As of May 2, 20 18, the State Council has listed 135 cities as famous historical and cultural cities in China, and given special protection to their cultural relics.
Yunnan has a long history, culture and beautiful natural scenery. Up to now, there are six national historical and cultural cities: Kunming, Dali, Lijiang, Jianshui, Weishan and Huize. Among them, Jianshui County, known as "a famous literary town" and "Zou Lu in southern Yunnan", was approved as "National Historical and Cultural City" and "National Historical and Cultural City" in June 1994 and June 1 respectively because of its rich and long history and excellent cultural landscape.
Jianshui County, a small border town on the north bank of the Red River in southern Yunnan Province, is one of the earliest developed areas in Yunnan, and once became the political, economic, cultural, military center and transportation hub in southern Yunnan.
If you want to trace its history, you can set the pointer at 1000 years ago. As early as the Paleolithic Age, there were traces of human activities in Jianshui.
In the Tang Dynasty, Nanzhao built a city here, which was translated as "Jianshui" in Chinese and was under the jurisdiction of Tonghai Dufu. The Song Dynasty belongs to the northern part of Xiushan County, and Jianshui County was established in the Yuan Dynasty, which was called Lin 'an County in the Ming Dynasty. In Qing Dynasty, Shuizhou was rebuilt as Jianshui County.
Since the county was founded in the Tang and Yuan Dynasties (806-820 AD), it has a history of 1200 years.
Jianshui has convenient transportation. Mongolia-Baotou Railway connects Yunnan-Vietnam Railway, Kunming, the provincial capital, and Hekou to Hanoi, the capital of Vietnam.
During the Han and Tang Dynasties, there was an important passage from Yunnan to Jiao Jiao called "Tonghai Chenglu", which was another southern Silk Road that coexisted with the "Bonan Ancient Road" leading to ptomaine, and was the key point of this ancient road to build water.
Although Jianshui today is only a small county, Lin 'an Prefecture in Ming Dynasty, which is now Jianshui, is in charge of nine long lawsuits in six states, five counties and nine counties. Ancient books record that "toe in the south, Chengjiang in the north and Chuxiong in the west", and the jurisdiction includes most areas of Honghe, Yuxi and Wenshan today.
As early as the Tang Dynasty, Jianshui was the main road of the Southern Silk Road. Has always been very rich, just like Dali, known as the "golden Lin' an."
Xie, who participated in Yunnan's political affairs in the Qing Dynasty, recorded in his book A Brief Introduction to Yunnan that the prosperity of Lin 'an was in the middle of Yunnan. As the saying goes, "Lin 'an has gold, Dali has silver", which means tolerance. There are mountains and rivers, plants, fish and snails, copper and tin mines, and businessmen everywhere. It can be seen that Lin 'an was already a rich land at that time.
Jianshui has a vast land, mild climate and rich products, and is known as the "hometown of grain and sugarcane".
The style of writing is prevalent here, and it has the reputation of "a famous literary country" and "Zou Lu in southern Yunnan".
Jianshui county has a Confucian temple built in the early Yuan Dynasty, and the academic and political examination shed, state school, academy and official school built in the Ming Dynasty became the highest institution of learning in southern Yunnan at that time, with a prosperous style of study and a growing reputation.
Jianshui developed slowly under the background of the Southern Silk Road, and was deeply influenced by the culture of the Central Plains, forming a pluralistic and integrated culture in which the Han culture and the border minority cultures blended.
Jianshui is a multi-ethnic county, mainly inhabited by Han, Yi, Hui, Hani, Dai and Miao.
In the long river of historical development, people of all ethnic groups have gradually formed colorful and distinctive customs and habits while developing Jianshui.
The housing, clothing, hospitality and marriage of different nationalities are unique. Traditional customs such as transplanting rice seedlings, cigarette box dancing, string village, and traditional festivals such as Kuzaza, Satler, Amador, Torch Festival and Flower-picking Mountain are fascinating.
"Millennium Lin 'an Ancient City" and "Millennium Jianshui Zitao" are two business cards of Jianshui.
Jianshui is an ancient city with a long history. An earth wall was built in Nanzhao period, and it was expanded into a brick wall in the 20th year of Hongwu in Ming Dynasty (1387).
Although it has experienced many wars and earthquakes, it has been more than 600 years. Chaoyang building in the east gate and many ancient buildings in the city are still well preserved.
Night in Chaoyang Building
Due to the rich cultural relics, numerous scenic spots, long history and splendid culture in the county, many buildings full of strong cultural accumulation have been left inside and outside the water city.
There are 100 temples, temples, towers, buildings, bridges and houses with architectural characteristics in Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties. These treasures, which have gone through vicissitudes and mottled historic sites, shine with the brilliance of ancient culture and art in China.
Jianshui, a famous city created by history, is a place where people want to stay when they come.