Going from Mojiang County to the north and experiencing 20 kilometers of winding landscape (it only takes 9 kilometers to drive via expressway), Bixi Ancient Town comes to you. Splendid scenery is so fascinating, such charming mountains and rivers, ethereal clouds and quiet villages are deeply rooted in travel memories. You may visit here along regular way on foot or by bus.

On the way to Bixi Ancient Town, anticipative plantains and bamboos on the roadside come to the eyes, erecting silently in attaching manner, and two fat gooses freely enjoy themselves in the water in remote pond. As the spring befalls just now, the seedlings haven't completely planted in the field. Mountains embraced Bixi Ancient Town seems to be slightly hectic and constraint. It is located in the edge of the expressway, by which only five minutes' drive is required.

Bixi Ancient Town is big titled while being mentioned, not only former home of Yu Enyang, the “Hero of Restoration” and “Defending General” during the period of the republic of China taken the hometown of Yu Chengqing, a famous star. A well-known ancient trade route slowly flows from its memory of blue and green bricks.

Bixi Ancient Town, formerly known as Bisu, is former residence of Gongshun Prefecture in Ming Dynasty. The town, firstly built in the 4th year of Yongle Era in Ming Dynasty (1460), has been nearly 600 years of history till now. Once Bixi Ancient Town in the history was important hub and trade route post in the South of Yunnan, and numerable caravans and traveling merchants carrying Puer Tea passed through that “Ancient Trade Route” in the town. They stayed and traded here. Thanks to convenient traffic and frequent business travel, this almost unknown town was once in full flourish.

The buildings and streets of ancient town are designed in unique styles. The entire ancient town, centering on cross street, is divided into four downtowns, while the middle of the cross street is the center of the town. Civilian dwelling houses are mostly integrated with architecture arts with different styles including the quadrangular patio, courtyard house, three-courtyard house & one-screen wall, Zouma Zhuanjiao building (a building beside the front building at the right or left corner and surrounded by a corridor) and "Yikeyin" building (shaped like a Chinese seal), ridges, eaves, stone carvings, doors and windows, fences, wood carvings, brick carvings, plain ink paintings, stone painting and colored drawings dazzle and shine, and antique wares take on ancient favors with beautiful and grave shapes, fully embodying the wonderfulness and lasting charm of Han culture in Ming dynasty.

Historically, the ancient town was provided with the rampart and eastern, southern, western and northern gates, and emplacements and loopholes were available, looking as if a heavily guarded castle. It is historically alleged that the ancestors of Han nationality in Bixi Ancient Town are aborigines from Zhejiang and Jiangsu, who, followed Mu Ying, a general in Ming Dynasty to settle in Yunnan not only brought advanced farming technologies and business philosophy but also promoted the culture and goodness, flourishing schooling education. Gongshun Prefecture, a jurisdiction set up by Ming Government, lasted 128 years.

Bixi Ancient Town is quite, being silent like a specimen left amid the crack of the history. Walking on the empty street, along the way you are enabled to notice wooden buildings with carved patterns almost decayed and cobwebs closely distributed on antefixes. The street is deserted, only a few old man sitting under the turret leisurely chat. Occasionally several "tour pals" take out their cameras, randomly shoot against dated antefixes and broken stone carvings. The inns on the curbside retain their original appearances, shimmering green tiles seem to be telling remote stories.

The town, still featured with ancient favor, it is the birthplace of outstanding talents. Yu Family, undoubtedly, was a local noble family, three brothers born here, were well-known role in the history of Yunnan. Yu Enyang, youngest brother, previously followed Li Genyuan and Tang Jiyao and learned the military in the school for noncommissioned officers in Japan, joined in Chinese Revolutionary League organized by Sun Yat-sen in Japan, initiated and commanded "Chongjiu Uprising" in Yunnan, and successively served as army commander of Yunnan Army, the governor of Guizhou, the principal of Yunnan Military Academy, was an influential celebrity in military circles, almost received the title of Cai E and Tang Jiyao, and was conferred with the military rank of admiral after death. Yu Enxi, second elder brother, the mayor of Kunming during the period of Republic of China, contributed and built the "Garden for Yu Family", and established Asia Tobacco Company, the first cigarette fact