Lushi Ancient Town - China Travel

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Lushi Ancient Town, formerly known as Alusi, has a long history and profound cultural heritage, and is a famous historical ancient town. It is one of the main roads of the ancient tea-horse road in western Yunnan, Fengqing County, Lincang City, and one of the relatively well-preserved and large-scale ancient building complexes in western Yunnan. Since Lushi Ancient Town is located on the main road of the ancient tea-horse road, it has a long history. People from south to north settled here to do business. While the scale of the street is constantly expanding, it has formed a gathering place of "three streets, seven alleys and one square". Long unique pattern. With Sifang Street as the center point of the longitude and latitude of the market town, they are distributed in a circular shape. The residential buildings mainly imitate the northern courtyards and the Jiangsu-Zhejiang style courtyards, with a first floor, a bottom, three grids and three building roofs, and mud tiles to seal the fire wall. There are gardens in quadrangle courtyards and flower beds in triple courtyards, and there are murals, poems, and couplets painted on them, hoping that the house will be square, store wind and gather energy, and be warm and prosperous. At the same time, the residential building model is influenced by the culture of the Bai nationality in Dali, and it also has the architectural complex of Nanzhao style.

Lushi ancient town has not yet formed a large-scale commercial tourism, you can live in local folk customs, or stay in the new street above the highway. Or go back to Fengqing County for accommodation.