Old Town of Lijiang is located in the ancient city of Lijiang City, Yunnan Province, also known as Dayan Town. It is located in the middle of Lijiang Dam. It was founded in the late Song Dynasty and early Yuan Dynasty (A.D.13rd century) and is located in Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau, with an area of 7.279 square kilometers. Lijiang is one of the second batch of approved famous historical and cultural cities in China, and it is also one of the two ancient cities in China that successfully declared the world cultural heritage with the whole ancient city.
The streets in Old Town of Lijiang are built by mountains and rivers, paved with red breccia, including Sifang Street, Mufu, Wufenglou, Heilongtan, Wenchang Palace, Wang Pi Earthquake Memorial Hall, Xueshan Academy, Wangjiazhuang Christian Church, Fang Guoyu's former residence, Baimalongtan Temple, Gu Peter's former residence, Jinglian Temple, Fukenji, Jiefenglou, October Literature Museum, Red Army Long March over Lijiang Command Memorial Hall, Old Town of Lijiang Historical and Cultural Exhibition Hall, etc.
architectural composition
Old Town of Lijiang is not influenced by the replication of the Central Plains, which is nine miles away, three doors away, and nine latitudes in junior high school. There is no regular road network and no strict city wall in the city. In the layout of the ancient city, three mountains are the screen and one river is connected, and the water system uses three rivers to cross the city and every family flows. The street layout has a winding, quiet, narrow and elegant style, and the pattern of Old Town of Lijiang is spontaneously formed.
Old Town of Lijiang, with water as the core, presents a unique spatial layout of water lanes due to the flexible use of water, and the dense bridges are the most distinctive feature of Old Town of Lijiang. In terms of external modeling and structure, the ancient city houses have combined the skills of Han architecture in the Central Plains and Tibetan and Bai architecture, forming architectural techniques such as upward-collecting stone walls, overlapping roofs, small blue tiles and wooden frames, and forming a unique style in terms of architectural layout forms and architectural artistic techniques.
Reference to the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Old Town of Lijiang