Xizhou Ancient Village is located 18 kilometers north of Dali Old Town, leaning against the Cangshan Mountains in the west and facing the Erhai Sea in the east, preserving a large number of Bai residential houses, and it is also the birthplace of Xizhou Poi. As you walk around the town, you will see old people dressed in Bai costumes, small stores selling poi, and Bai dwellings, which are full of rich Bai flavor.
The Justice Gate is the west gate of Xizhou Ancient Town, from which you can enter the old street of the town. A few hundred meters inside the west gate, there is a 500-year-old banyan tree, so thick that it takes several adults to hug it, which is the symbol of Xizhou Ancient Town.
The Bai people's houses are one of the specialties of Xizhou. The houses here have survived through various periods, and the Yan and Yang families are the ones that people often visit. Yan's house is located in the southwest corner of the Sifang Street, the building is a typical “three workshops and a wall” and “four and five patios” of the Bai courtyard pattern. The Yan family was the first of the “Four Families” in Xizhou in the old days, so you can feel the Yan family's wealth and grandeur in those days.
Also worth mentioning is the Hai Tongue Peninsula to the east of Xizhou Ancient Town. Walk 3-4 kilometers east toward the Erhai Sea, come to the Haixin Pavilion, and then walk a few hundred meters ahead to the Jingui Temple, you can see an oasis about 100 meters wide and one kilometer long, as if a jade hairpin is inserted into the rippling Erhai Sea, locally known as the tongue of the sea.
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