Ruili City |
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Ruili is a birthplace of the Dai ethnic group. The Ruili River looks like a white jade belt winding around green mountains and fields. Ancient tall trees in Jingpo Mountain Village, a banana forest near Dai's bamboo buildings, egrets and leisurely herds of cattle created an attractive genre painted corridor. It is more interesting that a Dai village spans a section of the Sino-Myanmar border line to form a special landscape of "one village, two countries." Ruili's rainy season starts from July and ends in October and the name of the city in Dai language means "fine drizzle." The climate there divides neatly into dry and rainy seasons. The rain tends to come down in torrents and ends very quickly. When it rains, people have no time to take shelter. But even if you get drenched, the sun soon returns to provide a drying effect. Another peculiarity is that the rain can be very localized. Thus, it is pouring in the eastern street and fine day in the western street. It looks as if a watering car has passed by. A famous Chinese song named "There Is a Beautiful Place" describes Ruili. In the 1950s, when he came to see the picturesque Dai village, green fields, tall bamboo, blue water of Ruili River and the young women dressing colorfully, the lyric writer and composer was moved to create a music and word picture. Oriental Jewelry City Ruili, a city well known in the world for its jewel and jade, produces all kinds of ruby, sapphire, jadeite and agate. Especially, billion-year-old woodstones and woodgems are peculiar to Dehong prefecture. Ruili, dubbed oriental jewelry city, has become the biggest jewelry trading market in China. Jewelry will bring you infinite business opportunities and exceeding fancy.
Be sure to respect local customs and traditions Ruili is 570 kilometers from Kunming. Bus and flight are both available to Ruili.
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