Yi Ren Ancient Town (i.e., 1, 2) covers an area of 243 acres, with a total investment of 320 million yuan, started in early 2005 has been successfully developed on schedule at the end of 2006, received unanimous praise, and has become a new highlight of Chuxiong tourism culture.
The main features of its tourism and culture:
⒈ Water Square: water is the source of life, the scene is alive because of the water, the square demonstrates the Yi water culture;
Peake Meigu Square: through the form of sculpture, reproduced the essence of the Yi epic of creation "Meigu" as well as the Yi ancestors Sun Calendar culture;
The Peach Blossom Stream: Stream Bijie through the old town (1, 2) In the middle of the stream, the important historical facts and the custom of song pairing in the history of the Yi people are demonstrated through various stone bridges, railings and water facilities on the stream.
Sung Wangjiang Tower: It is the landmark building of Dejiang City in Dali Kingdom (Song Dynasty), which is a collection of couplet culture, calligraphy and painting art, and you can climb up to the top to see the view from afar;
Careful of the Fire Pond Plaza: The Yi ethnic group worships fire and honors the left and the black. The main display of the fire culture of the Yi people is the best place for the brothers of the Yi family to go for song and entertainment; 6. Ancient Theater: also known as the "Yi Wind Garden", mainly used to display the original songs and dances of the Yi people, the BiMo stunts and food culture;
Borrow Dewan Plaza: through the "Dewan Stone Borrow Deyun Square: through the "Deyun Stone" and the "Deyun Tablet", the achievements of the Gao Sangguo of the Dali Kingdom (Song Dynasty) are expressed, highlighting the concept of ruling the country by virtue, and calling on the world to remember the ancestral teachings of virtue as a human being, and at the same time, finding a historical basis for the later development of the city of Dejian;
Miilu Square: through the sculptures, the legend of Miilu is recounted, showing the spirit of bravery, resourcefulness, and resistance to force of the Yi people. As the "Yi Ancient Town" is a large-scale cultural tourism real estate projects, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 tourism and cultural elements are mainly displayed:
⒈ Yi Culture Theme Park (Yi Tribe):
(1), the display of the Yi original ecological architectural culture: such as tile houses, soil show rooms, stacks of wooden houses, flashing piece of room, woolen grass houses, and other Yi residential architecture. and other Yi residential buildings.
(2) Showing the original Yi market culture: planning a market commercial street at the main entrance to show the original Yi market culture, arranging a wine store (showing the craft of brewing wine (white wine, rice wine), showing the Yi wine utensils, and tourists' wine-tasting activities); a tofu house (showing the craft of tofu making and other special food making. Embroidery room (weaving, dyeing, embroidery craft demonstration); wood, bamboo, musical instruments, silver, lacquer, iron gourd and other crafts production and demonstration; medicine store (medicine, doctor) to demonstrate the medicine culture of the Yi people; tea store (tea making, tasting roasted tea) to demonstrate the tea culture of the Yi people and so on.
(3) Showing the original living culture of the Yi people: planning an original village in the north of the commercial street of the city, arranging the living environments such as residential houses, threshing floors, girl's houses, wedding houses, temples of soil masters, and squares of the village communities, etc., and displaying the original living culture of the Yi people through the activities of rice milling, noodle milling, weaving, embroidery, and weddings.
(4) show Yi history and culture: the use of sculpture in the form of display of Yi history and culture, such as a group of sculpture from the evolution of apes to human sculpture to show the history of Chuxiong is the birthplace of mankind in the Orient; a group of sculpture to show the history of the six ancestor branches of the Yi legend; a group of sculpture of the Mabang to show that Chuxiong is the history of the ancient road of the salt horse and the ancient road of the tea and horses, etc.;
pecks Weichulou (Palace of the King of the Yi): used to show the Yi large-scale song and dance culture and dress culture, with the supporting outdoor fire pit will be the square of the original song and dance, which will be the essence of the art of song and dance of the Yi culture in China.
PiMo Cultural Square: the large-scale "Fire Pond Square". The square will be set up as a Promenade of Bi Mo Culture, and the square will be integrated with folk culture and garden, mainly used to display various festivals of the Yi people.
Sunglasses: Tusi is the local ruling body of the feudal dynasties for the ethnic minorities, and it is also the place where the upper culture is more concentrated, which is used to show the culture of the Tusi of the Yi ethnic group, and it is the place where the indoor drama of the movie base is shot.
Cautionary Dejiang City: for (Song) Dali State famous family of Xiangguo Gao Ming amount of fiefdom, in the construction of Wei Chu City, two miles northwest of the city built Dejiang City (outer city), and later became "just like the mountain prime minister, after the political center of the country," is now restored "Dejiang City Now, it restores the appearance of "Dejiang City" and displays the court and folk culture of Nanzhao (Tang) and Dali Kingdom (Song).
Choice of Gao's Xiangfu: It is a building arranged in two courtyards, with the front courtyard displaying the culture of the Gao family's Xiangfu and ancestral temple, and the back courtyard being used as a wedding banquet hall.
Borrow Ancestral Temple: Yi, there are "six ancestral branches", "nine Long myth" said the Yi folk "worship of the Lord of the earth" custom, set up the "Six Ancestors Temple". "Six Ancestors Temple" for the Yi people to the ancestors, ancestor worship, become the majority of Yi compatriots to find their roots and ancestral places.
The Temple Square: The Ancestral Temple to the east, the Gao's House to the west, and the stage on the side of the square, which is the site of the outdoor opera and song and dance events. It is also the site of the temple fair.
⒐清明河：河宽8-12米，可划船，水较深流速较慢，主要展现江南水乡风韵。
Sneakers Tea Flower Stream: the stream width of 2-2.5 meters, the water is shallow and the flow rate is faster, mainly to show the western ancient town of the water village style.
Hotel accommodation reception area for visitors: a hotel accommodation area is planned in "Yi Ren Ancient Town", which is planned to have 300 standard rooms in a five-star conference hotel and 300 standard rooms in a three-star property right hotel. In addition, the third and fourth phases of Dejiang City are arranged in the ancient courtyard style, inn-style 40 houses, each house inn-style "members of the hotel" standard room 25-30 rooms, *** counting 1,100 standard rooms. Together with the first and second phase has been built more than 400 standard rooms, after the completion of the Yi Ren Ancient Town will be able to receive more than 4,000 tourists every day to stay.
Application form for large-scale food and beverage area with Yi characteristics: A large-scale food and beverage reception area will be planned in the third phase, with eight ancient courtyard restaurants and three to five detached restaurants, which will mainly receive tourist groups. In addition, one small and medium-sized restaurant will be arranged every certain distance in Dejiang City to receive casual tourists.
Specialized Tourism Commodity Distribution Center: Part of the neighborhoods of Yi Ren Ancient Town will be built as the largest tourism commodity distribution center in Yunnan. After the completion of some blocks in the ancient town, it will integrate the processing, wholesale, direct sales and retail of tourist commodities, and hold two to three national tourist commodities exhibitions and sales fairs in the area every year, which will become the best area for the trading of tourist commodities in Yunnan and even in the whole country in the future.
All kinds of cultural sculptures: the Yi folk life and many folklore stories are displayed in the form of sculptures.
Other tourism elements: food culture street, the water system of the ancient town, the bars on both sides of the water system, tea rooms, snack street, foreigner street, ethnic handicrafts street, tourist commodities street, Yi Athletic Hall, Yi Spa Hall, Yi wedding banquet (can be considered in the Gao's Sangfu), Yi medicine street and other tourism elements should be embodied in the Yiren Ancient Town.