Old Town of Lijiang is a comprehensive high-value and the overall value of the historical and cultural city, it embodies the historical and cultural places customs and national conditions and customs, at that time reflects the essential characteristics of social progress. The flow of urban space, full of vitality of the water system, a unified architectural style groups, appropriate-scale residential buildings, a cordial and pleasant style of the space environment as well as the unique content of the national art to make it different from other historical and cultural city in China. Shung-natural ancient building, seek practical results, yet straightforward, good value compatible with the more characteristics of the specific historical conditions of the urban construction in the unique creative spirit and progress of human significance.
Old Town of Lijiang has a long history, ancient nature, the capacity of both water, the mountain city’s appearance, it has a long history as a city of ethnic minorities, from the overall layout of the city to the engineering and construction into the Han, Bai, Yi, Tibetan essence of all ethnic groups, well Since a unique style of the Naxi.
Old Town of Lijiang is not “Guri side, next to 3, the latitude of nine by nine by nine passers-track” copy of the impact of the Central Plains city. The city without the rules of the road network, non-guarded walls, the ancient city of layout for the screen of the three hills, connected Yichuan; water use in the city of Three Rivers to wear every household water; stree
t layout in the “meridians” to set up and “music, quiet, narrow , amounting to “style; the building and mountains on the water, the design in order existing ancient art in China is very rare, is Naxi ancestors in accordance with national traditions and the results of a re-creation environment.
Lijiang Prefecture is home to people of more than 2O minority ethnic groups, the bulk of whom are the Naxi. Each of these ethnic groups has a unique culture and history, which match into the beauty of the land, setting an example of a harmonious relationship between man and nature. Known as the "soul of Lijiang", the city formed a part of the cultural heritage of China presented by the Naxi cultures. The most typical examples are the Dongba ("necromancer" or "sutra reader") culture and ancient Naxi music. The rich Dongba culture includes pictographic records, drawings on different sorts of materials, music, dance, sacrificial rituals and folk customs.Naxi music, called the Dongjing (Cave Sutra) music of Lijiang, is a combination of the quintessence of the ancient Naxi music with the Confucian and Daoist musical traditions of the Han people. It is considered a "living fossil of the ancient music of China".