In China, the eagle hunting culture can be dated  back to almost four thousand years ago. Unfortunately, in quite long period in history, the culture has always been popular in the palace only among aristocrats, this situation lasted until the end of the 19th century.   Now,   its hard to see this precious human cultural heritage in the vast land of China .

when we see the situation of falconry in Individual regions ,the eagle hunting culture has lost  its integrity.   In the naxi region, however, formed a kind of folk custom, and relatively intact so far. the history  of Naxi  Falconry can be traced back to  1253 AD When Kublai Khan and his Mongolian army conquered Lijiang. 

Why this kind of cultural phenomenon is enduring in the lijiang naxi areas?

There are 3 reason,

Firstly,  Because Lijiang has unique natural geographical conditions. since the ancient times, there is a passage of birds migratory over Lijiang,   every autumn,  various birds of prey successively flying over lijiang from north to south,  this is the prerequisite of  eagle hunting culture for the lijiang . 

Secondly,  Naxi people accepted Chinese culture in Ming dyanaty i(about 1368 AD),  so the traditional Chinese Confucian philosophy and moral ethics influenced them alot, Naxi ladies  are working very hard while their husband are focusing on literature and study,  they think a man should make achievement on literature  rather than doing bussiness.  man's life concept namely advocate nature, pursuit of quality of life is plain and simple. They are good at leisure, as long as they have free time,they engaged in music, chess, calligraphy and painting, flower ,species of bamboo, fishing and hunting activities .

Thirdly, Naxi people are open to  foreign cultures ,In a long period of time in the history ,  there are less wars and natural disasters in lijiang, once in the different cultures were introduced it will not easy to loss.

The Ice Restaurant is built entirely from ice from the frozen Songhua river in winter. The restaurant specializes in hot pot and decorated with unique ethnic elements. Guests dining in the Ice Restaurant enjoy a constant room temperature of -10 degrees Celsius, they don't have to worry about feeling cold when dining in the restaurant because of advanced heating facilities inside.

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Ice Boxing is one part interesting program of Winter Swimming Performance, it is just for fun! At the very beginning, you can see two professional boxers standing at the outdoor swimming pool, gazing at each other, wanting to stare down the opposite party. Suddenly, boxer A struck boxer B on his nose, then boxer B fell down on the ice ground, finally the boxer A cleaned up on his opponent. 

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The snow house is covered with the white snow outside, however it is very warm inside coz there are some heating systems available inside. Most snow houses are located at Sun Island Snow Sculpture Park, you can go inside to have a cup of hot coffee after standing outside watching the snow sculptures, so you do not feel cold anymore, this has lots of fun!

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