Mengzi City Culture

Mengzi is the birth place for many firsts of Yunnan and China: China’s first private railway, Yunnan’s first customs, post office, foreign bank, corporation and consulate, as well as thermal power plant, etc.

Cross-bridge rice noodles are a traditional Yunnan dish born out of one woman’s desire to provide her husband with hot meals.

2nd Mengzi Cross-bridge Rice Noodle Food Cultural Tourism Festival to open

The press conference of the oncoming 2nd Mengzi Cross-bridge Rice Noodle Food Cultural Tourism Festival was held yesterday (September 20) in Kunming.

The 2nd Mengzi Cross-bridge Rice Noodle Food Cultural Tourism Festival will be held at Mengzi County, Honghe Hani and Yi Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province from October 21 to 23. The county plans to apply for the name of “China’s well-known city of special food”, and declare a place in the Shanghai Great World Guinness Book of Records for a tin bowl that has a diameter of 2.228 meters.

Situated in the center of a fertile valley basin on a plateau 1000 meters above sea level, Mengzi is about 12 miles east of Gejiu, the capital city of Honghe Hani and Yi Autonomous Prefecture.

Mengzi is the birth place for many firsts of Yunnan and China: China’s first private railway, Yunnan’s first customs, post office, foreign bank, corporation and consulate, as well as thermal power plant, etc.