Shaxi Ancient Town


Shaxi Ancient Town was once an important post on the Tea Horse Road, but with the decline of the Tea Horse Road, this place was gradually forgotten. But also, now Shaxi Ancient Town more quiet and simple, but also better preserved when the tea horse town style.

Walk through the ancient stone bridge on the banks of the Heihui River - Yujin Bridge, walking along the ancient road about 100 meters, will be called by the villagers “Street Gate” of the East Walled City, which is made of adobe masonry, only two horses at the same time through the walled city, retaining the old tea-horse road walled city of the original appearance. appearance. Further inside to the Teraden Street, which is the only surviving market on the Tea Horse Road, but also the center of Ancient Town Shaxi.

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Xingjiao Temple is one of the major attractions of Ancient Town Shaxi, which is the existing Ming Dynasty Bai “Atoli” Buddhist temple, inside the murals and carvings worth savoring. 

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Whenever a national holiday, the town's white children dressed in festive costumes, playing the dragon's head three-stringed, gathered on the four sides of the street, singing and dancing on the stage, the four sides of the street crowded, Xingjiao Temple of good men and women to worship God, a happy and auspicious.

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Address: County Road 084, Jianchuan County, Dali Bai Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province, China

Tel: 0512-53221815

Opening Hours: Open all day