Whenever night falls, bonfires are lit in the square on Sifang Street in Lijiang Old Town. Led by local Naxi people, tourists form several circles to dance around the fire.
The beating dance is a kind of dance of the southwestern ethnic minorities. Thousands of people are dancing under the night sky, and you can't miss such a lively scene in Lijiang Old Town.
While Lijiang does not have the famous dishes that are famous both at home and abroad, its snack culture is no less than that of Guangzhou and Chengdu, which are the culinary capitals.
This is one of the "eighteen monsters of Yunnan" - "four bugs on a plate of vegetables". The stallholder skillfully bamboo worms, dragonflies, silkworm pupae and grasshoppers on a plate, poured on the iron plate with salt, soy sauce, garlic, chili, cumin, so a fried, colorful, fragrant.
Lijiang's snowy mountain clear water fish, put on the fire with a little pepper, chili, cumin, a grilled, oily, hot and spicy, you can not help but salivate.
"Tofu wrapped in soymilk," which is also one of the "eighteen monsters of Yunnan". The tofu is cut into long strips and fried in oil until golden brown on both sides, with garlic and chili peppers, how about that? You can't wait to eat it.
Look at the front, the "eighteen Yunnan monsters" have appeared again - "stone long flowers to sell". Stir-fried with onions, garlic, scallions and chili peppers, the stone flowers have a bit of a sea cucumber texture when chewed and a feeling of wild mushrooms when eaten.
In Lijiang, kumquats, plums, yellow fruits, plums, pineapples, peaches, silver fungus, mulberries, broad beans ...... the most common fruits and vegetables in daily life, can be turned into a course of crystalline color, sweet, soft and sticky Lijiang preserves.
The ancient city of Lijiang is known as the "Venice of the East", meaning that the waterways are dense, and the rivers are like the blood of the ancient city, making it full of vitality.
River lanterns are a very long tradition in Lijiang. The river lanterns carry people's prayers for a better life and have been given a new meaning of making wishes.
The traditional Long Street Feast of the Return of the Horse Gangs is another highlight of the Lijiang Night Market. Big mouth meat, big bowl of wine, do the most horse gang people, eat the most horse gang dishes. Horse gang brothers drink and eat meat, playing jumping and frolicking, the story of the old tea-horse road is real around you.