Xizhou Village

Xizhou Village has a more mixed population and cosmopolitan backgroud. It grew and flourished in the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644 ) along with the fortunes of Dali¡¯s renowned tea merchants. each year enormous trains of pack animals would set out from Xiguan loaded with bricks of tea for the thirsty markets of Tibet.This lucrative trade spawned a class of financiers and agents who in time gathered in xizhou to build their gardens and pleasure- houses. Although sadly run-down, many of these eccentric structures remain, including a French fin de mansion.