Yunnan, the second hometown of travelers
A person's hometown is not limited to a specific piece of land, but an incomparably vast mood. "This mood is not limited by space and time.
When the sun, moon and stars are sprinkled on you, when the grass, trees, mountains and rocks wake you up, when countless past events rush in, you will return to your hometown.
Start planning my 2024 Yunnan, perhaps the second home of every traveler. When it comes to Yunnan, countless images will come to everyone's mind.
It may be majestic and magnificent mountains and rivers: Yulong Snow Mountain, Meili Snow Mountain, Gaoligong Mountain. It was as if each one was the abode of the gods.
It may be a bright and leisurely ancient town: Dali, Lijiang, Shaxi Ancient Town, Baisha Ancient Town, just hearing the name makes people yearn for it.
It may also be the happy Yunnan people who live in Hengchun, where 26 ethnic groups live and spread the aura and fireworks to the whole world.
The softness of the south of the Yangtze River, the magnificence of the north, the style of the Western Regions, and the richness of the Central Plains. You'll find it all here. There are few places that are as rich as Yunnan.
As we have been feeling for decades: "No matter what land you come from, you can find the shadow of your hometown in Yunnan and find your true and smart self." ”
Walk into a different Yunnan
We want to take you into a different Yunnan, into one after another names you may not have heard of: Mengzi, Bise Village, Azheke, Puzhehei, Jianshui Ancient City.
When you set foot on this land, you will be shocked, delighted, and even like our previous team members, you will be full of emotion: "It turns out that there is such a place in Yunnan!".”
Yes, there is a place called Southeast Yunnan!She is niche, safe, and incompatible with the hustle and bustle of northwest Yunnan.
Ancient history and modern humanity are blended and intertwined here, and natural scenery and ethnic customs are set off here.
The southeast of Yunnan, like a utopia hidden in the long years, is quietly guarded in the southeast corner.
The kapok in the Red River Valley has bloomed and fallen, the merchants of the Ancient Tea Horse Road have come and gone, and there are hard-working and intelligent Hani compatriots:
Wait for a romantic sunrise at the mist-shrouded Doi tree. Pale blue, orange, twilight purple, all kinds of colors change in front of your eyes.
Dawn filled all the goblets with wine", maybe only when you come here will you really read Dawn and read Neruda.
The sun shines on the terraces, but it illuminates the barrenness of time.
Wonderful, shocking, gorgeous, it is the Yuanyang terraces, and it is also the 1300 years that the Hani people have passed in a flash. I believe that such a scenery will definitely become a lingering existence in the memory of children.
The ancient city of Jianshui
In Yunnan, there is no shortage of all kinds of famous and nameless ancient towns. However, under the impact of commercialization, it is no longer easy to find a truly "living" ancient city.
Fortunately, the ancient city of Jianshui is still there.
Perhaps you have seen this name in food documentaries such as "A Bite of China" and "A String of Life", where locals sit leisurely at roadside stalls eating roast tofu, which is the audience's initial impression of Jianshui.
Food is indeed the first business card of Jianshui into the public eye, but Jianshui is more than that: under the pen of the poet Yu Jian, Jianshui is a poetic habitat where ancient elegance and market atmosphere coexist;
Jianshui, just from the name, you can know that this small city is closely related to water.
The well is the center of the land and irrigation, and the wellbore is dense, and the city is the city. But few ancient cities have such a large number of wells and such a variety of shapes as Jianshui.
The ancient well is alive. It is said that there are as many as 128 round, square, crescent-shaped, one-eyed, four-eyed and even twelve-eyed.
From early morning to late afternoon, locals carrying buckets of water are in constant flux, cooking rice, making tea, and making tofu. One side of the water and soil to support the other side of the people, probably that's it.
The streets and alleys are alive. The street stalls are steaming hot, and the sizzle of roasted tofu and the aroma of grass and tooth rice noodles can capture you in a moment.
Walking through the streets and alleys, you will be greeted by simple and enthusiastic aborigines: grandma with shoe soles, uncle playing chess, and craftsmen making purple pottery.
Locals are always the key to being unique from afar. With them, there is an authentic Yunnan flavor.
Yunnan is the most lacking in food, no matter which city you are in, gourmets who know how to eat and can eat can find their favorites.
Among the many tourist cities in Yunnan, Jianshui's food is not only down-to-earth, but also able to hold the big scene. Here, you can not only taste the distinctive and unique flavor of ethnic minorities, but also taste the exquisiteness and refinement from the Central Plains.
Jianshui roasted tofu, which has been featured in "A Bite of China", has long become the number one signboard of this small city.
There is a place called Bise Village
Bise Village, just listening to the name is poetic enough. The mottled yellow walls and red tiles, and the static French wall clock, seem to tell the story of this place.
Many people come here to check in the same filming location of "Fanghua", but we feel that indulging in the past of the long river of time is the soul of Bise Village.
Bisezhai was originally a small mountain village in Mengzi City, Yunnan Province, and is now a fourth-class station on the railway line. In the film, it is set as the location of a field hospital.
Walking in the blue color village, the old platform, the damaged railroad tracks, and the messy houses will not make you have too much beauty. But who would have thought that more than 100 years ago, it also had its own "Fanghua".
Listen to the story of the Yunnan-Vietnam Railway told by a local gentleman.
The Yunnan-Vietnam Railway starts from Haiphong, Vietnam, enters China from Lao Cai, and leads to Kunming through Mongolia, 80% of the road section runs through the mountains and deep valleys, with an average of 3 kilometers of a tunnel and a bridge of 1 kilometers, and the difficulty of the project is rare in the world.
Later generations commented that the Yunnan-Vietnam Railway represented the highest level of railway engineering technology in the early 20th century.
The opening of the Yunnan-Vietnam railway has strongly stimulated the development of the old tin industry, domestic and foreign merchants flocked to it, and businessmen from France, Britain, the United States, Germany, Japan, Italy and other countries have set up storage and transportation warehouses, foreign companies, water, fire and oil companies, material factories, post offices, restaurants, shopping malls, etc., and there are all kinds of business projects.
For a time, the small Bisezhai has become the busiest place in Yunnan, with as many as 40 trains stopping at Bisezhai Station every day, and the foreign trade volume accounts for eighty percent of the whole province of Yunnan, which is called the "little Paris" of the East.
Dali, Lijiang, Erhai Lake, Lugu Lake, almost all the names you are familiar with are related to northwest Yunnan.
But this time, we wanted to be a little more niche. So, we crossed the Jade Dragon Snow Mountain, abandoned the Cangshan and Erhai Mountains, and shifted our attention to the southeast of Yunnan.