【正文】 ’s my great honor to be your I will take you to the ancient town of Brief Introduction to LijiangWe will get there in a few now I will give you a brief introduction to is located in Lijing Prefecture in the Northwest of Yunnan population of Lijiang Prefecture is over 1 million involving 21 nationalities, for example, the Naxi, Yi, Lisu, Pumi, later you will see the houses of Naxi people in the ancient is the major tourist area of Yunnan contains beautiful natural resources, unique minority amorous feelings, ageold minority cultures, and rich tourist scenic spots are mainly scattered in Lijiang County and Ninglang can conclude them into:” two mountains, one town, one lake, one river, one culture and one folk custom.”.Two mountains refer to Yulong Snow Mountains and Laojun Mountains, one town is Dayan Town, one lake refers to Lugu lake, one river is Jinsha river, one culture is Dongba Culture and one folk custom refers to the Moso people’s custom, which we call the “Aixa”.What does that mean? I will leave it to you to you see Lijiang, with its rich resources in plants and animals, the natural beauties and the amazing minority folk customs, attracting more and more tourists from home and we will get the the Ancient town of Lijiang, it has a history of almost a thousand scenes are unique and is one of the best historical, cultural cities at the state level in consists of three parts: Dayan、Baisha、 why is it called Dayan? Because it is in the middle of Lijiang basin, and the Lijiang basin looks like a big inkstone, and in Chinese the pronunciation of that is “yan”.What’s more,it is also a unique city throughout you heard about it? Yeah,it is a city which has no expresses the openminded character of Naxi Ok, everyone, this is the entrance of the Dayan you have already notice the couple of the water wheels over you know the function of it ? It is used to transport water and to make use of hydropower to grind grains and it is the Chinese Characters written by Jiang there is an eyecatching pillar, we call it “Dragon Post”, which means the water dragon and indicates the wish to avoid the fire in the ’s get inside and have a Dayan town is famous in China for its old and simple architectural style and the elegant art for the layout of the the town the Yuquan River winds in many streams across the town and past all the roads here are parallel to the streams, and the door of each house is facing a street and whatever lane you go in ,there is a small stream with small bridges across it here and a saying indicates : A house beside a stream with a small briage across it makes a wonderful scene which you can only find here.” That’s why we regard Dayan town to be the “Oriental Venice”.SifangStreetHere we the center of the ancient town, here is the Sifang is a place for country fair ancient times, Sifang Street has been a collecting and distributing center of all kinds of products with travelers and traders going and ing a market day people of different minorities in their unique costumes e here to do business and make the place crowed and you spend a whole day here, you can experience the poetic changes the morning, the street stretch its arms and woke up。in the midday, it bees a busy man。When the night es, the light is on, it changes into a dressed young lady。And at night it bees quiet and fell the street has a name of “Sifang”? There are two kinds of explanation, one is that the ancient leader in Lijiang named it with a meaning of “spread his power around”, and the other is that “Sifang” in Chinese means four directions, and the street has people and goods from every you know how do people clean the square? They create three wooden boards as a movable sluice in the western the water overflows, it will remove the sluice, then the streets can be washed wonderful!KegongArchwayNow you can see the Kegong Archway.“Kegong” means achievements in imperial question for you,do you know why do people construct the archway? It is used to memorate three successful candidates in imperial exam at provincial amazing is that they all came from the same you can understand how much people care about the imperial , that’s all for my introduction, now you have 30 minutes to appreciate the nearby scenery, help yourselves!Please be careful and take your time!