Mizhi Township is located in the central and western Yunnan Province, bordering Li Mao and Yin Jie in the northeast and Weishan and Nanjian in the southwest. Land area 140 km2. It has jurisdiction over 6 village committees, 36 natural villages and 40 villagers' groups, with a total population of 16236 at the end of 2007, 30 kilometers away from the county seat and an altitude of 1800-3064 meters. It belongs to subtropical monsoon climate zone, with annual average temperature 14.5℃- 15.3℃ and annual rainfall.
Mizhi is the hometown of civilization and etiquette, known as "three townships, two districts and one ancient road", namely "the hometown of lanterns in China, the hometown of the world famous song" Running Water ",the Taiji Mountain National Nature Reserve, the old revolutionary base area at the provincial level and the ancient tea-horse road in Wen Sheng Street". It has a unique geographical advantage, rich cultural and natural landscape resources, numerous tourist attractions, rich products and beautiful mountains and rivers. Wen Sheng Street has a profound cultural heritage, and its surrounding natural and cultural resources, ancient residential buildings and folk customs are unique. In 2002, Wen Sheng Street Pearl Spring, God of Wealth Temple, 20 ancient inns, Madian and other scenic spots were announced by the Midu County People's Government as county-level cultural relics protection units; In March 2006, Taiji Mountain was listed as a provincial-level scenic spot by the provincial people's government; In June 2007, Wen Sheng Street was listed as a famous historical and cultural village at the provincial level by the provincial people's government, and Mizhi Township was listed as a famous tourist town by the provincial government in February of the same year. In March 2008, Mizhi Township was listed as a provincial-level ecological demonstration township by the provincial government.
In recent years, the party committee and government of Mizhi Town have transformed the potential traditional cultural advantages into resource advantages to promote rural economic and social development. According to the general idea of "stabilizing the countryside with agriculture, revitalizing the countryside with ecology, invigorating the countryside with culture and strengthening the countryside with tourism", they constantly optimized the development environment, consolidated the development foundation, tapped the development potential and strengthened the development measures. On the fifteenth day of the first month, they successfully held the annual "Mizhi Lantern Festival", which was loved by 14 households. Seriously carry out lantern fitness dance and lantern dragon dance training; Compile and publish Mizhi Charm, Mizhi Spring Festival couplets and Small Mobilization of Traditional Folk Songs in Mizhi Township; Wen Sheng Street Dance Dragon Team won the third prize on behalf of Dali to participate in the Sixth Provincial Agricultural Games; Vigorously support farmhouse music, develop 50 farmhouse music members, and further improve the reception level; Vigorously sing "Flowing Rivers" and related folk songs, and comprehensively complete the first phase construction of the "Flowing Rivers" artistic conception area. In the past five years, Mizhi Township has been successively rated as "national advanced township in culture", "provincial advanced township in sports" and "national advanced unit in mass sports", and named as "national advanced township in fitness activities for hundreds of millions of farmers" by the Ministry of Agriculture, the State Sports General Administration and the China Farmers' Sports Association.
The main specialties of Mizhi Township are tofu, earthenware products, red Sydney, Tricholoma matsutake and pine nuts. Tofu is very famous in Wensheng Street Village, with white tofu 3 yuan/kg and moldy tofu 5 yuan/kg. There are 53 professional tofu households and 48 sporadic tofu households in the township. Tofu processing industry has become one of the main sources of economic income in Wen Sheng Jiecun. Taiji Food Co., Ltd., a private enterprise in this township, is 800 meters away from the township government, and mainly produces sauerkraut, marinated rot, chicken palm oil and fermented beans. Good quality and low price.
In terms of accommodation, you can choose to live in a local farmhouse, which is cheap, 10-30 yuan/bed, and can accommodate more than 100 people.
In terms of catering, there are four canteens around the township government, including 1 Hui canteen; There are 50 farmhouse members in Wen Sheng Street, and they receive 3 members every day. The price is about 140 yuan -250 yuan/table. The main features are tofu feast, wild vegetables and pollution-free vegetables, and the daily reception volume is 2000 person-times/day.
The main scenic spots are Taiji Mountain Provincial Scenic Area, Guihua Qing, Wen Sheng Street Tea-Horse Ancient Road, Yin's former residence, Pearl Spring, Xiaohe Watering Scenic Area, Powerful and unconstrained style, Mizhi Temple and so on.