After midnight restaurants and bars close their doors, and calm comes back to the streets. In Lijiang old town center there are no discos or pubs open after 12 pm.
If you are into traditional music, you can attend one of the Traditional Naxi music shows in the Naxi Ancient Music Hall. The Dayan Naxi Ancient Music Orchestra performs every night on a local theater. Naxi Music will be only a collection of noises for the unaccustomed ear, but they say that once you get used it, it is great. All members of the orchestra are 65 years or over, some of them being 100 years old!