Old town of Lijiang

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(Provided to People's Daily Online/Guo Jianlin)

Old Town of Lijiang, also called Dayan Town, is located in southwest of China's Yunnan Province, Lijiang. It lies in the middle of the reservoir, and is known,together with Langzhong of Sichuan, Pingyao of Shanxi and Shexian of Anhui, as the second batch of national historical and cultural cities and "The four best preserved ancient cities".

This old town has no walls round it. In the old town you can see the smooth clean flagstone roads, hand-making houses of civil structures and ubiquitous bridges and rivers. Dayan old town is a town full of cultural atmosphere. Elder Naxi people take a stroll in the bright sunshine, their wearing: clothes in indigo blue and octagonal caps, give it a historical feeling. They don’t care how people think of them.

The roads in the old town of Lijiang are built along the line of mountains and the flow of rivers, and are paved with red breccias which are neither muddy in the rainy season nor dusty in the dry season. The pattern on the stones is exquisite and goes well with the whole surroundings. The Square Street is the center of the old town. The big wheel, which lies at the junction of the old town and new town, is the iconic building of the old town. A large screen next to the big wheel broadcasts the most welcomed and featured songs in the old town. Naxi Jingdi is one of the most well-known songs.

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