Xishuangbanna is located in the Dai Autonomous Prefecture at the southernmost tip of Yunnan Province. It is a hot land without winter. It is the best-preserved and largest tropical rainforest near the Tropic of Cancer in the world. It is known as the animal kingdom, the plant kingdom, the green world, and the southern medicine world.

Xishuangbanna borders Laos, Myanmar, and Vietnam, with a border line of 1,069 kilometers. The expressway from Kunming to Xishuangbanna has been opened, with a length of 550 kilometers. Xishuangbanna Jinghong Airport is the second largest airport in Yunnan Province after Kunming. There are about 15 flights to and from Kunming every day, and there are domestic routes to major cities such as Dali, Lijiang, Beijing, Shanghai, and Chengdu.

Xishuangbanna is the hometown of the Dai people, which means twelve thousand when translated into Chinese. The Dai people have a long history. As early as more than 1,000 years ago, the ancestors of the Dai people left a large number of words on leaves and cotton paper. There are more than 550 long poems written in Dai language alone. Dais dance has a high artistic level and distinctive national characteristics, such as the popular peacock dance and elephant foot dance.

Xishuangbanna Food

The residents of Xishuangbanna are mainly Dai, and Dai cuisine mainly consists of glutinous rice, sour meat and aquatic products. Wild cultivated plants are used as spices and have unique ethnic flavors.

;Minan, Bulang cuisine, Hani cuisine, barbecue, moss, boiled fish (chicken) with sour bamboo shoots, grilled fish with lemongrass, and bamboo tube rice. The night market in Xishuangbanna has all kinds of delicious food and various ethnic flavors. In the evening, you can enjoy the night view of Jinghong City while enjoying delicious food. Under the colorful lights, you can't stop tasting delicious food.

Lemongrass grilled fish

An indispensable dish in Dai flavor, it is particularly fragrant. Generally, the washed fish is first wrapped in lemongrass, then grilled over a fire and smeared with an appropriate amount of lard. The aroma fills up when grilled, making the grilled fish crispy and delicious.

Pineapple rice

Pineapple purple rice looks very tempting, and the whole pineapple looks cute. First soak the purple glutinous rice for 7-8 hours, cut a lid on the top of the pineapple, remove the pineapple heart, put in the purple glutinous rice, cover the pineapple lid, then put it in the pan and cook. After you smell the aroma, you can open the lid and eat. It tastes a little sweet and has the effect of nourishing blood and lungs.

Boiled fish (chicken) with sour bamboo shoots

Boiled fish (chicken) with sour bamboo shoots is a famous dish of the Dai people. Sour bamboo shoots are made by peeling the young bamboo shoots unearthed in summer, cutting them into shreds, and then pickling them with salt and pepper to make them sour. They are usually cooked in a pot with chicken or fish. This dish is characterized by its spicy and sour taste. Many people can't stand the taste of sour bamboo shoots, but I can't. People who are not used to it will find it a bit strange, but most people who have eaten it like it because the addition of sour bamboo shoots will dissolve the greasiness of the meat.

Fragrant pig rice

Bamboo tube rice has a strong Dai flavor, and the best rice is cooked from November to February of the following year. At this time, there is a layer of fragrant film inside the bamboo, so it is called fragrant bamboo. When eating, beat it with a wooden hammer to make the rice soft and fragrant. It tastes fragrant, soft and has a unique flavor.

Mi Nan

Nan is a language, which is actually what we often call Jiang. Tomatoes are cooked over charcoal fire, peeled and then mixed with onions, garlic, turnips, fleece-flower root, wild peppers, chopped millet peppers and salt. Minan is usually eaten with some fried food. If you add local tart fruits, the sour flavor of that plant will make it even more delicious.

Fried beef skin

Fried beef skin is a dish that must be paired with Minan. The production process of fried beef skin is very exquisite. Put the shaved buffalo skin into a pot and cook it, then cut it into small pieces and dry it for later use. When eating, put the cowhide into the frying pan and fry it. Once the beef skin is browned, you can take it out and eat it. Dip it in minan, it’s sour and spicy, and you’ll whet your appetite after eating it.

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Solo is the Dai word, which is the rice cake we usually eat. Grind the soaked glutinous rice into pulp to make pulp noodles. Saute the peanuts and sesame seeds until fragrant, grind them, add brown sugar and stir evenly into the noodles. Then wrap the banana leaves around the hanging pulp surface and take it out

The unique climate here is a paradise for tropical fruits such as mango, lychee, longan, pineapple, grapefruit, jackfruit, passion fruit, star fruit, papaya and Guava. There are too many varieties to count, and some fruits can only be seen in Xishuangbanna.

2. Xishuangbanna tourist attractions

1. Menglun Botanical Garden

Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden The full name of Xishuangbanna Menglun Botanical Garden is the Chinese Academy of Sciences Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden. Located in Menglun Town, Mengla County. The botanical garden is surrounded by the Solo River, a tributary of the Mekong River, and is shaped like a gourd.

It was created in the 1950s by Professor Cai, a famous botanist at the Botanical Garden. The garden covers an area of ??900 hectares and has 3,000 species of domestic and foreign tropical plants, all of which are growing well. The botanical garden has a herbarium, a rare and endangered plant species resource library and a biotechnology laboratory, and has become an important research center for the development, utilization and protection of tropical plant resources in my country.

2. Jinghong City

Jinghong, which means the city of dawn in Dai, was called Mengbang and Jinglong in ancient times, and was formerly known as Cheli and Che. It has been the political, economic and cultural center of Xishuangbanna since ancient times. The total output and output per mu of rubber, Amomum villosum, and ylang-ylang rank first among all counties (cities) in the country. It is a famous production base for commercial grain, pigs, and soft-shell turtles in Yunnan Province. In 2002, the GDP reached 2.756 billion yuan.

Rich in flora and fauna, geothermal energy, minerals and water resources, it is known as a green treasure house and species gene bank. It has Asia's largest primate research center, export production base and China's largest butterfly breeding farm. It has beautiful scenery and is a famous tourist attraction at home and abroad. It receives more than 2 million domestic and foreign tourists every year, and was selected as one of the first batch of China's outstanding tourist cities. Jinghong City’s business card: Jinghong, a rainforest and a gentle Dai hometown. After 50 years of development, transportation, energy, communications and other infrastructure. It is becoming increasingly perfect, social undertakings such as science, education, culture and health are developing in an all-round way, and its location advantages are becoming increasingly apparent. The Yunnan Provincial Government has designated it as a central city participating in the planning of the international cooperation economic zone between China, Thailand, Myanmar, and the Lancang-Mekong sub-region.

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3. Manfeilong Pagoda

Manfeilong Pagoda is located in the back mountain of Manfeilong, the Golden Dragon in Xishuangbanna, Yunnan. Manfeilong Tower is about 60 kilometers away from Jinghong City, in the southwest of Jinghong City.

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