Baoshan City is located in the west of Yunnan Province, between 9825?10002 east longitude and 2408?2551 north latitude. It borders Dali Bai Autonomous Prefecture and Lincang City to the east, Nujiang Lisu Autonomous Prefecture to the north, Dehong Dai and Jingpo Autonomous Prefecture to the west, and Myanmar to the northwest and south. The national border is 167.78 kilometers long. The land area is 19,600 square kilometers. Longyang District, where the municipal government is located, is 498 kilometers away from Kunming, the provincial capital. It is the political, economic and cultural center of western Yunnan, and is also the seat of counties, prefectures, departments and offices in the past dynasties. Baoshan City is located at the southern end of the Western Yunnan Longitudinal Valley of the Hengduan Mountains. The terrain within the territory is complex and diverse, with 8.21% of the total area being dam areas and 91.79% being mountainous areas. The entire terrain extends and slopes from northwest to southeast, with a minimum altitude of 535 meters, a maximum altitude of 3780.9 meters, and an average altitude of about 1800 meters. The highest point is Naozifeng in Gaoligong Mountain in Tengchong County, with an altitude of 3780.9 meters. The lowest point is the mouth of Wanma River at the junction of southwest Longling County and Luxi City, with an altitude of 535 meters. Between the mountains, there are 78 mountain basins of different sizes, the largest of which is Baoshan Bazi, covering an area of ??149.9 square kilometers.

Sweet persimmon: It is the most distinctive fruit in Baoshan. Sweet persimmons are naturally deastringent, have large fruits, delicious taste, bright appearance, crisp and refreshing flesh, and are easy to store and transport. Baoshan sweet persimmon has been awarded the National Geographical Indication Certification Trademark. Sweet persimmon is the most distinctive fruit in Baoshan. Sweet persimmons are naturally deastringent, have large fruits, delicious taste, bright appearance, crisp and refreshing flesh, and are easy to store and transport. Fresh fruits are available from late August to late October, especially early and late-maturing varieties, which play an important role in easing the market supply of fruits during the season. It can also process many products and is easy to process. It has high nutritional value, commodity value and health and beauty functions. It has huge development and utilization potential and broad market prospects. Baoshan City introduced sweet persimmon cultivation in 1976. With the great efforts of agriculture, forestry, science and technology departments and fruit farmers, the planting area has grown from sporadic planting in front of and behind houses to tens of thousands of acres now in large-scale planting. The sweet persimmon planting area in Baoshan has become the largest sweet persimmon planting area in my country. Its output and output value rank first in the country. It has become one of the largest-selling fruits and vegetables outside Baoshan. Its products are exported to Beijing, Shanghai and other places, and exported to Thailand, Vietnam, etc. nation.

Dashao means whole pig roasted on fire, also called barbecue. It is a famous dish at Baoshan banquets and is a traditional delicacy in Baoshan, Yunnan Province. The most famous Baoshan barbecue is the one processed by the Hetu Township Supply and Marketing Cooperative in Baoshan City, commonly known as "Hetu Dashao". The big roast uses local fine-boned pig as raw material. Thin-bone pigs are small pigs in the temperate zone and are shaped like soaked soybeans. People call them "bean-round pigs". The processing method is: take half-fat pigs that have been raised to 35-40 kilograms and slaughter them, remove the hair and wash them, open the abdomen and lay it flat on a special stove, burn the skin moisture with charcoal fire, then insert a needle, and apply soy sauce and ginger. Add juice, salt and other seasonings to make them penetrate into the meat, then place it on the fire, roast the pig skin in turn until the pig skin is brown, and scrape off the wheat skin gum. Then prick the needle, apply seasoning, bake, scrape the skin, repeat three times. When eating, cut the large roast into cubes and dip it with vinegar, soy sauce, chili oil, minced coriander, minced garlic and other seasonings. You can also cut the braised pork into shreds and mix it with sour pickles and add seasonings to give it a unique flavor. Baoshan Brasserie is crispy on the outside, tender on the inside, crispy and moist. The fat meat is transparent and not greasy when eaten; the lean meat is tender and full of color and taste.

Purple rice eight-treasure rice: Purple rice is also called "purple glutinous rice" and "bone glutinous rice". It is only produced in Simao and Xishuangbanna areas of Yunnan. Because the grains are long and purple in color, the color becomes brighter when made into rice porridge, so it is called purple rice eight-treasure rice. Purple rice has a special aroma and is purplish red in color. The eight treasures made into it are soft, glutinous and delicious after eating, oily but not greasy. Adding various seasonings and auxiliary ingredients creates a rare complex delicacy. Babao rice can be used as a folk snack or as a beet in various banquets. Ingredients: 150 grams of purple rice, 50 grams of barley, 30 grams of red beans, 30 grams of mung beans, 30 grams of black beans, 30 grams of kidney beans, 30 grams of pinto beans, and 30 grams of sword beans. Seasoning: salt, oil. Method: Wash the purple rice and various raw materials, stir in salt and oil, put it in a rice cooker and add water to cook. If you find it troublesome to gather so many beans, you can just buy the "eight treasure porridge" ingredients package prepared in the supermarket.

Thin bean flour: It is a breakfast artifact for the people of Yunnan. It is made from fine white peas ground into powder and boiled into a porridge shape. It goes perfectly with fried dough sticks, but foreigners may not be used to it. Thin bean flour is a good product for relieving the summer heat in Yunnan. It is made from fine white peas ground into powder and boiled into a porridge shape. Thin bean flour is very refreshing and has the effect of clearing away heat. It is a specialty of Dehong, Yunnan. Method: Pick out the best peas, put them in a basin and soak them in water for a day or night, then use a stone mill with water to grind them into fine pieces, then filter them with clean gauze, pour the filtered pea flour water into the pot, and you can cook the diluted pea flour. . Stir constantly while cooking and the fire should not be too high. If the fire is too high, it will easily boil the thin soybean flour into paste. The thickened thin soybean flour will be unpalatable. The fire should be low and the pea flour water should be stirred patiently with chopsticks. Stirring, the water slowly thickens. At this time, you need to pay special attention. Don't cook it too thin, and don't cook it too thick. If it is thin, it will slip on your mouth when you eat it, and if it is thick, it will stick to your lips. It's best if it's neither thick nor thin, that is, just cook it until you insert a chopstick into the pot, lift it up and there's a stream of water hanging over it. When cooking thin soybean flour, you can add some salt to make it taste more delicious.

The rivers in Baoshan City belong to the three major basins of the Lancang River, the Nu River, and the Irrawaddy River, all of which are international rivers. The Daying River and Ruili River in the Irrawaddy River Basin originate from the northwest of Baoshan City, and the Lancang River and Nu River are transit rivers. There are 6 rivers with a catchment area of ??more than 1,000 square kilometers in Baoshan City, and 43 rivers with a catchment area between 100 and 1,000 km2. Among the main tributaries, the Youdian River belongs to the Lancang River Basin, and the Mengboluo River and Damengtong River belong to the Lancang River Basin. In the Nujiang River Basin, the Binlang River is the upper reaches of the Daying River, the Longjiang River (Longchuan River) is the upper reaches of the Ruili River, and the Dieshui River is the upper reaches of the Nandi River, a tributary on the left bank of the Daying River. Due to the diverse climate types of Baoshan, it creates a wide variety of organisms. There are more than 2,200 known species of plants, including more than 1,400 species of higher plants. The Gaoligong Mountain National Nature Reserve is particularly rich in plants and is known as a "natural botanical garden" and a "rare plant refuge". Tengchong's large rhododendron trees are famous both at home and abroad. There are 51 species of animals and mammals in the city (21 species are protected by the state) and 229 species of birds. The forest coverage rate of Baoshan City is 42.44. There are 780,000 hectares of forest land, with a total standing tree volume of more than 71 million cubic meters, and a bamboo forest area of ??more than 10,000 hectares: the main tree species are pine, fir and various soft and hard miscellaneous trees, with an annual wood output of more than 300,000 cubic meters. rice. The main economic trees include walnut, chestnut, plum, ginkgo, etc., with an annual output of more than 100,000 tons; aromatic oil resource reserves are about 2 million tons: there are many types and large quantities of wild medicinal materials and fungi resources.