Yimen is located in the northwest of Yuxi City, central and western Yunnan Province, with a total area of 1571 square kilometers and jurisdiction over 2 streets, 1 town and 4 townships, with a permanent population of more than 180,000 people
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【Water rhymes like poetry】
Dragon Spring, Green Juice, Fork River... Many place names of Yimen are inextricably linked to water, and even the county town "Yimen" is also named because of the water, and the Spring of the West of the City is named after the Yi name "Huanyuan" Damzi is called "Yimen" and "洟" is the meaning of "water" in yi, so Yimen has also known as a water city since ancient times
【Long history】
This southwest town is deep in the vast red soil and still contains mysterious past fossils of the 150 million-year-old spoontooth dinosaurs that are quietly telling the world about the ancient legend of this lush "dragon homeland" Discovered on July 23, 1987, the dinosaur fossil group within a 10-square-kilometer radius of the 10th Street Township Foot Shop is empirically proved to represent an important Jurassic dinosaur fossil layer "Spoontooth Dragon" 150 million years ago. The first discovery of the food plant dragon in Yunnan has also become the second important distribution area of dinosaur fossils in the province after Lufeng, and the overlord of the earth has become an eternal past in the change of time and space The legend is frozen in the picture of history, the late Ming and early Qing dynasties Li Zicheng defeated his subordinates, the arrival of Li Zhong, a jingdezhen man in Jiangxi, made yimen clay pottery more colorful and brilliant Condensation of the wisdom of generations of craftsmen Also made here gain the reputation of "porcelain town" and become an important ceramic building materials base
【Red Gene】Yimen is one of the old revolutionary areas in Yunnan Province, spilling blood, and the first party branch in central Yunnan was born here, and the outstanding sons and daughters of the party were born here, leading the masses of the people to fight bravely and fight in a terrifying way to become the cradle of revolution in central Yunnan. Courageously shouldered the heavy responsibility of withstanding the inhumane torture of the enemy to force a confession rather than die Rather than die 21 years old's life forever integrated with this hot land, Huang Luofeng, the early leader of the yimen county party organization, "the father of Yunnan flower lantern drama" Wang Dandong revolutionary martyr Zhao Xiaofeng Su Zhanchen and others have left red footprints here for the yimen children who supported the anti-Japanese heroes shoulder to shoulder and use horses and oxen to pull hard to ensure the transportation of materials in the rear, constantly using flesh and blood to build the rear defense line of Yunnan and Burma Yimen Jian'er participated in the bloody war of resistance 1681 people sacrificed their lives for the country 177 people in the three-year War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea The people of the county actively donated all kinds of materials Yimen volunteer soldiers heroically sacrificed 37 this blood-soaked land gave birth to generations of outstanding sons and daughters Their former servants wrote down the blueprint for salvation. A historical chapter of arduous struggle to defend the family and defend the country
【Overflowing with mushrooms】
Yimen is also a wild edible mushroom abundant production area known as "Yunnan Central Water City, Mushroom Township Yimen", known as its sweet spring water complex terrain structure A variety of forest types of soil types and unique three-dimensional climatic conditions have bred a rich variety of unique and delicious wild mushrooms
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Fresh, strange, beautiful, more wild mushrooms fragrance drift thousands of miles so that Yimen become a well-known mushroom township Every year from July to September is the rainy season in Yunnan As expected with the rain is a variety of delicious wild mushrooms Yimen wild mushroom varieties with good taste, high quality dried bacillus, matsutake mushrooms, chicken, porcini mushrooms and other more than 400 kinds of wild mushrooms compete to be edible as many as 70 species of annual output of about 5,000 tons Yimen will hold the "China Yunnan Wild Edible Mushroom Fair" During the fair, there are large-scale opening ceremony welcome dinners, wild edible mushroom science popularization exhibition wild mushroom science and technology forum wild mushroom auctions and other activities, as well as wild mushroom food cooking competitions, poetry, painting photography, stamp collecting, tourism commodities and other exhibitions to fully demonstrate the unique charm of Yimen
【Eat, drink and have fun】
Yimen Scenic SpotsAbout 30 scenic spots are distributed in the four townships and three towns of Yimen County, where there is a famous Longquan National Forest Park known as the "first scenic spot in Western Yunnan", "February 2" Drama Will Zhong Qixiu known as the "Golden Three Gorges" Of the Daguchang Reservoir, there are 150 million years of Jurassic dinosaur fossils so far, as well as Jingle'an, Fork River, Geyser Shilian Temple, Matou Mountain, Shuanglong Temple Meiying Pearl Spring, Beishan Temple, etc. In addition, Yimen's cuisine is also intoxicating and the most classic is Yimen wild mushrooms full of lion's head mushrooms. Tiger palm mushroom morel mushrooms, chanterine mushrooms and dozens of kinds of mountain treasures a pot of chowder fresh and sweet, the taste is thick and wonderful, you seem to eat the Yimen wild mushrooms in one pot, as well as Yimen tempeh, chicken assorted sauce Dalongkou sorghum wine and brine rot also deeply captured the hearts of tourists In addition to tasting delicious, you can also pick up mushrooms, watch the mushroom king taste mushroom feast, and play in the mountains and waters... Experience the infinite charm of the "mushroom town" wild mushroom food journey, the most original gifts of nature, the most original delicacies, make people dream and can't stop
Text editor: Wang Weidong Source: Yuxi Municipal People's Government Website, "Yuxi Cultural Tourism" WeChat Public Account "Yimen Release" WeChat Public Account, Yunnan Network, "Yunnan Local History" WeChat Public Account