Lijiang, The Forgotten Kingdom (Yunnan: The China You Never Knew, episode 11)
Peter Goullart was the first Westerner to dub the village of Lijiang 'The Forgotten Kingdom'. The local Naxi people, their town and the surrounding countryside captured his heart back in the 1930s. He ended up staying for almost a decade. In this episode of Yunnan: The China You Never Knew, host Jordan Porter follows in the footsteps of Goullart and countless others, as he explores this UNESCO World Heritage site.
In the series, we follow Chinese food and alcohol expert Jordan Porter as he crisscrosses western Yunnan. Along the way, he learns about indigenous cultures, samples fantastic local food and speaks with the people who call this unique corner of China home. For more about Destination China and Yunnan province, see the following links:
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Show host Jordan Porter is an entrepreneur, writer and the founder of Chengdu Food Tours and the Chengdu Baijiu Club. Originally from Canada, he has lived Sichuan's capital since 2010 and is driven by a passion for the food and drink of southwest China. When not writing or eating, he enjoys driving around the countryside, talking to farmers, exploring mountains and listening to rock'n'roll.
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Terrific video, thank you! I'm a Nebraska boy, but Lijiang was my home from 2000 to 2004. So much there to see and love.
@DestinationChina
3 жыл бұрын
Glad you enjoyed it!
@user-zj7hf5se4u
21 күн бұрын
It was still really nice in those days..
As a Lijianger pursuing further education in the US, I felt happy and sad at the same time when I was watching this great video. Is this feeling homesickness? I've lived in the old town for 6 years. It was my 4th to 9th grade school time. I took my backpack walked through all the tourists and commercial stores almost everyday during that time. I could wander around those big and small allies with my friends all day long, not because it is a tourist attraction or a good place to hang out, but because there were my friends with me. The young boy would never think that one day in the future he wanna go back to that stone road so bad, like exactly what I'm thinking right now. I've already lost touch with most of them, but here I wish them all the best.
@BryanTodd71
4 жыл бұрын
Where in the US are you? I'm from Nebraska but I lived in Lijiang 2000-2004.
@niamhmacn4210
4 жыл бұрын
beautiful
@DestinationChina
4 жыл бұрын
We were just there again last week. There's still a lot of places that see very little tourists, such as Baisha. Home sickness is understandable!
@hongyinli9681
3 жыл бұрын
@@BryanTodd71 Dallas. I don't see much foreign tourists in early 2000s, let alone you lived there for 4 years.
@Shannon.Hazleton
Жыл бұрын
I lived in LJ for a year… one of the best year of my life. I studied at the school there and walked to the Old Town every day. That was in 2002… I hear it is a bit more modern with even a Starbucks now, which makes me sad.
Thanks for your introduction. Planning to visit Lijiang in December 2024.
Thnk you for the beautiful memories for me. I loved my visit to Yunan. I have friends there for decades now, Butterfly Spring, Rock Forest, Dali, Lake Erhi, Lijiang, Old Town LiJiang, Snow Dragon Mt, the Ski Lift up the Mountain to walk on the top in LiJiang, Naxi People. What an experience for me. I was on tour with Friends from Nanchang City and took the train to Kunming through the Karst Mountains on an old slow train all the way to Kunming. GOD made this place beautiful friend! The history of how the landscape around Lake Erhi provided safety making an attack very difficult is amazing in its story as well! I will marry as soon as I get back to Xi'An to my sweetheart there and visit this place again so my prayer lamp I placed in the river here will come true in my wish for a lovely Chinese woman. I shall never forget this great place. The only history & place comparable to this was Xi'An, the Terra Cotta Mauseleums, and my Anna I met there in 2018!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thanks Ray C. Florida
Lijiang is the most beautiful small town in China. Thank you for the splendid video.
One of the first places I ever visited. If you go, check out the smaller neighouring towns Shuhe, Baisha and Yuhu. Well worth staying a few extra days for!
outstanding little documentary, Thank you.
@DestinationChina
4 жыл бұрын
Thank you very much!
Great video. I've just been in Shangri-La, Lijiang and Dali and still enjoyed your video so much! Hope you can reach more people!
@DestinationChina
4 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much! We hope so as well. We'd love to show these beautiful places to more friends
I feel my heart soul of my native morher land from North East India
High quality documentary! Great job
@DestinationChina
4 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much!
I'm curious about the history of Yunnan in the 1920s and 30s. My great-grandparents were missionaries there in Kunming. I am looking for anything about what the region was like during that time so I can try and visualize their experience and the experience of the people they interacted with.
@DestinationChina
10 ай бұрын
That’s interesting. There are some stories and historical photos on the website www.gokunming.com You can have a look through the article archives. Hope that helps!
Very beautiful city
@DestinationChina
3 жыл бұрын
It really is!
Beautiful!
@DestinationChina
3 жыл бұрын
Thank you! Cheers!
My family and ancestors were from there. But my parents and I have never went there. Hope one day I could go to Yunnan.
@DestinationChina
5 ай бұрын
Definitely worth visiting, especially when roots are there.
I travelled to LiJiang this September. Your video is very good .following and expect new things
@DestinationChina
3 жыл бұрын
Thank you! We just uploaded a new video: a short documentary about Sani people embroidery tradition in the Stone Forest area of rural southwest China. Hope you'll enjoy it!
I made on error on that trip itenerary Rock Forest????? Stone Forest, what was I thinking. We had a delicious lunch in Anning and went to that Stone Forest, I am told the chances of anything like that happening again would be on the next planet like earth that forms POSSIBLY. That place is extremely RARE!! China is so beautiful with incredible places. I will return there to Yunan again one day for SURE!!!!!!!!!!!! God Bless you, country, & people! Ray C USA for now. I am looking for a home, land, or a place to live near my great 'sister' in Yunyang. I love that small city as it is so beautiful with the Great Yangtze and its parks. Ray C
I cannot understand why u don't have more views or subscribers..
@DestinationChina
4 жыл бұрын
Hopefully more people will notice us soon :)
Stunning place ! S2
@DestinationChina
5 ай бұрын
It still is! Especially in this time a year.
I hope ,i can go there in China🥺
I am from nepal himalaya south of tibet . indigenous tibeto burman speaker of nepal .we found some dna percentage matching with naxi people migrating through tibet and myanmar(burma) to nepal and admixed
@DestinationChina
5 ай бұрын
That's really interesting. I can imagine people in the greater area are likely to be somewhat related.
What month of the year is it better to visit Yunnan?
@DestinationChina
10 ай бұрын
We recommend going in spring or autumn. Winter is sunny but cold at night, and summer time is the rainy season.
Does Lijiang snow? Or it just has some mountains covered with snow?
@DestinationChina
5 жыл бұрын
It does snow in winter in Lijiang, especially at the mountain.
@hlanbarjar
5 жыл бұрын
@@DestinationChina Thanks!
@maalex9628
5 жыл бұрын
I just come back one week ago .just has some mountains with snow
@DestinationChina
5 жыл бұрын
@@maalex9628 You'll only really see snow and heavier snow capped mountains in winter. Good reason to come back ;)
@BryanTodd71
4 жыл бұрын
In the city you'll typically get a dusting of snow just one day a year, usually in January, and it melts by early afternoon.