The traveling guide of Dali

>>The Huashou Door of Chicken Foot Mountain in Dali
It is known for inside and outside not only because of its special strange and insurance, also because it is rumored it was the place where Jiaye who was one of ten greatest pupils of Sakyamuni sat and thought, it possess the prominent position in the whole Chicken Foot Mountain. It is called the first door in China by the Buddhism. The Huashou Door is natural cliff which is in southwest of Tianzhu Peak that is the top peak of Chicken Foot Mountain. It is very straight; descend to face ten thousand abysses and looks like a big stone door which enchase on the cliff. Huashou Door is 40 meters high and 20 meters of breadth. There is a perpendicular gap in the center; it divided the stone wall into two parts, there is a stone hanging on the door, it is the stone lock. The lintel is clear and looks like a stone door, the visitors go here, looking upwards the crag steep cliff to keep the blue sky, it is difficult to climb, tottering; Overlook the deep brook of secluded valley, the cloud and mist are dimly discernible, disappear the bottom deeply, if place in the sky.
In the north of Huashou Door, there is a spring which is called Shouji Spring, it is written that Jiaye was punished there. Huashou Door is in high place, in summer and winter, it rains in other places but it is sunny here, the thunder voice, flickering lightning spread from the distant place, after this meet rejection. The echo glint, an earthquake whole world, gets empty the valley to stay the sound, is called the Huashouqinglei.
At the front of Huashou Door, there are two small towers, being called" Yinguang double towers", Jiaye also was called Yinguang Buddha again.At the center position of double towers, there is Prince Pavilion, the pavilion is four Cape exact squares of the copper building, which was built by Kechan in the last period of Qing Dynasty by soliciting. The craft is exquisite; there is a prince which was made of copper in the building, which faces the window and stand high, the people visited the mountain and beg a son in the past, using the coin devotion more, being so called" beat the prince", it is said that beating it, you can get a son then. Certainly, it was repaired in this year, it was 74 square meters of area, the attic changes for the copper, and the outside was made of the iron. Huashou Door is 670 meters away from Jinding Temple, you can reach the behind mountain from the left side path, you can go back to pass the copper Buddha palace from the right and go directly to Jinding Temple.

>>The bright pearl in plateau---- Eel Lake
Eel Lake is a fresh water lake in plateau with bright landscape, once was called Yeyuze, Kunmichuan and Xier River in ancient cultural heritage. The north of Eel Lake is from Jiangwei Village to Xiaguan Town of Dali City which is its south side, the shape looks like a new moon. Eel Lake belongs to the water department of Lanchang River, the Miju River and Mici River infuse in the north, there are Dongnan River, Boluo River, 18 brooks of Xinachang Mountain, the headwaters is abundant, the water area is 2565 square kilometers, the permit amount of water to 2,820,000,000 to sign the square meters equally, the average water depth is 10.5 meters, the most deep place amounts to 20.5 meters. The water of the lake flows out the Xier River, meet with Yang River and flow in the Lanchang River.
Eel Lake is the main scenery resources of the scenic area of Dali, also is the main place of origin of the ancestry of Bai Nationality. Up to the present, we have totally discovered more than 30 Neolithic ruins at Eel Lake and the near slope and mesa. Jinshuo Island in Haidong is a famous Neolithic ruin. We discovered recently the Yuji Island in Shuanglang which also is the ruin in Neolithic and Bronze Age. Some pebbles and potteries which were used for producing and living were discovered; some bronzes such as swords and models which was used for making them also were discovered. According to it, we can predict it probably still was production base where the ancient first people smelt from Bronze Age to Iron Age. There are historic ruins of each age; we can seem to see every step which the ancestry of Bai Nationality went from the ignorant ages the civilization. Therefore, we can also say: Eel Lake is the cradle of the Bai Nationality.

>>The Huadian Dam of Dali
Huadian Dam which is made up the big Huadian and the small Huadin locates at between two peaks that are Yunnong and Changlang and are the most north peaks of 19 peaks in Chang Mountain. The elevation of big Huadian is 2900 meters, the length from south to north is about more than 10 kilometers, the breadth from east to west is about one kilometer. The mountain peak which is in the west of the dam is full of snow in the whole year and donĄŻt disappear, 40 river waters gather to be Wanhua Brook, which is the main headwater in the dam. The small Huadian in east is group of mountain peaks, the elevation is 3200 meters, and it is the mesa of the green lawn. The geography of the whole Huadian is flat, the soil quality is rich. The strange flowers and different grass contend for the strange gorgeous, in the time of between spring and summer, there are Maying flowers all over hills and countryside, it lasts more than 20 miles, remit the ocean of flowers and become the world of flowers. There are the herbaceous flowers such as white bean flowers and peonies in the center of flowers; they are color, magnificent and charming.

>>Butterfly Spring
Since the film which is called the Five Gold Flowers has been shown, the Butterfly Spring in Dali is more famous. The Butterfly Spring in the film has been processed somely; But true Butterfly Spring also has the charm only.
The Butterfly Spring is at the foot of Yunnong Peak of Chang Mountain which is 40 kilometers away from the north of Dali City. Because the long-term flushing by the water from mountain, the freestones become the slice, trees on the slope are scarcity. But when you go slowly up the slope, going for the half mile, you can see the green shade dazzling. Walk through the ancient stone archway, there is a marble stone tablet of 3 meters standing erectly, the stone tablet presents the diamond-shaped, there are three big words which is the Butterfly Spring and written by Guo Moruo in the right side on the positive side. Follow the shadowed lane go crankily about 30 or 40 meters, you can see the ancient forest sign only, the thick shade covered the day, one pure spring stud in the interval, the bottom spread the granite, the spring is clear, someone often tossed the metal coins in the pond, view it slowly to fall, the sunlight is from a tree next, the pond bottom silver light flicker, feel more the pure example of spring. There is a tree trunk that can match to embrace in the place which is 2 or 3 Chinese foots away from the pond. It is cool, very nice and secluded.
Pass the circular door behind the spring, follow the stone stairs to climb up, can reach the lately set up hexangular which is called Wanghui Pavilion. Ascend the station to look far: The chicken mountain flies, the strict tower of the summit of hill is ambiguous it is thus clear that; you can see the houses and countrysides of Sanjiaowa and Shuanglang, The water of Eel Lake like mirror, the northern side is Shangguan, the south side is Xizhou, the smoke is widespread; the right and front is Jiangwei Village which like a benefit sword inserting Eel Lake. Wanghui Pavilion is a good place of viewing Ą°sea" indeed.
The scenery of the Butterfly Spring is beautiful; the annual butterfly of here would be more stirring. At the end of spring and early summer, the middle ten days of April of Chinese calendar, before the raining season arrival, the surroundings countryside farm goods harvest, the countryside is more withered and blazing hot, opposite, the Butterfly Spring seem to be more fresh, cool and wetness, when also is the season that the butterfly hands over the tail to produce the egg by luck at this time, it becomes the paradise for the butterflies which are far or near several miles hand over. A great deal of butterflies gather together in shade under a tree and flowers bush from the all directions, lightly moving dance, so many colorful butterflies happily reunion and make here become the colorful decoration. Especially on the Butterfly Spring, follow the branch that pours to hang the surface, numerous butterflies, on biting a tail department only, become so butterfly strings, they do not surprised when the persons come and when throw a stone they do not spread, constitute the spectacular sight that make person's marvel.

>>Gucheng in Dali
Gucheng in Dali is called Yu City for short, locates at the foot of Chang Mountain whose landscape is bright and is 13 kilometers apart from the Xiaguan of Dali City. Gucheng in Dali which was built up firstly in 1382 is one of the first histories cultural cities in China.
Gucheng in Dali faces Eel Lake in east is next to Chang Mountain in west, the city and tower are impressive-looking, and the landscape is daintiness. The scale of the Dali City is magnificent, the square round is 12 mile, the original city wall is 7.5 meters high, 6 meters thick, there are original four city gates in south, north, east and west, there are the city towers on them. If Xiaguan which is the capital of the autonomy state gives the impression of thriving and noisy, then the Gucheng in Dali is ancient and secluded.
There is a street which intersects the south and north of the city. There are stores which sell particularly the famous special product articles such as the marble ware, Zharan, grass plainting etc. and good eating places of Bai Nationality on the two sides of the street.
The pure brooks flow in the city, you can see the ancient traditional houses of Bai Nationality everywhere, in spite of the residents are rich or poor, all of them have the habit of keeping the flowers and grass in the courtyard here. The Gucheng in Dali has the words which are the every family flows water and keeps flowers.

>>Guguoliubaozhuang in Dali
In the period of Tianbao in Tang Dynasty, Nanzhao died out, placed the Tuodongjiedushi. In the winter of 763A.D., the king of Nanzhao went in the east, arrived at Kunming, saw the place whose mountains and rivers could be screen of his country, whose lands could feed the people, so asked his first son who was Fengjia to build Tuodong City in Kunming, which was next to the king of Nanzhao, and helped to save. It had the function of deterrent Butou which is the area of Jianshui and Mengzhi and get thanks from Qujing. In 781 A.D., Xunge suggested to change the Tuodong to be Shanchan, later called shangdu and Dongjing. The king of Nanzhao often came here, it was the same in the period of Dali Country, Gao who was the prime minister guarded here. The people of each Nationality created together brilliant of culture here, the Guzhuang in Tuodong is one of them.
This ancient Zhuang original was in the Dizhang Temple which was the Beach of Jinzhi River, so it was called Jingzhuang of Dizhang Temple. The temple discarded earlily, half of it covers in the soil, discovered in 1919 through renovating, added the column of iron, set up the door of the workshop, open up for the park, and assign name to with Guzhuang. Because in the ancient times that ground was called Tuodong City, it is in the Tuodong Road now, so it is often called Tuodongguzhuang.
It is the square awl-shaped, stone carving of seven layers. It is about 7.5 meters high, the base is the huge rock of the octagon, engraving the lotus on the side; there is the boundary stone between the layers, which is the cover of this layer, also is the sill of the upper level. There are the carvings on the boundary stone side. From the bottom upwards, the circumstance of each layer is: The bottom is a drum form, eight dragons carvings round, two dragons are as a group, the dish pillar frolic become" two dragons rob the treasure".
The first floor, carve the carvings of four major Tianwang, the statues are about more than one meter high, put on armor, keep the ax, dignity and modesty. Three people steps the ghost slaves. A ghost slave's muscle rises suddenly and violently, right hand hangs a snake. The snake's mouth is touching the ghost slave hungry; another two ghost slaves wear the cuff. A deity steps three people, in the center one person are each to support the foot of Tianwang.
Second floor, are four absolute beings, each have the facial expression; the dress and skirt swell up, the stanza of are shown now, enrich the stereoscopic feeling very much.
The third layer, there are four Buddha statues and Guanyin statues. Their facial expressions are kind, the carvings are fine, and the shapes are daintiness.
The fourth layer, there are 8 Buddha statues, 4 of them are bigger and 2 of them were damaged.
The fifth layer, it is globosity, is not the form of person, carved the godly golden eagle.
The sixth layer, there is four Wu palaces, five statues of Buddha inside each one.
The seventh layer, it is the cylinder form, there are statues on the wall.
The top is the bottle gourd form treasure crest, the surroundings engrave the lotus petal, and most of the lotus petals have already been damaged now.
There are more than 200 statues of Buddha in the Jingzhuang. The layout is tight, the layer is clear; the facial expression is each different, the comparison moderate; the mark of the knife is strength, very delicately; the lines are flowing freely, lifelike. It is the delicacy of stone carving art in Song Dynasty of Yunnan.
On the boundary stone of the octagon below the the first floor of Jingzhuang, there are the Chinese Jingzhaofodingzunshengbaozhuangji, Foshuobanruoboluomixinjing, Darizunfayuan and Fasihongshiyuan engraved. These writing are all direct regular script. According to it we can see it is the cultural object in the period of Dali Country. It provids the precious material for studying the history of Dali Country.

>>Gantong Temple in Dali
Gantong Temple also is called Tangshan Temple, locates in Nanluan on the Shengying Peak in Dianchang Mountain which is five kilometers away the south of Gucheng in Dali. It was built in the first year of Nanzhao firstly. Gantong Temple locates back of the Chang Mountain which is the white cloud to curl up and snow not to thaw all the year round, faces to Eel Lake. There are woods at the front of temple and springs beside the temple, it is very cool and beautiful. Gantong Temple is called the first temple in southwest area because of its nice and secluded environment, great palaces and prosperous joss stick. The door of Gantong Temple lies in south and faces to north, there are each two josses at the two sides of the door, their facial expressions are ferocious, their vehemence are dignity, make person respectfully but living the esteem. The Daxiongbao Palace is on the high stage in the west of yard. Sakyamuni is in the center of the palace. The Banshan Building was in the right side at the front of the Daxiongbao Palace, the guest rooms which can be provided to come and go monks and guest for board and lodging are in the left side at the front of the Daxiongbao Palace. The Dandang Grave is on the behind hill. The visitors visit the Gantong Temple, after contribution, can enjoy the plain banquet of tea and drinks in the temple. There is anther Jizhao Temple away half mile behind the Gantong Temple, to visit it is also entirely different interesting aspect.

>>The Ancient Buddha Hole
It locates in the Shenmo Hole on the Yunnong Peak in Xichang Mountain in Zhoucheng Village in Xizhou Town in Dali City, it is about 3 kilometers from the entrance to cave. The valley is profound, hanging the cliff to sign; there is the stone gap, which is 5 meters high, 3 meters of breadth, 10 meters deep. The persons chisel and carve more than 40 statues with the clock milk stone in the past, the contents contain God and Buddha, and parts of statues contain breakage. The Zhizhai Statue likely was built at the beginning of the Ming Dynasty. There was a square stone tower which was built in the period of Daoguang in Qing Dynasty on the hole. It was announced as the cultural object protecting unit in Dali City.

>>The Sea Cloud House in Shibao Mountain in Jianchuan in Dali
The Sea Cloud House is the first Buddhism temple in the scenic area of Shibao Mountain and locates in Shishanshanluan which is the left side of the door of Shibao Mountain. It lies in southwest and faces to northeasr, face the clearly Jian Lake and Yulong Snow Mountain in Lijiang, the position is very good. Huang Yuanzhi who was the offer of Dali Mansion in the period of Kangxi in Qing Dynasty once wrote a couplet and praised that Jian Lake likes a progressive mirror, Snow Mountain likes a painting screen. Perhaps the ancient building designers have already also comprehend to this, so built an impressive-looking view set at front of the temple entirely newly, they placed a stone desks and chairs and grew several ancient cypresses on the stage. There is two monksĄŻ last home which is called Jiding last home tower and made of stones on the left side. Ancient cypress and pleasant breeze, the loose and tower, firstly give the visitors to add the interesting to seek beautiful spot to search for ancient relics then.
The Sea Cloud House was built by Pulian monk who was the famous monk in Jianchuan and came from Xianghu Village in the period of Kangxi in Qing Dynasty, once entering three hospitals, the layer set is high, although the scale is small but the layout is careful, the monastic rooms are not much but the turns and twists return. Enter the gate, you reach the Tianwang Palace firstly, then reach the Daxiongbao Palace from the stairs behind the Buddha Statue. The big palace is the type of five single mountain.
The Sea Cloud House is one very intact temple of many temples. The big palace arch carve of fly the day, the absolute being monster, the ancient and cultured blank doors are all the pure wood carvings of Jianchuan in the period of Kangxi in Qing Dynasty, the knife method is elegant; the handiness of the composition may be the model of the posterity craftsman. The copper bell hung in the palace was made in 1543 and bought from Lijiang by Pulian monk in 1701. They all are the valuable cultural object of appreciating and studying.
The whole temples was surround by the green cypresses, planting again strange flowers and the different woods inside yard, even seem to be nice, secluded and quiet, it make the public inebriate and absolute being. There are two marvellous natural views which are the Bat Hole and Stone Umbrella Mountain near the Sea Cloud House.
The bat hole is also called the Cow Devil King's Hole. A pure spring flows out from the hole; you pass the entrance to cave crosspiece temporary bridge to go into the hole then. Go into 10 meters of hole then one utter darkness, you need to set alight the torch, then can go ahead. Go toward again for 30 meters, saw a light then go into from the hole crest, follow the " skylight" direction to climbed and entered in a hall which is high about 20 meters, whose girth is 200 meters, attend to all sides, the stalagmite and the stone tree are different; Hang links of bats on the stone wall, the hole gets name because of it. The ear still spreads the voice of the underground often dark river of bomb, it make person call strange. The hole turns and twists profound, leading everywhere, whirling, get lost easily, if have the local guide to lead the way.
The Stone Umbrella Mountain lies in the behind mountain of the Sea Cloud House, is opposite to the Baoxiang Temple, getting name because the strange stones on the top of hill like umbrellas very much. The three huge umbrellas arrive the low word from high line up to open, the tallest stone umbrella is high about 12 meters, the diameter of the umbrella is about 8 meters, the coping is flatter, can permit several people to round to sit. Stand to take a distant look, the sand, river and dam accepts the eye bottom to the utmost. The stone umbrella of the middle grow small, the waist stone wall twists to loosen to pour to hang, the spring onion spring onion. Another stone umbrella is robust, thick and solid, the coping presents awl-shaped, is filled with stone lotus flowers on the top, it is unusual and matchless.

>>18 rivers and 19 peaks of the Chang Mountain in Dali
The lofty and magnificent Chang Mountain which likes a huge natural cover of elephant stands in the Beach of Eel Lake. It connects the Hengduan Mountain in the north, connects the Aicha Mountain in south, the Eel Lake is in the east and the Yangbi River surrounds in the west. Xiang Mountain is also called Dianxiang Mountain, it is from south to north, and is long 50 kilometers. There is a river between each two peaks, so it is called 18 rivers and 19 peaks. The 19 peaks are from the south toward north Xieyang Peak, Maer Peak, Foding Peak, Shengying Peak, Malong Peak, Yujv Peak, Longquan Peak, Sanyang Peak, Zhonghe Peak, Shengguanjian Peak, Yingle Peak, Xueren Peak, Lan Peak, Heyun Peak, Baiyun Peak, Lianhua Peak, Wutai Peak, Changlang Peak and Yunnong Peak. The 18 rivers are Yangnan River, Tingming River, Mochan River, Qingbi River, Long River, Luyu River, Zhong River, Tao River, Mei River, Yinxian River, Shuangyuan River, Baishi River, Lingquan River, Jin River, Mangyong River, Yang River, Wanhua River and Xiayi River. The these peaks and rivers' galleries are clear, they are strange to pull out and ripple with bluish green wave of constituted one natural landscape diagram--- The jade Eel Lake and silver Chang Mountain that are attractive.

>>Xiaoputuo
In Eel Lake, Xiaoputuo can be treated as a pocketsized island. Although the island is small, the reputation is very big, necessary have it in album of paintings of introducing Dali.
The girth of Xiaoputuo is long more than 200 meters, is constituted by the limestone. Its shape likes an official seal of circular very much, so it is called sea print again. Probably in the period of Chongzhen in Ming Dynasty, the fisherman of the neighborhood came down to set up one pavilion of two layers on the island, the statue of Guanyinpusha is oblation in it, so the common people calls it as the Guanyin Pavilion.
There is a natural fishing bay which is called Baishiqu in the east of Xiaoputuo and beside of Eel Lake, it became continuously a fishing village, the village calls the Sea Print Village. Sea Print Village depends the Qigu Peak of Yuan Mountain in east, faces Eel Lake in west. The whole population in the village is near 2000 which is 400 family and they are all Bai Nationality. The whole village population is 400 near 2000 people, whole is a white clan. There are more than 60 mu farmland only, the village people mainly are engaged in the shipping and selling the sandstone which are used for construction and the catching fishery. They reserve the strong traditional custom of Bai Nationality. It is only 130 meters from Xiaoputuo to the Sea Print Village.
See the Chang Mountain and Eel Lake on the Xiaoputuo, it seem to be in the silver dish held by an old men, the mind is particularly spacious.
Why is called Putuo? Putuo is the abbreviation of Putuogejia Mountain in Sanskrit, means the small white flower mountain or the floret tree mountain. It is said that it was the place where Guanyin practices moral teachings in India. Therefore, the every legendary Guanyin shows supernatural power in the ground to be called Putuo Mountain mostly, for example, the Putuo Mountain of Zhejiang which is one of four greatest Buddhism Christian mountains in our country is so.
The Buddhism in Dali has a common character with it in the Central plains; it is close Bodhisattva than Buddha. Buddha is Sakyamnui who was the founder of Buddhism and the Bodhisattva has man Bodhisattva and female Bodhisattva. There is a female Bodhisattva in the Xiaoputuo in Eel Lake. It is the obvious differences with the Hinayana which was believed in the area of Dehong and Xishuangbanna.
Xiaoputuo is the bright and beautiful beauty spot of landscape in Eel Lake, is also the place of having the heavy Buddhism culture.

>>A famous history city--Xizhou in Dali
In Dali, even in Yunnan, the villages or towns which like Xizhou are probably few. Xizhou is a famous history city, is the typical business town of Bai Nationality again, is one of the places where the race capitalism of Bai Nationality begin and is one of the famous country of bridges in Yunnan. Therefore we can say that to understand Dali and Bai Nationality, you have to understand Xizhou firstly.
When it comes to Xizhou, you can see two big branches and leaves elms which are in the entrance of village firstly. They are a kind of arbor that sees seldom in the north of our country, the vulgar name is Ten Thousand Years Green; the scientific term is the High Mountain Banyan. The people of Bai Nationality think that the big and green trees are a symbol of the village is thrifty, so they are called the geomancy trees again. Many ancient villages must have the the big and green trees to be as the geomancy trees. This kind of trees usually constitutes the community activity center of the village people with theatrical stage together. These two trees of the head of the Xizhou Village, the age has already been very ancient. When the autumn arrives, the snow-white egrets often stay fully; this is the view that the Xizhou specially has.
The center square street in Xizhou is a small square rounded by the stores. There is a stone Fang which was built up and called Civilization Fang in the recent years. The original stone Fang in this place called Timing Fang which was built up after there were students in the town in Ming Dynasty, the village people who got the achievement in the exam could carve their names on it in that time, now Xizhou is an administrative area but it had a scale of city in the past. As early as before Nanzhao moved around Eel Lake, it was the place where the first people of Bai Nationality which was called the river pretty gathered to reside, it was called Dali City in that time, the residents had already been very many, it is said that Shi Wansui who was a general of Suiwendui who was the first emperor of Sui Dynasty stayed with his troops and horses here, so it is also called Shi City. The near dam was called Shiyan. In the period of Mo in Nanzhao, an imperial palace was built up here again. We can find the clues from the structure and form of the city, there are the some villages around the city; their names are City North, City East, City South etc. The archaeological workers found the word tile, the cloth lines thick tile and the lotus wood grain tiles etc. in the period of Nanzhao in the town in the past.

>>The iron pillar of Nanzhao in Dali
The iron pillar of Nanzhao in Dali locates in the Iron Pillar Temple Village which was called Iron Pillar Yi in the past and is about 6 kilometers away from the west of Midu Country. The village belongs to Taihua Countryside. The area was the Bonongchuanbaiyayan in ancient times. Bonongchuan is the dam in Midu now. After the Qing Dynasty, because of the taboo incorrect character, change the white precipice as red precipice, ancient times of white precipice compare now is wider than red rock the country scope. Baiyayan which is the Baiya City is the the governance center of the legendary Baizi Country.
After Nanzhao was strong, Geluofeng who was the king of the Nanzhao captured the Baiya City, and built up a new city outside the old city for arranging for his stepmother and brothers of same father and different mothers. Inside the new city, they established the hall, the gallery turned and twisted, an outside bamboo of the behind orange cluster was thick, such as person's leg, high 100 Chinese foots of enough to spares; the environment was very nice and secluded.
Bonongchuan was the place where the intermediate officials lived. There was a Manzi City which was about 20 miles apart from the south of Baiya City. It is probably near the now Midu Country. The iron pillar of Nanzhao was between two cities, it is also an important governance region of Nanzhao.
The Iron Pillar Temple of Nanzhao was called Iron Pillar Temple in the past; it was built up before the Yuan Dynasty. It was repaired in 1665, the big palace again and in front and back various palace in hospital and set of rooms were built in 1784. At that time the temple covered 5541 square meters, 1542 square meters of the building area, the base-court is made up the Dazhao wall, outside theatrical stage, square, pond and three arch stone bridges greatly; the back yard is made up Sanhuang Palace, Tuzhu Palace, the Holy Mother Palace and the northern rooms. The iron pillar stands in the center of the main palace in front yard. Later the Iron Pillar Temple was damaged serious because nobody repaired it for long time. Since 1978, repaired the big palace, the three arch stone bridge and the Dazhao wall etc., placed the gate of the palace, Buddha brand, plaque and couplet which was written by Li Jvchun who was a writer in Midu in the period of Daoguang. It includes the history and custom about the iron pillar. The match, the felt hat steps the song, an of that year pillar number, old of a of gold wreath; The alliance stone bury, the stone tablet eclipse, several word texts stay Tang's thing, clouds of many colors the deep place contain ancestral temple.
The Iron Pillar in Nanzhao is also called Yachuan Iron Pillar, Jianning Iron Pillar or Tianzun Pillar. The pillar body is the cylinder form, black, iron, solid center, heavy about 2069 kilograms, high 3.3 meters, 32.7 centimeters of diameter, from five the segments connect but become. The pillar crest presents the cone form from the cave pit, deep 7 centimeters, there is three small holes, each of top a wood quality carving dragon, ascend one iron hat whose shape likes a pot. The pillar body west faces to is long 91 centimeters and 8 centimeters breadth the convex line frame exact center, in the center keeping 22 words of the formal script sun text "Weijianjishisanniansuicirenchensiyuekengzisushisirikuichoujianli". The Iron Pillar in Nanzhao is also one of the existing rare cultural objects of Nanzhao, reflecting the technical level of the circumstance faith and the making irons in that time, the historical data value is very high.

>>The God temple in Chang Mountain
There is a God temple in Chang Mountain in Zhonghe Peak of the west of Gucheng in Dali. It is impartment ruin which we study the history of Nanzhao and canĄŻt neglect.
According to the history, Yimoxun who was the sixth king of Nanzhao ascend the throne to imitate the Central plains dynastic way of doing soon, winning the famous mountain and water inshore of Nanzhao to be Wuyuesidu, Dianchang Mountain was as the Zhongyue because it was in the capital. The God temple in Chang Mountain is a temple that offers sacrifices to Chang Mountain.
The meeting in Chang Mountain is the most glorious page in the history of Nanzhao. In 793A.D., Yimoxun sent three emissaries with the different route, taking cinnabar, silks, gold and Chinese angelica...etc., the token of the red heart, soft, firmness and always belonging to etc. wish, an of book of silk that take together with, went to Chang-an. Afterwards, all of three emissaries saw the officials of Tang Dynasty. Negotiate for peace was also the wish of the Tang Dynasty, so in the January of the second year, the Tang Dynasty sent the hour of the emissary who was Cui Zhuoshi to arrive at the Yangmei City which was the capital of Nanzhao, read out TangĄŻs book. Pass several days, Cui Zhuoshi, Xungequan who was the prince of Nanzhao and Qingqingguan made a pledge in the God temple in Chang Mountain. There were four alliance books; one was hide in the God temple in Chang Mountain, one was thrown into Eel Lake, one was put in the temple of ancestors of Nanzhao, one was dedicated to Tang's Emperor. Nanzhao swear to return the agreeable tang dynasty forever. From then, Tang Dynasty made Yilingxun to be the king of Yunnan.
The now God temple in Chang Mountain was the building with many repairing from Ming Dynasty, Qing Dynasty and the period of Minguo. It locates in the south side of Zhonghe Peak, lies in north and faces south, faces before Zhongxi. The whole building contains a palace and two Wu, the main has 5 rooms and the single summit of hill type, long 14 meters, high 8 meters, enter deep 10.3 meters. Afterwards, the God temple in Chang Mountain turned into this main temple of 7 villages outside the west gate of Gucheng, there is a stone tablet which is high 0.6 meter and 1 meter wide in the center of the main palace, engraving a few words Sefengdianchangzhaomingzhenguolingdishenwei on it.

>>Three towers of Chongsheng Temple in Dali
Three towers of Chongsheng locates 1.5 kilometers from the north of Gucheng in Dali, faces to Eel Lake in east, depends the Changshan in west, there are towers in the temple, so it took the tower as the name of temple. The great temples was destroied by fire in the period of Xianfeng and Tongzhi, only three towers were stay well.
Three towers of Chongsheng Temple are made up a big tower and two small towers. The big tower is called Qianxun Tower. The two towers of north and south is 70 meters away from Qianxun Tower.
Qianxun Tower is 69.13 meters high, is a hollow brick tower of the square type, have 16 classes totally, belong to the typical model style of Tang Dynasty. The wall perpendicularity inside the tower body masters the top and bottom, establishing the wood quality stairs, can ascend the tower crest to enjoy the eyelet of Gucheng. Qianxun Tower stand erect at the stage which has two layers, tower the front shines on these four sculpture carvings Chinese characters with emollient strength of" always the mountain and stream " on the walls with an eastern exposure, per word is 1.7 meters high.

>>Ancient ruins
Eel Lake which is a bright pearl on this plateau of Yunnan is the cradle of the time immemorial civilization in the region of Dali. Neolithic mankind's ruins in the region of Dali, distribute extensively at the surroundings of the lakes with Eel Lake as central in the plateau of Shenxi, include Dali, Eryuan, Jian, Heqing, Binchuan, Xiangyun, Yunlong etc., we have already discovered 40 now. The more impartment ruins are Baiyang Village, Haimenkou, Qinghua Hole, Lue Mountain, Dayu Village, Maer, Fouxiang, Longquan, Sanyang, Heyun, Baiyun, Lianhua, Wutai, Changlang, Zhonghe, Haichao River, Jinshuo Island, Damuping, Wuliqiao etc. according to the stone implement, pottery, the Cape machine enunciation sprout in these ruins, the agriculture, fishery and handicraft industry were the main economic styles at that time. The Zixue Village in Binchuan is comparative entire village ruins of the primitive society in the area of Eel Lake, the residents belong to the agriculture race that settle down, planted the valley, raised and trained the domestic animal, and were engaged in to gather, fishery etc. the immemorial residents in Dianchang Mountain in Dali developed many steps sets. They chased the mountain spring irrigation farm crop inside the stirring steps set; they became the more early agriculture mode of production. In the ruins which have been already discovered, we all discovered Fanglun and Fangzhui, it explained that the spinning handicraft had already been more widespread. Sprout the pottery to take clipping the sand pottery as the lord, the pottery color is the orange much Huang, there was two kinds of the hand ware and round system, some of artifactses follow to have the level the horizontal lines with neck much, explained that they had already used to turn the dish while make pottery.
Remarkable is, the stone hoes and the bronze hoes were used by people in Neolithic in the area of Eel Lake, its pattern has been following to use down in the region of Bai Nationality, presenting the half month type or the rectangle type, double bore or many boreses. The stone knife for bore hole of half month rised in the Huanghe River valley, it reflected the relation of them.
We also discovered the stub foot of Ding Tripod in the Malomg Ruin in Dianchang Mountain, Ding Tripod was the special kind of artifacts of ancient times of our country. The detection of the Ding Tripod can more emolliently explain that the Neolithic culture in region of Dali is a part of the Neolithic culture of motherland.