Yunnan Travel Guide: Lijiang Historic Sites II

Baisha Murals

The murals were drawn on the walls of the Buddhist temples of Lijiang affordable China tours by the Mu family headmen during the Ming Dynasty. Now murals have been found in 55 places in the four temples of Dabao Jigong Hall, Liuli Hall, Dading Pavilion and Jingang Hall in Baisha Township, Yulong County. These murals are artistic works integrating the painting styles of Han, Naxi, Tibetan and Bai ethnic groups. The murals on the west wall of Dabao Jigong Hall describe the life scenes of weaving, fishing, dancing while murals on north wall depict the figures of officials, bailiffs, butchers and prisoners, the vivid and true-to-life pictures of the Ming Dynasty.

Baoshan Stone City

The stone city is located at the gorge of the Jinsha River of Yulong County, 110 kilometers north of Lijiang City. It is so named because the hundred-odd Naxi households inhabit in an independent mushroom-shaped giant stone and the city is surrounded by cliffs and precipices in its three sides. The stone slope with one side inserts directly into the Jinsha River Yangtze River tour and so people can only enter and exit via its south and north stone gates. It is really a city with natural barriers.

Former Residence of Joseph F?Rock in Yuhu Village

Joseph F?Rock, copy writer of National Geographic, came to China since the twenties of the 20th century, and lived 27 years in Lijiang successively, doing investigation and exploration. He set up the base camp of exploring team in today’s Yuhu Village China best tours at the foot of Jade Dragon Snow Mountain, Baish Township of Yulong County. The house Rock once lived and many things left over by him remain intact in the village.

Museum of Dongba Culture

The museum with the features of Dongba culture, close to the Black Dragon Pool Park, is arranged according to the development of the residential houses of Naxi people. The Jade Spring and natural landscape of the west foot of Xiangshan Mountain are fully utilised for the opening up of the traditional residential houses of different periods, such as caves for Neoanthropus, nests and cave dwellings and half cave dwellings from the north to the south. And at the same time the folk custom and religious sites of offering sacrifices to the heaven, wind and god of nature have also been arranged for the performance of Dongba sacrificial ceremonies. In the museum, a lot of pictures on Dongba culture, religious books, paintings, ritual implements, and old production tools and daily utensils of Naxi people are exhibited.

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