麗江古鎮喺宋末元初建造，到依家有八百幾年曆史。當時麗江木氏祖先將統治中心由白沙遷到現獅子山。喺1253年，蒙古軍南征，木氏先祖阿宗阿良投降。1254年，蒙古設三賧管民官。1277年，改麗江路通安州。1382年（明洪武十五年）通安州知州阿甲阿得歸順明朝，改設麗江軍民府，賜阿甲阿得木姓，封世襲知府。
The ancient town of Lijiang was built in the late Song Dynasty and early Yuan Dynasty, and has a history of more than 800 years. At that time, the ancestors of the Mu clan in Lijiang moved the ruling center from Baisha to the current Lion Rock. In 1253, the Mongolia army marched south, and the ancestor of the Mu clan, Azong Aliang, surrendered. In 1254, Mongolia set up three civil officials. In 1277, Lijiang Road was changed to Tong'anzhou. In 1382 (the fifteenth year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty), the governor of Tong'an Prefecture, Jiaad, returned to the Ming Dynasty, changed the Lijiang Military and Civil Mansion, gave Jiaadmu the surname, and was named the hereditary prefect.