Yunnanyi Ancient Town in Xiangyun County,Dali

 Grooms and horses. Photo in 2004.

From the second century BC to today, Yunnanyi is a military and transportation center in southwest China, ConnectingChengdu, Kunming, Tibet and Myanmar, India.

  Over 2100 years, Three important roads in history whichare: Wu Chi Road (Chongqing - Kunming - Yunnanyi); Ling Guan Road (Chengdu - Yunnanyi); Boonen Road (Yunnanyi - Dali - Myanmar). Tea trade was very famous.

  During WWII, Burma Road and the Stilwell Road (China -India) opened to traffic, Automobile replacing animaltransport. Today, horses and mules only used villagesnearby .

Ming Dynasty (1368-1683) official post road. Limestonebuilt. Photo in 2007.

  109 BC,Emperor Liu Che in Han Dynasty, set up Yunnan county. 225 AD, the famous prime minister, Zhuge Liang set up Yunnan state. 1274 AD, in Yuan Dynasty, Mongolia emperor Kublai Khan, set up Yunnan Province in Kunming. Since then, this place is still namedYunnan. Today, people called the village little Yunnan,

  In Chinese,  the official inn is pronounced yi. The Official Innis named Yunnan form Yuan Dynasty, so this village is calledyunnanyi. After  the Ming and Qing dynasties, and today hasmore than 600 years.

Market in Morning. Photo in 2008. 

Airport yunnanyi built during WWII. Aircraft bunker. Photo in 2008.

Museum of Yunan horse transport & Memorial of CBI WWII transport  for      Public opening hours:  9 am - 5 pm,  daily （All holidays open）

Horse inn. The late Qing Dynasty (1644-1912). Now is The Museum of Yunnan horse transport.  Photo in 2004.

Official post office and inn. The early Qing Dynasty (1644-1912). Photo in 2004.

Memoral of CBI WWII. Photo in 2004.

Burma Road Monument. 16 stone and concrete rollers for built the Burma Road and airport runway, WWII. Photo in 2005. 

P-40 Fighter. Film model. Photo in 2006.

Caravan through the village gate. Photo in 2006.

Today, 4000 people are living in the oldvillage. Most of them are descendants of immigrants in early Ming Dynasty.Ancestors were employees of theofficial post office and inn.