Discovering Dali | China's most beautiful bookstore lands in Weishan

Some people say that bookstores are the eyebrows of a city. Eyebrows are on the face, they don't seem to have any practical use, but a person's spirit often reveals from the eyebrows; similarly, the poetry of life often ripples from reading. If poetry and a bookstore are equated, the first thing that comes to my mind is the Pioneer Bookstore. It was founded in Nanjing in 1996 by Mr. Qian Xiaohua and was hailed as China's most beautiful bookstore by CNN, BBC, and National Geographic of the United States from 2013 to 2016. This Pioneer Chongzheng Academy in Weishan is the third store in Yunnan after Shaxi and Mengzi. Both in Weishan and Pioneer, it is a brand new challenge. Chongzheng Academy was originally built in the 14th year of Ming Hongzhi (1501), it was the first academy in Weishan history. The original building has Xingtan, Dadian, Xuewenzhai, Xiuxingzhai, there is a Pan Pool in front, a Fang called 'Kedi' in front of the Pan Pool, and a five-room building called 'Guanwen Building' behind the hall, which has a history of more than 500 years. Although the Chongzheng Academy, which has been rebuilt and destroyed many times, is no longer brilliant, its bones still exist. With the utmost sincerity of humanistic care, the Pioneer Bookstore fills this historical space with deep cultural context with 13,000 types and 25,000 volumes of books, realizing the coexistence of modern and traditional.