Dongmen Caravan Ancient City

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Walking into Yisa, the ancient town of caravans in the hometown of overseas Chinese in Honghe, is like walking into a museum. There is an architectural Grand View Garden and a caravan culture with strong local characteristics. Beside the stone vat on the Yisa ancient post road in the hometown of overseas Chinese, it seems that you can still hear the sonorous and pleasant sound of horse bells on the ancient tea-horse road. Standing on the thousand-year-old Feijiao Ferry in the ancient town of caravans, the sound of the whistle of the French steamer still seemed to linger in the Red River Grand Canyon. As long as you take a closer look at the four walls of the quaint dwellings in Yisa, the ancient town of Mabang, those masterpieces by skilled folk craftsmen and masters of Danqing have to be astonishing and full of emotion.

Yisa Town is located in an arid mountain ridge with a harsh natural environment. Before liberation, the people's life was extremely difficult, so they had to go out to do business to make a living. As early as the third year of Xianfeng in the Qing Dynasty (1853 A.D.), the first group of caravans of the Yisa people traveled 12 days hard and arrived at Mengyejing (Jiangcheng County) at the border. Some mined salt mines, and some carried salt to Mengla (on the Laos border ) and sold them in the area, and brought local medicinal materials and mountain goods back to Yisa, and the history of the caravan began.

Without caravans, there would be no hometown of overseas Chinese in Yisa. The residential buildings marked by the ancient castle of Yao Chuji in Dongmen area, which combines Chinese and Western styles, and the labyrinth courtyard of Qian Erguan, are the landmark buildings in Yisa, the hometown of overseas Chinese. They are called "caravans" by experts. Hometown of the Golden City". In order to restore the splendor of the "pearl on horseback" to this ancient building complex, Honghe County has carried out a renovation and renovation project since 2009. Bricks, stones, walls and tiles have been fully repaired, and the construction of the East Gate Caravan Cultural Square.