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Yi Ancient Town is a 4A-rated scenic spot integrating Yi culture and customs, including dining, accommodation, transportation, sightseeing, shopping, and entertainment. Within the Yi Tribe Scenic Area, the Yi people's original ecological architecture, production and living practices, song and dance, and sacrificial rituals showcase the unique characteristics of the Yi people. This comprehensive tourist attraction prioritizes visitor participation.
Attraction Location: Chuxiong City, Chuxiong Yi Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province, China (云南省楚雄彝族自治州楚雄市)
History: Chuxiong Yi Ethnic Tribe Park showcases the history and culture of the Yi people, one of China’s largest ethnic minorities. The Yi people have a long history in Yunnan, with unique customs, traditional clothing, and festivals like the Torch Festival.
Architecture: The park features traditional Yi-style buildings, including wooden houses with sloped roofs, ceremonial platforms, and decorative carvings. It combines cultural and natural landscapes for an immersive experience.
Cultural Value: The park preserves Yi language, traditional dances, music, handicrafts, and religious practices. Visitors can experience local rituals, festivals, and authentic Yi cuisine.
Other Information: The park is designed to immerse visitors in Yi culture through interactive activities, performances, and workshops. It is also a great place for photography of traditional villages and costumes.
Opening Hours: 08:00 – 18:00
Ticket Price: 80 CNY per adult
50 CNY per child/student
Free for children under 1.2 meters
Best Photo Spots: Yi traditional houses, ceremonial platforms, Torch Festival performances, folk dance shows
Time Reference: 3–5 hours to explore the park; longer if attending cultural performances or workshops
There is a temple inside. After you go in, they give you three incense sticks, and then you have to light them and pay a minimum of 199 yuan for the incense.
When I went to Yunnan, I passed by Chuxiong and stayed there for one night. The tour guide said it was a local regulation to boost the economic development of Chuxiong.
An artificially built antique commercial area, a place to buy things and eat snacks, there is no point in going there specifically
Mainly because we stopped by here for lunch on the way to Dali.
There's a temple right at the entrance, and someone's offering incense at the door. You can see for yourself. Anyway, I accepted it and went in, and had my fortune told. The incense was 99 yuan. The sutra recitation was 99 yuan.
You used to have to buy a ticket to go to the Yi tribe, but now you don’t need to. There is a stone cave inside. I would go there every time I took my friends there. Today I took my friends there again, but I was shocked. There were a few more "monks" who coaxed you to burn incense and pray for your family's safety, and then asked for a minimum of 199 yuan. If you didn't pay, they would curse you. I want to say, is this kind of business management really good?
Commercial operation, there is really nothing to do
A good place to eat and watch a show, but the hot pot there is the worst I have ever had
It is not recommended to go in. There is a fee and there is nothing fun to do after entering. There are only some hotels and performances.
A good place to understand Yi culture and customs!
The feeling at night is still great and has ethnic characteristics
It is in the Yi Ancient Town. I didn't go in. I need a ticket.
There are performances to watch, very commercial, but also very national
Although it is a built-up "ancient town", it is a good place to stop for a self-driving tour from Kunming to Dali and Lijiang, especially during the Spring Festival. There is no need to stay in a place as expensive as Dali.......
It's been a while, so I can't remember clearly. I just think most ancient towns are about the same length.
I will come to Yunnan again if I have the chance.
It's a completely man-made landscape. I just came down from the highway to have a meal. Don't go there specifically, unless you want to die.
Yi People's Ancient Town is located north of Yong'an Avenue in the Economic Development Zone of Chuxiong City, Chuxiong Prefecture. It's a newly developed area offering food, accommodation, and sightseeing. Many shops sell Yunnan specialties, and the evening bonfire parties are lively.
It's quite commercial, I personally don't like it!
I knew it was a commercial town when I arrived, but there was no planning or management at all, and I couldn't feel any ethnic customs. It was just average. I had thought of staying two more nights, but it was boring and I left after one night.
This is a place to eat. The food is quite unique, with various mushrooms, and they taste good.
The newly built ancient town is similar to an ordinary market and has no special features.
The ancient architectural complex imitates Lijiang, but it doesn’t have any special features. It’s worth a visit if you want to kill time nearby!
In fact, these are all newly built buildings. In addition to the Yi culture, the biggest feature of Chuxiong is the delicious food. I especially recommend coming during the Torch Festival when it will be more lively.
The most distinctive feature of Chuxiong Yi Autonomous Prefecture is the local Yi ethnic characteristics.
In this city where there are basically no tourist attractions, we can only create one artificially.
It is located in a place in the urban area of Chuxiong City. It is full of Yi ethnic characteristics, but it is a bit commercialized.
It is impossible to compare the ancient town with Dali and Lijiang, but it is relatively close to Kunming. You can also go there when you go to Dali and take a walk around. The roasted beef is pretty good.
Different experience, different life, some taste
1. You must go at night; there's nothing going on during the day. 2. No entrance fee required. 3. The Torch Festival on August 8th and the celebrations are very lively. People also do the left-foot dance on weekdays.
The ancient town with Yi ethnic group as its theme is more lively at night.
It's a big ancient town, no tickets are required, and you can watch the Yi people's Torch Festival performance at night.
The Yi people's ancient town and Yi people's tribe are crowded at night, with a variety of delicious night market stalls and barbecues.
Chuxiong was a special stop on the way home from Tengchong. The locals lived in the ancient town, which was quite lively at night. The construction of the ancient town is very distinctive, the streets are spacious, and it is very convenient to eat and stay. After dinner, you can go out for a walk to help digest the food.
The architectural style is uniform, and the content is more commercial. I had a long street banquet that was different from what I imagined. In the evening, I caught the Torch Festival performance, which was more like a praise for the Torch Festival than a performance.
There will be a bonfire party in this small ancient town, where everyone will dance hand in hand, showing national characteristics!
The environment is very good, the scenery is nice, it is worth a visit
It's a relatively mature town, but it's not as crowded with tourists as Dali, with bars everywhere.
The ancient town is located in Chuxiong City. It's not very big, just a few streets, and it's newly built. I personally feel that it's not very interesting and there are very few tourists. In fact, when we went there, it seemed that we were the only tourists in the entire ancient town. The theme is not prominent, the characteristics are not obvious, and the publicity is not in place. We walked around and had dinner inside. The owner of the restaurant said that there would be a performance in the central square at 8 o'clock in the evening, but since we were staying a little far away, we didn't go to see it.
In the ancient town, it is very conspicuous on the left. It was a little late and I hurried past.
It is an ancient town that has been well developed in Chuxiong Development Zone. Although it is called an ancient town, it is newly built and has many Yi elements.
The newly built "ancient town" was where we went when we were learning to drive. We had a long street banquet here and it felt pretty good.
Although it is an ancient town, I stayed there for two days and it felt great.
There is nothing special about it. There was a big bonfire party on the night we went there, which was a bit interesting. It can be excluded from the itinerary.
This is a land that has nurtured a great culture; this is a nation of fiery passion, a sea of song, a world of dance, a whirlpool of joy. Every visitor is a most important friend of the Yi people. Beautiful gardens are the pursuit of life. The Yi tribes embody the "Along the River During the Qingming Festival" and Song and Ming Dynasty landscape paintings, stretching in all directions. Small bridges, flowing water, lush flowers and trees, pavilions and towers, a God-given piece of the vast Jiangnan. Leveraging Chuxiong's rich tourism resources, regional customs and ethnic cultural characteristics, the Yi Ancient Town has joined forces with a world-class design firm to disassemble and construct outstanding global cultural elements and creatively apply them to the planning and development of the Yi Ancient Town's eastern district. The result is a complex tourism product cluster integrating sightseeing, leisure and vacation, conferences and business, culture and art, performing arts exhibitions, shopping and entertainment, fitness and sports, and high-quality living. This has laid a solid foundation for the Yi Ancient Town to become a world-class tourist destination.
You can go to the street to buy beef jerky, which tastes good. Some tribes require you to pay to visit, which is not very interesting.
The characteristics of the Yi people make Chuxiong full of ethnic minority atmosphere. The mountains and rivers nurture the people. However, the economy is a bit depressed and there are few people.
The accommodation is very convenient. There is a bonfire party at night. The quiet street is also beautifully built.
At that time, the square and the new town were still under construction. We went to a roadside restaurant and found one that had chicken soup with real free-range chicken, which was so delicious. The other one had roasted pork, which was especially delicious. 😊 Some people still think about this incident.
It’s similar to the Yi Ancient Town. Actually, I don’t think I’ve ever been there, O(∩_∩)O haha~
Normally, when I go there during the off-season, the street is very charming. But during the Torch Festival this time, it was dirty and messy. I really don't like it.
To be honest, it's too ordinary, just a man-made folk attraction with performances and so on.
Among the many ancient towns in Yunnan, this one is quite unique.
It has rich ethnic characteristics and is worth a visit. The local people are very welcoming.
It is a place to eat and shop, with many special snacks, such as Paoruda
I went there in the morning, and there were no merchants or tourists. It felt very quiet and clean. It is adjacent to Myanmar and you can experience a different style.
I've been to this street of ancient-style buildings a few times and always encountered local events. For example, there were traditional Yi festivals, long street banquets, toasting songs, and so on.
In the evening, they lit a bonfire and performed their most traditional folk dance.
The food is not tasty and commercialized.
We stayed in the Yi Ancient Town for one night. When we had dinner at the Yi tribe, there was a singing and dancing performance on the stage opposite. It was super lively.
The newly developed ancient town, like many other ancient towns, is commercialized in a similar way, but the houses are unique and have ethnic characteristics. The scenery is beautiful, especially at night. It is really nice to live in the ancient town.
I went there at night. The night view is pretty good. There is a small park inside. The rest are small shops. The things are very expensive.
A magical land that gave birth to Jurassic dinosaurs, a vicissitudes of life that nurtured Eastern humanity, a poetic homeland embracing the thousand-mile Yi Mountains. Today, due to an encounter with an ancient tourist town, it has transformed into a city that is gradually moving towards the world.
This ancient town is newly renovated and doesn't have many features. It feels a bit deceptive.
The newly renovated ancient town is just so-so. There is nothing much to visit. I have seen too many ancient towns and I am not impressed by them.
After visiting many ancient cities and towns in big cities, I feel that the people here are simple and honest.
The commercialization is also quite serious, but you can go and have a look. I originally wanted to go to Heijing, but got off at the wrong station, so I just left it as it is.
Although it is a real estate project developed in the later stage, it is still worth a visit as a rest stop on the way to Dali and Lijiang. No tickets are required, there are bonfire parties every night, and various snacks are available. The hotel inside is cheap and clean.
The memories of my visit with my ex-boyfriend are naturally not good, but the Yi Ancient Town is still good, and the Torch Festival is even more fun.
It's a small village with restaurants and performances. It takes about 2 hours to visit it. You can consider staying in the town for a night. The food is cheap and delicious.
I went there once, but nothing was left behind, only some things were deeply engraved in my mind.
A comprehensive tourist attraction in the Yi Ancient Town that showcases Yi culture, folk houses, and sacrificial customs.
This is a town built specifically to attract tourists. It is completely commercialized and everything costs money. However, the song and dance performances are still very unique.
There are quite a lot of people, and tickets are required for the evening performances in the ancient town. It takes at least a day to walk through the entire ancient town.
The Yi Ancient Town should be newly built. There is no entrance fee. Everyone is selling things when they enter. When I went there, I saw a stall selling mutton skewers. They really hung the mutton next to it and cut the meat off and put it on skewers for sale.
I guess the staff of the Yi Tribe who gave this negative review should have seen it, right? Come and see the garbage of your own tribe, malicious refunds, not daring to reply, not daring to answer the phone, as a man is like a woman, isn't it embarrassing for your local area? It's not easy for you to have such a colleague. And by the way, tell him that I have collected most of this person's information, and will expose it through various channels later. If you don't want to be affected, please contact me, otherwise I will find out his parents' information so that I can talk to his parents about what this son of a bitch looks like.