Old Town of Lijiang Old Town of Lijiang was founded in the late Song Dynasty and early Yuan Dynasty, with a history of more than 800 years. It is an important town on the "Southern Silk Road" and the ancient tea-horse road. The ancient city takes the Tiger Leaping Gorge of the Yangtze River as the barrier, Yulong Snow Mountain as the background and running water as the soul, which perfectly combines mountains with water and water with human settlements. Its unique urban pattern, winding streets, scattered houses and flowing water constitute a harmonious and unified living space between man and nature, which is full of the poetry of "snow mountain, green land, small bridge, flowing water and Naxi people". It is the crystallization of the profound historical accumulation of Naxi national culture and the only existing hieroglyph Dongba in the world, and it is a rare heritage of Chinese nation and world culture.
Dongba culture Dongba culture is a living culture gradually formed and evolved by Naxi people in the long historical development. It is the sum of natural science and social science created and accumulated by Naxi people for thousands of years, and it is an encyclopedia of ancient Naxi people. It is a very precious and splendid treasure in China's national culture and even the world's cultural treasures.
The natural heritage "Three Parallel Rivers" flows through Yunnan about170km, and is located in Lijiang, Diqing Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture and Nujiang Lisu Autonomous Prefecture in the west of Yunnan Province, with a total area of 40,000km2.
These three rivers originate from the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and run hand in hand in the mountains of Yunnan. Jinsha River passes through the natural wonders of Shigu Town (the first bay of the Yangtze River), then flows back to Dajiangdong, and finally flows into the Pacific Ocean ... While Lancang River and Nujiang River flow through Myanmar, Vietnam, Laos and Thailand, and finally merge into India's majestic, steep, beautiful, strange, quiet and Austrian sky, which is the parallel flow of three rivers in western Yunnan.