Lujiang Dam extends along the Nujiang River for more than 100 kilometers, starting from Mongolia Village in Mangkuan Township in the north and reaching Baihua Village in Lujiang Town in the south. Gaoligong Mountain and Nvshan Mountain stand on the east and west sides. The special geographical environment makes Lujiang Dam a rich place. Sometimes, as the poem says, "With a banana on your head and a pineapple on your foot, you can catch a handful of peanuts when you fall."
Lujiangba has Mangkuan Street, Ganding Street, Mangbang Street, Xiaopingtian Street, Bawanxian Street, Daojie Street and Xincheng Street. And every street takes turns to catch up, so you can catch up with the street every day at Lujiangba. On the first day in the street, people were crowded and there were many delicious things. Take Xiaoping Tianjie as an example, you can buy natural auricularia, mushrooms, bracken, spiny bamboo shoots, wild banana hearts, wild honey, ground bees, Toona sinensis, scallion, spiny old steamed buns, walnuts, sour papaya, sour bamboo shoots and so on, which are produced in cold areas.
There are also river fish, snails and the meat of pigs, chickens, ducks, cattle and sheep raised in the original ecology in the small street. Here, you can also buy tropical and subtropical fruits, such as bananas, lychees, longan, peppers, mangoes, tamarinds, watermelons, green dates, sugar cane, ginseng fruit, egg yolk fruit, annona, cowhide fruit, citrus, pitaya, cattail, waxy olives, Burmese peaches, passion fruit and lemons, as well as cucumbers that will be on the market all year round. In Lujiangba, there are many ethnic groups, such as Han, Dai, Lisu, De 'ang, Yi, Miao and Bai, who have their own traditional festivals and food systems.
The Torch Festival of the Yi people, the Water-splashing Festival of the Dai people, the Lisu people's peak season, the Bai people's February 8th, the Miao people's Huashan Festival, the Han people's Spring Festival, the Dragon Boat Festival and the Mid-Autumn Festival ... have almost become common festivals for people of all ethnic groups in Lujiangba. During the festival, no matter you walk into any village or any ethnic family, the host will enthusiastically take out Ciba and wine to bless you! On days without festivals, folk customs are as strong as festivals. Here, a generous and charming man will drink "pour a glass of wine", "toast a glass of wine" and "concentric wine" with you; Yi compatriots will have a round of "wine transfer" with you; A well-dressed young man will sing a toast to you in turn, so that you can indulge in laughter. ...
Lujiangba is a paradise for banyan trees. There are thousands of big banyan trees growing here, and Lv Yun is in the sky all year round, which constitutes a vivid background of Lujiangba residents' life. There is a huge banyan tree with hollow roots, forming a huge tree hole. The local Dai people, because of their materials, have turned it into a "restaurant" in the tree. On festive days, they will put wine and hold banquets in the cave. The old people in the village gathered in the tree hole, sat on the floor, drank and chatted, enjoyed themselves and enjoyed their family.
Lujiangba is the main producing area of small coffee in China. Due to abundant sunshine, evaporation is greater than rainfall, and the temperature difference between day and night is large, which is especially suitable for coffee growth and nutrient accumulation. Now the planting area has reached more than 200,000 mu. 1984 in may, at the coffee symposium held in the coffee shop of Beijing exhibition hall, Xie Huawei, deputy director of the rural policy research office of the secretariat, presented a poem: "Lujiang is rich in coffee, and Chinese and foreign guests share the same taste. Spring in Beijing is more fragrant in May. "
Today, Lujiang coffee has become a symbol of Yunnan's high-quality coffee. Among them, Yunlu Coffee, Xinzhai Coffee, Biton Coffee, Hemei Coffee and Guo Xin, a cat waste coffee made from Lujiangba Coffee, are all excellent coffee brands in China. Every February, Xiaopingtian holds a coffee tourism culture festival. During the festival, all kinds of delicious food, including coffee, get together, which makes people feast their mouths.
Lujiangba also has a good place, that is, the Institute of Tropical and Subtropical Economic Crops of Yunnan Academy of Agricultural Sciences, where more than 2,000 kinds of characteristic plant resources from tropical areas are collected and preserved, and it is a veritable grand view garden with strange flowers and different fruits. More than 0/00 kinds of famous, special, excellent and rare fruits are planted in the orchard. The fruit trees are covered with clusters of pink bell-shaped fruits, which is the famous fruit lotus spray imported from Taiwan Province Province. Lotus tree has beautiful posture and rich fragrance. Its fruit is bright and eye-catching in color and sweet in taste. It contains protein, sugar, vitamin B, C and other elements, and has antipyretic, diuretic, calming the heart and calming the nerves in dietotherapy. The yellow round fruit on the tall tree is called yolk fruit. This kind of fruit is sweet and delicious when it is ripe, and its nutritional value is similar to that of egg yolk. This is actually an egg on a tree!
There are more than 40 mango varieties in the mango forest, each weighing more than three kilograms. It is a huge mango, and one mango is enough for five or six people to eat. Pearl mangoes are only the size of quail eggs, and a person can eat more than a dozen at a time; Mango blooms and bears fruit all year round. Even during the Spring Festival, you can eat fresh mangoes. This technology is leading in China. There are lemon, egg yolk, mango, longan, tomato and other fruits and vegetables in the Botanical Garden 1800 mu. In recent years, the institute has also developed lemon pigs and lemon chickens fed with lemon, corn and cassava. Because it contains more nutrients than ordinary pigs and chickens, it has become a rare food. Lemon eggs for 4 yuan are still in short supply. We are building a theme scenic spot featuring fruits, integrating scientific research, popular science and leisure tourism, which will become a paradise for food lovers.
Lujiangba is not only a tourist destination, but also a transportation hub of the tourist ring road in western Yunnan. From Baoshan to Tengchong, mangshi, Ruili, and from Nujiang to the above-mentioned destinations, you must pass through here. Food is concentrated in Mangkuan Street, Tribal Tiger, Xiaopingtian, Old Town, Baita and other places. There are also roadside restaurants along the way. Most restaurants in Lujiangba are Dai restaurants. The specialties include hot and sour river fish, boiled chicken with papaya, Jin Gangzuan old duck, fried snail, pickled cabbage, herb ribs, Dai-style grilled fish and other specialties, as well as specialties made of flowers such as climbing flowers, broom, white flowers, plantain flowers and egg flowers, and insects such as insects, bamboo worms and bee pupae.
In restaurants run by Lisu people, you can also eat hand-grabbed rice with roast suckling pig, roast chicken and grilled fish as the main ingredients. If you come during the festival, you can also attend a long table banquet under the big green trees. There are several types of long table banquets. One is that each family makes a table with chicken, fish and home cooking on it, which is set out for guests to enjoy. There are also dozens or even hundreds of tables of banquets and villagers in the village to kill cattle and sheep and cook them.
Baolong Expressway has set up a service area at the western end of Lujiangba Bridge in Yunnan Province, covering an area of several hundred mu. There are Yunnan Highway Museum, miniature scenic spot of Huitong Bridge and various service facilities. Baoshan Tourism Commission and Yunnan Referendum jointly built a large tourist service center here. The center can provide information publicity, leisure and entertainment, special catering, tropical fruit supply, coffee culture display and other services for tourists, and it is a window for tourists to experience the past Lujiangba food culture.