More than 300 years ago, the famous traveler and explorer Xu Xiake wandered around Yunnan for several months, and finally came to Tengchong over the mountains and ridges. He marveled at the unique and magnificent scenery along the way, and with a stroke of his pen wrote the title "Number One on the Extreme Side"

"City" has thus become Tengchong's business card that has been passed down to this day.

More specifically, in Xu Xiake's notes, he crossed the Gaoligong Mountains to Tengchong from April 10 to 13 in the twelfth year of Chongzhen in the Ming Dynasty (1639) - and he walked this section for four days.

On the journey, we traveled with the second-generation fuel version of Haval Big Dog, which only took more than two hours.

Isn't this the peak moment of the "first city on the edge" in western Yunnan in a new era? After being shaken off the prejudice of "a barbaric land", it's time for Tengchong to get out of the circle.

Calmness shows courage and tenacity. On the tourist map of Yunnan, you may be able to remember the familiar names of Kunming, Lijiang, Dali, Shangri-La and Xishuangbanna, but it is easy to overlook the small town in western Yunnan - Tengchong, which is located in a corner.

After all, Tengchong has been too far away from the power center and economic center of the Central Plains since ancient times.

In ancient times, traveling from Tengchong to Kunming, the provincial capital, had to pass through 24 stations along the way. Taking into account weather delays and normal rest, it would take at least a month to travel to Kunming.

If you look further afield, Tengchong is really a remote place.

It is located on the southwest edge of the country. It spans thousands of mountains and rivers from the Central Plains to Tengchong. After entering Yunnan, it has to climb three mountains - Yunling, Nushan and Gaoligong Mountains; cross three major rivers - Jinsha River, Lancang River and Nujiang River.

The difficulty can be imagined.

But Tengchong has never been an obscure town.

It once had a barbaric frontier era and a prosperous and peaceful era. Now when the city is developing faster and faster, it can safely put away its light, revealing stability and leisure everywhere.

This philosophy of survival that can be freely retracted and calm in the world coincides with the fuel version of the second-generation Haval Big Dog, the protagonist of our test drive this time.

Faced with various sudden and complex road conditions outdoors, the second-generation Big Dog fuel version can still handle it calmly.

For example, during the test drive, we experienced extreme off-road challenges such as jungle crossings, rugged mountain roads, gravel roads, uneven roads, and shell craters. As long as the second-generation Big Dog fuel version is by our side, we will not be afraid at all.

This is largely due to the new car's complete off-road configuration and strong body passability.

For example, in terms of body passability, the second-generation Big Dog fuel version has an approach angle of 24°, a departure angle of 30°, a longitudinal breakover angle of 19°, and a minimum ground clearance of 200mm. There is basically no need to consider the risk of bottoming out.

In addition to the protection of the intelligent electronically controlled four-wheel drive system, it is also equipped with an electronically controlled tooth-type differential lock on the rear axle, which supports independent physical button control. When locked, it can achieve 100% torque output between the wheels on both sides of the rear axle.

You can also have strong confidence to face the unknown dangers of the journey.

In the impression of ancient people, Tengchong was a legendary existence, a mysterious land of alienation.

Taking "Shui Jing Zhu" as an example, it describes a kind of hook snake on the Xixiang Mountain heading to Tengchong. It is seven or eight feet long and hides in the mountain stream. It uses the hook on its tail to hook people and cattle on the shore into the water and eat them.

This is naturally a fanciful idea, but Tengchong was indeed awe-inspiring in ancient times.

Although it does not have the sky full of yellow sand and stormy waves, it can be regarded as an important place on the Southwest Silk Road and the last stop leading to South Asia. The Southwest Silk Road through Tengchong is also scary at first glance due to jungle miasma and banditry.

This also gave Tengchong people the courage and tenacity to make a living. Generation after generation followed the sound of caravan bells and went out to explore, climbing over steep mountains and wading through fast rivers, and embarking on one business road after another leading to distant places.

The second-generation Big Dog fuel version also follows in the footsteps of its predecessors, making the 3/4 scale light off-road gene an indispensable part of more people's lives. Going to the mountains and seas and going wild is not just a slogan, but a kind of

A lifestyle within reach.

The years are quiet, the poetry and the distance are eternal. In fact, in addition to being the "first city in the extreme borders", Tengchong also has many well-known names - "the first city of emeralds" and "Han Shu scattered in the border areas". Open Tengchong

Any history book you can find is exciting enough.

Tengchong is mixed and rich.

The Heshun ancestors who migrated from the Central Plains also brought their family values ??and farming and reading culture to Heshun Ancient Town in Tengchong.

For Heshun people, embarking on the difficult and dangerous ancient trade road is forced by life. There is no end to the other side of the mountains and ridges, and hometown is the eternal concern.

Because of this, most successful Heshun merchants would return to their hometowns, build exquisite homes and ancestral halls, and at the same time establish education, gradually spreading the sound of books in this frontier wilderness.

The host Cui Yongyuan once joked, "A gentle person does not do his job properly. Some people often put their cows on the mountain to graze while they go to the library to read."

"Everywhere you write is civilized; every scene is filled with the fragrance of books."

Tengchong, immersed in profound cultural temperament, has come from a distant time and has never lost its inheritance.

The same is true for the second-generation Big Dog fuel version.