Today for you to introduce the characteristic town of Yunnan - Dali City, Dali City, Dali City, Xizhou is one of the birthplaces of Dali culture, as early as the coexistence of the Six Zhao and Heman was already a Bai ethnic settlement, originally the city of Dali Heman, Sui Shi Long Live once stationed troops here, so called "Shi Cheng" or "Shi Yan", the former capital of nanzhao in the Tang Dynasty was also built here, then called Dali City, when it was "Yiju households are especially crowded", is one of the "ten eyelids" in the Nanzhao period.
Xizhou Town is the hometown of the movie "Five Golden Flowers", a famous historical and cultural town and one of the key overseas Chinese townships in Yunnan Province.
Xizhou Town
On October 14, 2016, Xizhou Town, Dali City, Dali Prefecture, Yunnan Province, was jointly recognized by the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development as the first batch of towns with Chinese characteristics.
Map of Xizhou Town
<h1>Overview of the town</h1>
Location: Xizhou Town is located in the north of Dali City, backed by Cangshan Wutai, Canglang, Yunlong Three Peaks, east of the Erhai Sea, south of the Jiming River, connected to the Wan Bridge, north of Longshou Pass as the boundary, and Eryuan County.
Coordinates: 100.137176, 25.856008
Area: 161 km²
Population: more than 70,000 people
Climate: Low latitude plateau monsoon climate
Famous attractions: Butterfly Springs
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Ethnic food
A palm of snow, ancient called honey snow, "Dali County Chronicle" said: "Honey snow out of the Cangshan Mountains, Xia Yue County people carry off, and boiled plums with sugar, extremely quenching heat and thirst." The Japanese poet monk Tianxiang, who lived in Dali in the Ming Dynasty, praised the "selling snow words": Shuanglong Guanli hundred flowers, silver sea hugging dots, June street called snow selling, pedestrians mistakenly believed that it was Qiong Pulp.
Xizhou rice dumplings, locally called broken crisp, wheat flour fermentation, add lard soil alkali mixed, made into a round, sweet, salty two kinds, sweet brown sugar, bean paste wrapped in heart, salty rice into ham or salt and shallots, with the hanging oven will be heated on both sides of the roast, crisp and delicious, oily but not greasy, crisp but not crisp.
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Shangguan rice dumplings, as famous as Xizhou rice dumplings, are characterized by raw wheat noodles and soil alkali added more, hard rice, no salt sugar, baked in a flat pot made of thin slices of rice dumplings, shaped like flakes, 1 city foot in diameter, each weighing 3 two, after baking one by one stacked into piles, surrounded by cloth to make it soft.
Ethnic products
Tie-dyed cloth, known as "hanging valerian" in ancient times, is mainly produced in Zhoucheng and originated in Nanzhao. Use pure white cotton, silk, etc. as a blank cloth, the pattern is printed on the cloth in a discontinuous dot, hand-stitched into a knot by point, with the blue indigo cultivated by people and me as a dye, soaked in cold dyeing many times, rinsed, flattened, that is, a variety of patterns of white flowers on a blue background, characterized by color halos, which cannot be achieved for mechanized printing and dyeing.
Tie-dyed cloth
Embroidery, Xizhou women have exquisite embroidery by hand. With Zhao Zhou silk thread embroidery, there are embroidery pattern paper samples for sale on the street, and individuals have pattern samples. Products include festive naves, tent edges, door curtains, pillowcases, quilts, children's hats, embroidered shoes, handkerchiefs, aprons, streamers and so on.
Bai ethnic clothing, men's black coat, placket white shirt as a feature, women's clothing for white round shirt, red gown, embroidered apron, green pants as a feature, the most exquisite headdress, bright and bright color, strong contrast. In 1991, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher visited Yunnan and presented Bai women's clothing with Governor Zhiqiang.
Bai costumes
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Butterfly Springs
Butterfly Spring is located 1 km north of Zhoucheng Village, Xizhou Town, Dali City, on the west side of the Yunnan-Tibet Highway, under the Yunnong Peak of Cangshan Mountain, formerly known as Bottomless Pond. In the park, there is a stone stele of Guo Moruo's handwritten 'Butterfly Spring', and the left side is engraved with the handwriting of Guo Moruo's Butterfly Spring poem; on the back of the stele, there is a diary of Xu Xia's visit to Dali Butterfly Spring. Xu Xiake recorded in his travelogue: "The big tree on the spring, when it is in early April, it flowers like a gorge butterfly, and its whiskers are vivid, no different from raw butterflies. There are also thousands of real butterflies, with hooked feet, hanging upside down from the top of the tree, and on the surface of the spring, colorful and colorful. Tourists are watching from this month, and after May, it is already over. ”
Butterfly Spring Park, built with butterfly building, octagonal pavilion, hexagonal pavilion, Wanghai pavilion, crescent pond, wing butterfly monument, in December 1985 established butterfly herbarium.
Huazhong University moved west to its former site
After the "Seven Seven" Lugou Bridge Incident in 1937, in early April 1939, Huazhong University moved to Xizhou Town, on the shore of the Erhai Sea under the Cangshan Mountains in Dali Point, and used the temples of Daci Temple, Jade Emperor Pavilion, Qiguan Hall and Zhang Gong Ancestral Hall adjacent to each other outside the south gate of Xizhou as the site of the school, and officially opened on May 1, with the College of Literature, the College of Science and the School of Education.
After the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, in April 1946, Huazhong University left Xizhou, went to Kunming, moved to Changsha, and then returned to Wuchang.
Are there any other distinctive places that we haven't sunburned? Welcome the villagers of Xizhou Town to participate in the discussion and interaction, and provide us with material clues.
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