This is the oldest village in Yunnan, which is longer than the Tea Horse Road. Nuodeng Village is an ancient village that needs horses to help you carry your luggage up, we are not far away, just to taste the ham here, the magical ancient salt well at the mouth of Nodeng Village, witnessing the thousand-year-old legend of the Salt Horse Ancient Road in Western Yunnan.
Driving out of Dali, all the way to the northwest, at the natural wonder "Taiji Lock water", broke into the oldest village in northwest Yunnan. Bai Nuodeng Village is located in Yunlong County, Dali, where all bai houses are built on the hillside. Norden Village has three unchanged over the past thousand years, the name of the village has not changed, the ethnicity has not changed, and the language has not changed. It is precisely because of this that Norden Village still retains its original appearance, and there are almost no modern buildings on the entire hillside, and there are few tourists, so we can immerse our party in the taste of the Salt Horse Ancient Road and shoot with light and shadow.
In ancient times, human civilization followed the taste of salt, and the horse gangs that communicated with each other stepped out of the oldest village in northwest Yunnan in the Hengduan Mountains... Every day when it was getting dark, cooking smoke would rise from the earth stove by the creek, and Grandma poured the brine picked from the salt well into an iron pot and began to cook salt in the traditional ancient method. This can't help but sigh the magic of the Creator, the brine drawn from the salt well after a day of boiling, it became the edible salt of the white flowers, feeding the village for generations; these white flowered Norden salts, once followed the horse gang to the far side, and then became rice grain, cloth, foreign goods and returned, creating a glorious history of "ten thousand camel salt bar thousand stone rice, department store circulation ten strange" history.
Since the salt of Nordengu well contains potassium and does not contain iodine, the taste is light, or an important condiment for marinating Norden ham, a mature Norden ham, generally takes 3 years to ferment and dry. The climate in the Norden Alpine Valley is very suitable for the deep fermentation of ham, and the cut ham is ruddy in color, the meat is salty and sweet, and it can also be eaten raw. Because of the popularity of "China on the Tip of the Tongue" in previous years, the ham of this village has long been famous inside and outside, and it is a souvenir that cannot be missed.
In addition to salt and ham, Nuodeng also "rich" jinshi and xiucai, and in the Ming and Qing dynasties, talents were born. Huang Gui is a well-known cultural celebrity, known as "Confucian Jie in Central Yunnan". The architectural ancestral hall of his family's clan is also the most magnificent, and it is well preserved.
Yunnan horse is an important means of transportation in Nuodeng Village, can be seen everywhere, in the long time and space distance of thousands of years, the horse gang team here once crossed the mountains, the Norden salt was continuously transported to the four directions, and brought back wealth, and now it is still playing a role, in addition to the daily help villagers to check in supplies, many distant tourists' suitcases need them to support up, after all, the stone steps up the mountain are too narrow and steep, if you carry it yourself, it is time-consuming and laborious.
Travel Tips:
Specific location: Nuodeng Ancient Village is located in the northwest of Dali Yunlong County, about 180 kilometers from Dali Ancient City, about 3 hours by car. The map software can directly search for Denggu Village, and dali city also has a shuttle bus to Yunlong County.
Play suggestions for more than 2 days: the village does not charge tickets, casually come and go, there are currently several homestays on the mountain, and personal suggestions are to choose a homestay on the mountainside or the top of the mountain. The suitcase needs to be lifted up by the horseman under the mountain, generally 20-30 yuan per person.
The whole village can be visited in about 3-4 hours, there are many buildings in the village of the Ming and Qing Dynasties to take pictures of the background is very good, after shopping you can go to the Jade Emperor Pavilion on the mountain, where the photo is also very good. After walking around the village, you can also drive on the Tai Chi Lock Water Observation Deck, where you can see the whole picture, and the rape blossoms are very spectacular.
About Norden salt, you can buy it at the soil stove at the mouth of the village, most of them are recently made, you can also see the process of on-site boiling, the price is not expensive, but it needs to be said that the salt of The Ancient Well of Norden contains potassium and does not contain iodine.
Then there is the ham of Nuo, it is recommended to ask a few more, the price difference is mainly one year or three years of pickling, the merchant will also have a courier service.