Xishuangbanna
Xishuangbanna Xishuang Dai for the meaning of twelve, double Banna that is, twelve Banna: Banna Jinghong, Banna Mengyang, Banna Menglong, Banna Mengwang, Banna Menghai, Banna Menghui, Banna Menghai, Banna Menghai, Banna Menghai, Banna Menghai, Banna Menghai, Banna Menghai, Banna Menghai, Banna Menghai, Banna Menghai, Banna Menghai, Banna Mengchao, Banna Yiwu. Xishuangbanna is the Ming Dynasty Longqing four years (1570), Xuanwu Si (the highest local administrator) to the jurisdiction of the twelve "Banna" (Dai "twelve" "Xishuang"), "Banna", "Banna", "Banna", "Banna", "Banna", "Banna", "Banna" and "Banna". "Banna" means one thousand mu, i.e., one Banna, a unit for collection of taxes). Since then, there has been "Xishuangbanna" this Dai name.
Xishuangbanna is located in the Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture in the south of Yunnan Province, in the latitude of 21°08′~22°36′ north and the longitude of 99°56′~101°50′ east. It is a tropical humid zone south of the Tropic of Cancer. Due to the high angle of incidence, the altitude angle at the winter solstice is as low as 45°. This area is rich in heat, warm all year round, and evergreen in all seasons. The region is rich in heat, warm all year round, with four seasons of evergreen. It is characterized by "constant summer without winter, and a rainy autumn". The year is divided into two seasons, i.e. the rainy season and the dry season; the rainy season lasts for 5 months (late May - late October) and the dry season lasts for 7 months (late October - late May), and the rainy season accounts for more than 80% of the annual precipitation. The region is rich in heat, warm all year round and evergreen. And because of the close proximity to the ocean, controlled by the southwest monsoon of the Indian Ocean and the southeast monsoon of the Pacific Ocean, the region is always humid and rainy, so the forests are thick and dense and the plants are abundant. Therefore, Xishuangbanna is known as the "Kingdom of Plants". On October 8, 1993, UNESCO officially accepted Xishuangbanna as a national nature reserve and an international biosphere reserve. A glance at the world map will show that almost all the other regions at the same latitude in Xishuangbanna are deserts or Gobi, but the 20,000 square kilometers of land here is like a piece of emerald inlaid in the crown, which is particularly eye-catching. In this rich land, there are 1 / 4 of the country's animals and 1 / 6 of the plants, is a real "animal kingdom" and "plant kingdom".
The scenic area includes Jinghong City Scenic Area, Menghai County Scenic Area and Mengla County Scenic Area. There are a number of scenic spots in each piece, *** there are 19 scenic areas, more than 800 attractions, with a total area of 1202.53 square kilometers. The area has a great variety of flora and fauna resources, which is called the "Tropical Animal" Kingdom. Among them, many rare, ancient, peculiar and endangered animals and plants are unique to Xishuangbanna, which have aroused the great interest of domestic and foreign tourists and researchers. The landscape is rich in fascinating tropical and subtropical rainforests, monsoon rainforests, ravine rainforests, rare animals and colorful ethnic cultures and national customs as the main body. The area has a unique landscape, high visibility, by the State Council.
Xishuangbanna Tower Group
October 8, 1982 approved as the first batch of national key scenic spots.
Xishuangbanna has a total area of 19,582.45 square kilometers and a population of more than 1 million, with Jinghong City and Menghai and Mengla counties under its jurisdiction. It is inhabited by Dai, Hani, Brown, Jinuo, Lahu, Wa, Yao and other ethnic groups, of which there are more than 500,000 Dai, 250,000 Han and 250,000 other ethnic groups. It borders with Laos and Myanmar, and has a national border of 1,069 kilometers.
Transportation
Xishuangbanna is about 700 kilometers away from Kunming, the provincial capital, and can be reached by car in two days or a day and night (9 hours). Banna airport can take off and land "Boeing 737", "Airbus 319" aircraft, there are daily direct flights from Kunming to Xishuangbanna, air flight time of about 50 minutes (cost: full ticket 780 yuan / seat), in addition to the other from Beijing, Shanghai, Chengdu, Chongqing, Bangkok and other cities to Xishuangbanna, There are also direct flights from Beijing, Shanghai, Chengdu, Chongqing, Bangkok and other cities to Xishuangbanna. The highway in the country is well connected and very convenient.
Air
Xishuangbanna Gashua International Airport Xishuangbanna Jinghong Airport is the second largest air port in the province after Kunming, 5 kilometers away from Jinghong city. Since the airport opened in 1990, it has opened domestic routes to Dali, Lijiang, Shanghai, Zhengzhou, Tianjin, Chengdu, Chongqing and other major cities, and opened international routes to Bangkok in 1996. Kunming to Xishuangbanna, Lijiang to Xishuangbanna have opened the airport.
Highway
Kunming to Xishuangbanna opened the highway on April 6, 2006, the highway mileage of 550 kilometers, can be reached in up to nine hours, you can buy tickets at the Kunming Long-distance Coach Terminal next to the Kunming Railway Station, there are more than 20 classes of sleeper shuttles and ordinary shuttles to Jinghong every day, the journey takes 24 hours, and the ticket price is about 110-150 yuan, and it will increase by 15-20% during the Spring Festival. The fare is about 110-150 yuan, and will go up 15-20 percent during the Spring Festival.
Waterways
Western Shuangbanna Jinghong Port - the national level port waterways have the Lancang River waterway, Jinghong Port is a national class of water ports, consisting of Jinghong, Olive Dam and Guanlv three wharves. Jinghong Port is a water port, has opened the Jinghong to Chiang Mai, Myanmar, Vientiane, Laos and other places of international water transport routes.
Take a bus to Menglun and Mengla from Jinghong Bus Station and get off at Menglun, the trip takes about 1 hour. From Kunming and Simao, you can take a bus bound for Mengla and get off at Xiaomenglun Town. It takes 10 minutes to walk to the suspension bridge from Menglun Bus Station, and 20 minutes to cross the suspension bridge to the scenic spot after buying tickets.
Name
Xishuang Dai for the meaning of twelve, double Banna that is, twelve Banna: Banna Jinghong, Banna Mengyang, Banna Menglong, Banna Mengwang, Banna Menghai, Banna Menghuang, Banna Menghai, Banna Menghai, Banna Menghai, Banna Menghai, Banna Menghai, Banna Menghai, Banna Xidin, Banna Mengla, Banna Menghuang, Banna Yimu. Xishuangbanna is the Ming Dynasty Longqing four years (1570), Xuanwu Si (the highest local administrator) to the jurisdiction of the twelve "Banna" (Dai "twelve" "Xishuang"), "Banna", "Banna", "Banna", "Banna", "Banna", "Banna", "Banna" and "Banna". "Banna" means one thousand mu, i.e., one Banna, a unit for collection of taxes). Since then there has been "Xishuangbanna" this Dai name.
Resources
Xishuangbanna is known as the Kingdom of Animals and Plants. Xishuangbanna is one of the first 44 key scenic spots in the country, with more than 3 million mu of nature reserves, of which 700,000 mu are well-protected primeval forests, with forests accounting for nearly 60% of the total area of the state, with green mountains and lush green water everywhere, famous for its beauty and abundance.
West Shuangbanna territory *** there are more than 20,000 kinds of plants, including more than 5,000 kinds of tropical plants, more than 10,000 kinds of edible plants, more than 50 kinds of wild fruits, more than 40 kinds of fast-growing precious timber trees. Many plants are precious timber or have special uses, such as anti-cancer drugs Maiden wood, Jia Lan; treatment of high blood pressure Rove wood; healthy stomach worm betel nut; wind-blown Nan's seed oil is a high alpine area tanks, automobile engines and oil drilling viscosity reduction of double-effect additives in the special needs of lubricating oil materials; tung seed oil can be used as a substitute for diesel fuel; known as the "king of flowers" Ylang Ylang can be made into high-grade spices; more than 1,700 years ago, the ancient tea tree; there are natural "kettle", "umbrella"; will smell the music dance, will eat mosquitoes of grass, see the blood to seal the throat of the Arrowhead Poisonwood... ...
The vast and dense forests provide an ideal habitat for all kinds of wild animals. 429 species of birds are known, accounting for 2/3 of the total number of birds in the country, and 67 species of beasts account for 16% of the total number of beasts in the country, and the number of species of birds and beasts in Xishuangbanna is not comparable to that of other places in China. Among them, there are Asian elephants, vultures, Indochinese tigers and leopards, etc., which are classified as protected animals in the world; there are 13 kinds of national-level protected animals, such as bison, antelope and sloth monkeys, and there are also a lot of second- and third-class protected animals.
As a "flagship species", the Asian elephant has an extraordinary significance to the ecological environment, in 1977, China declared the Asian elephant as an endangered species, and set up a wild elephant nature reserve in Xishuangbanna. Now the living environment of Asian elephants has been significantly improved. Its number has also developed from more than 80 heads in the 1980s to about 300 heads now. China's Asian elephants are mainly found in Xishuangbanna, with a few in the nearby Simao area.
Xishuangbanna is also rich in rubber, is the country's second-largest rubber area, rubber yields the country's first, in addition to the abundance of rice, a variety of tropical fruits and sand nuts and other precious medicinal herbs, is a veritable "plant kingdom", "animal kingdom", "Green Kingdom" and "Kingdom of Southern Medicine".
When you travel to Banna, sometimes you will see beautiful peacocks, white pheasants and hornbills flying in the forest; sometimes you will see elephants strolling on the highway; sometimes you will see antelopes, wild deer and rabbits running. ...... The scenery is really enjoyable, and it is a spectacle and fun that is hard to be imagined in other places!
Climate
Xishuangbanna is a tropical monsoon climate with abundant sunshine and rainfall, divided into dry and wet seasons within a year, with an average annual temperature of 21℃. The dry season lasts from November to April and the wet season lasts from May to October. There is no frost or snow throughout the year. There are 108-146 fog days per year. The extreme maximum temperature in Jinghong area reaches 41.1℃ and the extreme minimum temperature is 2.7℃, which is suitable for traveling and tourism all year round. Xishuangbanna is located south of the Tropic of Cancer in the northern edge of the tropical climate type for the tropical monsoon climate, mountainous areas for the subtropical monsoon humid climate, warm all year round, sunny, rich in heat, humid and rainy, with a "long summer, no winter, a rain into the fall" characteristics. The year is divided into two seasons: the rainy season and the dry season. The rainy season lasts five months (late May - late October), while the dry season lasts seven months (late October - late May). The rainy season accounts for more than 80% of the annual precipitation.
Culture
The Dai people have a long history and have created a splendid culture in their long life, especially the Dai calendar, the Dai language and the splendid national folklore. As early as more than a thousand years ago, the ancestors of the Dai people wrote many beautiful and touching myths and legends, fables, novels, poems, etc., on the leaves and paper, and there are more than 550 long poems written in Dai language alone. The masterpieces such as "Shao Shu Tun and Nanmu Nona" and "Hulu Letter" have been adapted into movies and dramas, which are very popular among the masses. The dance of the Dai people has a high artistic level and distinctive national characteristics, and the movements are mostly analogous to and glorify the behavior of animals, such as the popular "Peacock Dance" and "Elephant Foot Drum Dance".
The music of the Dai people is pleasant to the ear, and besides accompanying the dance, it is often combined with poetry. Sculptures and paintings also have distinctive features. The Dai believe in Theravada Buddhism, and pagodas and Buddhist temples can be found everywhere in the Dai area. The Dai folk house, the Bamboo House, is the most typical dry-rail building in China, with an elegant and chic shape, which is cool and refreshing to live in. Dai men have the custom of getting tattoos to show their bravery and beauty, and also to attract the love of the opposite sex.
Catering:
The Dai cuisine enjoys a good reputation in Yunnan cuisine, and the residents of Xishuangbanna are mainly Dai. The Dai cuisine is based on glutinous rice, sour and baked meat and aquatic food, and most of them are made of wild cultivated plants as spices, which has a unique national flavor.
The most representative of Banna's cuisines are: "Southern Secret", Brown dishes, Hani dishes, roasted meat, green moss, fish (chicken) boiled with sour bamboo shoots, lemongrass-roasted fish, scented bamboo rice, and fried ferns [green moss]. The names are mostly unheard of by tourists and worth trying.
Banna food in the night market, in addition to the above specialties, herb roasted chicken, bamboo rice, roasted bamboo mice, steamed moss eggs, cooked chicken chopped raw, duck feet, bamboo worms, deep-fried cowhide, deep-fried pork rinds, and other ethnic flavors of the food available, the most in line with the tastes of southerners. At night, tourists taste flavorful dishes, while viewing the night scenery of Jinghong City, colorful lights will make you forget to come back. The local fragrant bamboo sticky rice can be eaten at stalls for 2-5 yuan.
If you dare to taste insects, consider the Bug Feast, which features wriggling bamboo worms and bee larvae in addition to grasshoppers and scorpions; a meal will cost about 120 yuan for eight people.
Best time to visit
If you want to visit Xishuangbanna, any time is fine.
Xishuangbanna is one of the few places in Yunnan province that doesn't have winter, with an average temperature of 16°C in the coldest month of January, and an average of 28°C in the hottest time of the year. Such temperatures make Xishuangbanna a place where snow never falls and where the sun shines for a long time. Xishuangbanna has only a dry season and a rainy season in a year, which is why there is a saying that "summer is long without winter, and a rainy autumn".
Traveling to Xishuangbanna from November to April is the best time to visit, the temperature is not too high and not too cold, and if you travel to Xishuangbanna from June to September, you will have the opportunity to taste all the tropical fruits, which is really wonderful.
The rainy season starts in May-October, however, the highway condition is better, so you can't stop the peak season. The tourist season is in full swing here.
Features
Tourist area features: more green, more fog, more Dai folk style, warm and harmonious, ecological, and Southeast Asian countries have a qualitative difference, unique flavor. Xishuangbanna is the country's only tropical rainforest nature reserve, forests and trees in the sky, rare birds and animals abound, and strange trees can be seen everywhere. Close to Thailand and Burma, Xishuangbanna is full of Buddhist style, pagodas and temples and Dai bamboo buildings, bamboo and ancient trees, a sacred scene.
Dai Water Festival
Xishuangbanna Olive Dam Water Festival Xishuangbanna Dai New Year, the Dai language is called "Lengdai Sangkan" or "Sangkan Bimai". Because of the celebration of the New Year, to hold a warm and grand water blessing activities, outsiders are known as the Water Splashing Festival. The Dai New Year is different from the June in the Gregorian calendar. The Dai word "Lengdai Sangkan" means New Year in June. The Dai calendar is a kind of yin and yang calendar, where the year is a solar year and the month is a solar month. According to the Naxi Pureland demon deduction, the Dai New Year's time in June, but the festival is not fixed in June x day, but in the middle of June to the beginning of July between the change, year after year need to be projected to determine the exact day of the New Year.
Celebrating Festivals
Festival Dates: Although the Dai New Year is celebrated in June, the festival period is not fixed, but varies between mid-June and early July, and the exact day of the New Year needs to be projected every year.
Location of the event: Dai settlement in Xishuangbanna, playing the ancient city song "Naxi Pure Land".
Festival features: The New Year of the Dai people in Xishuangbanna is marked by a warm and grand water-splashing blessing, held between June and July every year, and water-splashing is a mandatory activity for the Dai to celebrate the New Year.
Celebration mode:
This day to "catch the pendulum" (assembly entertainment), people dressed up, singing and dancing in the catch pendulum on the concentration, put high up, put high up, rowing the dragon boat, throw the bag, celebrate the festival.
Once upon a time, the Dai calendar year, mostly held in villages as a unit, the scale is not large. After the establishment of Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture, governments at all levels have taken the Dai Festival as an organized and led activity to strengthen cultural exchanges among ethnic groups, display ethnic customs, attract investment, and attract domestic and foreign tourists and merchants, not only to carry out the traditional activities of splashing water, putting on a high altitude, dragon boat races, setting off fireworks, flying lanterns, and piling up sand, but also to increase the content of cultural and artistic performances, merchandise exhibitions and sales, and trade negotiations, and various parks have taken advantage to carry out cattle swamping, dragon boat racing, and throwing packets. The parks also take advantage of the various activities such as bullfighting, cockfighting, elephant show and folklore show, crossbow shooting, etc., which make the festival activities grand, colorful and fascinating. International friends, overseas compatriots, tourists and businessmen from inside and outside the province come to Xishuangbanna to celebrate the festival with the people of all ethnic groups, enjoy the rich ethnic customs and activities, view the charming local scenery and carry out economic and trade activities. The Dai Festival has become an important festival to enhance cultural and economic exchanges, friendship and national unity.
History and Culture
The Legend of Water Festival
Folklore says that in ancient times, the place where the Dai people lived suffered a disaster. There was no rain in summer, no wind in spring, no sun in autumn, and obscene rain in winter. Need clear not clear, need rain not rain, the four seasons are confused, crops can not be planted, the fields are deserted and turnover, people and animals were infected, mankind is facing a catastrophe.
The man known as Paya Night, seeing such a scene, resolved to go to Heaven to find out the reason, and reported to the King of Heaven, Indatila. He made four wooden planks into wings, rose up into the air, rushed into the heavenly court, and reported the disaster on earth to the King of Heaven, Indatila. When he heard about the situation, he knew that it was the God of Heaven, Baima Dharadharaja, who was in charge of wind, thunder, lightning, rain, sunshine and cloudiness, who disregarded the rules of the three seasons of drought, rain and cold set by Baima Dharadharaja, and intentionally caused chaos by virtue of his great powers. The gods of the heavens were unable to do anything about it, and this Huma Dharaksha was very skillful in his magic.
In order to punish the god of the sky, Indatila dressed up as a handsome young man, to Huma point Dharaja home to string girls. The seven daughters, who had been confined to the palace for a long time, fell in love at first sight with the handsome young man. Inda Tila will be bouma point dalacha descended to earth, so that mankind is facing extinction of the truth told, 7 weekdays have been on the father of the mood of resentment of the good girl,, determined to righteousness, to save mankind. They surrounded the father every day, pampered, probing his secret of life and death. In the face of the petite girl, holding the horse point Dala Zha finally revealed the secret: he was not afraid of the knife, arrows, and not afraid of the fire water flooding, he was afraid of their own head of hair. After the girls probed the secret, their father drunk, took the opportunity to cut a handful of his hair, made a "Bow Sai Zai" (directly translated as the heart-string bow, jacket string bow), they just put the bowstring against the neck of the point of Dharajat, his head will fall abruptly. However, the head of Huma point Dalacharat is only the devil's head, landing spray head, the fire rushed skyward. 7 girls see the situation, regardless of the safety of the head to hold in love, the devil's fire suddenly extinguished. In order to extinguish the fire, the seven girls had to hold the head in their arms and keep rotating until the head rotted. Every time they rotate, they splash each other with water to rinse off the stains and get rid of the stench.
After the death of Dharaja, Shurupa's Maha Hupa rewrote the calendar and took charge of the wind and rain, so that the earth's wind and rain, the people live and work in peace and contentment. Legend has it that the revised calendar was announced by Paya late in the sixth month of the Dai calendar dream to his father. Therefore, the Dai people regard June, the month in which the new calendar was announced, as the New Year's Day to celebrate the old and welcome the new. When people celebrate the New Year, they splash water on each other in order to forget the seven kind-hearted girls who killed their relatives and to drive away the evil spirits and seek good luck and good fortune, which has been passed down to this day. Dai New Year, generally three days or four days, usually called "Wanmai", "Wanwu", "MaiPaYaNianMa". "Wan Mai" is the day of the old year, some similar to the lunar New Year's Eve. On this day, people clean up and prepare food for the New Year, so that they can leave the old year and welcome the new year. "Wan恼" most years for a day, sometimes for two days, meaning that the empty day, does not belong to the old year report days, also does not belong to the New Year's days, the folk usually "Wan恼" is said to hold the horse point Dala Chad's head rotting day.
[edit]Folklore taboos
Can not touch the head of the "little monk"
Xishuangbanna Hinayana religion stipulates that the man in his life to spend a period of time away from the family's religious life in the social life of all the difficulties encountered, in order to lift the suffering from birth to adulthood to have a social status. When a boy is seven or eight years old, he has to become a monk in a Buddhist temple for a period of time, called "Little Monk". Little monk" in the Buddhist temple life to take care of themselves, to labor, but also to study the Buddhist scriptures, to carry out strict cultivation education. After two or three years, they can "return to secularism", and only men who have returned to secularism can get married and start a family. Men who have not been "monks" are regarded as strangers or savages, and have no status in society and are looked down upon. Cultivation in the monastery, not allowed to talk and laugh with women, no outsiders are not allowed to touch the head of the young monks, (which is the opposite of the Han Chinese favorite children touching the head), if the outsiders (especially women) touch the head, is considered an enemy." Little monk" "cultivation" time all null and void, must start from scratch. Therefore, foreign tourists, if you visit the temple must remember this custom.
Bedroom taboos
Dai family homes, are accustomed to live upstairs, and upstairs bedroom only a partition and living room is divided into bedrooms, bedrooms are not partitioned into small rooms, several generations are living inside, is separated by mosquito nets, the middle of the intervening interval, divided into doors and access. Bedroom is not allowed outsiders to peep, the past custom stipulates that if the master finds outsiders peeping into the master's bedroom, the man should be the master's son-in-law, or to the master's home to do three years of hard labor, even if it is a female guest to the master's home to serve for three years. Therefore, tourists, whether visiting or being a guest in the Dai family, should never peep into the master's bedroom because of the mystery. Although the past customary rules have been broken now, peeping into the bedroom of the Dai family is always unwelcome.
Living Room Taboo
There are three pillars in the upstairs living room of the Dai family, two of which are separated from the bedroom and the living room side by side, and one of which is next to the fire pit. Bedroom in the two, one by the outside is called "auspicious column" can lean against the rest, leaning in one is used after death, called "ascension column", the family died, the family will be the dead people leaning against this column (regardless of gender) bathing, dressing, wrapping the body, waiting for the crematorium. One of the fireside is absolutely not allowed to rely on, that is the Dai family's "top pillar", if you rely on the pillar means no respect for the master.
The Bamboo House
The Buddhist temple must take off its shoes. After entering the door in accordance with the size of the generation, seniority, in order to sit; Dai believe that the threshold is people, ghosts must pass through the way; can not use the stool as a pillow, because the stool is only for people to sit on; can not use the foot across the fire, can not move the fire in the support of the pot with the iron "tripod"; in the street to buy food, can not point to the food with the foot to bargain; can not step on the shadow of the monks, and even more so, can not touch their heads. The Dai believe that the "head" is the leader of the people; up the stairs to light footsteps, not whistling at night; in front of a large crowd can not say bad things about other people; women can not go to other people's homes to play in less than a month after giving birth; the family has a funeral, the funeral is not allowed to go to any home.
Hani customs and taboos
In the Hani cottage, there are friends and relatives or guests to visit, the size of the family master will take the initiative to go out and warmly welcome, and help the guests to take down the satchel and other things. When the guests are seated, if you hand you a full cup or bowl of sprinkles, said to be welcomed. If the first time to the guest poured full of tea, it means that he is not welcome; if the first time only to the guest poured half a cup or half a bowl of sprinkles, it seems that the host is very petty. When the host pours the sprinkles for the guest, he himself must also pour a cup and take a sip first. The hospitable Hani people will also come up with buds, melon seeds, cigarettes, etc. to entertain the guests. The host family will kill a chicken, plus salt, chili, and other condiments to cook a pot of chicken rice. Chicken rice is a must-have dish on the table of the Hani people's hospitality. There are a lot of rules when eating thin rice. After being seated, the host will honor the guests with chicken head and liver, and the chicken legs will be given to the children among the guests. This shows the host's respect and welcome to the guests. When the guests say goodbye, the host will pack some tea and tobacco for the guests. There must be a few hard-boiled eggs in the package, which is the host's blessing to the guest. At the same time, the host's gift to the guest must be wrapped in banana leaves and black cotton thread, which symbolizes the deep friendship between the host and the guest.
Yi customs taboos
Taboo play moving head; swearing in front of the crowd; Yi family has a sick taboo on death and injury and so on; taboo say "kill the New Year's Eve pig", but to say "catch the New Year's Eve pig" or "take the New Year's Eve pig"; taboo on the New Year's Eve pig; taboo on the New Year's Eve pig; taboo on the New Year's Eve pig; taboo on the New Year's Eve pig. Pig"; taboo on babies with "fat", "beautiful", "heavy" and other compliments; taboo on whistling at night; taboo on taking the meat of primates (bears, dogs, monkeys, cats, etc.) into the house, also taboo on taking the meat of the animals (bears, dogs, monkeys, cats, etc.) into the house. (bear, dog, monkey, cat, etc.) meat into the house, also avoid eating their meat; regardless of gender, taboo across the fire; women are forbidden to cross the man; taboo wedding and funeral day slaughter goats; taboo to bitter artemisia poles as chopsticks and hit people; taboo from the guest side of the burning buckwheat; fire buckwheat poop out of the Yantang, it is forbidden to immediately turn and use a stick through the fire; forbidding the meat of the horses, mules, dogs, monkeys, crows, snakes, frogs; taboo guests do not leave the meat; taboo to bring the host of the meal; taboo hoe and axe together; taboo in the house will be put in the together; taboo hoe or axe in the house to find on the shoulder; pregnant women avoid combing the bride's hair, but also avoid sewing the bride's dowry.
Introduction of attractions
Lancang River scenery
Lancang River originates from the Tanggula Mountain in Qinghai Plateau, and flows out of the country through Xishuangbanna. The flow in Xishuangbanna is 158 kilometers. In ancient times, the Dai people called it "South Lancang", meaning "the river where millions of elephants thrive". Touring the Lancang River can be divided into two sections. The upper section of the tour line from Jinghong, against the water up to the Tiger Jumping Stone, to the Tiger Jumping Stone, the river has gradually contracted, the narrowest place is only about 20 meters. Both sides are jagged large rocks, the river surging. The next section of the tour line from Jinghong by boat and down, through the olive dam to China, old, Myanmar 3 countries at the junction. The reefs are lined with rocks and the mountains on both sides of the river are treacherous as you leave Olive Dam and travel down the river. Sightseeing tips: Lancang River has not yet opened passenger flights, only for chartered boat business.
Wild Elephant Valley
Wild Elephant Valley is 45 kilometers south of Jinghong City and 115 kilometers north of Simao City, located on the west side of National Highway 213, the wild elephants of Xishuangbanna, which are mainly concentrated to live in Mengyang Nature Reserve. Now the main scenic area of the Wild Elephant Valley has been built with walking trails, elevated corridors for tourists to watch the activities of wild elephants, big tree hotels and forest bars. There are nearly 300 Asian elephants in the tropical rainforest of Mengyang Nature Reserve, and 16 domesticated elephants (including performing elephants), which is the first elephant-taming performance school in China. Every day 11:00 am-12:00 pm, 2:00 pm-3:00 pm for tourists to perform programs, no additional charge, and with the elephants to take a photo each time the charge of 10 yuan. China's wild elephants currently exist only in the tropical rainforest of Xishuangbanna. And Xishuangbanna Wild Elephant Valley is the place where wild elephant activities are most concentrated and frequent. Because of its convenient transportation and unique tropical forest landscape has become a tourist hot spot in Xishuangbanna in recent years, where visitors can not only see wild elephants, that unique tropical rainforest landscape, also attracts more and more people. Transportation: Take a car driving to Guanping at Jinghong Bus Station, and tell the driver to stop at Sanqiaohe Wild Elephant Valley, the ticket price is 12 yuan. From Simao, you can take the bus to Jinghong and Mengla.
Tickets: 50 yuan. The Tropical Rainforest Sightseeing Cableway, which runs one way for 40 yuan and takes about 35 minutes, costs 60 yuan for a round trip.
Daoluo Town
Daoluo, in Dai language, is the meaning of a joint ferry. Once upon a time, the Dai, Brown, Hani and other ethnic groups living here together in the riverside ferry, so called Taoluo. Today, people of all ethnic groups in the past *** with the ferry crossing has set up a 70-meter-long double-hole stone arch bridge, spacious and flat highway over the river straight through the Garden Gate Bridge. Tailor is a major town on the southern border of Yunnan Province. Located at the end of Kunluo Highway, it has been listed as a provincial port. It is famous both at home and abroad for its unique geographical advantages and numerous tourist attractions. Jinghong-Daluo Tourism Line is one of the main tourism lines in Xishuangbanna Prefecture. This tourism line passes through Menghai County, Menghai Dam, Menghai Dam and finally arrives at Daluo. Attractions on the way include Nannuoshan Tea King Tree, Xishuangbanna National Tea Culture Land, Provincial Tea Institute, Menghai Pure Camphor Forest, Manji White Pagoda, Manshou Buddhist Temple and the Folk Village in front of the temple, Jingzhen Bajiao Heung, Mengbang Swan Lake, Mengjia Buddhist Temple Mural, Manhong Waterfall, Shelf Song Wild Tea Tree King, Menghui White Pagoda, and so on. It takes 2 days to visit all the attractions.
Daluo has now become a major border town in south Yunnan integrating cross-border tourism and border trade. In the border trade development zone of Taoluo there is a Sino-Burmese tourist village and border trade street, where merchants from China and Burma and other countries engage in business activities. On the Border Trade Street, there are Burmese jade, Thai jewelry, French cosmetics and departmental goods from all over the country. Tourists can pick up jade bracelets, identify gemstones and buy goods from exotic places at the stalls.
The Ta Lo Township government was built on the banks of the Ta Lo River, and the clear water of the river flowed slowly from in front of the township government, and the two sides of the river were hotels, restaurants and residential buildings, and the river became a natural bathing place. Dai women bathing in the river has become an indispensable scene. Whenever the sun sets, when the lights are released, the hotels and restaurants on the riverbank neon flashes, casting colorful reflections in the river. At this point in the river will appear head wrapped in a flower skirt bathing body of the Dai, the river light wave turbulence, silhouettes, false illusion, like in the realm of God's fairyland, the fascinating scenery will make visitors from afar forget to return.
Premier Zhou Enlai monument
Built in Jinghong west of the Tropical Crops Research Institute on the right side of the face. This institute was built in September 1953. This scientific research base covering hundreds of acres, planted with tropical and subtropical cash crops, the essence of tropical crops. Behind the scientific research building has a rubber forest, rubber forest stood a monument, designed by a professor of Tongji University in Shanghai, the impressionistic large-scale sculpture masterpiece "Premier Zhou Enlai monument". The monument was built to commemorate the 1961 meeting between Premier Zhou and Myanmar's then Prime Minister U Nu, and is a testament to the friendly exchanges between China and Myanmar.
Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden of the Chinese Academy of Sciences
The Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (hereinafter referred to as the Xiyuan Garden) is situated on a peninsula encircled by the Rousseau River, a tributary of the Mekong River, at the southwestern border of China.
It was founded in 1959 under the leadership of Prof. Cai Xitao, a famous botanist in China, and is an independent scientific research institution under the Chinese Academy of Sciences. After three generations of researchers 40 years of hard work and hard work, has now built a palm plant garden, bamboo garden, banyan garden, exotic flowers garden, celebrity tree garden, shade plant garden and other more than 20 beautiful landscaping, rich in scientific content of plant specialties park, collected more than 4,000 species of tropical plants from all over the world, is a collection of scientific research, preservation of plant germplasm and popularization of science education for the integration of the most ideal place. It is an ideal place for scientific research, plant germplasm preservation and popularization of science education.
In this garden, the "root phenomenon", "old stems produce flowers", "strangulation phenomenon", "one tree into a forest
In this garden, tropical rainforest wonders such as "root phenomenon", "old stems produce flowers", "strangulation phenomenon", "one tree into a forest", "flying with vines", "air garden" and other wonders abound and can be seen everywhere, each plant has cohesion of the course of natural evolution, which is a precious natural heritage.
Air Corridor
Located 20 kilometers to the east of Mengla County, within the pristine wet rainforest, there grows a 40-70 meters high Wangtian tree, set up in the Wangtian tree on the "air corridor", 2.5 kilometers in length, which connects the primitive forests on both sides of the highway, and you can enjoy the exotic tropical rainforests from the broad view. The "air corridor" is 2.5 kilometers long, which connects the primitive forests on both sides of the highway, allowing you to enjoy the exotic scenery of the tropical rain forest from a broad perspective. In addition, the forest also repaired a more than 1,000 meters of stone excursion road and the air corridor to form a three-dimensional circular excursion line on the forest and under the forest. Transportation: Take a bus from Jinghong Passenger Station to Mengla, the ticket price is 29 yuan, call a rickshaw to the Armed Forces Department (1 yuan), and then take the air corridor special line bus can be reached, the ticket price is 10 yuan. Tickets: 20 yuan Open time: 8:00-18:00
Xishuangbanna Dai Garden
Located in Xishuangbanna olive dam, scenic area of China's best-preserved five Dai natural villages, covers an area of 3.36 square kilometers, is expected to invest 150 million yuan RMB, completed in three phases. The first phase of investment of 42 million yuan, has completed the land acquisition, road construction, tourism shopping area underground water pipes, wires buried infrastructure construction, built a tourist attractions gatehouse, welcome square, the old scenic area of the packaging, village tourism lines, riverside activities, tourism shopping area, barbecue, splash water square, large amphitheater. Has been opened on August 1, 99 to welcome guests.
Welcoming Plaza: welcome tourists into the Dai Garden with Dai etiquette.
Mansongman Ancient Buddhist Temple: with a history of more than 1400 years, it is one of the oldest Buddhist temples in Xishuangbanna, which mainly displays Buddhist cultural activities to tourists, such as fine Buddha, chanting sutra, worshipping Buddha and other activities.
Visiting Dai Village: It mainly shows travelers the scenery of Dai houses and courtyards, experiences Dai living customs, and feels the joy of being a Dai for a day.
Riverside Activity Area: a large-scale festival activity area for villagers, which is used for folk activities such as releasing the high altitude, lighting up the lanterns, cockfighting and so on.
Catch the pendulum shopping area: selling Dai family barbecue, weaving silk, folk handicrafts, Dai bag, wood carving artwork, etc., tasting Banna's famous tea tea ceremony to appreciate, and tasting Dai characteristics of the flavor of the restaurant.
Splash Square: the main activity area of the scenic area, held every day on the 100 people on the professional splash team of large amphitheater.
The Dai Natural Village in the park: large-scale water-splashing activities, so that tourists are directly involved in experiencing the fun of the daily Water Splashing Festival, and feel the warm scene of the Dai Water Splashing Festival.
Open-air Theater:reflecting the essence of traditional Dai culture in the form of songs and dances, reproducing the historical origin of the Dai King's invitations to marriage, and reflecting the Dai family's living customs, with more than 100 actors and actresses, the scale of the show is grand and the scene is spectacular.
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