Cizhong Church is a Catholic church, located in Yanmen Township, Deqin County, Yunnan Province, built in 1921, the late Qing Catholicism in many places in China is very popular, many missionaries came to China, footprints throughout the city and countryside, especially in the mountains, in Shanxi countryside there are many churches built during this period. Don.

Cizhong Catholic Church is not open every day, try to catch mass and eat a delicious meal with local made wine in the nearby restaurant. The priest was nice enough to open for us the day where there was no mass, he is very kind and happy to engage in conversation. An oddity in China not to be missed!

Cizhong Catholic Church, located in a beautiful small village on the edge of the Lancang River in Deqin County, Diqing Prefecture, was built by French missionaries in the early nineteenth century. It is currently the best-preserved Catholic Church in Tibetan areas and one of the ten most beautiful churches in China. The church is a brick and wood structure combining Gothic and Chinese architecture. It is a cross-shaped structure consisting of chapels, gazebos, corridors, living rooms and gardens. The arched porch is built with stone, the roof is pavilion-style tip, and the roof is covered with glazed tiles. In the courtyard, except for the main building of the church, the rest are two-story buildings, all wooden structures.

The church was my primary school, and ten years later it was still attracted by its shadow, and we stayed in that small turf for six years, and today it remains unchanged, but it is dressed in a new suit, and becomes so quiet and peaceful. I took my daughter-in-law into the church, and when I talked to the priest in the church about the changes from ten years ago to today, the priest's eyes never left me, haha!

Father Yao was very hospitable, invited to eat dumplings, cakes, etc. he also pulled the carrots he planted for me to eat, very sweet and crisp! The church has been renovated for a hundred years and has not been renovated. The surrounding monk house has been renovated in recent years. There are accommodations available. Every morning before 9 o'clock, a car picks up people to Deqin, and then returns to the village of Zzhong from Deqin around 9 o'clock in the evening.