¡¡¡¡Lijiang is a beautiful shining jewel on the Northwest Yunnan Plateau neighboring the southeast side of the Tibetan Plateau which is considered to be the \"Roof of the World\".It is impreive because of its scenery and lush vegetation.±¾ÎÄÀ´Ô´:¿¼ÊÔ´óÍø ¡¡¡¡Lijiang boasts of breath-taking wonderful sights such as Jade Dragon Snow Mountain and its modern maritime glacier, the only one of its kind in the southern end of the Northern Hemisphere; Tiger Leaping Gorge; the world - famous grand canyon; Lugu Lake, the cultural cradle of the \"Matriarchy\" of the Yongning Mosuo people in Ninglang.Lijiang Town is officially called \"Dayan Town\"¡ª¡ª \"Dayan\" literally means a \"great inkstab\", a graphic description of the town¡¯s location on a piece of rich flatland fed by a river and surrounded by green mountains.¡¡There is no other town in China like Dayan which incorporates the folkways of so many people and the architectural styles of both north and south China.¡¡¡¡The people of Naxi, while developing their land of snow-clad mountains and turbulent rivers since ancient times, have to their credit the \"Dong Ba Culture\" seen as one of the world wonders, a culture all-embracing while unique.¡¡¡¡All these natural sceneries and these cultural treasures of the minority peoples have been continuously drawing tourists from all over the world and have recently vote Lijiang as one of the favorite destinations in China.¡¡¡¡Notes: ¡¡¡¡1.Lijiang Àö½- 2.Roof of the World ÊÀ½çÎݼ¹ 3.Jade Dragon Snow Mountain ÓñÁúѩɽ ¡¡¡¡4.Tiger-leaping Gorge »¢ÌøÏ¿ 5.Lugu Lake ãò¹Áºþ 6.Dayan Town ´óÑÐÕò ¡¡¡¡ ¡¡¡¡ ¡¡¡¡ ¡¡¡¡ ¡¡¡¡ladies and gentlemen , welcome to Fenghuang, the place where we\"re arriving is \"one of the two most beautiful town in China\"----the old town of fenghuang, ¡¡¡¡it\"s a very important point that connects huaihua hunan and tongren guizhou together.and it\"s the hometown of mr shengcongwen.¡¡¡¡ fenghuang has wonderful natural landscapes,it\"s very hot for travelling since the old time.even a lot of teleplays were produced here.fenghuang is also a dradle for famous people ,shencongwen and xiongxiling are both spent their childhood here.¡¡¡¡now, let\"s set out to enjoy these fantastic good views.¡¡¡¡ THE FORMER RESIDENCE OF SHENCONGWEN ¡¡¡¡This is the former residence of shencongwen,a very famous auther, archaeologist and historian in china.¡¡¡¡lined in the zhongying street in the south part of the fenghuang old town, the residence is a typical spacious ancient countryard with special tectonic style of ming and qing dynasty.walk into the yard, you can find that there is a small patio in the center of the countryard.which is built with red rock.around the patio , there are about 10 rooms which are small but decorated by special carved wooden windows .it\"s so beautiful.¡¡¡¡ his countryard is built by mr shen\"s grandfather in 1866 on dec.28,1902.shencongwen was born in the old countyard.and spent his childhood here.in 1917,when he was 15 years old, mr shen left family and joined the army.from 1917 to 1922, mr shen had lived with soildiers, farmers, workers and some other ¡¡¡¡ common people,and know their tragic lives.this special experience stunned up his enthusiasm of writhing .so in 1919, mr shen went to beijing alone, and began his hard writing .after his series of works WEST OF HUNAN &FRINGE TOWN were punished, mr shen became nation -wide well -known.at that time, he was even ¡¡¡¡as famous as luxun, another famous auther in chiese literature area.it\"s said that shencongwen is the one who is the most poible to win the prize.¡¡¡¡mr shen devoted all his life to writing,his 5-million word works are though as the precious legacy to the world literature.meanwhile, these works are also very ¡¡¡¡veluable date for researching the history of hunan province and even china.¡¡¡¡this 100-years-old countyard was renovated in 1989.the 1st room on the right hane is for displaying mr shen\"s photos.and what displayed in the 2nd room are mr shen\"s handwritingarticles.at the left side,you \"ll find a list of mr shen\"s ¡¡¡¡work of different additions.in the center of the middle room .there is a mr shen\"s line drawing hanging on the wall.the left fringle room is mr shen\"s bedroom and another one on the right is full of marble desks and chairs.
