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| ¡¡¡¡Beautiful and
richly endowed Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous prefecture
lies in the southeast border area of China.most southern |
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part of
Yunnan province,bordering on Laos at its sutheast and
on Burma at its soathwest. The boundary line extends 966.3
kilometres.it
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occupies an arera of some 20.000 square kilometres.
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¡¡¡¡ Xishuangbanna lies just
below the Tropic of Cancer.and the land is hilly with
some mountanous and deep valleys. Approximately. |
| 94percent of
Xishuangbanna 4.9 mllion acres of land consist of mountainous
and hilly terrain.Dense and primeval reserves to protect |
| 5.000.000
acres of the tropical raiforest¡ªone
of the few remains in China. |
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¡¡¡¡The main river in Xishuangbanna
is Lancang river which is Known t0 south¡ªeaot Aisians
Meikong River.After flowing across Laos.
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| Burma.Tailand
.Kampuchea.and Viet Nam. it folws into the pacific Ocean
with a total length of 4.500 kilos. |
| ¡¡¡¡Beautiful and
richly endowed Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous prefecture
lies in the southeast border area of China.most southern |
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part of Yunnan province,bordering
on Laos at its sutheast and on Burma at its soathwest.
The boundary line extends 966.3 kilometres.it
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occupies an arera of some
20.000 square kilometres.
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| ¡¡¡¡Xishuangbanna
lies just below the Tropic of Cancer.and the land is hilly
with some mountanous and deep valleys. Approximately. |
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94percent of Xishuangbanna
4.9 mllion acres of land consist of mountainous and hilly
terrain.Dense and primeval reserves to protect
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| 5.000.000 acres
of the tropical raiforest¡ªone of the few remains in China. |
| ¡¡¡¡The
main river in Xishuangbanna is Lancang river which is
Known t0 south¡ªeaot Aisians Meikong River.After flowing
across Laos. |
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Burma.Tailand .Kampuchea.and
Viet Nam. it folws into the pacific Ocean with a total
length of 4.500 kilos.
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| ¡¡¡¡There
are three climate regions in Xishuangbanna.Aisa tropical
monsoon climate .The climate features and middle of Xishuangbanna |
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are as follows; 1.small annual range of temperature and
big daily range of temperature; 2.there are only two seasons,dry
season and rainy |
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3.aborundant annual rainfall and short frost season. |
| ¡¡¡¡Xishuangbanna
is so beautifll and fertile that people praise it as ¡°three
kingdoms¡± ¡°a hometown¡±and¡°a base¡±. Three |
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kingdoms refer to the kingdom of plants. wild animals
and medicinal herbs. and ¡°a hometown¡±refers to the hometown
of ¡°puer tea¡± |
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base¡±refers to the rubber base. |
| ¡¡¡¡In
Xishuangbanna,there are approximatly 100.000 hectares
of virgin forest with over 5.000 species of woody and
herbaceous plants |
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ranging from huge arbors to primitive ferns.Among these
plants, there are over 50 species of plants for state
protection, taking up 15 |
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percent of the total mumber in China. |
| ¡¡¡¡Renowned
as a huge matual Z00. Xishuangbanna¡¯s rainforest and monsoon
jungles provides a habitat for 539 species of terrestrial |
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vertebrates, 439 species of birds. 47 species of amphibiants
and more than 60 species of snakes. In cluding the boa
and constrictor. |
| ¡¡¡¡Various
plants provide Dai people and Other ethnis groups with
rich medicinal herbs. |
| ¡¡¡¡At
present. 1724 species of medicinal herbs hare been found.
Among them are dragons blood tree from which people can
extract the |
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druy for invigorating thd circulation of blood, psussdo-ginseng.which
can be made into Yunnan white Medicine and devilpepper
which can |
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be made into depressor and so on. Dai medicine is listed
as one of ¡°the medicine of four ethnic groups¡± (Dai medicine.
Tibetan madicine. |
| Uygur
medicine and Mongolian medicine). |
| ¡¡¡¡It
is testified by some experts that Xishuangbanna is the
original place where tea was first planted. On Nonnuo
Mcuntain in Menghai |
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county, there is a cultirated ¡°king of tea tree¡± over
eight hundred years. And on Bada Mountain there is an
ancient tea tree about |
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thirty-four metres high. It has been testified that it
is a wild tea tree over 1,700 years. Six tea mountains
of ¡°Puer tea¡± |
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in history are all in Xishuangbanna. Because of this.Banna
is the reat hometown of Puer tea . For Banna was in Puer
prefecture in the past |
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and its tea was sent to puer distributing. Hence the name. |
| ¡¡¡¡Good
clinate offer ideal enviroment for the growing of rubber
trees Xishuangbanna is the seccnd biggest rubber base
of China. The |
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plantation area of rubbder trees reach 2 million Mu .ard
per mu yield of dry rubber is over 100 kilograms. |
| ¡¡¡¡The
place name of Xishuangbanna changed many times is history.
In ancient times. Xishuangbanna was called Mengle which
meant |
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the place where Daile people lived. In 1180. it began
to be called Jinghong which mecint the city of dagbreak
in Dai lainguage. and in Yuan |
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Dynasty it has the hame of Cheli. In 1570. it began to
be called Xishuangbanna whieh means twelve administrotive
wins in Dai language. |
| ¡¡¡¡Throungh
the efforts of ethnic groups. Xishuangbanna is taking
a new look to the world. Xishuangbanna, a place which
once you |
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come you¡¯ll never orget, is looking forword for your coming. |
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Welcome
to Xishuangbanna! |
