when it comes to the characteristics of Dali catering, three tea, fish in casserole and Deng Chuan milk fan should be the first choice. Most of the best restaurants in Dali are concentrated in the ancient city. If you want to taste it, you can go to Renmin Road in the ancient city, where many foreign tourists gather. On the road of protecting the country, western-style cafes with the characteristics of Bai, Tibetan and other ethnic minorities can be seen everywhere. Many restaurants also sell Chinese and western food, and tourists can taste Yunnan-style dishes and local Bai cuisine. Every restaurant here has its own characteristics, and its recipes are different. Among them, Taibailou, which is famous both at home and abroad for its Bai nationality "three tea" and Tibetan "butter tea", is a representative. Drinking tea here and looking around, you will feel as if you are in the United Nations. Of course, the attraction of the ancient city is not only the food, but also the cafes and restaurants here provide a quiet and relaxed atmosphere, where people can listen to music and drink cold beer and spend a leisurely afternoon. Almost all cafes provide tourist information and booking services, and some also have bicycles for tourists to rent.

special activities

Dali is the main settlement of the Bai people, with strong ethnic customs. Festivals and grand events of the Bai nationality are mostly concentrated between March and April every year. March Street and Around the Three Spirits are traditional festivals. Others include: the Chicken Festival, which is held at Jizu Mountain in Binchuan from the first day to the fifteenth day of the first lunar month every year; Playing the sea will be held in Dali Cai village on the eighth day of August; Shi Baoshan Song Festival, held in Shi Baoshan Shizhong Temple for three days at the end of July of the lunar calendar; Torch Festival, held on June 25th in Bai Tunzhai. Gegenhui, held on the fifth day of January in Santa Temple in Dali. Butterfly party, the Jizushan Mountain Meeting is held on April 15th of the lunar calendar, and the best travel time is from the first day to the 15th day of the first lunar month

Dali has a low latitude plateau monsoon climate, with insignificant seasonal changes and small annual temperature difference, with an average annual temperature of 15℃, no obvious severe winter and heat, moderate cold and heat, and spring-like seasons. Many festivals and grand events of the Bai nationality are mostly concentrated in March and April every year. At this time, you will feel the rich ethnic customs when you visit. Some people sang: "Dali has a beautiful scenery in March", so it is perfect in spring. Generally speaking, Dali is a good place to travel in all seasons. She is also one of the "Top Ten Tourist Cities" in China.

Tickets for scenic spots (you will get a certain discount if you find a local)

Name of Dali scenic spot Ticket price (RMB/person) Approval number 1 Binchuan Jizu Mountain Scenic Area 6 cloud meter charge [22] No.144 2 Binchuan Jizu Mountain cableway 5 cloud meter charge [22]. No.144 No.3 Cangshan Scenic Spot Ticket Fee [25] No.28 (revised on March 17, 29: 1 yuan/person with temporary residence permit) No.4 Dali Santa Park+Santa Yingyue Park No.52 Pricing [22] No.245 (revised on February 16, 29: adult ticket: 121 yuan/person child ticket: 62 yuan. Person) (modified on March 17th, 29: 2 yuan/person with temporary residence permit) 5 Dali butterfly spring Park No.35 Pricing [22] No.11 butterfly spring

6 Tianlong Babu Studio No.6 Pricing [24] No.382 (modified on February 16th, 29: adult ticket: 52 yuan/person child ticket 27 yuan/ People) (modified on March 17, 29: 15 yuan/person with temporary residence permit) 7 Nanzhao Fengqing Island 22 Big Valuation [1999] No.3 8 Dali Gantong Cableway 5, Xia 4 Zhou Jia Guan Zi [2] No.72 9 Dali Cangshan Yingdao One-way Top 3 Pricing [22] No.679 1 Jianchuan Shi Baoshan Scenic Area Top 3 Pricing [22] No.174 11 Weishan County Weibaoshan Scenic Area 6 Dafa Price Change Management [25]32 12 Chongsheng Temple Scenic Area 69 Pricing Management [25] No.151 No.13 Xiangyun Ancient Road Scenic Area 4 Xiang Pricing [24] No.58 No.14 Xiangyun Shuimu Mountain Scenic Area 3 Xiang Pricing [24] No.59 No.15 Yunlong Tianchi Scenic Area 1 Yun Pricing [22] No.7 No.16 Yangbi Shimenguan Scenic Area 2 Yang Zheng Fu [24] No.3 No.17 Jianchuan County Manxianlin Qianshi Mountain Scenic Area 2 Sword Pricing [23] No.9 No.18 Nanjian Lingbaoshan National Forest Park No.5 South Valuation [24] No.11 No.19 Dali Erhai Park No.2 Dali Xizhou Bai People's Residential Group No.25 City Valuation [24] No.8 No.21 Binchuan Guanyinqing Scenic Spot 4 Guest Valuation Tube [2] No.7 No.22 Eryuan Geothermal States 1 Ancient District Valuation [24] No.2

Shopping Guide

In the ancient city or Shimonoseki, you can buy Four Treasures of the Study, flower pots, vases, lamps and other marble handicrafts made of natural marble. Bai batik and tie-dyeing with ethnic characteristics are popular handicrafts, which can be seen everywhere in Xiaguan and the ancient city. Deng Chuan Milk Fan in Dali Prefecture is very famous, and it is available in various grocery stores and farmers' markets. L Four Seasons Spring Pu 'er tea, with a history of 1 years, has a long-lasting taste and a unique aroma, and is available in major tea shops; Dali Sydney, produced on the east bank of Erhai Lake, is white and tender. Jianchuan woodcarving, originally furniture, doors, windows, screens, etc. made by Jianchuan folk craftsmen, has developed some small handicraft carvings in recent years for tourists to carry and sell in various handicraft shops. Tips: Huguo Road in the ancient city of Dali is a must-visit place for tourists, where all kinds of ethnic textiles, handicrafts and specialties from Yunnan and Tibet are concentrated, and many antique shops often make tourists get unexpected gains. Also, near butterfly spring, there is a village called Zhoucheng. From the ancient city of Dali or Shimonoseki, there are buses and wagons going there. Visitors may wish to visit the villagers' homes. Almost every family has its own small workshop specializing in batik or tie-dyeing. The price is reasonable. The price of a batik cloth is 15 yuan. The local seal carving is also very good. Bai people's embroidered bouza Dali straw hat marble handicraft Dali tie-dye bait block painting felt Jianchuan orchid Jianchuan stone carving Yunnan Tuocha stewed plum

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Cangshan Erhai Lake

Cangshan Erhai Lake is located in Dali Bai Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province, and is a place that tourists from ancient times to modern times yearn for. Yang Sheng 'an, a famous scholar in the Ming Dynasty, described it as "the mountains are green and the sea is covered with blue for half a month" and "when you look at the sky, you don't feel refreshed and fly over". Cangshan Mountain, also known as Diancang Mountain, has 19 peaks, each of which is more than 3,5 meters above sea level, and the highest peak is more than 4, meters above sea level. Cangshan Mountain has always been famous for its snow, clouds and springs. Cangshan snow, which is not needed after summer, is the most famous of the four scenic spots in Dali. In the sunny spring of March, the top of Diancang Mountain looks crystal clear and quiet, and it is worthy of being a crystal world. The clouds in Diancang Mountain are varied, sometimes as light as smoke, and sometimes as thick as splashing ink. At the turn of summer and autumn, white clouds like jade belts appear from time to time on the verdant mountainside, which are hundreds of miles long and charming. Erhai lake

on the top of Cangshan mountain, there are many alpine moraine lakes, and the lakes are surrounded by virgin forests that cover the sun. There are also 18 streams flowing between the 19 peaks, which moisten the land in the foothills and dams and embellish the scenery of Cangshan Mountain. Cangshan is still a world of flowers. There are not only dozens of rhododendrons, but also rare hibiscus flowers and hydrangea-like Ma Yinghua. Erhai Lake is a beautiful plateau lake with a long and narrow shape, with a length of 4 kilometers from north to south and an area of about 24 square kilometers. Boating in Erhai Lake on a calm day, the clean and transparent sea surface is like a clear blue sky, giving people a quiet and distant feeling. In Tuanshan, the southernmost part of Erhai Lake, there is an Erhai Park, which is a good place to enjoy the scenery of Cangshan Erhai Lake. At the foot of Cangshan Mountain and the shore of Erhai Lake, there is also a famous tourist attraction-butterfly spring. Butterfly spring's fame is related to Xu Xiake's description in his travel notes. He wrote: "There are big trees on the spring. In early April, the flowers will be like butterflies, and the wings will be like butterflies. There are also tens of millions of real butterflies, even with their feet hooked, hanging upside down from the tree and reaching the surface of the spring, colorful and colorful. " It is true that there are times when there are countless butterflies coming to this party, and their colors are gorgeous, such as Xia Rujin. A few years ago, the number of butterflies decreased. According to the investigation of relevant parties, the main reasons are that the local climate turned to dryness, which led to the migration of butterflies, and that a large number of pesticides were used in rural areas, which accidentally injured many butterfly larvae. However, in recent two or three years, with the gradual recovery of ecological balance and people's conscious protection measures for butterflies, the number of butterflies gathering every year has increased day by day.

foreigner street

in the ancient city, Dali foreigner street was originally named "protecting the country road", which means that in the early Republic of China, Yunnan people opposed Yuan Shikai's claim to be the emperor and rose up to defend the country. Huguo Road runs east-west, with a length of 1, meters and a width of 7 meters. It is paved with bluestone slabs, starting from Yunnan-Tibet Highway in the west, and crossing major streets such as Bo 'ai and Fuxing. Later, in order to meet the needs of open tourism, the ancient city of Dali was designated as the main attraction of open tourism, and the Camellia Hotel was designated as a foreign-related hotel. The Camellia Hotel was located in the west section of the ancient city Huguo Road, so Huguo Road became the distribution center for foreign tourists in Dali. Chinese and western flavor shops, jewelry stores, antique shops, tie-dye shops and galleries have sprung up, and the pavements are lined on both sides, dazzling and dazzling, becoming the famous "Dali Foreigners Street" at home and abroad. Today, the name of the ancient city of Dali, Huguo Road, has long been called "Foreigner Street" on some foreign drawings. It can be seen that Dali Foreigner Street has become a world-famous place for foreign friends and a warm home for them to live in Dali.

Three Pagodas of Chongsheng Temple

The Three Pagodas of Chongsheng Temple are symbols of Dali, ancient Yunnan history and culture, and one of the oldest and most magnificent buildings in southern China. In 1961, the first batch of the State Council was announced as a national key cultural relics protection unit. Chongsheng Temple was originally located in the west of the Three Pagodas, near Cangshan Mountain, and its gate is about 12 meters away from the main tower of the Three Pagodas. It was built in the 1th generation of Nanzhao Kingdom when Wang Quanfeng was right (824-859 AD), which was in the late Nanzhao Kingdom. In the middle of Nanzhao Kingdom, the worship of Buddhism rose, and by the time it persuaded Fengyou, it had reached a great victory. There were 3, small temples and 8 large temples all over Yunnan. In Dali after Nanzhao, Buddhism developed more than Nanzhao. Therefore, Dali is known as the "Buddhist country" and "Miao Xiang country". After the completion of Chongsheng Temple, it became the center of Buddhist activities in Nanzhao and Dali periods. The "saint" worshipped by Chongsheng Temple is Guanyin. At that time, the worship of Guanyin in Dali was extremely successful. Three pagodas of Chongsheng Temple

According to relevant documents, when Chongsheng Temple and the main pagoda were built, there were more than 8 houses, more than 1, buddhas, 4, kilograms of copper and 7, workers at the base of the temple. The existing main tower is 69.13 meters high and has 16 floors. It is a square dense-eaves hollow brick tower, which is one of the tallest existing towers in China. The small tower of the three towers is in the west of the main tower, 7 meters equidistant from the main tower; North-South confrontation, 97 meters apart. They were built by Dali Kingdom in the Five Dynasties. The two towers are of the same shape, both of which are 1 stories and 42.4 meters high, and are octagonal hollow brick towers with dense eaves. After the completion of Chongsheng Temple and the Three Pagodas, after thousands of years of vicissitudes and wind and rain erosion, Chongsheng Temple was destroyed during the Xianfeng period of Qing Dynasty, but the West Three Pagodas stood tall. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, the government attached great importance to the protection of the Three Towers, and in 1978, it carried out large-scale maintenance. During this maintenance, more than 6 Buddhist cultural relics were found in the pedestal of Chihiro Tower, including a large number of Buddha statues and Buddhist scriptures, including a golden Guanyin statue, which weighs 1135 grams and is 24 centimeters high, which is extremely precious. This is the most abundant batch of cultural relics discovered so far in Nanzhao and Dali periods, with extremely high value, which has attracted attention at home and abroad. This discovery unveiled a mysterious veil of ancient Dali, a "Buddhist country". As for the architectural style of the Three Pagodas, it is generally said that it is similar to the Little Wild Goose Pagoda in Xi 'an, and it is a typical Tang Pagoda style, which shows the close relationship between Yunnan and the mainland during the Tang and Song Dynasties, which is beyond doubt.

Ancient City of Dali

The ancient city of Dali (now Dali City), referred to as Yucheng for short, is one of the first batch of 24 famous historical and cultural cities in China approved by the State Council in February 1982, and is also one of the 44 key scenic spots in China. It is located in the east of Nanzhao and the ruins of the capital city of Dali. It was built in the 15th year of Hongwu in Ming Dynasty (AD 1382) and has been built repeatedly in successive dynasties. Dali is known as "a famous country of literature". The long history has left many important cultural relics and historic sites. Dali Scenic Area has 4 national key cultural relics protection units and 19 provincial key cultural relics protection units, which can be summarized as "three ancient cities", namely ancient cities, ancient pagodas and ancient monuments. The ancient cities of Dali include Taihe City, Yangmao City, Dali City (now Xizhou Town), Longwei City (now Xiaguan) and Dali City; The ancient pagoda includes three pagodas of Chongsheng Temple, one pagoda of Hongsheng Temple, snake bone pagoda and fishbone pagoda. Ancient monuments include Nanzhao Dehua Monument, Yuan Shizu Pingyan Monument, Wuhualou Monument Group and Shanhua Monument. The long history has also bred many outstanding figures. Prominent are Wang Piluoge, Ge Luofeng and Yimouxun of the fourth, fifth and sixth generations of Nanzhao State; Qing Pingguan (Prime Minister) Zheng Hui, Duan Siping, the founder of Dali, and Zhang Shengwen, a famous painter; Poets and writers of the Ming Dynasty: Yang Nai, Yang Shiyun and Li Yuanyang; Modern democratic revolutionaries Li Xiexi and Gala Zeng, outstanding military theorist Yang Jie, leader of Northeast Anti-Japanese Coalition forces Zhou Baozhong. Dali City, Fiona Fang, 12 miles, the wall is 2 feet high and 5 feet thick; There is a gate in the east, west, north and south, and there are towers on it, which are called Tonghai, Cangshan, Chengen and Anyuan respectively; There are also watchtowers at the four corners of the city, and each has its own name: Yingchuan, Xiping, Kongming and Changqing. The outer wall of the city wall is made of brick, with a rectangular top and a ring ditch below. The city's streets are like a chessboard, with five streets from south to north and eight lanes from east to west. Today, some of the city walls of the North and South Cities and the South Tower (rebuilt in 1982) are preserved. If Dali, the state capital, gives people a sense of prosperity and noise, then Dali is simple and quiet, with clear Dingdong streams flowing in the ancient city of Dali, where every household grows flowers and trees, and flowers and fruits are flourishing. The Garden Tea House, which is hidden deep in the streets and lanes, is a good place for tourists to rest. After the reform and opening up, private snack restaurants with French flavor are also favorite places for foreign guests to visit. Traditional marble handicrafts are placed on both sides of the street, allowing them to watch and buy. Transportation of Dali Ancient City: Take Bus No.4 and No.8 from Shimonoseki, and you can reach the ancient city in about 2 minutes. The fare for 1.5 yuan is 1.2 (unmanned bus). In addition, tourists can also take minibuses located on Jianshe Road and Wenhua Road, which takes about 3 minutes to reach the ancient city. Tourists visit the ancient city of Dali mainly by walking. Butterfly spring, butterfly spring, 4 kilometers north of Dali, at the foot of Cangshan Yunnong Peak. Due to the long-term landscape erosion, sand and gravel are in pieces, and trees are scarce on the hillside. But when you walk slowly uphill for about half a mile, you see a dazzling shade. Walking through the quaint stone workshop, there is a marble tablet standing about 3 meters high, which is prismatic, and there are three Chinese characters "butterfly spring" in Guo Moruo's handwriting on the right side. On the left, the handwriting of Guo Lao's poems about butterfly spring is engraved. On the back of the monument, there is a diary of Xu Xiake's visit to butterfly spring, Dali. Walking along the tree-lined path for about 3 to 4 meters, I saw many old trees and shady trees.