Kunming Introduction

Kunming is the land of natural and cultural landscapes. It has a long history, unique geological structure, as well as a large number of cultural relics and scenic spots.

Release time : 2016-10-11 11:17:09

source : WTCF

City Introduction

Kunming is the land of natural and cultural landscapes. It has a long history, unique geological structure, as well as a large number of cultural relics and scenic spots. There are beautiful ‘Ashima’ in the Stone Forest, five hundred miles of Lake Dian from the Grand View Pavilion, and the Folkways Village showing the essence of all ethnic groups; you can also enjoy Dragon Gate in Xishan, camellias in Jindian, and black-headed gulls in Green Lake. All of these are showing the beauty of Kunming.

Kunming has a mild climate, no midsummer heat or severe cold in winter. It is known as the "City of Eternal Spring" due to its weather, which means four seasons are all like spring. Like the proverbial poem says: in Kunming, there is no need to wear fur coat in winter, you don’t sweat when wearing thin cotton clothes in the midsummer, plum blossoms will fill your eyes in winter, and willows will grow new leaves after the new year.

History & culture

Kunming has a long history and splendid culture, and is one of the first set of 24 historical and cultural cities, which were announced by the State Council of China. About 30 thousand years ago, there were people living in Lake Dian area. From the Warring States to the early Eastern Han Dynasty, ‘Lake Dian people’ around Lake Dian established the Dian State, thus created the unique ‘Dian culture’.

Dian was subjugated by the Chinese Han dynasty under the reign of Emperor Wu of Han in 109 BC. Founded in 765, Kunming was known to the Chinese as Tuodong city in the Kingdom of Nanzhao during the 8th and 9th centuries. In 1276 it was founded by the Mongol rulers as Kunming County and became the provincial capital of Yunnan. In Ming Dynasty, a large number of immigrants entered Yunnan, the Han population in Kunming exceeded the local indigenous people for the first time. In the late Ming and early Qing Dynasty, the uprising peasant armies such as Li