Lijiang, an otherworldly and unspoiled antiquated city

Discovery Channel Documentary Lijiang, an otherworldly and unspoiled antiquated city in the northwest of Yunnan Province, encompassed by the verdant mountains, woven by waterways and crossed by more than 300 extensions. It is the passage to northwest Yunnan area, and No.214 national expressway crosses the city to Tibet in the north or to Dali City in the south, capital of the self-governing prefecture.

The Ancient City of Lijiang has been acclaimed for its average models with various racial elements, impossible to miss flagstone streets, spiritualist religion, pictograph, sacred text, move and sweet old music since it was worked amid the late years of Southern Song Dynasty and the early years of Yuan Dynasty, furthermore, it additionally has for quite some time been known worldwide for its gaudy snow-shrouded mountains, the precarious crevasse, the exquisite Mt. Laojun, the clean Lugu Lake, and the vivid and different traditions of the minorities. The outside world is astonished at its old and straightforward feeling of "character of Heaven and Human" and amazed by the precursors of the minorities who constructed a city without a divider on the delightful heaven of Lijiang at this southwest borderland. In December of 1997, it was enlisted on World Heritage List by the World Heritage Committee of the UNESCO, and this "city overlooked by divine beings" was revealed to the world with its oriental secret and excitement like a splendid precious stone covered up in the mountains.

Customs of Naxi Nationality

As one of the 56 nationalities in China, the Naxi nationality is altogether different from the others. To begin with, in the convention of Naxi individuals, man is viewed as the sky while lady is the area. The matriarchal group society of old Naxi individuals has gone on for quite a while, and the present ladies of this minority are still deal with the undertakings both inside and outside their home, hence the curious custom of this antiquated city where ladies accountable for all while men are unmoving.

The conjugal custom of the Naxi individuals is impossible to miss. Men and ladies don't get hitched. At the point when a young lady is going to begin to look all starry eyed at a man, she will make sheep's eyes at the man when fitting. At that point the man is permitted to go through the evenings with the young lady, however he should take a straw cap, a blade and a rice ball with him when he begins. The rice ball is for diverting the pooch from the young lady's home, the blade is utilized to open the electrical jolt young lady's room, and the straw cap is held tight the entryway as an imprint that the young lady is becoming hopelessly enamored and living together with a man. Before sunrise, the man must leave the young lady's room.

Generally, a Naxi man can live together with a few ladies in his lifetime however can't cohabite with a few ladies in the meantime. What's more, in the Naxi custom, the grandma of a family has the last word and uncles are in charge of raising of his sisters' kids.

Spiritualist Dongba Culture of Naxi Nationality

Dongba society is pixie free and puzzling when contrasted with those of different minorities in China. It stayed unnoticed until some Dongba sacred writings were took to Europe by a French teacher Pere Desgodins and two British in mid19thcentury. Particularly, in1920s, botanist Joseph Rock, an Austro-American came to Lijiang and took a monstrous volume of Dongba original copies back home to offer to the galleries. This turned Dongba society a hot subject of study in the west. These days an expanding number of western researchers or aficionados continue coming to investigate this spiritualist society.

I. Dongba Religion

Dongba religion loved numerous divine beings and trusted that everything was invigorate. In its advancement the religion was impacted by Tibetan Bon, Buddhism, and Taoism. It didn't have a brought together association of sanctuaries, yet and sufficient supply of composed sacred text and muddled services, which applied complex impacts on the life of Naxi individuals.

II.Dongba Scripture

The original copies of Dongba sacred writings were composed in Dongba symbolic representation. There are so a considerable lot of them that the accurate number is difficult to know. Their substance ranges over phonetics, writing, religion, custom, history, workmanship, reasoning, cosmology and timetable, really a reference book of antiquated Naxi individuals. As a component of the old human advancement of China, Dongba sacred text holds extraordinary quality to concentrate on.

III.Dongba Hieroglyph

It was a stunning formation of Naxi precursors, a symbolic representation conceived in the eleventh century. In this dialect, the significance is passed on by one or more images as a sentence, perusing from left to right and from the upper to the lower. As an astoundingly valuable legacy, it is "the main living pictograph still being used in the present world". Presently, Donba pictograph is effortlessly seen all over the place in the antiquated city, on the shop's exchange check or brand, in calligraphy or painting, on artworks or little items, even on table ares.

IV.Naxi Ancient Music

This is an exemplary music uncontrollably mainstream in Naxi Nationality and praised as a "living fossil of Chinese music" and the "sound from heaven", one of the most established survivors on the planet. It started from the music of Taoism around 500-600 years back. This music has been included the play strategies of Naxi individuals, highlighted in playing all the once in a while heard works in Tang (618-907A.D) and Song (960-1279A.D) lines, the more than 100-year old music instruments which can't discover in somewhere else, and the old players who are around 70-80 in age from all kinds of different backgrounds. Presently this old, rich, genuine, and society established music has pulled in tons of ears to listen to.

Spellbinding Attractions Nearby

The Ancient City of Lijiang is supported by a large group of alluring and wondrous attractions. In the wake of encountering the city, you ought not miss the compensating investigations underneath on the grounds that they offer you the amazing scenes found on the planet.

I. Jade Dragon Snow Mountain

This mountain is 15km north of Lijiang City, a present day maritime ice sheet closest to the equator in Northern Hemisphere, and a state-level visitor site in China. This mountain has 13 tops stretching out for 35km from north to south, nearby the most profound chasm on the planet the Tiger Leaping Gorge. It is snowcapped all the year, with greatness and radiant. Fan Steep, its primary crest, is 5,596 meters tallness above ocean level straight puncturing the sky. The mountain is sharp, beautiful, and unconventional, enchanting with the landscape locales of Yunshan Spruce Meadow, River of White Water, Ganhaizi Lake, Serac Forest, et cetera, to make the mountain a sightseers' resort for touring, investigation, experimental review, or simply get-away satisfaction.