About of Lijiang

Lijiang started from the Yuan Dynasty to the 13th year of the Yuan Dynasty and set up the administrative
district Lijiang Road. 100,000 years ago, the Lijiang people of the late Paleolithic sapiens were active here.
The discovery of cave paintings in the Jinsha River Valley and numerous new stone tools, bronzes, and ironsmiths prove
that Lijiang is one of the important areas of ancient human activities in southwest China

Lijiang is located in the northwestern portion of Yunnan and borders Sichuan. It is in a region where the Qinghai-Tibet
Plateau and Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau converge. It borders Sichuan Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture and Panzhihua City to
the east, and Jianchuan, Heqing and Binchuan three of the Dali Bai Autonomous Prefecture in the south.

Owing to its low latitude and high elevation, the city centre of Lijiang experiences a mild subtropical highland climate
. Winters are mild and very dry and sunny, although average lows in December and January are just below the freezing mark;
January, the coolest month, with 24-hour average temperature of. Spring begins early and remains dry and sunny until late
May, when there is a dramatic uptick in frequencyand amount of rainfall that lasts until late September

The Naxi people have their own language. The Naxi language belongs to the Tibetan-Burmese language branch of the
Sino-Tibetan language family. It is roughly divided into two dialects by the Jinsha River. The dialects cannot talk to
each other. The standard language of Naxi language is based on the dialect of the western dialect of Naxi language, and
the voice of Dayan Town of Lijiang City is the standard sound. In the long history of the Naxi people, there have been
Dongbawen and Gobawen characters