Fuyuan First Impression: A Tranquil Small Town Hidden in Eastern Yunnan Lvtu Hotel on Qingxi Road was the first touch of gentleness I encountered in Qujing Fuyuan. The front desk

🌟 Fuyuan First Impression: A Tranquil Small Town Hidden in Eastern Yunnan The front desk's "Welcome home" with a Yunnan accent instantly dispelled the fatigue of a long journey. Fuyuan, this city, lacks the hustle and bustle of popular tourist spots, yet every detail is crafted like poetry—from the morning light filtering through the hotel's smart curtains to the aroma of steamed rice noodles wafting from outside the window, it all brings to mind Xu Xiake's travelogue, "The scenery of central Yunnan is vastly different from the Central Plains." 🏨 Lvtu Hotel: A Post Station Traversing History Pushing open the revolving door, the scent of tea in the new Chinese-style lobby greeted me. The welcome tea offered by the staff was Fuyuan's specialty Old Factory Tea, a 300-year-old traditional Pu'er tea that was once the "life-sustaining water" for horse caravans on the Tea Horse Road. Now, a simple "turn on the lights" from the hotel's smart room control system made me feel as if I was in the future—the "Fuyuan County Annals" by the bedside records that this small town was an important hub on the Dian-Qian Post Road during the Ming and Qing dynasties. Today's smart guest rooms and the old horse inns of yesteryear surprisingly echo each other across time and space. 🚪 A Micro-Journey in the Room Lying on the zero-pressure mattress, I flipped through the "Fuyuan Local Chronicles" prepared by the hotel and was suddenly captivated by the allusion of "Qingxi Night Moon"—when the Ming dynasty traveler Yang Shen was exiled to Yunnan, he wrote here, "Qingxi flows past the green mountain peak, the clear water and sky are one autumn hue." At this moment, the remnants of the ancient water system can still be seen outside the window on Qingxi Road, and the smart aroma diffuser in the room is diffusing the fragrance of alpine rhododendrons, a unique local wild flower that Xu Xiake once collected as a specimen at Shengjing Pass. 🍜 Geography in Breakfast As the morning sun rose, a steaming bowl of "Fuyuan Sour Rice Noodles" at the buffet was the best alarm clock. The chef said the broth is simmered for eight hours over a low flame, paired with Qujing's unique black ham. This taste is identical to what Fan Chengxun, the Governor of Yunnan and Guizhou during the Kangxi era, described in his "Travels in Yunnan and Guizhou" as "fragrant and sour, a morning meal to ward off mountain chill." Even more surprising were the dining utensils displayed in the restaurant, adorned with patterns of Shui ethnic bronze drums, reminding guests: Fuyuan is the only Shui Autonomous County in Yunnan. 📜 Ancient Charm Hidden in Details The replica painting of "Ancient Qingxi Post Road Map" on the laundry room wall is worth a closer look—the official road where Ming dynasty postmen rode their horses in the painting is precisely today's Qingxi Road in front of the hotel. And outside the fitness room's floor-to-ceiling window, the flourishing Chinese hackberry tree surprisingly overlaps with the background of an old photograph from 1938, when students and faculty of the Southwest Associated University rested in Fuyuan during their southward migration. Late at night, playing "Little River Flowing" on the smart panel in the room, the faint lights visible outside the glass curtain wall seemed like the mountain villages where horse caravans once passed under the moonlight.