Huili County, named after "the combination of Chuanyuan and politics and the praise of reason", was called Wu Hui in ancient times and Huichuan later. Founded in Ding Yuan in the Western Han Dynasty for six years (BC 1 1 1), the county history is 2 122. Huili has always been a military and economic center at the junction of Sichuan and Yunnan and an important distribution center for business travel materials in southwest China. The ancient Southern Silk Road runs from the north and south of the county seat 100 kilometers and passes through 44 towns and villages. Huili county is an important post station of this ancient road, and is known as the "lock key of Sichuan and Yunnan".
Huili is located in the northeast of Hengduan Mountains in the southwest and on the southeast edge of Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. It belongs to semi-humid climate zone. Rich in light and heat resources and pleasant climatic conditions. The most important thing is sunshine. The annual average sunshine is 2398 hours, the annual average temperature is 15. 1℃, and the climate is pleasant. Known as "Xiao Chun", "Panxi Pearl" and "Southern Sichuan Pearl". As high as 52. 1% forest coverage will become a natural oxygen bar, which is very suitable for health preservation. Huili, with no severe cold in winter, no intense heat in summer, and four seasons like spring, is known as "Little Spring City". Huili has a unique climate and rich products, which is very suitable for living. Today, when the real estate industry is unprecedentedly hot, compared with people in other places, the proportion of Huili people buying houses outside is very small.
The ancient city of Huili, built on the path of Jade Ruins Mountain, is narrow from east to west and long from north to south, and looks like a ship. Therefore, Huili County is also called "Ship City" by scholars. Ship-like castle, a spectacular thousand-year-old city, nestled against beautiful modern buildings, tells a legend about history and future, tradition and development.
The center of Huili ancient city is different, not modern streets and numerous commercial buildings, but an ancient city with unique customs. The landmark buildings are the Bell and Drum Tower and the North Gate. Bell and Drum Tower, also known as Lingxiao Building, is located in the center of the old city, at the intersection of North-South Street and East-West Street, and is the most representative building of Huili Ancient City. In the north of the Drum Tower, echoing the Drum Tower is the North Gate Tower, which is commonly known as the City Drum Tower by Huili people. The Drum Tower was built in the early Ming Dynasty. At that time, the ancient city was surrounded by water, with four doors in good order and good feng shui. After several wars, only this door is left. There are buildings on the door, which are hard peaks with double eaves, wood carvings, painted doors and windows, and plaques on both sides. The tower is connected with an ancient city wall, which is now covered with moss and grass and full of ancient charm.
Stepping on the tower is like entering a historical tunnel. You can completely lean on the crib of the ancient city wall, enjoy the antique ancient city, listen to the wonderful music of the Drum Tower Art Troupe, let you temporarily abandon the fame and fortune of the world, let the light of thought flow in just sightseeing, and appreciate the leisurely ancient charm. Light a pot of tea in a century-old teahouse, sit on an antique bench, look out of the window at the old city bricks and people who moved downstairs hundreds of years ago, and listen to the legends and stories told by tea customers around you. The pressure of modern life will have nothing to do with you, as if it were cut off from this troubled world and the silence of the Millennium. This is a leisure situation that is both detached from the secular and integrated into the secular.
With the Drum Tower as the boundary, four streets criss-cross east, west, south and north, preserving the complete pattern of the ancient city, which has not changed for hundreds of years. The ancient city of Huili is 1.776 meters long from north to south and 920 meters wide from east to west, so it is said that "three miles go through the city and nine miles go around the city". The north and south streets of Huili Ancient City are rated as "Top Ten Most Beautiful Streets in Sichuan Province", with a width of 7 meters. The shops on the street are all wooden buildings on the ground floor, with blue tile roofs, carved wooden windows, grass moss hanging on corrugated walls, and plaques written by calligraphers in this county hanging on the storefronts, which are simple and uniform in color and attract people to stop.
Huili ancient city has 4 streets, 3 passes and 23 lanes. Compared with the main streets, alleys also have unique charm. Among the many alleys in Huili, the most distinctive one is Xicheng Lane, which is located on the west side of Beiguan and is inhabited by caravans. It is about 400 meters long and 3 meters wide. Most of the houses in the alley are Qing dynasty buildings, and there is a "Xicheng" entrance at the entrance of the alley. The pavement is paved with stone slabs, and Madian in Xicheng, Madian in Caijia, Madian in Liao Jia and Madian in Qingfeng have been well preserved. There are also "Merit Monument" and "Forbidden Monument" established in the 11th year of Guangxu in Qing Dynasty, and "Municipal Management Statute" formulated for the construction of Huili ancient city and environmental protection, which have existed since ancient times.
Hakka Lane, which is not far from the North Gate Tower, is named after the imperial examination family (according to statistics, as many as 390 people including Gong Sheng, Juren and Jinshi were admitted to the imperial examination). There are still many complete courtyards of traditional houses in Ming and Qing Dynasties, among which Hu Jia Courtyard and Wu Jia Courtyard have the most architectural historical value and artistic value. In these streets, there are 6.5438+0.7 million square meters of ancient buildings and traditional houses, of which more than 80% are buildings with good structure, distinctive features and preservation value, and century-old trees and ancient wells are dotted among them. Even after a long time, a strong market atmosphere can still be seen everywhere.