Trip.Best Popular Historic Buildings in Kunming

**Golden Horse and Jade Rooster Archway**, a landmark and historical symbol of Kunming, dates back nearly 400 years. The two archways (Golden Horse Archway and Jade Rooster Archway) boast magnificent carvings and painted rafters, their design embodying ancient wisdom in astronomy and mathematics. Legend has it that every 60 years, a spectacular spectacle of "golden and jade interplay" occurs: the setting sun and moonlight simultaneously cast reflections of the two archways, ultimately converging on the street. This is a true culmination of science and art. **Highlights and Experiences**: - **A Blend of History and Modernity**: Although rebuilt in 1998, it perfectly captures the ancient charm of the past. Together with the surrounding Zhong'ai Archway, it forms a "three archways in a triangle," connecting Kunming's cultural heritage. Closely located near the Nanping Street shopping district, the night market is vibrant with life, offering local delicacies like tofu pudding rice noodles and roasted tofu, allowing visitors to experience the vibrant atmosphere of the city. - **Cultural Renewal**: The newly renovated **Golden Horse and Jade Rooster Park** (within walking distance) in 2025 will feature the newly added "White Tea Falling Blossoms" art space.

Yunnan Army Military Academy is as famous as Baoding Army Officer School and Huangpu Military Academy in modern Chinese history. The saying "Baoding's lecture hall, Yunnan's playground, Huangpu's battlefield" is widely spread. The so-called "Yunnan's playground" is a praise for the large playground of Yunnan Military Academy, which can accommodate tens of thousands of people; more importantly, it should be praised for the hard and strict degree of "playground" training of Yunnan Military Academy, which is second to none among the three military academies. The military training intensity of Yunnan Army Military Academy is extremely high, and the training discipline is extremely strict. In the teaching of the Military Academy, the training on the playground far exceeds the teaching in the classroom. Li Genyuan proposed the school motto of "perseverance and hard work". Military training is very strict, especially emphasizing actual combat training on the playground. Students have two subject classes and two gun training classes every morning; in the afternoon, they conduct queue drills, tactical action training and group running on the playground, two self-study classes in the evening, and often conduct emergency assembly training at night.

Kunming Daguan Building has a reminder to visit the reminder to the Kunming Daguan Building at 11:07 on March 27, 2025. The ploughing hall is a building with a roof of the mountain, three square planes, 10 meters wide, 5 meters deep, covered with green glazed tiles, to reflect its role in the scenery near Huapu, and also become a borrowing of landscape techniques in the garden, borrowing the fish sails on the Dianchi Lake in the distance and the surrounding Wanqing Xiang Rice. Remind the people to work hard. The front of the reminder hall is hung by Yunlong, and the current person Zhao Hao Ru supplements the book: still bright mountains and rivers, the blue clouds, the world has hurt the past several times; self-smiling wind and moon, green and green, rivers and lakes are full of fishermen. The gate is carved in red. The plaque is black gold.

To the south of Yu Garden lies Yu Zhuang. On March 27, 2025, at 12:56 PM, I arrived at Yu Zhuang, a section of Yu Garden. It was crowded with people taking photos. South of "Yu Family Garden," facing Lu Garden, stands a gate. To the left of the gate are inscribed two elegant characters in Yan-style regular script: "Yu Zhuang." These two characters were written by Yu Enxi, the original owner of Yu Zhuang, and serve as an elegant tribute to his beloved garden. Yu Zhuang was built in 1927. The architect was Yu Enxi, the founder of Yunnan's machine-made cigarette industry, former mayor of Kunming, and a garden expert. Yu Enxi enlisted the assistance of Zhao Heqing, who collaborated in the design and construction of this exquisite garden.