Why is there no wall in Dayan Ancient City in Lijiang City, Yunnan Province?

With the more detailed division of tourism, such as ancient town tour, ancient city tour, ancient village tour and so on. For ancient towns, there are six famous ancient towns in Jiangnan, each of which has the style of classical Jiangnan water town. What we are going to introduce today is Old Town of Lijiang, one of the four ancient cities in China.

Old Town of Lijiang is an ancient city located in Lijiang City, Yunnan Province. It also has the name Dayan Ancient City. Lijiang is also very popular in recent years because of the rapid development of tourism, and the tourists who go there are endless. When we all know that as an ancient city, there are generally walls. In ancient times, the city wall had a very high defensive function and was essential.

However, friends who have been to Old Town of Lijiang should have found a strange phenomenon, that is, there is no wall in Old Town of Lijiang. Of course, it was not that the original builders were too lazy to build it, but because a family that was very popular in Yunnan at that time was the Mu family. At the beginning, the Naxi chieftain was given the surname after submitting to Zhu Yuanzhang. Wood? Shi.

In the eyes of the ancients, it is very unlucky to add a word to a wooden character after building a city wall. Therefore, Old Town of Lijiang did not build a wall. Although, we all know that there is no basis for this statement. However, there are still many things like this in history, which shows that the ancients attached great importance to architectural geomantic omen and many aspects.

Today, the Old Town of Lijiang we see includes Dayan Ancient Town, Shuhe Ancient Town and Baisha Ancient Town, with a total area of about 7 square kilometers. Old Town of Lijiang has a history of nearly 8 years since it was built in the Song Dynasty. The buildings in the ancient city combine the styles of Han, Bai, Yi, Tibetan and other ethnic groups, as well as the unique style of Naxi.

There are many scenic spots in Old Town of Lijiang, such as Mufu, Sifang Street, Old Town of Lijiang Waterwheel, Wufenglou and so on. For example, Mufu Fengyun, which was released a few years ago, was filmed here, mainly telling the story of Mu's toast. In addition, the temperature here has not changed much, and it is suitable for going to play all year round, which is an important achievement of ancient Chinese urban construction.