Lijiang City, Yunnan Province, located northwest of the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau and Qinghai-Tibet Plateau joints. Urban centers altitude of 2418 meters, with the same for the second batch of national historical and cultural city of Sichuan langzhong, Pingyao, Shanxi, Anhui Shexian known as the "best preserved of the four ancient city."

In December 1997, declared World Heritage Old Town of Lijiang success. Old Town of Lijiang is a city without walls, smooth clean narrow quartzite road, completely hand-built civil engineering structures of the houses, the ubiquitous small bridges. Dayan's old town is a cultural town, bright sunlight, there is always a slow gait of the elderly Naxi old leisurely pacing, they dressed in a distant era indigo clothing, wearing a Red Army during the octagonal cap, hum with a net called the Naxi songs, singing with the hearts of the net, the right front of the eyes behind Searching for turning a blind eye in disinterest.