Dali, known as the Dali Bai Autonomous Prefecture, is located in the central west of Yunnan Province, the city's east patrol Erhai, west and the Dancang Mountains. Here the climate is mild, the land is fertile, the landscape is beautiful and colorful, is one of China's southwest border development earlier, as far as four thousand years ago, Dali area has the activities of the original inhabitants. Dali is known as the "Wind, Flower, Snow and Moon", i.e. the wind of Xiaguan, the flowers of Shangguan, the snow of Cangshan, and the moon of Erhai. With an altitude of 2090 meters, it is adjacent to Chuxiong Prefecture in the east, Pu'er City and Lincang City in the south, Baoshan City and Nujiang Prefecture in the west, and Lijiang City in the north. The capital of the Autonomous Prefecture is located in Xiaguan, Dali City, 338 kilometers away from Kunming City. The total area of the prefecture is 29,459 square kilometers. The mountainous area accounts for 83.7% of the total area, and the dam area accounts for 16.3%. The maximum horizontal distance between east and west reaches more than 320 kilometers, and the maximum vertical distance between north and south reaches more than 270 kilometers. Dali's main humanistic monuments and tourist attractions: the three pagodas of Chongsheng Temple, the ancient town of Yunanyi, the ancient city of Weishan, the Bai village of Zhoucheng (tie-dye township), Yanjiayuan, Jianchuan wood carvings, a thousand years of Bai villages, the Yunlong Taijitu, the cremation tomb group of the Daci Temple, and the ancient architectural complex of the Hutoushan. Scenic spots Cangshan Erhai Cangshan Erhai is located in Dali Bai Autonomous Prefecture of Yunnan Province, which is a place desired by ancient and modern travelers. Yang Shengan, a famous literati in Ming Dynasty, depicted it as "the mountains are verdant and verdant, and the sea is half-moon covered with blue", and "once I look at the Cangshan Mountains and Erhai, I don't feel refreshed and fly over". Today there are Chen Yunhe's poem "Dali short aria": "Cangshan's snow, the Erhai's moon, the flowers of the Shangguan, the wind of the Xiaguan more added to the ancient city of the 'four best' of the divine Nowadays, Tang Nanzhao State and Song Dali State old city of the Southwest Silk Road with the new highway is talking about love". Cangshan Mountain, also known as point Cangshan, *** there are nineteen peaks, each peak elevation of 3500 meters above sea level, the highest peak is more than 4000 meters above sea level. Cangshan Mountain scenery has always been known for snow, clouds, springs. Cangshan snow through the summer, is the famous Dali "wind, flowers, snow and moon" the most of the four scenes. In the wind and sunshine in March, the top of Cangshan Mountain appears to be crystalline and serene, worthy of a crystal world of ice and jade. Point Cangshan clouds change colorful, sometimes as light as green smoke, sometimes as thick as ink. In the summer and fall, from time to time there are white clouds like a jade belt across the beam in the verdant mountainside, long as a hundred miles, even the day does not disappear, charming and attractive. On the top of Cangshan Mountain, there are a lot of alpine moraine lakes, lakes are surrounded by virgin forests that cover the sky. There are 18 streams, lagging between the 19 peaks, moisturizing the foothills of the dam in the land, but also embellished the scenery of Cangshan. Cangshan is also a world of flowers. There are not only dozens of species of rhododendrons, but also rare Common Gromwell and hydrangea.　Erhai is a windy and beautiful plateau lake, in a long and narrow shape, 40 kilometers long from north to south, with an area of about 240 square kilometers. When boating on the Erhai Sea on a calm day, the clean and transparent surface of the sea looks like a clear blue sky, giving people a tranquil and distant feeling. At the southernmost tip of the Erhai Sea, Tuan Shan, there is an Erhai Park, which is a good place to enjoy the scenery of Cangshan Mountain and Erhai Sea.　At the foot of Cangshan Mountain and the shore of Erhai Sea, there is also a well-known tourist attraction - Butterfly Spring. The fame of Butterfly Spring is related to Xu Xiake's description in his travelogue. He wrote: "The large trees on the spring, when the beginning of April that is the flower like nymphalid butterflies, whiskers and wings vividly, and raw butterflies are no different. There are also millions of real butterflies, even the beard hook foot, from the tree upside down hanging down and in the spring surface, colorful and colorful, colorful and colorful." Indeed, there are times when the number of colorful butterflies that come to this gathering is too many to count, and their colors are as brilliant as the sunshine and brocade. Some years ago, the number of butterflies decreased, according to the relevant parties, the main reason is that the local climate has turned dry, resulting in the migration of butterflies, and the second is the large number of rural use of pesticide drugs, accidentally injuring many butterfly larvae. However, in the last two to three years, with the gradual restoration of ecological balance, coupled with people's awareness of the butterflies to take protective measures, the annual gathering of butterflies has been increasing day by day. Foreigner Street In the ancient city, Dali Foreigner Street was originally named "Protecting the Country Road", meaning that the people of Yunnan were against Yuan Shikai's claim to be the emperor at the beginning of the Republic of China, and rose up to protect the country and got its name. Protector of the country road east-west, 1000 meters long, 7 meters wide, green stone pavement, west of Yunnan-Tibet Highway, cross Boai, Fuxing and other major streets.　Afterwards, in order to adapt to the needs of open tourism, the ancient city of Dali as the main attractions of open tourism, the Red Mountain Tea Hotel as a foreign hotel, the Red Mountain Tea Hotel in the ancient city of the west section of the Guoguo Road, and thus, the Guoguo Road has become a distribution center for foreign tourists in Dali. Chinese and Western-style stores, jewelry stores, antique stores, tie-dye stores, galleries and various trades and industries then rose, stores standing on both sides, a wide range of dazzling, become famous in China and abroad, "Dali Foreigner Street".　Now the name of the ancient city of Dali Guoguo Road in some foreign drawings, has long been really called "foreigner street". It can be seen that Dali Foreigner Street has become world-famous, and become a place where foreign friends aspire to and they live in Dali's cozy home. The Three Pagodas of Chongsheng Temple The Three Pagodas of Chongsheng Temple is the symbol of Dali, the symbol of ancient history and culture of Yunnan, and one of the oldest and most majestic buildings in southern China. 1961 the State Council announced the first batch of national key cultural relics protection units.　Chongsheng Temple originally in the three towers of the west, by the side of the Cangshan Mountain, its gate from the three main towers of about 120 meters; is the 10th generation of the king of the Nanzhao persuade Feng right time (824-859 years) built, when the Nanzhao state late. Nanzhao country in the middle of the rise of Buddhism, to persuade the right has reached the extreme victory, Buddhist temples throughout Yunnan, there are 3,000 small temples, large temples 8 hundred. After the Nanzhao Dali State, Buddhism was more developed than Nanzhao. Therefore, the Dali country has "Buddha country", "wonderful fragrance country" called. Chongsheng Temple was built after the Nanzhao country, Dali country, the center of Buddhist activities. Chongsheng Temple revered the "holy" for Guanyin. At that time, the Dali area to Guanyin worship extremely winning line.　According to the relevant documents, then Chongsheng Temple and the main tower construction, the temple base square 7 miles, more than 800 houses, Buddha more than 10,000, consuming more than 40,000 pounds of copper, costing more than 700,000 people. The existing main tower height of 69.13 meters, 16 layers, for the square dense eaves hollow brick tower, is one of the highest existing Chinese tower. Three towers in the small tower in the west of the main tower, and the main tower is 70 meters apart; North and South face each other, 97 meters apart. They are the Five Dynasties period of the Dali State built. The two towers of the same shape, are 10 layers, 42.4 meters high, for the octagonal dense eaves hollow brick tower.　Chongsheng Temple and the three towers were built, after a thousand years of vicissitudes and wind and rain erosion, Chongsheng Temple was destroyed in the Qing Xianfeng years, the West three towers but stands tall. After the founding of the government attaches great importance to the protection of the three towers, in 1978, to carry out large-scale maintenance. This repair in the thousand tower base found in more than 600 pieces of Buddhist cultural relics, including a large number of Buddha statues and written Buddhist scriptures, including a gold Guanyin statue, weighing 1,135 grams, 24 centimeters high, extremely valuable. This is so far found in the Nanzhao State and Dali State period of cultural relics in the richest batch, the value is very high, for the Chinese and foreign attention. This discovery, unveiled the ancient Dali this "Buddha country" of a mysterious veil.　Regarding the architectural style of the three towers, it is generally said that they are similar to the Small Wild Goose Pagoda in Xi'an, which is a typical style of the Tang Pagoda, showing the close connection between Yunnan and the mainland during the Tang and Song dynasties, which is beyond doubt. Dali Ancient City The ancient city of Dali (now Dali City), referred to as Yucheng, is one of the first batch of 24 famous historical and cultural cities in China approved by the State Council in February 1982, and one of the 44 key scenic spots in the country, located in the eastern part of the site of the capital city of the Nanzhao and Dali Kingdom, which was first built in the Ming Dynasty in the 15th year of the Hongwu era (1382 A.D.), and has been repeatedly constructed over the generations.　Dali has been known as the "Famous State of Literature". The long history has left many important cultural relics and monuments. Dali scenic area has four national key cultural relics protection units, provincial key cultural relics protection units 19, summarized as "three ancient" that is, the ancient city, the ancient tower, the ancient monument. Dali City, the ancient city of Taihe City, Yang Tho Baa City, Dali City (today's Xizhou Town), Longwei City (today's Xiaguan), Dali City; tower has Chongsheng Temple three towers, Hongsheng Temple Tower, Snake Bone Pagoda, Fish Bone Tower; monument has the Nanzhao Dewei monument, the Yuan Shizu Ping Yunnan monument, Wuhua Building monument group, the mountain flower monument, and so on. The long history also gave birth to many outstanding characters. Prominent Nanzhao fourth, fifth and sixth generation king PiLuGe, GeLuoFeng, IsoMouXun; QingPingGuan (prime minister) ZhengHui, Dali state founding lord DuanShiPing, famous painter ZhangShengWen; Ming Dynasty poet, literary YangMing, YangShiYun, LiYuanYang; modern democratic revolution aspirant LiXieXi, ZhangYaOzeng, outstanding military theorist YangJie, northeastern resistance to the allied forces of the Japanese leader ZhouBaoZhong, and so on.　Dali City 12 miles in circumference, the city wall is 2 feet high 5 feet, 2 feet thick; east and west, north and south each have a city gate, there is a city building, respectively, called: Tonghai, Cangshan, Chengen, Anyuan; the city's four corners and the corner of the corner, also has a name: Yingchuan, Xiping, Kongming, Changqing. What is preserved today is also part of the walls of the North and South City, and the South City Tower (rebuilt in 1982).　If Dali City, the capital of the state, gives a feeling of prosperity and bustle, then Dali City is simple and quiet, with clear tinkling streams flowing in the city, and families raising flowers and planting trees, flowers and fruits. That hidden in the deep alleys of the Garden Tea House is a good place for visitors to rest, after the reform and opening up of the private opening of the French and other flavors of the snack restaurant is also a favorite place for foreign guests to visit. Traditional marble handicrafts are displayed on both sides of the street for their appreciation and purchase.　Transportation: Take No. 4 or No. 8 bus from Xiaguan, it takes about 45 minutes to reach the ancient city, and the fare is 1.5 yuan or 1.2 yuan if you brush the bus card (unmanned ticket bus). Alternatively, tourists can take the minibus (RMB 2.5, available until 22:00) located on Construction Road and Culture Road, which takes about 25 minutes to reach the ancient city. Visitors can explore Dali Old Town mainly on foot and to a lesser extent by electric tour buses (for a fee).　Butterfly Spring Butterfly Spring, 40 kilometers north of Dali City, under Yunlang Peak of Cangshan Mountain. Due to the long-term wash of the mountain water, the sand and gravel are in pieces, and there are few trees on the mountain slopes. But when you walk slowly uphill, traveling about half a mile, but see a green shade dazzling. Walked through the simple stone workshop, face to face with a marble monument about 3 meters high standing, the monument was prismatic, the front right side of Guo Moruo handwritten "Butterfly Spring" three big words. The left example of Guo's handwriting on the Butterfly Spring poem. Marble railing around the spring pool, spring side of a tall tree across the spring, the tree because the flower looks like a butterfly, so people called "butterfly tree". Whenever summer comes, the Butterfly Tree blossoms, and butterflies from Cang'er come here to gather in groups, fluttering and dancing, making it a very lively place. The most curious thing is that thousands of colorful butterflies are intertwined with each other, hanging upside down on the Butterfly Tree, forming countless strings of butterflies, hanging down to the water, colorful and spectacular. The most flourishing period is around the 15th day of the fourth month of the lunar calendar, so the 15th day of the fourth month of the lunar calendar is designated as the "Butterfly Festival". After the spring round door, along the stone steps up, to the new hexagonal warping "Wang Zi Pavilion". Pavilion far away: Jifu Mountain fly stand, the top of the Lanyan Pagoda can be seen; foot of the mountain dug, Shuanglang and other villages, houses and fields vaguely discernible; er water like a mirror; the north on the pass, the south side of the Xizhou, smoke filled with trees; the right in front of the village of Jiangwei, like a sword, inserted into the Erhai Sea. The sea pavilion, is really a good place to watch the "sea". Nanzhao Island Nanzhao Island is one of the three islands in the Erhai Sea, is located in the Cang'er National Scenic Area of the gold - Eryuan County Shuanglang Township territory. The island is surrounded by water on all sides, east of the famous Buddhist shrine Jizhu Mountain, north of Shibaoshan, south of Dali, west of the Cangshan Erhai, because of occupying the unique tourism resources, known as "Dali scenery in the Cang'er, Cang'er scenery in the Shuanglang," the reputation. It concentrates the cultural heritage of Dali for thousands of years and shows the style of the imperial capital of Nanzhao and Dali dynasties for six hundred years. Xizhou White Folk House Xizhou is located 16 kilometers north of Dali Old Town, a famous town in western Yunnan and Dali, and Xizhou houses represent the style of white folk houses in Dali.　With the typical pattern of "three houses and one wall", "four houses and five patios" closed courtyard, there is a unique courtyard, there are several courtyards in one, the plane is square, modeling for the table tiles with a large layer of human characters, two-story, heavy eaves; the main house is eastward or southward, three or five rooms, earth, wood, masonry and stone structure, the wooden roof frame with mortise and tenon. The main house is eastward or southward, three or five rooms, of earth, wood, masonry and stone, with wooden roof frames assembled with mortise and tenon joints, and a courtyard or several courtyards are connected to form a whole, and the outer walls are mostly white (lime) and gray (fine mud) painted.　The main wall is painted with lime, written with four-character inscriptions, or embedded marble screen; around the set hooked out fan, rectangular, circular and other patterns, in ink or pastel paintings.　Doors and windows, especially the lattice door of the main house, are mostly made of Yunmu, red tsubaki, tulip wood, spruce and other valuable wood, carved with folk auspicious patterns such as the golden chicken valuable, joyful, unicorn presenting Xiangxiang, etc., and most of them are translucent carving or round carving.　The mountain wall is painted with white ash, and the tip of the mountain is in the shape of a triangle, on which auspicious motifs such as cloud pattern, ruyi pattern, lotus flower and diamond pattern are painted with ink. Qingbi Stream Qingbi Stream, also known as Cuibanshui, is also affectionately called "De Stream" by Dali people. It is one of the 18 streams in Dancang Mountain, between Malong Peak and Sheng Ying Peak. The streams converge into three pools on the mountainside, and then flow down into a stream, which is then injected into the Erhai Sea. The first pool of Qingbi Stream is a small semi-circular pool with dazzling turquoise water. After climbing upward over a moss-covered, steep rock, you will arrive at the second pool, which is hidden in the three cliffs, not large, but the most beautiful. Facing the pool and stand, only to see the stream from a four or five feet high stone wall into the pool. The water is surprisingly green, eye-catching and mellow, and there is no longer a path to this point. Want to see the third pool, must be by Malong Peak around four or five hundred meters, only to get a glimpse, only to see the spring water from the stone between the gushing, converging into a round pool, the pool water is clear, the bottom of the pool stone clearly visible. Since the Tang and Song dynasties, there have been many writers and writers who have recorded the beauty of Qingbi Creek. The Ming Dynasty scholar Yang Shen in the "tour of Mount Dancang record" in an article described as: "Southwest of a stream, stacked stunned Cheng Liu, the water color is crystal clear, in which the stone sparkling, green and blue brilliant, like the beauty of the jade, its name is called the clear blue stream." Specialty Dining When it comes to the specialty of Dali dining, it should be top of the list of Bai Three Way Tea, Fish in Casserole, and Dengchuan Milk Fan. Most of the best restaurants in Dali are concentrated in the Old Town, and to taste them you can go to the People's Road in the Old Town, where many foreign tourists gather. On Guoguo Road, Western cafes featuring Bai, Tibetan and other ethnic minorities can be found everywhere, and many restaurants sell both Chinese and Western food, allowing tourists to taste Yunnan-style dishes as well as local Bai dishes.　Each restaurant here has its own unique characteristics, and each has its own menu. Among them, Taibailou, which is famous for its Bai "Three Way Tea" and Tibetan "Ghee Tea", is a representative restaurant where you can drink tea with blonde hair and blue eyes, and you will feel as if you are in the United Nations.　Of course, it's not just the food that attracts people to the old city, but also the peaceful and relaxing atmosphere provided by its cafes and restaurants, where people can spend a leisurely afternoon listening to music and drinking cold beer.