On this day, 28 years ago, on September 25, 1997 (August 24, 1997 in the lunar calendar), China scholars solved the mystery of "Shangri-La". On September 25, 1997, the mystery of the world that had lasted for more than half a century was finally solved. The "Shangri-La", known as the mystery of the century, was found. It was recently discovered and certified in Diqing Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province. In 1933, British writer James Hilton described in his documentary novel "The Lost Horizon" that there was an almost "isolated" ice and snow world "at the end of the horizon, where there were" pyramidal snow-capped peaks and blue plateau lakes "," deep and steep Grand Canyon "," three great rivers rushing forward "; There are amazing "majestic and magnificent Lama temples","Tibetan people with simple souls and profound religious culture"... and this beautiful place is called "Shangri-La". Hilton's novel was very successful and became a best-seller as soon as it was published. Hollywood seized no time to buy the copyright and make it into a movie that caused a sensation around the world. Dozens of "Shangri-La" hotels founded by the famous Hong Kong entrepreneur Mr. Kwok Hen-Nien have made the reputation of "Shangri-La" popular around the world. Therefore, the search for the enigmatic beautiful "Shangri-La" has become a hot spot for tourists, explorers and folklorists for half a century. Since the 1940s, people who know Shangri-La have been asking: "Where is the beautiful Shangri-La?" "There are many explorers and tourists who are tirelessly searching for the" beautiful Shangri-La "in the Karakorun Mountains of India, Nepal, and China in Xizang. More than half a century has passed without any results. Therefore, some people said: "Shangri-La" is a mystery, a mystery of the world, a mystery of a century, a mystery that may not be solved until the 21st century. However, Mr. Xuan Ke, a well-known scholar in my country and an honorary doctorate in anthropology and ethnomusicology at the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom, proposed last year that the "beautiful Shangri-La" described by Hilton is located in Zhongdian County, Diqing Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province, near his hometown. In the areas of Jidi and Langela. He believes that there is exactly the same beautiful natural landscape and simple customs as the "Shangri-La" in "The Lost Horizon" here. Hilton wrote: "... In the highest and most deserted undeveloped place on earth, a large river valley outline is surrounded by some low round red soil mountains, the most spectacular mountains on earth. The white pyramidal snowy peaks have a masculine aura..."The water on the glacier turns the canyon meadow into a lake... "Wait, you can find one-to-one corresponding scenery in Zhongdian. The mountain is Balakanzong Snow Mountain, the canyon is Gidi Canyon, and the lake is Napa Lake. However, some people think that snow-capped mountains and grasslands, plateau lakes, ancient castle groups and lamasas can be found in Xizang, India and other places. Why do they identify them in Zhongdian? Mr. Xuan Ke put forward a more important argument. He believed that only Zhongdian had the landform characteristics of the red clay plateau and the parallel flow of three rivers described in "The Lost Horizon". The only red clay plateau on earth is in Yunnan, and the world wonder of the three rivers flowing in parallel is definitely a unique wonder in Zhongdian. In the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, the Jinsha River, the Lancang River, and the Nujiang River, the three major rivers rush eastward in the shape of a "three" in Zhongdian, forming a majestic spectacle of "three rivers flowing in parallel". After a year of inspection and demonstration by the Overseas Tourism Company of Yunnan Province, two famous tourism groups in Singapore and relevant experts, it was confirmed that Hilton's "Shangri-La" was located in Zhongdian County. Once the arguments of Chinese and foreign experts on "Shangri-La" were spread, Zhongdian, considered to be a "Taoyuan Wonderland", attracted the world. A gorgeous picture with an altitude of 1000 meters to 6740 meters, a three-dimensional intersection climate zone with a radius of tens of thousands of square kilometers, with an altitude of more than 30 degrees Celsius to a few degrees below zero, is displayed in front of people: Surrounded by snow-capped mountains, endless grasslands, parallel rivers, thousands of lakes and goddesses, rare low-latitude glaciers in the world, thousands of acres of virgin forests, black-necked cranes, golden monkeys, and the coexistence and harmony of Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism... Cheng Wendong, deputy director of the National Tourism Administration After inspecting the tourism resources of Zhongdian, believes that "Shangri-La" will become one of the most important tourist routes in my country.