What's the climate like in Zhaotong City, Yunnan Province all year round?

Zhaotong City, Yunnan Province has a plateau climate all year round, which is cool in summer, not stuffy, cold in winter and distinct in four seasons.

Zhaotong, also known as Qiu Cheng and he cheng, is a prefecture-level city under the jurisdiction of Yunnan Province. Located in the northeast of Yunnan Province, the hinterland of Wumeng Mountain at the junction of Yunnan, Guizhou and Sichuan, along the lower reaches of Jinsha River, the transition zone from Sichuan Basin to Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau, with an area of 23,000, bordering Bijie City of Guizhou Province in the east, Qujing City and Kunming City of Yunnan Province in the south, Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture of Sichuan Province in the west and Jinsha River of Luzhou City in the north.

Zhaotong is an important gateway for Yunnan Province to Sichuan and Guizhou provinces in history, an important channel for Central Plains culture to enter Yunnan, one of the three cradles of Yunnan culture, and the hub of China's "Southern Silk Road". It is known as "the key is in southern Yunnan and the throat is in western Sichuan", an important channel for Yunnan to connect the Yangtze River Economic Belt and Chengdu-Chongqing Economic Zone, and a two-way corridor for the mainland to South Asia, Southeast Asia and Yunnan to the mainland. The perennial climate is characterized by plateau climate, which is cool and not stuffy in summer, cold in winter and distinct in four seasons.

The History and Culture of Zhaotong, Yunnan

1 dialect

Zhaotong dialect belongs to the southwest power dialect of northern dialect and northeast Yunnan dialect. There are dialects close to Sichuan dialect in Qiao, Yong, Sui, Shui and Yan and Da counties along the Jinsha River. Yi, Zhen and Wei dialects are close to Guizhou dialect; Zhao and Lu dialects are similar to Kunming dialects. In Yanjin dialect, almost all the ancient Rusheng words are silent, which is considered as "a dialect unique to Yunnan".

2. Cultural relics

As of August, 2022, Zhaotong has registered 1 148 immovable cultural relics, including 4 national key cultural relics protection units, 0 provincial cultural relics protection units, 8 municipal cultural relics protection units and 353 county-level cultural relics protection units. There are more than 20,000 state-owned cultural relics in Zhaotong, including 446 precious cultural relics: first-class cultural relics 12, second-class cultural relics 18 and third-class cultural relics16. * * * 86 cultural relics were selected as the first immovable units in Yunnan Province.

3. The source of place names

Zhaotong's place names originated in the Qing Dynasty. In the ninth year of Yongzheng in Qing Dynasty (173 1), after completing the reform, E Ertai took Wumeng as a "person who knows nothing" and invited Yongzheng to "understand before mentioning the darkness; It is suggested that Wumeng be changed to Zhaotong and placed in Yunnan. Yongzheng quasi-play, so Yunnan, renamed Zhaotong.

The above contents refer to Baidu Encyclopedia-Zhaotong City.