From Kunming, take a plane westbound for 50 minutes, you will arrive at Luxi City, the capital of Dehong Dai Jingpo Autonomous Prefecture, and then transfer to a car along the Yunnan-Burma Highway for more than 80 kilometers, you can arrive at Ruili City and Vanmachin on the border of southwestern China, respectively.
Ruili, called Mengmao in Dai, means "the green place covered by fog".
It is bordered on three sides with Myanmar, Ruili River like a glittering jade belt, Longchuan River is like a golden ribbon, from the east and west wrapped around the emerald Ruili Dam, adding to the beauty of its style.
Ruili, originally contains the meaning of auspicious and beautiful.
A Ruili city is located in the Ruili Dam, it is easy to appreciate the name of the picture.
Ruili Dam in the mountains, open and flat, vast fields are everywhere between the tropical fruit forests and phoenix-tailed bamboo covered with Dai bamboo buildings, slopes on the rubber forests on the lush and green as far as the eye can see; Ruili River shimmering, the ferry boat to the raft to the past, to the two sides of the scenery and the people merge into a kind of ineffable exoticism .
Ruili's minority population accounts for more than 60%, is the highest proportion of ethnic minorities in the state of Dehong County, mainly Dai, Jingpo, De'ang, Achang, each ethnic group has its own unique flavor, especially the Dai is ubiquitous, and has become a wonderful embellishment in the scenery.
However, a little attention will find that the Dai here and the Dai in Xishuangbanna are not quite the same, for example, the Dai women in Ruili like to put on a kind of golden cream on their faces, that is, decorative and sunscreen, which is dressed up and Myanmar side of the same habits, showing that the border life of the culture of exchanges and integration.
Chinese and foreign merchants gathered in the border trade mall
In the idyllic, picturesque Ruili Ba, there is a commercial quite developed city? People who first came to Ruili will not expect to be surprised.
Although Ruili is not a big city, even the suburbs of the countryside is less than 100,000 people, but there are a forest of trade buildings, star hotels, shopping malls and stalls; daytime hustle and bustle, night market lights.
The most prominent is in the northwest corner of the city's Border Street Jewelry Market, which covers an area of 32,000 square meters, with more than 1,000 stores, a collection of Chinese and foreign department stores, local specialties and teak carvings and other crafts, accounting for the most business is the jewelry and jade - because of Ruili neighboring the origin of Burmese jade and gemstones, jewelry and jade naturally become the most weighty goods. The most important commodities.
Here, Chinese and foreign merchants gathered, in addition to the local ethnic minorities and ***, there are many Burmese, Bengalis, Indians, Pakistanis ......, Dai, Mandarin, Burmese and other southern accent of the bargaining sound here and there.
Many Burmese have become long Ruili seat business, store full of finished jewelry and jade and a pile of uncut or only cut a corner of the hair jade.
The merchants who come to buy the rough jade depend on their eyes and luck. If the rough jade contains good jadeite, they can make a lot of money, but the green money may only be exchanged for a pile of waste stones.
People traveling to Ruili, almost all will be for the beautiful jade and broken bag, but I had planned to go to Myanmar to buy jade, so I gritted my teeth and resisted.
In addition to the city's jewelry market, 4 kilometers southeast of the city of Sisqou border trade and economic zone, there is a China-Burma Street, China and Myanmar is just a street away, and therefore the formation of a thriving border bazaar, people call this street "southwest of Sha Jiao Tau Kok" (Note -). "Shatoujiao" is a village in Guangdong Province, between Shenzhen and Hong Kong's northeastern border, the two places to a street as the boundary, separated by two different social systems of the realm, but the residents of the two places can travel to and from each other
Sisters Luck Pagoda is famous in Southeast Asia
In the south of the cross-country tour of Myanmar, before the tour of the Ruili, we enjoyed the sights.
The main attractions of Ruili are almost all along National Highway 320, which makes transportation very convenient.
In Ruili Ba Zi, visit the Dai ethnic customs and visit the Buddhist temple is often an inseparable journey.
Experience tells me that as long as I see a large bamboo forest, there must be a village; each Dai village must have a majestic Zang house (Dai called the Buddhist temple for Zang house) or a brilliant pagoda.
The most famous Buddhist temples are Shao Long Zang Fang and Dawang Shao Zang Fang, likewise, Shao Long and Dawang Shao are the most famous big walled villages, which are known as farm-style natural parks.
"Zang room" that is usually referred to as the temple, is the place where Buddhists leave their homes to practice and where Lord Buddha preaches.
Shouting Sa Zang room built in the Dai village, it is a phoenix bamboo surrounded by banyan drooping beard, distinctive national characteristics of the building, is the essence of the Dai architecture, is the highest level of Ruili Zang room; shouting Zang room was built in the Qing Dynasty Qianlong years, the form of its building is like the ancient Dai-style palace, so the famous movie "Peacock Princess" here as "Peacock Princess" shooting point it. The famous movie "Peacock Princess" also used this place as the shooting point of "Peacock Princess".
Among the numerous pagodas in Ruili, the most famous one is the Sister Luck Golden Pagoda, which is the crown of the pagodas in Dehong Prefecture, and one of the famous pagodas in Southeast Asia, which is said to be on a par with the Mandalay Pagoda in Myanmar.
This magnificent stupa is located in the village of Sister Le, 7 kilometers east of the city.
At the center of the pagoda cluster is the 40-meter-high main pagoda, surrounded by 16 smaller pagodas; the pagoda's body is resplendent with gold, and its crown is adorned with treasure umbrellas, wind markers, and silver bells, which make a tinkling and pleasing sound in the breeze.
The history of the Golden Pagoda of Sisters of Luck is so long that it is difficult to prove the age of its creation.
History records that in the era of the reign of Prince Suta*** Mara, there are bears, sparrows, ducks, cows and other seven kinds of bones found here, in line with the legend of the reincarnation of Buddha 550 times, when reincarnated as the animals, is in the Sister Luck rest; therefore, the prince ordered the construction of this pagoda, known as the Golden Bear Pagoda.
The Golden Pagoda has been rebuilt many times, the early reconstruction can be examined in the Buddhist calendar 2, 300 years (AD 1756), more than 200 years ago.
Ruili city is located in the west of Yunnan Province, is approved by the State Council in 1992 to withdraw the county and set up a city of emerging cities, it is connected to the east of the city of Vannmachin, Luxi County, the north of Longchuan County, the northwest, southwest and southeast of the three sides and Burma adjacent.
Ruili River Basin is a national scenic area, Ruili City is very rich in tourism resources, there are a large number of cultural relics such as Zhao Wuding's tomb, the ruins of the ancient capital of Guanghehan, the connotation of the national culture is profound and far-reaching, sub-tropical rainforest scenery charm natural, tourism, Taobao and jewelry shopping is unique, and geothermal resources in abundance.
Tourism projects are: the national gate of Wanchang Bridge, the end of the world - Sisqiao, China and Myanmar **** drink a river water - get the island, Wanchang Eco-park, welcome banyan - Mangling "One Tree into a Forest", Ruili River Drifting River Cruise, Ruili Golden Pagoda, the famous pagoda in Southeast Asia, Dawangshao Daijia Rural Park, Ruili Southeast Asia, South Asia Style Park, Sisqiao Border Trade Zone, China-Burma Street, Zadao Waterfall in Ruili, Jingpo "eye brain song" field, a hospital two countries, "a fortress two countries" Yinjing, sister Donglai banyan tree king, the small Buddhist cultural tourism area - shouting sand, the former central Leiyun Aircraft Manufacturing Plant Site Tourism Zone The first is the "Jewel Temple" - Lei Zang Sang.
My own feeling is first to Kunming, then take a plane to Luxi can be,
Then join the team or casual guests are no problem, June and July to go to the best, the fruit is particularly abundant, the rainy season is not dry,
But remember to bring umbrellas, or to go to the forest if you want to wear a transparent close to the raincoat can be,
the clothes are thinner the better, but the outerwear still need to bring!
Mangshi, also known as Luxi, according to legend, Sakyamuni missionary came here, the day dawn, the rooster crowing, the morning sun is going to shine on the green dam, it will be named "Meng Huan" meaning "dawn of the city".
Two thousand years of long history of the ancient city of Meng Banasi
Mangshi in more than 2,400 years ago is a Dai tribesmen, blessed with the southern subtropical monsoon climate, fertile land, abundant forest water resources, coupled with the people's diligence and hard work, the entire tribe planted melon melon, planted beans beans, grains and harvests, the prosperity of the six animals, the mountains and water beauty, beautiful girl, beautiful, outstanding, there is no fraud, become a famous four-square "the", "the", "the" and "the", and "the".
"Shu body poison road" the opening of the Southern Silk Road, so that Mangshi and the mainland and foreign exchanges gradually expanding, nearly a year to know the years of southern Theravada Buddhism (Hinayana Buddhism), and the introduction of the primitive religion here into the civilization of the modern religion.
Thousands of years of dripping water into gold, Chinese and foreign cultures and local ethnic cultures condensed, leaving this beautiful city with a hundred volumes of scriptures, creating a religious and cultural complexes throughout the city and outside the city.
"Mangshi" this name has been known for many years of history, the Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties are Mangshi (Shi) for today's Lucy and the surrounding administrative division of the regional name, to the Republic of China in the twenty-third year (1934) was renamed Lucy, set up Lucy Politburo in Mengjia, Republic of China thirty-eight years (1949) and moved to Mangshi! The name was changed to Luxi in 1934, when the political bureau of Luxi was set up in Mengjia.
After the liberation, people still call Luxi as Mangshi according to the custom, so many people don't know Luxi when they go to Mangshi.
The original inhabitants of Mangshi dam area are mainly Dai, which is an ethnic group with a long history and civilization of water, the men are calm and kind, the women are gentle and hardworking, and they believe in Buddhism.
The residents of the mountain area are mainly Jingpo, which is an ancient ethnic group migrated from the Tibetan Plateau, brave and unrestrained, passionate and bold.
Throughout the dynasties, there have been mainland ethnic groups, the Central Plains residents due to the garrison solid country, war and chaos to avoid the world, and other reasons, continue to migrate.
After liberation, a large number of high-quality cadres from the south to form a national task force, long lived in Mangshi to help educate, guide production and enlightenment.
Since the reform and opening up, businessmen from all over the world gathered in Mangshi, digging for gold and trade, and this as a home, not to return.
As a result, Mangshi has developed a tolerant civilization, an open mind and a colorful life.
In Mangshi, both the Dai's traditional way of life, such as water, the Water Festival, cheerful, catching the swing lively, hunting whistle sentimental; there is also the boldness of the Jingpo ethnic group, the Menaosong ten thousand people all-night dance, men and women knife fan, lance tube Pai, extraordinary, not only the Guinness Book of Records of the largest number of people of the dance, but also dance narrative, dance back to the ancestors of the unique culture.
Just talking about ethnic festivals, the first month of the lunar calendar is the Jingpo Minnao Song, the Lisu Broad Time Festival, the March of the lunar calendar is the Achang Alu Wuluo Festival, April is the Dai, De'ang Water Festival, July is the anniversary of the founding of the state.
Together with the traditional festivals of the Chinese nation and the national unified holidays, there are festivals almost every month, and they are happy every month.
The local ethnic groups in Mangshi each have their own traditional food and flavor, the Dai diet is sour and cool and refreshing, Jingpo spicy and multi-flavored.
Secondly, it is the taste of all over the world in Mangshi mingling and blending, change and new, into the local.
Therefore, Mangshi food flavor varied, sweet and sour, bitter and spicy each staple, there are changes; taste hierarchy, depth and thickness of each flavor, each aftertaste.
On the dinner table, almost every dish with a dip.
Can be dipped, a different flavor; not dipped, does not reduce its flavor.
Breakfast, the most common small store, bait silk, rice line variety, rice line on the thick, thicker, thin, etc., bait silk more seven, eight kinds of more.
Soup has cow, pig, chicken options, "bubble" has a variety of practices, a variety of flavors of various types of meat.
Accompaniments fill the table, including fresh lemon, shabu-shabu, millet chili, sweet soy sauce, and kimchi of all kinds.
In the same bowl of breakfast, there are different combinations of main ingredients, soups, and "risotto" with different flavors, plus condiments that make for a wide variety of tastes and a wide variety of mouths to feed.
The Dai language, called "Guangmu Sile", is the earliest pagoda built by the Dai people in Mangshi.
The tower is more than ten meters high, the tree is dozens of meters high, the stupa is a solid brick tower, the tree is a Bodhi tree.
The pagoda is on top of the tree, and the tree is wrapped around the pagoda, with lush foliage on the top and the pagoda at the foot.
The body of the pagoda is like a diamond, majestic and solemn, and the tree is a pillar in the sky, tightly wrapped around the pagoda.
The tree and the pagoda are as one.
Look up at the tower, can not help but let a person marvel: in front of the eyes is a tower, or a tree? It is said that there was originally no tree tower, when a seed of Bodhi tree was brought by the wind into the tower seam, spring rain watering, the seed took root and sprouted, and gradually there will be this spectacle.
The tower nurtures the tree, and the tree protects the tower, which is a typical Dai wisdom.
Luxi Dai, De'ang believe in Hinayana Buddhism, and thus Zang Temple, almost every village has built Zang Temple, and most of the Zang room adjacent, reflecting the interest, but also the separation of the Tower Temple, a unique color.
In the town of Mangshi, Lucy, in the middle of the South Road, there is a strong and simple temple complex, which is very different from the style of the many Hinayana Buddhist "Zang Temple", and different from the mainland Han Mahayana Buddhist Buddhist temples.
The general Dai Hinayana Buddhism "Zang room" (Buddhist temple) is a square one-room dry-rail wooden structure, the Bodhi Temple in the main room on both sides of each side of a side building, as if the two wings of the main room, the formation of three independent and connected to the connected Buddhist temple.
And the general Han Chinese Mahayana Buddhist Buddhist temple is roughly four courtyard style.
Bodhi Temple, the main hall enshrined in front of Shakyamuni statue below the two Bodhisattvas are not Puxian and Manjushri, the left one wearing a gold helmet, right hand holding a pen in the left hand holding a thin, named "Wisdom of the crowd", meaning the Division of the gods of good and evil; the right one barefooted, with a pot of water at his feet, the hands of a long seizure of the dripping water, named "Nangwa Songtenei", "Nangwa Songtenei. "Nangwa Songtene", meaning the God of the land, which is the Mainland Mahayana Buddhism does not have.
Mengba Naxi Jenqi Park is located in Mangshi Yonghan Street, the south section of the east side, is the national A A A A A level scenic area.
It is said that there are four of the country's most: the number of century-old trees (more than 500), the specifications of the country's largest; the number of tree fossils, tree fossilized jade and the number of high-quality goods (more than 1,000 tons); large (ancient) tree transplantation of the number of large (more than 500), the survival rate of the high rate of survival (96%) for the country's most.
Treasure museum displayed a large number of tree jade specimens, a large thick trunk, shape and texture is clearly a tree, but it has long been turned into a translucent body of beautiful jade.
These tree jade has been up to 50 million years, 100 million years or even 200 million years of history, full of a room full of large and small, colorful water stone, stone gall bladder, jade, jadeite, beautiful.
Fengping Stupa
Dehong Dai belief in Hinayana Buddhism, villages and cottages more than built Burma Temple and Stupa, in the Mangshi area, the most famous is located in Mangshi, about 6 kilometers west of Fengping Township towering a brilliant stupa, which is the famous Fengping Stupa, the local Dai known as the "Guangmu".
Fengping Stupa is one of the famous monuments in Dehong.
Tall and majestic, exquisite and gorgeous modeling, staggered, ingenious, innovative architectural ideas, with a unique national character, is a treasure in the Dai Hinayana Buddhist architecture.
The tower has a long history, according to historical records, the earliest wind Ping pagoda has the East Tower and West Tower two.
Qianlong six years (1741), Mangshi Dai Tusi invited an elder to preside over the construction of the East Pagoda.
The Dai language called the West Tower for "Guangmgang Meng", meaning the center of the Mangshi dam tower.
The tower was damaged by an earthquake in 1805, but was repaired in time and destroyed in 1966.
The present stupa was rebuilt in 1986.
The reconstruction of the wind Ping stupa, the main tower is 23 meters high, surrounded by 28 small tower, as if the stars, arching around the mother tower, constituting the main tower of the upright and majestic body, it is complex modeling, rigorous, majestic, the main tower and sub-tower tip slightly under the exquisite golden umbrella, umbrella along the system with silver Ling, swaying in the wind, tinkling, pleasant to the ear.
Whenever the sun sets, the evening sun like fire, the scene is more spectacular, glittering golden tower, dazzling.
Fengping Pagoda is also the center of recreational activities of the Dai people.
Where the Dai family's grand national holiday, the Dai people in Fengping Township will be held here, "Guangmu pendulum", people knocked up the mangrove gongs and elephant foot drums, jumping up the "Ga Yang Dance", to celebrate the harvest.
Bustling around the pagoda, a sea of people, people often have to jump a few overnight, but also the afterglow.