Every year, on the eighth day of the second month of the lunar calendar, is the annual traditional Horse Cherry Blossom Festival of the Yi people around the Zixi Mountain in Chuxiong City, Yunnan Province, which is called "Meilu Ziega" in Yi language. About the origin of the Yi horse cherry blossom festival, there is still a beautiful love story.
The story goes that a long time ago, there was a pair of identical twin brothers in the Yi family cottage, the older brother was named A Wu Gu, the younger brother was named A Peigu. The first time I saw this was when I was a kid, and it was the first time I'd ever seen a kid in the world," he said. The two brothers are not the only ones who have been in the same boat for a long time, but they are the only ones who have been in the same boat for a long time. Because of the family's poverty, the two brothers could not afford to marry in their early twenties. Suddenly, one day, the older brother told his younger brother, "A younger brother, I have a sweetheart, is in the grazing mountain acquaintance, looks very beautiful". The younger brother, Peigu, also told his brother, "Ah Brother, I also have a sweetheart, I met her on the woodcutting mountain, very beautiful". The two brothers boasted to each other about how beautiful their sweethearts were.
On the fifteenth day of the first month of the year, the two brothers said they had a date, and early in the morning, the older brother, Wu Gu, put on his new clothes, drove the cattle, and played the bamboo flute and went up the mountain early. The two brothers also got up early, put on their backs, and played a small, melodious flute up the mountain. When the two brothers at the same time came to a large tree, the girl has been waiting there Ayu stunned, is not their own eyes, why their own sweetheart will suddenly become two it? When the hands of the two brothers pointed to Ayu to introduce each other at the same time, Ayu realized that she had fallen in love with a pair of twin brothers. The two brothers were also loved by the two brothers, then the girl's heart, really fifteen buckets of water, seven up and eight down. The two brothers are good, in the end, which one of them will be married? The first thing you need to do is to get a good deal of money from the company. The two brothers thought that the girl was the first to fall in love with him, and they did not want to give up. In the end, the clever girl came up with a wonderful way, she brought are open in the spring of a horse cherry blossom and a peony seedling, told the two brothers to choose a plant to plant, which planted the first flower, she decided to marry who. In order to marry the beautiful Ayu girl, the younger brother of the elves, Apeigu, took the peony seedling first. He knew that the peony seedling was easier to plant than the horse cherry blossom, and as long as it was watered every day, it would blossom early, and as long as the peony blossom opened up, he would be able to get the beautiful Ayu girl himself. The loyal and honest older brother, Ayu Gu, took the horse cherry blossom seedling that his younger brother had picked out without any fuss.
The younger brother planted the peony seedling in the yard in front of the door, watered it three times a day, and at the beginning of February, the peony blossoms flourished, and really grew flower bones. Apeigu's anxious heart couldn't wait for the bulging blossoms to open in the blink of an eye. But for some reason, he kept watering it and looked at it dozens of times a day, and his eyes were blown out, and the peony flowers never opened.
Again, my brother A Wu Gu planted the horse cherry blossom on the hillside where he often herds cattle, although there is no water on the mountain to water the flowers, but the horse cherry blossom tree is very drought-resistant, and in early February, the horse cherry blossom is also flourishing, and the blossom has grown a bulging flower buds. This day, A Wu Gu drove cattle up the mountain to see whether the horse cherry blossoms open, he walked to the flower tree, see the drums of the flower bones or not open, he was also a little anxious. Suddenly a cow came to the flower tree, stretching out its watery long tongue licked the flower bones, the cow's mouth out of the saliva dipped into the flower bones, those thirsty flower bones all of a sudden bloomed into a few big and red horse cherry blossoms. The AUGU finally got his beloved AYU girl. The day of the opening of the horse cherry blossoms was on the eighth day of the second month of the lunar calendar. A wugu think he married to the ayu girl, is the old yellow cow helped him, the horse cherry flower pick to wear on the horn, and take out the best grass feed it. Later, people in order to commemorate the day of the marriage of the lovers, to the eighth day of February every year, are going to have horse cherry blossom festival, the guys get together to dance song, the tune. Young men and women talk about love, to the cattle soul wear horse cherry blossom. Yi horse cherry blossom festival is so passed from generation to generation, inherited to this day.
Chuxiong other attractions
Dayao White Tower
Dayao County, west of the city of Wenpen Peak, a tower towering, because the tower body white, called the White Tower; and because the shape is similar to the commonly used chime hammer in the temple, so it is also called the chime hammer tower. Tower height of 18 meters. For the hollow brick tower. Divided into tower base and the lower, middle and upper three parts. Octagonal wide Sumeru above, the jade column stands, gradually on the gradual closure, there are also octagonal; columns on the section, built into 12 layers of eaves, will bear the face of the expansion of the open; on the section of the tower built in the shape of a round hammer, the top is rounded. The whole tower base broad, waist beautiful, top majestic. This shape of the tower, in Yunnan is rare.
It is said that in 1975, when repairing the white tower, found that the top of the tower has a side of the hole, the side length of 40 centimeters. This may be the original placement of the tower brake column hole. The original octagonal column is 40,000 open with hollowed out niches each one, inside for the Buddha, and then fill in due to reinforcement of the tower. It seems that the chime hammer tower in ancient times is the top of the brake, the tower body has a niche, ventilation is better; the existing shape of the tower body, slightly different from ancient times. By the relevant personnel examination, this tower belongs to the Tibetan lama tower, for the tantric Buddhism circulated in western Yunnan's relics. Repair tower, had found from the top of the tower Sanskrit, Chinese characters printed bricks, which Chinese have: "big Buddha top", "light dirt pure light mantra", "ten please Buddha spirit tower mantra" and other words, the former also found that The former also found "Yuchi supervised the manufacture" of the printing brick. Daoguang "Dayao County Records", this tower "is rumored to be made in tianbao years tufan". From this, this chime tower is about the Nanzhao and Tubo better relations with the middle Tang Dynasty made.
Tiger jumping beach earth forest
Tiger jumping beach earth forest is located in Yuanmou county northwest of the upper material Mao west, 36 kilometers away from the county, the form of the earth forest is mostly in the shape of a castle, screen-like, curtain-based, the highest earth column 42 meters, the gullies and ravines from afar, thousands of peaks than the shoulder, but close-up view is very different, the image of the different beasts, birds, people and so on.
Tiger jump beach tulin ditch total length of 5910 meters, the main ditch is 1550 meters long, the landscape is mostly concentrated in the branch ditch, such as marshal's mansion, Eurasian wonders, nameless ditch, etc. are the best sections of the landscape here.
Walking tips:
1, transportation: you can take Kunming to Yuanmou, Panzhihua long-distance bus to get off at Wumao, Wumao to Tulin 6 kilometers for the dirt road, you can take a miniature car, horse-drawn carriage or ride a horse to go.
2, Admission: 12 yuan
Shiyang Kongjing
The Confucius Temple is located in Shiyang Town, 36 kilometers west of Dayao County, also known as Dayao Confucius Bronze Statue, which was built in the Ming Dynasty, and now retains the Dacheng Hall, Chongsheng Hall, and other ancient architectural complexes. Among them, the most striking is the bronze statue of Confucius in Dacheng Hall, which is 2.3 meters high and weighs about 3 tons, which is rare for literary temples around the country, and is said to be the largest bronze statue of Confucius in the country.
Tips for travelers:
Transportation: arrive at Dayao County first, then take a shuttle bus to Shiyang Town for about 10 yuan.
Lufeng Dinosaur Fossil Ruins
Lufeng Dinosaur Fossil Ruins is located 4.5 kilometers away from Lufeng County, mainly within the Dinosaur Mountain, the whole mountain are Mesozoic Jurassic strata, which is named Dinosaur Mountain due to the large number of dinosaur fossils unearthed here.
Lufeng dinosaur fossils were discovered in 1938, is now the world's largest number of dinosaur fossils preserved and one of the most concentrated, at that time in the Lufeng area found more than 30 species of 24 genera, belonging to the amphibian, reptile, mammal three major categories, collectively referred to as "Lufeng lizard fauna".
The discovery of Xu's Lufengosaurus was a shock to the world, a dinosaur of small size, 180 million years ago, belonging to the oldest species, but the preservation is very complete, and is of great significance to the study of the early evolution of dinosaurs.
How to know:
Transportation: You can take a shuttle bus to Lufeng from Kunming Panjiawan Long-distance Bus Coach Terminal, the fare is about 10 yuan, and after arriving at Lufeng, you can then transfer to a special line bus to go directly to Lufeng, the fare is about 2 yuan.
Other scenic spots in Chuxiong include: Lufeng Scenic Spot, Nanhua, Sun Calendar Cultural Park, Wuding Lion Mountain, Yongren Fangshan, Yuanmou Tulin, Chuxiong State Museum, Yuanmou People's Ruins, Fushan Cao Tang, Muding Huafoshan, Yi Inscription Cliffs, Hutaitan Tulin, Heijing Ancient Town, Shiyang Ancient Town, Dazhongshan Nature Reserve, Doling Mountain Nature Reserve, Zixi Mountain Nature Reserve, Bizhu Mountain Nature Reserve and so on.