Baisha Ancient Town

If you are looking to enjoy an old town environment but escape the crowds this place is a great choice.

Baisha is the ancient capital of Naxi nationality, once the center of Lijiang politics, economy, commerce and culture. Baisha Ancient Town is the origin of Mu's toast regime. As early as the Tang Dynasty, when the Nanyu Wang Fengyuyu Snow Mountain was "Beiyue", Mu's ancestors were Lijiang King, and Baisha Street and Beiyue Temple were built here. Mu's in Baisha Ancient Town began to attract spring water from the Yulong Snow Mountain to pass through the town.

Dali Lijiang Ancient City has visited, I heard that Baisha Ancient Town has been newly developed, the style is very good, and I am very fond of it. Many shops are still rebuilding and renovating... There is a store with a dog photo that must buy things... The experience is very poor...

Baisha Ancient Town has a thousand years of history, Mushi began to draw spring water from the Yulong Snow Mountain to pass through the center of the commercial square, and later in Dayan will play the wonderfulness of the flowing water to the fullest. Baisha Ancient Town is very developed in commerce and handicrafts. Before liberation, there were more than 150 copper workshops in Baisha. The copperware is mainly used for copper hot pot, copper pot, copper pot, copper foil, oil lamps and other items needed by Tibetan areas and surrounding ethnic minorities. But for the reasons of post-liberation history, there is only one on Baisha Street. Still insisting on hand-drawing copper. White sand textile and hand-made embroidery has also been very developed. Historically, Naxi embroidery mainly focuses on the daily necessities, paintings and Tibetan Tangka of local tribal chiefs and dignitaries. The folk mainly focus on "stars and moons", waist, back, shoes, insoles. Before liberation, almost everyone embroidered by Naxi and surrounding ethnic minority women, who were centered on Baisha, and almost everyone embroidered. After liberation, there are few good embroidery masters because of the Cultural Revolution and mechanization. The current government-focused Lijiang Jinxiu Vocational Training School, Baisha Jinxiu Art Academy is digging, finishing, inheriting, training and promoting traditional hand-made embroidery. Baisha Splendid Art Academy, between the parking lot and Sifang Street, is a typical Naxi courtyard complex, with four yards, antique, the ground is auspicious pattern of traditional craft tiles and goose warm stone paving, doors and windows are old and very particular, very tasteful. Baisha Splendid Art Academy is a demonstration base for ethnic embroidery and Dongba culture inheritance, promotion and women's employment supported by the local government. Here you can not only appreciate the beauty of Naxi's traditional architectural courtyard, but also appreciate the cultural dinner of ethnic embroidery, which is very shocking. Some people create embroidery on the spot, and there are also high-school and low-end works available for purchase in the exhibition hall, but there are still differences in the price of handmade artwork and cross-stitch and machine embroidery. There is no ticket, it is worth visiting.

The world cultural heritage "Lijiang Ancient City" is composed of three ancient towns of Baisha Ancient Town, Shuhe Ancient Town and Lijiang Ancient Town. These three ancient towns are all in Lijiang towards Yulong Snow Mountain. Baisha Ancient Town is the ancient capital of Naxi nationality and was once the center of Lijiang's politics, economy, commerce and culture. During the Song and Yuan Period, the Mu family moved to Dayan Town in 1383 at the beginning of the Ming Dynasty. The center of Baisha Ancient Town is Sifang Street and the surrounding temple buildings, there are Fuguo Temple in the Zhishan Relief Forest in the west of the ancient town (the mountain gate and the main hall have been moved to Yuquan Park, which is in Heilongtan), and the Dabaoji Palace, the glazed palace, and the Dading Pavilion, which is the temple in the northeast of Sifang Street. The Sifang Street of Baisha Ancient Town is the prototype of Shuhe Ancient Town and Lijiang Ancient City Sifang Street. Baisha Town is the earliest political, economic and cultural center in Lijiang, with a history of more than 1,000 years. In Shuhe Ancient Town and Lijiang Ancient City Sifang Street, it has developed into the size of the street square. The center of Baisha Ancient Town Sifang Street, once a bustling trading center. Therefore, when the Naxi ancestors established Shuhe Ancient Town and Lijiang Ancient Town, they also learned the planning model of Baisha Ancient Town, and built the center of the ancient town into a center for business and trade transactions, named Sifang Street, which means "all in all directions, the meaning of the four parties of warrants". The Sifang Street in Baisha Ancient Town is relatively unsophisticated because it was built very early, so it is relatively not as Zhou Zhenghe Ancient Town and Lijiang Dayan Ancient Town. On the south side of Sifang Street, there is a two-story archway with a plaque "Baisha, capital of the ancient kingdom of Naxi". The south of the archway is a peaceful and quiet Naxi home. For more than 1,000 years, Naxi people have been here in spring, autumn, harvest and winter, and live a life invincible. Today, walking in the village, you will feel that time seems to stop flowing, the sky is so blue, the snow-capped mountains are so majestic, The whole ancient town is as simple and peaceful as the old man in Naxi.

Lijiang was blown up Baisha Ancient Town 📍 Yunnan Lijiang Baisha Ancient Town Under the Snow Mountain, this town has been blown up recently, planted by countless people, and became a must-check place in Lijiang. I have been there countless times. Share it with you; Baisha is not big, the whole ancient town is like a 7-character, the main street is just one, but the shops on the street are very interesting, the talents here are really living in Lijiang, not doing business; Lijiang Ancient City used to be about 10km, 20 minutes by car, Shuhe Ancient Town used to be about 3km, 5 minutes by car, bicycles can also be slow; If you want to take photos, catch the good weather and try to go to 4-6 in the afternoon. The light in Lijiang is too strong to go too early and it is easy to expose. There are fewer tourists in the afternoon. The street is easy to film. If you live in the ancient city, don't play too late, otherwise it will be more troublesome to go back to the ancient city. Don't ask me how I know [tears]! Of course, you can live there, but there are not many choices; the most here is the cafe and bistro, the owner of each store seems to make coffee, and will bottle beer after noon.

From the Yulong Snow Mountain back to Lijiang on the way to Baisha Ancient Town. Baisha Ancient Town is located about 10 kilometers from Lijiang City, north of Yulong Snow Mountain, south to Longquan, Xiyizhi Mountain, is the ancient capital of Naxi, world-class "Gunaxi Kingdom", once the center of the politics, economy, commerce and culture of Naxi Lijiang. As one of the important birthplaces of Naxi culture, Baisha Ancient Town is the origin of the regime of Lijiang Tusi "Mu family". Early in the Tang Dynasty, when the Nanyu Wang Fengyulong Snow Mountain was "Beiyue", Mu's ancestors (then Lijiang Wang) began to build Baisha Street and Beiyue Temple here. Baisha Ancient Town is the ancient town with the most ancient style of Naxi, the most original ecological Naxi village, and is one of the components of the world cultural heritage "Lijiang Ancient City". We went to Baisha Ancient Town on March 8 on the sixth day of the lunar calendar in February. In two days, the eighth day of February is more than three festivals. Naxi is called "Sanduo Song". It is a grand festival of the Naxi statutory ethnic festival, the traditional Naxi festival, and the Naxi festival to the greatest protection god of the ethnic group. It is equivalent to our Spring Festival, and the local holiday is three days. Unfortunately, we didn't do our homework and went two days early. It is very convenient to go to Baisha Ancient City from Lijiang Ancient City to play Didi, and it is also very convenient to take the 6 bus.