Introduction to Dali tourist attractions

Dali Bai Autonomous Prefecture, with its capital in Dali City, is one of the 16 prefecture-level administrative regions in Yunnan. It is located in the west of central Yunnan Province, with an altitude of 2,090 meters. It borders Chuxiong Prefecture to the east, Pu'er City and Lincang City to the south, Baoshan City and Nujiang Prefecture to the west, and Lijiang City to the north. The following is an introduction to Dali tourist attractions that I have compiled for you. I hope it will be helpful to you!

1. Dali Ancient City

Dali Ancient City faces the rippling Erhai Lake to the east and the perennially green Cangshan Mountain to the west, forming an urban pattern of "a river surrounds Cangshan Mountain, and Cangshan Mountain embraces the ancient city". It has a construction history of 1,200 years since Nanzhao King Yimouxun moved his capital to Yangju City in 779. The existing ancient city of Dali was restored on the basis of the Yangju City in the early Ming Dynasty. The city is square in shape, with four gates, a tower on top, and an acropolis below. There are also three streams in the north and south as natural barriers. The outer layer of the city wall. It is built of bricks; there are five streets running through the city from south to north, and eight streets and lanes running through it from west to east. The whole city is laid out in a chessboard pattern. The ancient city of Dali is abbreviated as Yeyu, also known as the Purple City. Its history can be traced back to the Tianbao period of the Tang Dynasty. The Yangjuba City (near the three west pagodas of today's city) built by Nanzhao Wang Geluofeng was its new capital. The ancient city was built in the 15th year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty. It has a radius of twelve miles. The city wall is two feet five feet high and two feet thick. There is a gate each in the east, west and south, each with a tower and turrets at the four corners. At the beginning of liberation, the city walls were demolished. In 1982, the South City Gate was rebuilt. The word "Dali" on the front door was a collection of Guo Moruo's calligraphy. Entering the city from the South Gate, Fuxing Road leads directly to the North Gate and has become a bustling street market. Shops line the street selling marble, tie-dye and other ethnic crafts as well as jewelry and jade. Some old houses in the streets and alleys can still retain their former style, with sparse flowers and trees in the courtyards, the sound of birds chirping, and the gurgling water of the outdoor canals. The scene of "three households with one well and one household with several pots of flowers" is still there.

2. The Three Pagodas of Chongsheng Temple

The Three Pagodas of Chongsheng Temple in Dali are 14 kilometers away from Xiaguan and located 1.5 kilometers north of Dali at the foot of Yingle Peak in Cangshan Mountain. Cangshan Mountain faces the Erhai Lake. The Three Pagodas are composed of three pagodas, one large, two small, and stand in a tripod shape. From a distance, they look majestic and majestic. They are one of the scenic spots in Cang'er Lake. The base of the three pagodas of Chongsheng Temple is square, surrounded by stone railings. The four corners of the columns are carved with stone lions. There is a stone screen wall in the middle of the east side, with the four characters "Yongzhen Mountains and Rivers", which is quite impressive. The main tower of the three towers is called Qianxun Tower. It is a square 16-story dense-eaves tower with a base width of 9.9 meters and a height of 69.13 meters. There is a copper bowl on the top of the tower and a pagoda brake. It is the same Tang Dynasty pagoda as the Big and Small Wild Goose Pagoda in Xi'an. Typical buildings of the era. It is said that the three pagodas were built during the Nanzhao Baohe period. In recent years, more than 600 important cultural relics from the Nanzhao and Dali periods have been discovered on the top of the pagodas. The two small towers in the south and north are located behind the main tower. The distance between the two towers is 97.5 meters and 70 meters away from the main tower, forming a tripod of three towers. Both towers are made of eight-dendrobium-shaped eaves hollow bricks, with a maximum of 10 levels. 43 meters high. The Three Pagodas of Chongsheng Temple are among the first batch of national key cultural relics protection units.

3. Erhai Lake

Erhai Lake was called Kunming Pool, Erhe River, Ye Yuze, etc. in ancient times. It was named Erhai Lake because it looks like a human ear. It is 42 kilometers long from north to south and 3.9 kilometers wide from east to west. It has a shoreline of 117 kilometers and an area of ??more than 250 square kilometers. It has an average water depth of 10.5 meters and a maximum depth of 21.5 meters. It has a water storage capacity of 2.88 billion cubic meters. It ranks third among Yunnan lakes in both area and water storage capacity. Second, it ranks seventh among freshwater lakes in the country. The Mi'er River flows into the south of Erhai Lake, and the eighteen streams of Cangshan Mountain are in the west. The Boluo River and the Caise River are in the east. The Xi'er River in the south is the only outlet to the sea and flows into the Lancang River through the Yangbi River. Erhai Lake is a structural lake with cliffs on the east and west sides of the lake and sandbars on the north and southwest sides. Erhai Lake has a mild climate and beautiful scenery, and is known as the "Pearl of the Plateau". There are three islands in the Erhai Lake - Jinsuo, Chiwen and Yuji; there are four continents along the coast - Ma Lian, Yuanyang, Qingsha and Big Stork Peng; there are nine bends in the water - Lotus, Big Stork, Panji, Fengyi, Luoshi, Niujiao, Bozuo, Gaopin, Hezhu. The three islands, four continents and nine bends have beautiful scenery and are good places to visit Erhai Lake and have a leisure vacation. The Erhai Lake is deep and clear, like flawless jade. Erhai Lake is a famous plateau lake in China. It has been recorded in history as early as the Han Dynasty.

4. Nanzhao Fengqing Island

Dali Nanzhao Fengqing Island is one of the three islands in Erhai Lake. It is located in the prime location of Cang'er National Scenic Area - the southeastern end of Eryuan County. .In Shuanglang Township.

The island is surrounded by water, with the famous Buddhist holy land Jizu Mountain to the east, Shibao Mountain to the north, Dali to the south, and Cangshan Mountain and Erhai Lake to the west. Because it occupies unique tourism resources, it is known as "the scenery of Dali is in Cang'er, and the scenery of Cang'er is It has the reputation of "Double Corridor". Dali Nanzhao Customs Island is listed as one of the 25 high-quality tourism projects in Yunnan Province, and is the designated reception unit for the 1999 Kunming World Horticultural Exposition. When you land on the island, you will see a group of huge stone sculptures called Sha Yimu Group of Sculptures. This is carved based on a myth about the Dali area recorded in "The Book of the Later Han·Biographies of Southwest Yi". According to legend, the ancestor of Nanzhao was a woman named "Shayi" who made a living by fishing. During the fishing process, she hit a dead tree and became pregnant, so she gave birth to ten sons. Later, there were also people at the foot of Ailao Mountain. A couple gave birth to ten daughters, and the Jiulong brothers married these women. They gradually grew up with each other and have multiplied to this day. This legend was given life by the sculptor, and the depiction was so humanistic and lifelike. If the scenery of Cang'er Lake is compared to a crown, then Nanzhao Fengqing Island is a pearl embedded in this crown. The island is located opposite Shuanglang Village in the northeast of Erhai Lake. The transportation to and from the island is very convenient, the accommodation and transportation are relatively comfortable, and the island is rich in humanities and natural landscapes.

5. Xizhou Ancient Town

Xizhou borders Erhai Lake to the east and Cangshan Mountain to the west. It has the largest and best preserved Bai folk residential buildings, all of which are "three squares and one screen wall" and The Bai courtyard pattern of “four in one and five patios”. These residential houses have overlapping carved beams and painted brackets, and colorful paintings on gate towers, screen walls and gables. The more famous ones in Xizhou include Yang Pinxiang's House, Yan Family Courtyard, Hou Family Courtyard, etc., which not only maintain the characteristics of Bai traditional residences, but also combine Chinese and Western architectural techniques.

6. Shuanglang Art Town Cultural Tourism Area

Shuanglang is located above the "Lotus Song" and "Luo Shiqu" on the east coast of Erhai Lake, 35,000 kilometers away from Xiaguan. Mi, it was called "Shuanlang" in ancient times. Looking around, the beautiful Yuji Island and Xiaojinsuo Island are like a pair of mandarin ducks, floating in the turquoise Erhai Lake. The two islands are located under Liling Peak between the two corridors. During the Xianfeng period of the Qing Dynasty, people believed that the "two islands" and "Er Qu" is both "double", so "Shuanlang" was changed to "Double Corridor". The scenery of the double corridor is unique because it carries green mountains on its back, faces the Erhai Lake, is close to Jizu, and overlooks Cangshan Mountain in the distance. It not only has the advantages of fishing fields and the convenience of boating, but also has the wonderful scenery of "wind, flowers, snow, and moon". It enjoys the reputation of "Cang'er scenery in two corridors". When you board the Nanzhao Customs Island, you can even witness the 17-meter The tall white marble Guanyin worships Maitreya Buddha on the mountain.

7. Cangshan Mountain in Dali

Cangshan Mountain, also known as Diancang Mountain, is named after its green mountain color and white-tinted top. Cangshan Mountain stretches for more than 50 kilometers and consists of 19 peaks, towering into the sky. The altitude is generally around 4,000 meters, and the peaks are covered with snow all year round. The nineteen peaks from south to north are: Xieyang Peak, Malong Peak, Foding Peak, Shengying Peak, Malong Peak, Yuju Peak, Longquan Peak, Sanyang Peak, Zhonghe Peak, Shengguanjian Peak, and Yingle Peak Peak, Snowman Peak, Lanfeng, Sanyang Peak, Heyun Peak, Baiyun Peak, Lianhua Peak, Wutai Peak, Canglang Peak and Yunong Peak. Among the nineteen peaks, Malong Peak is the highest, with an altitude of 4122 meters. There are nineteen peaks in Cangshan Mountain, with two peaks sandwiching a stream and eighteen streams flowing eastward into the Erhai Lake. The Eighteen Streams from south to north are: Yangnan Stream, Tingming Stream, Mocan Stream, Qingbi Stream, Long Stream, Luyu Stream, Zhong Stream, Tao Stream, Mei Stream, Yinxian Stream, Shuangyuan Stream, and Baishi Stream. Stream, Lingquan Stream, Jinxi, Mangyong Stream, Yangxi, Wanhua Stream, Xiayi Stream. Cangshan Mountain has beautiful natural landscape and a collection of scenic spots. Such as the famous Butterfly Spring, Fengyan Cave and Longyan Cave, which are both strange and dangerous, the historical General Cave, Nanzhao Dehua Monument Gantong Temple, Zhonghe Temple and other cultural relics and historic sites. On the top of the mountain, there are beautiful natural landscapes such as Huadian Bazi, Xima Lake, Huanglong Lake, and ancient glacier ruins. The ancients summarized the various natural landscapes of Cangshan Mountain into the eight sceneries of Cangshan Mountain, namely the painted screen of dawn, the spring snow on Cangshan Mountain, the jade belt with clouds, the shining phoenix eyes, the clear water and the pool, the floating clouds in the jade, the stream, waterfall and stone, and the golden sunset. The scenery of Cangshan Mountain is famous for its snow, clouds, springs and rocks. The snow on Cangshan Mountain that does not disappear after summer is the most famous of the four famous "Snow Moon" scenes in Dali.

8. Weishan Ancient City

Weishan Ancient City was built in the 22nd year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty (1389) and has a history of more than 600 years. "Menghua Chronicles·City Chronicles" records: "The (Weishan) city is like a seal, and the Zhongjian Wenbi Building is the handle of the seal." Extending from the Wenbi Building as the center to the east, west, north, and south are the four main streets of the ancient city. Due to various reasons, the three ancient towers in the east, west and south of the ancient city have been destroyed. Today, only the ancient tower at the north gate and the Wenbi Tower in the city have survived.

The ancient city is shaped like a chessboard, with 24 streets and 18 lanes dotted in a criss-cross pattern. It is a typical Ming and Qing style "chessboard" city layout. When you walk into the ancient city, what you will see are green tiles and white walls, wooden carved gates, black and gilded signboards, and stone roads that have been polished by the years. The bottom floors of the houses on the street are all shops, and the facades facing the street are all made of wood. When the door panels are removed, the entire house is open to the middle of the street. The door of the store is also the door of a home. There are no eye-catching fashion signs or souvenirs that are the same all over the world. You can have enough shopping at those saddlery shops, monument shops, antique shops, barber shops, and snack bars. The owner of the small shop sat leisurely on the grass pier, not caring whether the shop around him was in business, and yawned contentedly. Groups of old people sit leisurely on grass piers on the street, eating tea, playing chess and bragging around small square tables, watching the excitement on the street. On the ancient streets, people carrying schoolbags, carrying vegetables, carrying bird cages, leading donkeys, and waving their empty hands passed through the doorways of ancient buildings, walking back and forth on the ancient streets. Year after year, the lively scene seems to be fixed in this ancient street.

9. Xinhua Village Scenic Spot in Yindu Water Town

Xinhua Bai Tourism Village is a national AAAA-level scenic spot built based on the original ecological natural village. Xinhua Village, formerly known as Shizhaizi, is located 7 kilometers north of Yunhe Ancient City and 12 kilometers away from Lijiang Airport. The village has a total area of ??16.88 square kilometers. There are 1,149 households in the village and 5,227 people. The Bai ethnic group accounts for 98.5% of the total population. It is a typical example. Bai village. Xinhua Village is an ancient village that has been hammered for a thousand years. As early as the Nanzhao period, the ancestors supported their families by processing handicrafts, and the reputation of "Hechuan Craftsmen" spread overseas. Xinhua Shizhaizi is a beautiful place. This is the world of silver. It is the hometown of springs and pools, and the white seaweed flowers are wafting with intoxicating fragrance. Xinhua Bai Tourism Village is a national AAAA-level scenic spot built on the original ecological natural village. Xinhua Village, formerly known as Shizhaizi, is located 7 kilometers north of Yunhe Ancient City and 12 kilometers away from Lijiang Airport. The village has a total area of ??16.88 square kilometers. There are 1,149 households in the village and 5,227 people. The Bai ethnic group accounts for 98.5% of the total population. It is a typical example. Bai village. Xinhua Village is an ancient village that has been hammered for a thousand years. As early as the Nanzhao period, the ancestors supported their families by processing handicrafts, and the reputation of "Hechuan Craftsmen" spread overseas.

10. Xiangyun Shuimu Mountain

Shuimu Mountain is 25 kilometers away from Xiangyun County. This place belongs to Majie Township, with an altitude of 2070 meters. Shuimu Mountain is one of the earliest Buddhist holy places in Yunnan. In the eighth year of Yuanhe (813) of Emperor Xianzong of the Tang Dynasty, the ministers of Nanzhao asked to build this temple. Zen Master Puji Qingguang used his Zen staff to dig into the ground, "and a clear spring gushes out, which is why it is called Shuimou." On the opening day, all the leaders of Liuzhao came to congratulate him. When the incense is at its peak, it is known as "a thousand monks and eight hundred nuns". There have been eminent monks living in Shuimu Mountain in all dynasties, such as Zen Master Puji Qingguang, the founder of the Tang Dynasty, Zen Master Jingmiaocheng in the Song Dynasty, and Zen Master Wu Wuru and Zen Master Feixiang Xing in the late Qing Dynasty. There were many people on the streets during the rule of the country. Members of the royal family became monks here. A famous monk in the early Qing Dynasty also lived here for a long time. Since the Tang Dynasty, Shuimushan Temple has undergone many repairs and constructions, and has gradually formed a building community, including Shuimu, Xiandu, Dizang Temple, Lingguang Temple, Pagoda Courtyard, Sanjiao Pavilion, Pilu Pavilion, Amitabha Temple and other temples. Shuimushan Temple is divided into upper, middle and lower nunneries. The only remaining lower nunnery was rebuilt in the second year of Xuantong (1910) in the Qing Dynasty and renovated from 1984 to 1987. The lower nunnery consists of the mountain gate, the pagoda courtyard, the front courtyard, the northwest side hall, and the main hall. On the north and south sides are the monk's room, the incense cabinet, the ministry hall, the dining hall, the tea room, and the cloud hall. In front of the lower nunnery, there are dozens of acres of pears carefully cultivated by monks of all generations. There are two roses and four pines and cypresses planted in the Tang Dynasty. The main hall has bronze bells and wooden drums made during the Chenghua period of the Ming Dynasty.

The top ten tourist attractions that must be visited in Dali

The top ten tourist attractions that must be visited in Dali are as follows: Dali Ancient City, Dali Chongsheng Temple Three Pagodas, Erhai Lake, Dali Nanzhao Customs Island, Xizhou Ancient Town, Shuanglang Art Town Cultural Tourism Area, Cangshan Mountain, Dali Bai Autonomous Prefecture Museum, Xinhua Bai Tourism Village, and Dali Tianlong Babu Film and Television City.

1. Dali Ancient City: It faces the rippling Erhai Lake in the east and the perennially green Cangshan Mountain in the west, forming an urban layout in which water surrounds Cangshan Mountain and Cangshan Mountain embraces the ancient city. It has a construction history of 1,200 years since Nanzhao King Yimouxun moved his capital to Yangju City in 779.

2. The Three Pagodas of Chongsheng Temple in Dali: 14 kilometers away from Xiaguan, located at the foot of Yingle Peak in Cangshan Mountain 1.5 kilometers north of Dali, backed by Cangshan Mountain and facing the Erhai Lake. The three pagodas consist of one large, two small and three It consists of two Buddhist pagodas, standing in a tripod shape. Looking from a distance, it is majestic and majestic. It is one of the scenic spots in Cang'er.

3. Erhai Lake: In ancient times, it was called Kunming Pool, Erhe River, Ye Yuze, etc. Because it looks like a human ear, it was named Erhai Lake. It is 42 kilometers long from north to south, 3.9 kilometers wide from east to west, has a shoreline of 117 kilometers, and covers an area of ??more than 250 square kilometers.

4. Dali Nanzhao Customs Island: It is one of the three islands in Erhai Lake. It is located in the prime location of Cang'er National Scenic Area, in Shuanglang Township at the southeastern end of Eryuan County. The island is surrounded by water, with the famous Buddhist holy land Jizu Mountain to the east, Shibao Mountain to the north, Dali to the south, and Cangshan Mountain to the west of Erhai Lake.

5. Xizhou Ancient Town: Xizhou faces Erhai Lake in the east and Cangshan Mountain in the west. It has the largest and best preserved Bai folk residential buildings, all of which are Bai courtyards with three squares, one screen wall and four in five patios. .

6. Shuanglang Art Town Cultural Tourism Area: Shuanglang is located on the east coast of Erhai Lake on the "Lotus Song" and "Luo Shiqu", 35 kilometers away from Xiaguan, and was called Shuanlang in ancient times.

7. Cangshan Mountain: Also known as Diancang Mountain, it is named after its green mountain color and white dots on the top.

8. Dali Bai Autonomous Prefecture Museum: Located at No. 8, Erhe South Road, Xiaguan, Dali City, it was founded in 1986 and is the first state museum built in Yunnan Province.

9. Xinhua Bai Tourism Village: It is a national AAAA-level scenic spot built based on the original ecological natural village. Xinhua Village, formerly known as Shizhaizi, is located 7 kilometers north of Yunhe Ancient City.

10. Dali Tianlong Babu Film and Television City: It was built according to the characteristics of Dali and the Song Dynasty, with reference to the "Qingming Riverside Garden", and the principle of combining film and television shooting with tourist scenery. After 40 episodes of the TV series "Dragon" were filmed, TV movies such as "A Chinese Ghost Story" and "Lucky Star" were filmed here.

Reference for the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia - Dali tourist attractions

Must-visit attractions in Dali, Yunnan Province

The must-see attractions in Dali are:

Qudong Village is located at the southern end of Yongping County, 4.5 kilometers away from the county center and 90 kilometers away from the state capital Dali. Qudong Village is located in a small mountain stream between Bonan Mountain and Yuntai Mountain, a branch of the Yunling Mountains. Qudong Village is the most densely populated natural village of the Hui people in western Yunnan. It is an important transportation gateway and an important material gathering place from mainland China to Southeast Asia.

2. Xiangyun Ancient City:

Xiangyun Ancient City was formerly known as Yunnan City and Erhai Acropolis. Because of the allusion of "Colorful Yunnan appears" in the Han Dynasty, it was first named "Yunnan". According to the stone axes, stone adzes, pottery and charcoal chips unearthed in Qinghua Cave in 1962, humans have been living and multiplying on this land as early as the Neolithic Age. Yunnan County was established in the third year of Jianxing of the Shu Han Dynasty and became the political, economic and cultural center of northwest Yunnan for more than 300 years.

3. Zhoucheng Ancient Village:

Zhoucheng Village is located at the northern end of Xizhou Town, Dali City, at the foothills of Yunnongfeng Mountain, with Xiayi River to the north and Butterfly Spring to the south, facing Erhai Lake. With a superior natural environment, the village is adjacent to the Ancient Tea Horse Road in the east. Zhoucheng Village is the largest village of the Bai ethnic group in China and the largest ethnic natural village in Yunnan. The village area is about 2 square kilometers. The construction and development of the village is mainly based on the mountains and along the tea. Magu Road spreads out on both sides.

4. Chongsheng Temple:

Chongsheng Temple faces Erhai Lake in the east and Cangshan Mountain in the west. It is located one kilometer north of the ancient city of Dali, Yunnan Province, at the foot of Diancang Mountain and on the shore of Erhai Lake. In history, 9 Dali emperors became monks at Chongsheng Temple, which was called "Tianlong Temple" in Jin Yong's martial arts novel "Tianlong Babu". Chongsheng Temple was once famous for its five important artifacts. However, Chongsheng Temple and the other four important artifacts were destroyed by wars and natural disasters in the past dynasties.

5. Taihe City Ruins:

The Taihe City Ruins are located in Taihe Village, Xiaguan Town, Dali City, at the foot of the Buddha Peak of Cangshan Mountain between Xiaguan and Dali, south of It is 6 kilometers away from Xiaguan Prefecture and 7 kilometers away from the ancient city of Damanjili in the north. This is the choke point with a short land distance between Zhongcang Mountain and Erhai Lake in Dali Bazi. It is the only way to enter the ancient city of Dali from Longweiguan.