Ancient town of Lushi

Ancient town of Lushi

Lushi ancient town is the first town of Chama ancient road in western Yunnan and one of the three most mysterious ancient towns in China. In 2002, Lushi ancient town was rated as a provincial key protection unit. In 2006, Lushi ancient town was listed as a provincial historical and cultural town. In 2012, Lushi ancient town was listed as one of 210 Characteristic Towns in China. In 2013, Lushi section of Chama ancient road became the seventh batch of cultural relics protection units in China. In 2014, Yunnan University developed western Yunnan culture in Jianyun dashuyuan of Lushi to protect ancient towns. Lushi ancient town is one of the top 50 ancient towns in Yunnan, with a long history. Especially during the Anti Japanese War, the ancient tea horse road has become a lifeline for international rescue of China, and Lushi people live on tea. Luo Yingcai was the first person in the history of Lu Dynasty to produce tea. And set up "Junchang" tea house, long engaged in tea trade. There is also "Fengshan Chunjian" from Duan Yifu tea garden, which is one of the best tea products in Yunnan during the period of the Republic of China. Due to various historical reasons, "Junchang" and "Fengshan Chunjian" disappeared.

Lushi ancient town is one of the well preserved and large-scale ancient buildings in western Yunnan. On the whole, the layout of the street and the construction style of the houses have strong religious and cultural characteristics. At the same time, as the ancient town of Lushi is located on the main road of the ancient tea horse road, it has a long history. People from all over the world come here to settle down and do business. The scale of the street is constantly expanding, forming a unique pattern of "three streets, seven alleys and one square". Taking Sifang street as the center of the longitude and latitude line of the market town, it is distributed in a circular shape. Residential buildings are mainly modeled on the northern courtyard and the Jiangsu Zhejiang style courtyard, with a first floor, a bottom, three lattices, three building roofs and mud tile fire walls. Siheyuan has a garden, Sanheyuan has a flower stand, and painted with murals, poems, couplets, seeking its home Square, wind gathering, warm and prosperous. At the same time, the residential building model is influenced by Dali Bai culture, and also has the architectural community of Nanzhao style.

Geography of scenic spots

Lushi town is located in the northeast of Fengqing County, Lincang City, Yunnan Province, between Lancang River and Heihui River, known as "Jiajiang River" in history. It is 800 meters long from east to west and 538 meters wide from north to south, with a total area of 430000 square meters. Due to its special geographical location, it once became an important throat town of the ancient tea horse road in western Yunnan, known as "the first town of the ancient tea horse road". There is still a section of Qingshi road in the history of Lu Dynasty, which is more than three meters wide and divides the ancient town into two parts from east to west. In Jinji village of Lushi Town, there are still hundreds of ancient tea tree wild communities. Guping village, 2400 meters above sea level, has more than 3000 wild tea trees.

History of scenic spots

Lushi, formerly known as alusi, is a famous historical town with a long history and profound culture. According to historical records, as early as the Ming Dynasty (the 26th year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty), there was a "alusi Patrol" here, which was set up as a street hall. Gong Yi, the well-known Minister of the Ministry of household in the Ming Dynasty, was a Lu historian

. In the Qing Dynasty, there was an ALU patrol department in the history of Lu. In Yi language, "Alu" means "small town", later called "ALUs", and then changed to "Lushi". In 1913, shunning county was set up as a district regiment. Historically, shunning county was the administrative organization located in the north of Lancang River. With the completion of Qinglong bridge and the improvement of traffic conditions, the business travel of the horse gang in the past was increasing day by day. Lu Shi became an important post station between Lancang River and Heihui River on shunning Tongsheng post road and tea horse ancient road

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Lushi ancient town is an important post station in ancient times from Yunnan to Menghua (now Weishan County), Xiaguan and Kunming, to Lijiang and Tibet in the north, to India, to shunning (now Fengqing) and zhenkang in the south, and to Myanmar in the West. It has a history of nearly 700 years. When Xu Xiake came to the history of Lu in 1693, he lamented the prosperity of Lu. For more than 600 years, I don't know how many horse gangs have come and gone from north to south to transport silk, department stores and Central Plains culture, and from south to north to transport tea, medicinal materials and wild customs. In history, Lushi was an important transportation hub and post station from Fengqing to Weishan, Xiaguan, Kunming and Central Plains. Fengqing County and Lushi town are both located in the hub of the tea horse ancient road extending to Southeast Asia. They are known as the "hometown of tea" at home and abroad.

Scenic spot description

Lushi, formerly known as alusi, is located in the northeast of Fengqing County, Lincang City, Yunnan Province. It originated from the evolution of Aboriginal languages in history. Lushi ancient town is one of the well preserved and large-scale ancient buildings in western Yunnan. On the whole, the layout of the street and the construction style of the houses have strong religious and cultural characteristics. At the same time, as the ancient town of Lushi is located on the main road of the ancient tea horse road, it has a long history. People from all over the world come here to settle down and do business. The scale of the street is constantly expanding, forming a unique pattern of "three streets, seven alleys and one square". Taking Sifang street as the center of the longitude and latitude line of the market town, it is distributed in a circular shape. Residential buildings are mainly modeled on the northern courtyard and the Jiangsu Zhejiang style courtyard, with a first floor, a bottom, three lattices, three building roofs and mud tile fire walls. Siheyuan has a garden, Sanheyuan has a flower stand, and painted with murals, poems, couplets, seeking its home Square, wind gathering, warm and prosperous. At the same time, the residential building model is influenced by Dali Bai culture, and also has the architectural community of Nanzhao style. Local ordinary people's lintels will be pasted with a unified couplet: "smile at life, taste the taste of the world.".

Introduction to scenic spots

Traffic situation

1. Self driving

Lushi ancient town is 82 kilometers away from Fengqing County. It is mainly oil road, with some secondary roads. It can be reached by self driving for 150 minutes

2. Transfer to CMB by plane

Take a plane to Lincang, then transfer to Lincang Fengqing CMB, and then take Fengqing Lushi CMB. From 8:01 a.m. every day, there are shuttle buses from Lincang station to all parts of Yunnan Province, including Kunming, Guangtong, Dali, Xiangyun, Baoshan, Changning, Jinghong, Fengqing, Menghai, Menglian, Lancang, Ximeng, Simao, Jinggu, Yongping, Nansan, zhenkang, Yongde, Yongkang, Mengding, Gengma, Cangyuan, Mengsheng, Shuangjiang, Yunxian, Shuangjiang and other cities.

Accommodation strategy

The ancient town of Lushi has not yet formed a large-scale commercial tourism, so there are no three-star hotels. You can stay in hotels or farmhouses in the ancient town. The price is relatively cheap. The local residents are very simple and enthusiastic, and you can also return to Fengqing County to stay.

Catering strategy

Lu Shi's special snacks: stinky tofu boiled fish, bean flour Baba roll, ham, bacon, sauce tofu fruit, pea powder, cold roll powder, fragrant glutinous porridge, rice noodles, fried potato, etc.

Address: Lushi ancient town (024 Township Road)

Longitude: 99.99939

Latitude: 24.837467

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