Nanyun Ancient Town | A small town on the China-Myanmar border, it feels like coming to Southeast Asia, peaceful and leisurely, loved by everyone

| A small town on the China-Myanmar border, it feels like coming to Southeast Asia, peaceful and leisurely, loved by everyone. To avoid the cold, I flew from the north to the south to celebrate the New Year, and after several transfers, I arrived at the dreamy paradise - Nanyun Ancient Town. Nanyun Ancient Town is located in Menglian Dai, Lahu, and Wa Autonomous County, Pu'er City, Yunnan Province. It is a peaceful and leisurely small town on the southwestern border of our country, with a history of over 700 years, and is the last Dai ancient town in China. The ancient town has gone through the Yuan, Ming, Qing dynasties, and the Republic of China, and was once the center of politics, economy, culture, and religion in Menglian. The ancient city 'Nanyun' got its name from the establishment of the Menglian Pacification Commissioner's Office here, meaning 'city within a city'. It was divided into 'three cities and two fortresses' according to a strict hierarchical system. During the Tusi era, the upper city was where the Tusi and his slaves lived, the middle city was the residence of officials and their families, and the lower city was where lower-level officials lived. Mangfanggang and Mangfangmao were the fortresses where forestry officials and hunters lived. The 'Menglian Pacification Commissioner's Office' sits in the center of the upper city, called 'Hehan' in Dai language, meaning the golden palace, which is the best-preserved of the 18 Tusi Yamen in Yunnan and the only relatively intact Dai palace in China. It was the ruling seat of the Dao family Tusi government in Menglian for over 660 years and was designated as the sixth batch of 'National Protected Sites' in 2006. There are also religious buildings in the ancient city, such as the Upper City Buddhist Temple and the Middle City Buddhist Temple, standing tall near the Pacification Commissioner's Office, belonging to Yunnan 'Provincial Protected Sites'; the Total Buddhist Temple, also known as 'Lower City Buddhist Temple', was rebuilt on the original site in 2012 and is now an important place for the discussion and inheritance of Menglian's traditional ethnic culture. Nanyun Ancient Town still retains various architectural elements of the Dai royal city, such as official residences, civilian houses, Buddhist temples, pagodas, official roads, sacred trees, fortress hearts, ancient wells, etc., collectively reflecting the traditional architectural concepts and aesthetic views of the Dai people. The residents of the ancient city are mostly hereditary Dai officials and their slaves, and their traditional culture of politics, beliefs, rituals, customs, and arts forms a unique system, constituting a living specimen of the unique Dai feudal lord system in China. Because Nanyun is connected to the mountains and rivers of Myanmar, the exchange between the inland and the border has formed a perfect cultural integration here. When you come here, you will discover the strong Southeast Asian atmosphere. Nanyun is a vibrant ancient town, and if you come here in person, you will surely fall in love with it!!