Impression Luoping
Luoping, located in the east of Yunnan Province, is the junction of the three provinces (regions) including Yunnan, Guangxi and Guizhou and as one of the counties under the jurisdiction of Qujing Administration, Yunnan, covers the area of 3,116 square kilometres and is known as the "Gateway of Eastern Yunnan" and the "Key to Yunnan and Guizhou.”
It has received the title of "Crowing of Cock Audible to Residents in Adjoining Three Provinces." It has also won the awards including "Top 100 National Tourism Counties," "Advanced National Grain Production County," "Top County for National Tobacco Leaf Production," "National Civilized County Seat” and so on.
Luoping's rape flowers are known across the world. It is one of the largest attractions of its kind in China and is also the place where the flowers blossom earliest.
Scenic Luoping
Jinji Peak Cluster
Countless cone-shaped hills well and properly arranged, 12 kilometres to the northeast of National Road 324 in Luoping County Seat, make up Jinji Peak Cluster. It is regarded as the best resort to photo rapeseed flowers.
While standing on top of the mountain, you are blessed with a panoramic view on Jinji Peak Cluster. Various cone-shaped hills with different shapes are dotted in the boundless green and yellow ocean in different seasons.
Screw-shaped Farmland
Niujie "Screw-shaped Farmland", located 10 kilometers to the northwest of the county seat of Luoping, is one of the most well-known rape flower photo spots. The terraces here are ring-shaped, resembling spiral threads on a screw and is a natural landscape formed by beaded karst funnel landform. It remains rare due to so densely distributed funnels and irregular shapes. The depth of the landscape hits 50 metres with varied seasons and different scenes.
Shiwan Overlapping Mountains Resort
The main venue of the Luoping Rape Flowers Festival is located around Shiwan Overlapping Mountains Resort. It is in the southeast direction of the county seat of Luoping and along the Dashuijing to Duoyi River. The rapeseed fields here are widespread, flat and broad, and the resort is surrounded by vast golden flowers while being overlooked.
Kowlung Waterfalls
Kewlung Waterfalls is a national AAAA-level tourist attraction located at 22 kilometres in the north of Luoping County Seat, Yunnan Province. Because of a special geological structure and millennial erosion of water flow, ten waterfalls with different heights, widths and shapes formed here.
The largest waterfall is 112 metres wide and 56 meters tall. It is truly magnificent to see and is regarded as the top waterfall in Kewlung.
Duoyi River
Duoyi River, located 40 kilometres to the southeast of Luoping County, covers the attractions from Duyizhai to Sanjiangkou. There are nearly 40 waterfalls along the 12-kilometre riverbed. The river water is crystal clear, blue and boundless all the year round, and the river is winding.
Stockaded Buyi villages are distributed along the river, while stilted buildings indistinctly appear from bushes and bamboo forests, creating a scene full of tropical scenery.
Lubuge Gorge
The resort is 46 kilometers away from Luoping County. It is located on the Huangni River, the boundary between the two provinces of Yunnan and Guizhou. It consists of Xiongshi Gorge, Dilingling Gorge and Shuangxiang Gorge.
Taiye Lake Park
Located in the centre of Luoping County seat and adjoining Jiulong Avenue, Taiye Lake Park consists of the Main Entrance Square, Lashan Fairy Square, Huxin Island and the Children's Park, which is the location of “Taiye Chengbo” Resort.
Yudai Lake
Located four kilometres away, to the southeast of the county seat of Luoping and adjacent to Yangzhewo Village under the main peak of Baila Mountain, Yudai Lake is adjacent to hills and filled with water.
The lake is in a ring shape and it accommodates Yuanyang Island, which is surrounded by the lake water of clear and dark green colours.
Food in Luoping
Five-colour Flower Rice
Known as Wufan Rice by locals, five-colour rice symbolises traditional gourmet of the Buyi people.
This rice is not only bright in colour, but also boasts a delicious flavour. The Buyi people have a long history of eating five-colour rice, and the tradition has been preserved until today. It has become the "patent" of the Buyi people. Conclusively, it has been a must-have experience for visitors travelling to Luoping to taste five-colour rice, featuring Buyi characteristics.
Smoked Meat
Buyi smoked meat is meat seasoned with a little salt and related spices and then hung on the firewood stove for roast smoking. The taste of various seasonings and firewood infiltrate into the meat while it cooks, preserving the flavour of the meat and enhance it with natural tastes.
Fried Dry Beef
The finest beef is selected and cut into strips, seasoned with spices and mixed well. It is then put into an earthenware jar and pickled for 10-15 days, before being taken out and dried.
The fried dry beef may be leisurely roasted on the side of the stove. It is edible when the oily colour of fried dry beef turns yellow.
Full-pot Soup
The full-pot soup is a big characteristic of the Buyi people, who hold worship ceremonies involving the mountain sacrifice and water sacrifice on the third day of the lunar calendar every year. The enjoyment of the full-pot soup is one of main features of the festival. The taste of the full-pot soup is delicious and fresh.
Sour Bamboo Shoots
The bamboo shoots breaking through the soil are found to fully cover Duoyi River, Jiulong River, and Nanpan River. The Buyi people use them to produce the sour bamboo shoots dish.
Cooked ham or other bacon with sour bamboo shoots is delicious and unusual. Additionally, the sour bamboo shoot fish is the most well-known special dish of the Buyi people.
Palm Leaves-wrapped Cake
The palm leaf-wrapped cake is the most distinctive food of the Buyi people. The materials required include glutinous rice, a sesame stick, selected cereal grass, myrcia leaves for rice dumplings, pork and spices.