Old Town of Lijiang
January 28, Location: Lijiang, Weather: sunny and beautiful
1. The ancient city of Introduction from the Spring City Kunming Xi go, crossing the Cascade mountains and deep valleys northwest Yunnan, a bright and leap into the eyes of Pingba, dam and aerial networks Tile House clouds, great barrier outgrew the Yulong Snow Mountain, which attracted worldwide attention in recent years is The Old Town of Lijiang. Surrounded by mountains and water in the Lijiang County, according to legend because of the shape of one big ink stone and the name "Dayan Town." To explore its past, it was discovered that this piece has been forgotten "ancient Naxi kingdom," since time immemorial human beings have lives and breeds. Today's master Naxi people, they are the descendants of the ancient Qiang people migrated to the south. In the centuries long years, their hard labors, and build their beautiful homeland.
Dayan town of Lijiang County in December 1997, together with the ancient city of Pingyao in Shanxi Province has been awarded UNESCO World Heritage Committee World Heritage Site, has been with the Athens, Kyoto, Paris, Pisa, Venice, go down in history one of these great cities. This is a remote western China in the Jinsha River, the Yulong Snow Mountain, the slow and ancient towns.
Here is located in Yunnan, Sichuan-Tibet transport pores in ancient times the frequent business travel activities, prompted local small boom-eup poly expand the market and soon became known far and town. Is generally believed that the city began to build Lijiang Song to the early Yuan Dynasty. 1253 AD Mongol prince Kublai Khan (later Kublai Khan) who often had mishaps Dali, there was a garrison here. Thus began nearly five hundred years until the early Qing Dynasty, the Lijiang area Jie Wei dynasty, under the jurisdiction of central government's ancestors of the Naxi wood and wood's toast (established 1382) hereditary rule.
2. To enter the ancient city of the ancient city of the entrance there is a large water tankers, water tankers are constantly looking to switch and listen to the sound of the water uproar China has been able to feel a strange city. City water is covering the whole process has always been, but where water come from? City, northeast of the springs Heilongtan brought water to the ancient city Smart. Down the river is to enter the depths of the ancient city; upstream is out of the ancient city of the. This is amazing through the ancient city water system, and we walked along the river, water everywhere by a door, the city with the beauty of aquatic picture. This sky, this water next to the bridge, there are mountains, water, some people living in them. Main Street near the river, lanes temporary drainage, and everyone in accordance with water, every household bridges.
About Lijiang ancient color stone-paved streets, roaming Town Square Street Business Center, we see the water gurgling canals, riverside willows Fushui, city, or in front of Stanford residential bridge, or behind the house there are streams, streets and lanes of numerous trickle to wear away the wall winds around the household. Seeking trace find the source of the original that came from the north of the city a clean Unit, at the foot of Xiangshan Yuquan water. Early years, the city built according to the White Horse Longtan underground springs, and multiple Jing-Quan has remaining, it is to create "a pool of a well three ponds" of water means that the head pond of water, 2 Tong vegetables, three pond laundry, clean water down the order, both scientific and sanitary. Residents also washed them with water street, as long as the discharge gate blocking river, the water discharged excess stone pavement homeopathy can wash away dirt, keep the market clean. Naxi prohibit the water, the river Diula Ji, waste, spit, feces wash cloth, etc.; prohibits the destruction, various plug water resources, and felling of riverside trees. Swearing in front of the family that can not be ugly words. In the house, can not sit on the threshold and can not break into the room mothers, pregnant women can not enter the new house. M can not spit inside the pond. So, today we come to see the ancient city of the ancient city in the water or less clean and clear.
Dayan old town is unique, both for the city was a no gate, no two walls, and this is in any city are different. It is said that this is because the Ming surname toast wood, wood framing siege are "difficulties" and therefore I do not build walls to avoid the one with the earth which is the skin deeply attached to each city. It has refused to popular New World reinforced concrete, adhere to a dwelling acquired in the traditional way, aesthetic trends and with this had each other's daily life. They use spring water, mud, rocks and trees, the construction of the town. All the houses are all civil engineering structures, using hand-built, windows and doors bar-dong, brackets, cornices, etc. engraved on the surface of most insects, fish, birds and flowers, birds and beasts of the pattern wood. City is the seat park, small bridges, trees and flowers. Yudi hear sound or a dark flying oriole Ming Cui Liu; witnessed温良恭俭让the elderly, busy women, carrying young scroll Confucians, who raised cage on the bridge leisurely by. All this and Muslim, cordial and soft feel.
This is a people-centered city. Its various functions are all shown that it is only man's dwelling built for this purpose. It is the kind of Chinese ancient walled city in general are different; In addition to Wood's toast of the palace surrounded by a wall, one can from all directions through the streets, paths, alleys, fields or even to narrow the mountains into the city. A day and night the sound of the murmuring of the city, it is not like the city of Venice, built on the water. Dayan town of waterways, is by design artificial excavation. The original is only one river, that is, through cities in the river, from which he has developed artificial Nishikawa and the East River, is divided into three, like a tree trunk and two branches dry. Also from their birth to countless small canals, streams, small water system, in front of thousands of households across the house, the same as the blood vessels linked to this city. In the past, residents can even drink the spring water directly. Some people on the establishment of the river, bent down to be able to scoop a big pot of water to the kitchen, took off his shoes, his feet soaking in water can be between.
In the streets, often you can see one by one inconspicuous door, caught in the pavement between the Naxi door sat an old lady behind the door inside, but guess is legendary if fills, but follow the old lady to go look inside, burst its winding into a sunny garden, a tripartite one Zhaobi dignified. Courtyard blooming with peonies, camellias, roses, leaves parked butterfly. Dayan town houses, each one is a garden, colored stone mosaic courtyard sat a beautiful yellow dog, Yan Zhu couplets are pasted on the sentence for Tang. On the door windows are carved reliefs on the beam; like a palace. Dayan town buildings are hidden in the essence of these somewhat undistinguished-looking Louxiang years. In these alley will find in our lives who have died of the architectural language of the ancient world; remained stubbornly supports people's daily lives - 13 Square, a screen wall, Tetraena five yards, three drip, word-ping, Qu Trail pass secluded, suddenly see the light, row upon row, richly ornamented, intrigue, front porch after the buildings, wind building, Yuk House, Qionglouyuyu, landscaping, Pavilion son, little room, hall, hall, rooms, Zaofang, den, Yun windows, boudoir , Xiu Fang, the next room, rooms, main entrance, side door, they saw, doors, door core, window lattices, Chuangzhi, windows core, beams, brackets, gables, eaves ... ....
The street pavement is not based on some uniform standards or dimensions constructed, individual eaves of jagged, one after another, rich in rhythm. Paving operations are mostly daily; sell cotton, and sell candy, cakes, and selling mixed soil, and selling medicines, cobbler, and sewing clothes, doing sheepskins, and selling pottery ... ... a lot of pavement were a hundred years more than old shop. , Can have when you see the old ladies sitting in front of paving stone steps or a certain small alley, a bridge on the bridge hawking seeds, iron, beans, peanuts, or sell their own line of woven flowers, embroidery, lace and so on their own. The old lady always dressed in the traditional Naxi women's clothing. The most two meters wide, but in the streets can be sure that this is the world's most security of the streets, and it is difficult to pass even a bike, just for walking, but more suitable for the kind of leisurely elegance of the walk. Paved with blue stones, had been polished shiny foot. Uneven road surface in their walk, each part of the soles of the feet are being used.
Dayan Town Center Square Street, Square Street is actually a trapezoid of the small square, which is close to people's daily life harmony built. It may be China, one of the smallest square, only about a quarter of a football field, surrounded by all the old shops. Square Street is also likely to be the world's only street-level system with automatic flushing the square. The middle of the construction was designed to be slightly convex, both sides of the dent, like a giant tile. A river in the west of the square; River has a lock, every evening closed, and residents on the closed gates, the river went up along the slope of tile-shaped diffuse through the whole Square, it is surrounded by the sewage flow of water underground drain inside. Square has a wide and 30 cm on all sides, about 45 cm deep underground drain sewage water, each with an underground drain has paved plaza surrounding the backyard of the sewer connection. In this way, from the ground to underground, forming a complete sewage system, the Square Street too clean rinse.
Square Street is said to mimic the "prefect seal" the shape of the building. Free to visit the ancient city of the Naxi people in residential areas. Naxi houses both the small hospital Han, Tibetan, Bai flavor. Its architectural style Tetraena five yards, 3 Square, a screen wall. 站在院子里, in the face principal room is the main room and left outside the bedroom, three-bay, principal room on each side of a hand, and the main building is relatively a screen wall, that is, 3 Square, a screen wall; big four corners of the courtyard there are four a small courtyard, an independent to do a small courtyard, but also similarities with the large patio, which is Tetraena five patio. Can not open courtyard in the middle of screen wall, can only rely on the side of the room open the door. This is within the compound from the gate, screen wall, gallery hand, beams and even the patio, have attached great importance to the layout of decoration, in particular, lattice windows and doors are all fans of the beautiful flowers, birds insects, fish, wood carving; further grow flowers that every family and every household raising birds, and add more thick Yun Zhi.
The ancient city of the first open-air market is the central Napian share the city is Square Street. Where street vendors gather, par following the heel and elegance, such as antique coins, vulgar have pots and pans, real estate Tu Te sculptures. Thus extends to the Quartet, but also the characteristics of the main streets are paved, or trafficking Hemp leather, or sale of rice snacks, or sell calligraphy and painting art, or purchase sundries medicine; tea drinking, chess piano entertainment. You seem to follow the time warp back to the "Painting Scroll", it is worth your careful to taste and play with.
This carefree but peaceful life, so plain people, people peace of mind so to survive.
There are also foreigners to open bars and restaurants, but there really is an ancient city, so that these foreign things looked bleak on the inside. Artists from across the country artists are here to create your own art and some simply living in the here and understand their simple lives. One soil and water to support a party person, this ancient city, with the time are staged what story?
3. Naxi culture of Naxi ancient music is staged at 8 pm every day, we are due to travel arrangements, to around 8 in the evening back to Dali, it is not able to enjoy the Naxi ancient music has. Dusk, the last glow of sunset afterglow disappeared into the back of Jade Dragon Snow Mountain, is an old man who Naxi ancient music when they performed on stage. Lijiang Ancient Music For centuries, has been a part of life in Lijiang Naxi Ren. In their view, a noble, is to understand the music. Over the years, that is the Chinese people themselves can not understand, how the Chinese classic musical tradition will be preserved in Lijiang remote remote? It is incredible that there are not more than one nation, trying to shift the Tang and Song dynasties ancient music so refined as their own part of everyday life, it belongs not only to the elite of society, but also belongs to ordinary people. Over the centuries in which they integrated into the Naxi folk songs temperament, style and music, emotions, into the ideological realm of the Naxi Ren.
Naxi have their own text, Naxi pictograph about more than 2200, there are more characteristics of a strong picture of the text to the word as a thing, or matter, or an intention, but with pictures of the nuance of seeking a different aesthetic , but rather the beginning of a simple strokes the event, objects, to express the outline of Italy. Should be simple, but also a word with a word to distinguish. In the Old Town of Lijiang have a guess the word within the wall, all the Dongba pictograph, a lot of words now Naxi Ren do not know. Our guess for a long time in front of only 3,4-guessed words only. Dongba script is the world's only surviving with the hieroglyphs (living Dongba still in use at the Naxi Dongba priests are the intellectuals, and the meaning), words quite rich. Dongba paper records with the Dongba classics, according to incomplete statistics, there are more than 1000 kinds, more than 20,000 volumes, tens of millions of words, collections around the world. I specially introduced in the ancient city to buy books and Lijiang in Lijiang, maps, books and maps is also the owner wrote me a Dongba characters, meaning that you are welcome to come to Lijiang, I really do not see these words mean that.
Yulong Snow Mountain in Lijiang, and a brief tour coming to an end, we and the Naxi girl fat jin farewell tour, thinking that the next must be more than many nights in Lijiang, Naxi ancient music to listen to again experience the charm of the ancient city.
We drive back to Dali, hoping to arrive before dark Dali completely.
4. Lijiang travel tips tourism service facilities here, well, climate Ye Hao, in addition to ready to go if the lines need to carefully look at roundtrip air, you do not have anything else to worry about. Must pay 20 yuan to enter the ancient city of the ancient city maintenance costs, it is self-care, and the other to spend 20 yuan Mai Menpiao into the Naxi ancient music is worth listening to. Lijiang, there are also many snacks, such as chickens bean jelly beans. It may be more than the many nights, where you'll feel the time of the back, but also experience ancient culture, why not?
Author: sandy_xx
