The Old Town Beckons： Returning to Lijiang

• 作者: YAN JIE
• 来源期刊: 今日中国：英文版
• 学科: 工学
• 关键词: 丽江市 旧城区 回归 世界文化遗产 中国西南部 西藏高原 云南
• 年，卷（期）: 2012,（1）
• 页码范围: 66-70
• 页数: 5页
• 分类号: TU984.114

摘要

LIJIANG City sits where the Yunnan-Guizhou and Qinghai-Tibet Plateaus converge in southwest China’s Yunnan Province. The Old Town of Lijiang, a listed world cultural heritage site, has 900 years of history preserved along its narrow streets. To me, though this was not my first visit, Lijiang and its environs are shrouded in mystery. More than just an ancient city with winding alleyways and old houses, its unique customs and legends fill outsiders with fascination. The locals still enjoy the old ways of living and thinking. To the north, high hills rise up above the fields towards Jade Dragon Snow Mountain, the holy incarnation of the local Naxi people’s patron god. Returning to Lijiang, I found that still holds the same ease and grace, and time here seems frozen.