided into four seasons, ten miles of different days" of the typical three-dimensional climate characteristics, the average annual precipitation of 855.2mm.

Biology

Known rare birds and beasts of 44 kinds of hundreds of valuable medicinal herbs, 1400 kinds of medicine plants; wild edible fungi such as matsutake mushrooms, and the highest temperature of 30.7 ℃. There are more than 1400 kinds of medicinal plants; wild edible mushrooms such as matsutake mushroom, shiitake mushroom, fungus, porcini mushroom, chicken brown mushroom, etc., which are famous in domestic and foreign markets; Yanyuan apple is a famous brand in China.

Minerals

More than 40 kinds of minerals have been proved, among which the total reserve of rock salt reaches more than 2.7 billion tons, and the reserve of iron-rich ore is huge, which is known as "Oriental Ural".

Attractions

▲Grass Sea 15,000 acres of grass sea, is set in the Lugu Lake east of the emerald. 37 kinds of aquatic plants, 42 kinds of rare birds, plus 11 kinds of fish, shrimp, shellfish, snails, frogs, constituting a rare biological Grand View Garden. Grass sea reeds such as walls, intricate waterways, red dresses and white skirts of the Mosuo girl rowing a piggy bank boat infested with the melodious "ah-ha bara" folk song echoed in the water and grass. This free, this free, the heart and drunk, people also obsessed.

▲Walking Bridge The Mosuo people, who live in a matrilineal family, practiced the custom of "walking marriage" in which "men don't marry and women don't get married". This across the grass sea, connecting the two sides of the village of the wooden bridge, more than 300 meters long, for the "walking marriage" "A Xia" provides a convenient channel. "The first love magpie bridge in the world."

▲Black Lama Temple The Black Lama Temple, built next to the Sea of Grass, is the oldest "Benpo Sect" (Black Sect) religious place of Tibetan Buddhism. It is the only Black Sect temple in Lugu Lake. The temple held in accordance with the law of the legal activities, become the Mosuo people grand festival.

▲The Last Tusi Princess Mansion The residence of Xiao Shuming, the Han Chinese wife of the last Zosho Tusi of Lugu Lake. Here, Mrs. Xiao tells overseas visitors about her legendary life.

▲Zavuluo dock Caohai Mosuo tribal village. The village is located in the deep water along the edge of the Caohai Sea. There is a large Mosuo song and dance venue in the village, and there are dining and lodging venues and waterway jetties by the lake. Boarding the boat here, through the grass sea, into the "bright sea" (Lugu Lake deep water), straight to Bo Au Island (Wangfei Island), along the Bo Au Lake Bay in the village of Luowu ashore, Lugu Lake, the most distinctive tour of the lake line.

▲Luowu Fort Mosuo Luowu tribal village near the lake peninsula mountain package. The first time I saw the movie, I saw the movie, I saw the movie, I saw the movie, I saw the movie. Climbing Luowu Fort, the left to see the "grass sea" green wave Cui, right to see the "bright sea" blue waves even the sky, Lugu Lake colorful as far as the eye can see.

▲Bo Au Bay The bay between Luowu Peninsula and Bo Au Peninsula is one of the most beautiful bays in Lugu Lake. In the bay waters, there are patches of spinach leaf seaweed (Lugu Lake's unique aquatic plants), white flowers floating on the crystal water, like a sky full of stars. Lake Bay slopes, mountain flowers like brocade, green pines and cypresses, pavilions such as cover. Whether you are boating on the waterway or riding a horse on the dry road, you will get the feeling of being in the fairyland of the Yaochi in Bo Au Bay.

▲Bo Au Peninsula lovers tree Bo Au Peninsula on the slopes, there are two pines long to half of the steep left bend right horizontal, two trees connected, intertwined, shaped like an arch, constitute the wonders of heaven and earth aura. Ancient poems say, "In the sky, I wish to be a bird with two wings, and in the earth, I wish to be a branch with two branches." The "Axia" couple tree of Mosuo Daughter Country is the heavenly proof of love on earth. The picturesque Bo Au Peninsula is the most popular place for lovers in the world.

▲Bo Au Island (Princess Island) With the Bo Au Peninsula responding to the Bo Au Island, the last generation of the Zuoshuo Tusi built a luxury palace on it to accommodate the Han Chinese lady Xiao Shuming from Ya'an. 16 years old Xiao Shuming, in this island to spend her entire youthful years. Now, the country is still the same, but the people are all different. Wandering among the ruins of the island, one can feel a lot of emotions.

▲Small Grass Sea The wetland between the villages of the Mosuo Awa tribe under the Houlong Mountain is about 1,000 acres, with dense water plants and abundant fish and shrimp, and it is the habitat of water birds in Pingba District. Every year in the fall and winter, hundreds of birds gather, people walk along the water's edge, birds and birds do not scare. Man and nature, living in harmony, is a piece of pure land in the village cluster.

▲Duck Pass The small grass sea in the middle of the mountain range, the mountain interrupted, forming a half-moon shaped pass. In the fall and winter, the water birds in the "bright sea" fly over the pass in groups to stay in the small grass sea. Previously, at dusk, the local townspeople often in the pass across the cloth a fishnet, a short time will be able to capture more than ten ducks. This behavior is now prohibited.

▲Sacrifice to the gods platform built on the top of the bird Jue mountain. Pavilions and corridors, exquisite craftsmanship. The Mosuo people to female for the big, called Lugu Lake for "Xie Naimi" (mother sea), honoring the goddess Gem. Under the altar, the mother sea of blue waves, Gem goddess mountain rose from the sea, towering into the clouds. Mosuo "turn to the sea festival", "turn to the mountain festival" during the Mosuo family to come, in this worship mother sea goddess mountain. As a place of attraction, it is the best place to view the lake and mountains.

▲Torujue Lake Bay One of the most beautiful lake bay of Lugu Lake, a bay of blue lake, a bay of quiet jungle, a bay of jagged rocks, constituting Torujue Lake Bay distinctive features. And a stone beach in the bay, paved with countless golden color, texture like a picture of the exquisite stone, can be compared with the Nanjing "rainflower stone", the Department of Lugu Lake is one of the best.

▲The ancient road to the mountain Tuojue Mountain belongs to the Houlong Mountain Range, hidden in the thick forest, the Mosuo people "turn the mountain" of the ancient road. The ancient road over the ridge of the Houlong Mountains, can be through the Bove Lake Bay, to the village of the Mosuo tribe in Luowu. The "Bird's Nest - Luowu" old road is a golden line for touring the mountains and seeing the water.

▲Hou Long Mountain Hou Long Mountain is a long island wedged into the heart of Lugu Lake, winding up to 4 kilometers long. Houlong is a male mountain god in Mosuo mythology, who was a favorite couple with the goddess Gem. The two of them into a mountain island, daytime across the sea want to see, the night "walking marriage" **** spend the night. Sightseeing along the back of the Dragon ridge of the old road, the left to see the "grass sea", the right to see the "bright sea", the landscape is rich, wonderful words like pearls. "Up the mountain to see the sea, down the sea to see the mountain", Houlong Mountain, both to see the mountain to see the sea of the wonderful.

▲Puddle Collapse Lake Bay One of the most beautiful lake bay of Lugu Lake. The area is wide open, the horizontal face of the Goddess Mountain, the beautiful Anna Oh Island, and ten miles of sandy shore, all in the lake bay picture, the dock scene is very special, dozens of brightly colored boats, not docked at the shore, but randomly floating in the water, as if it is entirely to embellish the scenery, but it does constitute a pleasing picture. The highway along the lake that passes through the bay leads to Lijiang in Yunnan Province, thus making Pudding Lake Bay a stop for tour groups.

▲Lover's Beach The ten miles of sandy shores of Puddle Down Lake Bay are beautifully landscaped with willows. In the twilight, two couples walk hand in hand, even if they have no words, but also have the tenderness.

▲Lover's Castle The shape of the mountains on the shore of the Tar Pits is similar to that of a sleeping beauty. "Where to go, where to go, go to get married! Lover's Castle, Lover's Castle, look at the stars!" -- is a popular catchphrase among local youth.

▲Gesa Mosuo Matrilineal Tribe The village of Gesa under the Lover's Castle in Pudding Lake Bay is one of the oldest villages of the Mosuo tribe. The old residential buildings, original Mosuo folk customs and traditions are still well preserved. In recent years, the village has been opened to the public, becoming a base for tourists and scholars to experience the Mosuo style.

▲Dazu Lake Bay Dazu Lake Bay's special status, in addition to the location of the Goddess of Mercy, embracing the landscape value of the Anna Russian island, but also in the lake bay has a complete and pure Naxi village. Naxi people have a long history, Naxi culture is profound, into the Naxi village to experience the Naxi style, after singing the "Lugu Lake love song" and then sing "Naxi girl flower flower color", the feeling is different.

▲Anna Rio Island The Anna Rio Island in the bay of Dazu Lake is a pearl of Lugu Lake. The first thing you need to do is to get a good look at the color of the water and the color of the water, and you will be able to see the color of the water. Along the path of the island on the top, before the year, half of Lugu Lake in full view; after the view, the towering goddess mountain towering clouds. From the Naxi village rowing boat to Anna Russian island only 15 minutes, if the journey time is tight, then, Anna Russian island tour, in one or two hours, can also appreciate the mother of the sea goddess mountain charm. If you have enough time, in the island of the mountains and see the water, on the spot picnic, taste the freshness of the lake fish, and at the same time with the Naxi girl or Mosuo girl song, will be a lifetime unforgettable happy journey.

▲Gem Goddess Mountain Gem Goddess Mountain is 3754.7 meters above sea level, is the highest peak around Lugu Lake. From the old road of turning mountains after Dazu Naxi Village, through the cypress incense forest, you can get to the top of the Goddess Temple and Goddess Cave. In Mosuo mythology, this mountain is the embodiment of the goddess Gem. Lugu Lake is shaped like a half-moon, and only by climbing to the Goddess Mountain can you get a panoramic view of Lugu Lake. During the festival, Mosuo people will go up to the Goddess Mountain to worship the goddess. From the head to the foot of the mountain, the team formed a colorful dragon, "Goddess song" resounded through the clouds. There are hundreds of famous mountains in China, and Gem Goddess Mountain has a unique style of "unity of heaven and man".

▲Luyuan Cliffs The total volume of Lugu Lake is 1.953 billion cubic meters, more than Yunnan Dianchi. The lake's water supply in addition to rainfall and Sichuan springs, mainly lies in Lugu Lake's own groundwater. Lugu Lake's groundwater outlet is located at Lugu Cliff. The rocky cliffs here are like chippings, and the landscape is unique. Sitting on the rocky reefs under the cliffs, thinking about the magic and harmony of heavenly creations, will be many feelings about heaven and earth and people.

In January 2021, the 2020 Rural Revitalization Communication Influence County Ranking was released, and Yanyuan County ranked 217th.

On January 21, 2021, Yanyuan County was on the list of advanced counties (cities and districts) in Sichuan Province in 2020 for farmers' income-generating work.

On December 3, 2020, the Sichuan Provincial Office of Spiritual Civilization Construction announced the list of selected cities for the fifth Sichuan Provincial Civilized Cities, and Yanyuan County was on the list.

On March 15, 2019, Yanyuan County was on the list of 2018 National Basic Balanced Counties (Cities and Districts) for Compulsory Education Development.