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The guandu old town
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As a scenic area, many officials and dignitaries built their palaces and villas here and restaurants and amusement houses were also built, and this place became an entertainment town full of wine and music.
Guandu old town is situated by Baoxianghe River on the north side of Dianchi Lake, 8km away in the southeast suburb of Kunming City proper and is one of the well-known historical and cultural towns in Kunming area, covering an area of some 1.5 sq km.
There are many cultural relics there. There are five hills, six monasteries, seven pavilions and eight temples built in the Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties and other attractions within the area of 1.5 sq km.
As an ancient town with a long history, Guandu was an ancient ferry well-known in central Yunnan and was a large marketing place in the east of Kunming Lake. It was set up as Guandu County together with Kunming County in the Yuan Dynasty, a town with prosperous business and developed handcraft industry. Guandu in old times was full of merchants and pagodas dotted one another against the sky.
Guandu was originally named Wodong, a fishing village on the shore of Dianchi Lake, with shells piled as hills around. Early in the Tang Dynasty, the royal family of Nanzhao Kingdom took this place as a cantonment. In the Song Dynasty, the official Gao Shengshi in "Shanshan" or Kunming, often boated here for sightseeing and he usually fixed the at the shore and he called the village Wodong "Guandu" or official Ferry, and he even set up Guandu as a county and had the town built with city wall and gate towers.
As a scenic area, many officials and dignitaries built their palaces and villas here and restaurants and amusement houses were also built, and this place became an entertainment town full of wine and music.
Then monasteries, pavilions and temples were built with the religion culture introduced. The oldest temple built here is the aboriginal patron temple enshrined the local deities built in the Tang Dynasty, Fadingsi Monastery in the Song Dynasty, Confucius Temple in the Yuan Dynasty and the Vajra-Based Pagoda built by General Mu Ling and financed by Eunuch Luo Gui stationed in Yunnan in the Ming Dynasty and Martial Temple, Wugu Temple (Five Cereals Temple), Yuntaigong Temple, Guanyin Temple, pavilions and bridges and so on.
Welicome to this ancient town!
The Introduction of Guandu Old Town Attractions:
Welicome to this ancient town!
The Introduction of Guandu Old Town Attractions:
Kunming Guandu Old Town, located in the southeast suburb of Kunming, is one of the famous historical and cultural towns. It is one of the birthplaces of Yunnan culture, and it is the main historical and cultural landscape of Yunnan tourism, especially Kunming tourism. Guandu ancient town has a long history in the Nanzhao period of Dali State. It has been a big market town and traffic artery on the northeast bank of Dianchi Lake. Before the Song Dynasty, ferries were set up, fishing boats and passing official ships stopped here and sat again Sedan or riding over the Zhuangyuan building into Kunming city, hence the name "Guandu". There are many ancient buildings, Buddhist temples, attics and temples in the ancient towns, commonly known as "six temples, seven pavilions and eight temples". There are more than 10 national, provincial, municipal and district level cultural relics protection units: the Tujia Temple built in the Tang Dynasty, the statutory Temple in the Song Dynasty, the East Pagoda of Miaozhan Temple in the Yuan Dynasty, the Confucius Building and the Diamond Tower in the Ming Dynasty, among which the Diamond Tower is listed as a national cultural relics protection unit. In history, Guandu was an important ferry for ships in Dianchi Lake, and also a market town with relatively developed politics, economy and culture on the main traffic road leading to southern Yunnan. It was known as "Little Yunnan" in the Ming and Qing Dynasties.
To Guandu ancient town, in addition to see a variety of cultural landscape, food is not to be missed. Here the snacks gather together, it is a lucky place for foodies. Holiday and more people, Zhuangyuan street several stores will be a long line. Guandu rice noodles, Guandu Baba and Guandu bait blocks are known as the "three treasures". You must taste them.
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