Dali, Yunnan

The Erhai Sea, which can also be called Kunming Pond, Erhe River, and Yeyuze, is in the city of Dali, Dali Bai Autonomous Prefecture in China's Yunnan Province, and covers an area of roughly 246 square kilometers, making it the second-largest lake there, and the seventh-largest of China's freshwater lakes, with an elevation of 1,972 meters above sea level, making it the country's main protected freshwater lake on the plateau.

The Erhai has beautiful scenery and rich aquatic animal resources, and many local residents make their living by fishing in the Erhai. It is a typical inland fracture basin, and there are three islands in the Erhai, which are limestone, basalt, and sand shale, and they were developed into a natural tourist attraction at the end of 2006.

Coastal attractions

1, Chongsheng Temple Three Pagodas, is located 1 kilometers northwest of the old city of Dali, Cangshan should be under the peak of the music, was originally part of the Chongsheng Temple building, the temple has long been destroyed, only the three towers remain.

The big tower square, hollow, was built in the Tang Dynasty, the name of thousands of towers, the shape is similar to the small Wild Goose Pagoda in Xi'an, 69.13 meters high, **** 16 layers, for the dense eaves of the building. North and south of the two small tower each 70 meters from the tower, built in the Song Dynasty, for the dense eaves of the octagonal hollow brick tower, are 42.19 meters high, each 10 layers.

2, Butterfly Spring, is located 24 kilometers north of the ancient city of Dali Cangshan Yunlang peak, spring water from the sand and gravel out of the gap, gathered in a more than 20 square meters of the pond. Every year in the fourth month of the lunar calendar, butterflies gather around the spring, dancing and fluttering, and some of them hang on the trees with their heads and tails, forming a butterfly spring spectacle. There is also a butterfly museum, sea pavilion, butterfly monument, Xu Xiake stone statue.

3, Nanzhao Dehua monument, standing in Dali City, Taihe City site of a Tang Dynasty architectural style of the stone pavilion, the monument is 4.02 meters high, 0.60 meters thick, both sides of the inscription, the text of more than 3,800 words, more than 1,300 words in the shade of the monument, * * * more than 5,100 words. Narrative of the early history of Nanzhao and its relationship with the Tang dynasty, and details of the cause and passage of the Tianbao war, the article is moving, ornate rhetoric, calligraphy is strong and elegant, there is Li Beihai (Li Yong) penmanship.