Dali

Dali City, formerly called Tali, is the county-degree seat of the Dali Bai Autonomous Prefecture in northwestern Yunnan. Dali City is run thru 12 township-level districts, two of which are additionally commonly known as Dali. Xiaguan is the modern-day city centre and normally conflated with Dali City by virtue of being its seat. This city is the destination of most long-distance transportation heading to Dali and is sometimes known as Dali New Town to avoid confusion. Dali Town is some other division of Dali City, positioned 10 km to the north of Xiaguan.

This town, typically referred to as Dali Old Town to differentiate it from the metropolis seat in Xiaguan, is normally the Dali stated in visitor publications. The vintage metropolis is one of the maximum famous vacationer destinations in Yunnan, acknowledged for its natural scenery, historic and cultural historical past, and colourful nightlife. The Dali place was formerly called Xiemie. The vintage city turned into the medieval capital of both the Bai kingdom Nanzhao and the Kingdom of Dali. That town changed into razed and its data burnt at some point of its conquest by using China's Mongolian Yuan Dynasty.

The present old city changed into prepared inside the overdue 14th century below the Hongwu Emperor of the Ming Dynasty. The place became notably Muslim underneath the Yuan and Ming and become the middle of the Panthay Rebellion against the Qing from 1856–1863. It turned into severely broken for the duration of a huge earthquake in 1925.