Dukezong Ancient Town

Dukezong Ancient City as the oldest castle on the Tea Horse Road, so with its unique geographical location, and the vicissitudes of an ancient city full of mercy, welcome the endless business travelers in the history of the Tea Horse Road. At the same time, the development of business has also cultivated a generation of giant merchants who have gone out from the ancient city of Dukezong. Ma cast materials are one of them. With the Tibetan cast materials of the "cast record" business, this is the long historical footprint of Dukezong ancient city, exploring the outside world.

The ancient city of Dukezong in Shangri-La is called Jiantang, which means a castle under white moonlight. The ancient city was built in the Tang Dynasty and the Tibetans called it the "Moonlight City". At present, the world's largest, heaviest, and most Tibetan scriptures are located on the Big Turtle Mountain in the center of Dukezong Ancient City.

The ancient city of Dukezong is the best preserved and largest Tibetan settlement in China. In recent years, with the development of local tourism, Shangri-La City has strengthened the protection and repair of Dukezong Ancient City, and recreated the historical style of the ancient city. During the Tang Yifeng and Tiaolu years (AD 676-679), Tuyu here set up a Zhaibao on the top of the big turtle mountain, named "Du Kezong", a Tibetan pronunciation contains two meanings, one is "castle built on stone", and the other is "moonlight city". Later, the ancient city was built around the Zhaibao on the top of the mountain. This echoes the establishment of "Nivongzong" on a mountaintop by the Naizi River, as "Niguang City", whose Zhaibao is no longer there, and the original site is a white tower. The ancient city of Dukezong was built on the hillside, and the road was uneven. It was paved with natural terrain for some old stones for a long time. By 2021, there were still deep horseshoe marks on the stone road. That was the message left by the horse gang for time. For the horse gangs who cross the ancient tea horse road, Dukezong Ancient City is a heavy town on the ancient tea horse road, and the first stop after the horse gang entered Tibet. This is a quite comfortable road. In 2001, Dukezong Ancient City was approved as a famous historical and cultural city in Yunnan Province.

Go back in time to ancient history in Shangrali-Li Dukezong Ancient Town and see how beautiful it is and. explore the roots of Tibetan culture.

Dukezong Ancient City in the night. Dukezong Ancient City is located in the center of Shangri-La, founded more than 1300 years ago in the Tang Dynasty, when Diqing belonged to the Tubu Dynasty dependency, in the big turtle mountain base stone for the city, the name is Dukezong, it contains two meanings, one is built on the stone castle, the second is the moonlight city. This is an ancient city known as the "Dukezong" by Tibetans, and it was built according to the ideal country of Shambhala in the Buddhist scriptures. The ancient city was built on the hillside, and the road was uneven. It was some old stones paved with natural terrain for a long time. There were still deep horseshoe marks on the stone road. It was a message left by the horse gang for time. Dukezong is an important market town on the ancient tea horse road in the past, and the first stop after the horse helped into Tibet. Dukezong ancient city has a unique style of Tibetan people, with the world's largest pure copper-plated gilded prayer wheel. In "The Vanished Horizon", once described it like this, last night there was a dream, far away and ancient. Dreaming of solemn ancestral, devout monks, simple villagers, dreaming of the ancient village with bright lights between thousands of mountains and snow, dreaming of the horse gang from afar to repair it, the horseshoes are light and crisp, the bells are light. Unfortunately, a fire on January 11, 2014, burned two-thirds of the ancient city of Dukezong (the last two photos are the fire point at the time), so now the Dukezong is the look of the reconstruction after 2016.

Shangri-La Yubeng National Day 7 ｜ Snow Mountain Meadow and Tibetan style National Day travel follow the principle of being able to go out is a blessing, and draw a blind box of destinations in the intersection of normalized control areas and their own unknown areas. About a month in advance and the friends finalized Shangri-La Yubeng as the destination, then leave enough time (considering the stranding factor) and travel. Outbound ✈️:10/4 Shanghai Pudong 15:55 - Lijiang 19:35 Return ✈️:10/11 Lijiang 10:20 - Shanghai Pudong 15:4510/5 Napahai ➡️ Duke Zong Indigo 10/6 Pudacuo ➡️ Duke Zong 10/7 Shangri-La ➡️ Deqin ➡️ Xidang ➡️ Sushang Yubeng 10/8 Ice Lake ➡️ Su Yubeng 10/9 Shen Waterfall (half journey) ➡️ Xidang ➡️ Deqin ➡️ Shangri-La 10/10 Songzanlin Temple ➡️ Lijiang Ancient City 😷 nucleic acid reports are required within 24 hours for scenic spots and hotels, and the records in the test are not recognized. The airport and Lijiang and Shangri-La passenger terminals have landing detection booths, and they need to continue their lives at the frequency of 12-24 hour intervals in the city. Due to the epidemic in Yunnan, the return ticket from Shangri-La has been temporarily cancelled, and finally can only be temporarily booked from Lijiang. Attractions 🏙: Napahai 🎫 0➕🚗 200r chartered /2r one-way bus Pudacuo 🎫 138r➕🚗 80r one-way taxi / 25r one-way bus Dukezong Ancient City 🎫 0➕🚗 City taxi Songzanlin Temple 🎫 55r➕🚗 City taxi traffic 🚌: Intercity traffic is mainly through "Lijiang Transportation" and "Diqing Transportation", Traffic in the city can be directly dripping. Lijiang Airport 🚖 Lijiang Ancient City 1h/80-90r Lijiang Passenger Terminal 🚌 Shangri-La Passenger Terminal 3h/80r Shangri-La 🚌 Deqin 4h/62r Deqin 🚗 Xidang 1h//Carpooling 20-50r Xidang 🚗 Shangyu Beng 1h/ Off-road Vehicle 200r Xidang 🚗 Rain Beng 1h/ Off-road Vehicle 260r Shangyu Beng 🏍️ Rain Beng 2km/50r Accommodation 🏨: ▪️ Shangri-La is the origin of "Songzan". It is recommended that the first Songzan hotel "Shangri-La Songzan Green Valley" and "Songzan Linka" at the top of the mountain overlooking Songzanlin Temple. "Songzan Linka" in "Songzan Linka" and "The ancestral bird living room" can also be visited for free without staying in the store. These two Songzan hotels are giving Songzanlin Temple tickets, afternoon tea, sweet soup fruit before bed, breakfast, pick-up and drop-off, and the store decoration is suitable for Tibetan clothes shooting. The price of about 1k on weekdays is actually not expensive. ▪️ Four or five-star hotels in Shangri-La and Lijiang 300-1000r/night, luxury or design hotels 2-5k/night. Shangri-La Food 🍴: ▪️ Yipin Yang Restaurant: Hot Black Goat Hot Pot ▪️ Colorful Snow Field: butter tea, fried beef, bovine fungus ▪️ Ancient City Corner: butter tea latte, yogurt (can be photographed in Tibetan clothes) ▪️ Yubeng's mountain bistro: latte, Western-style light meal ▪️ Shangyubeng Restaurant chooses more than rain