Gongtan Ancient Town is located in Youyang Tujia and Miao Autonomous County, Chongqing, on the east bank of Wujiang River at the intersection of Wujiang River and Apeng River. It is an ancient town with a history of 1700 years.
About three kilometers of Shiban Street, 150 unique embankment walls, more than 200 quaint and quiet quadrangles, and more than 50 diaojiao buildings with different shapes have unique local characteristics and are well-preserved large-scale buildings in Ming and Qing Dynasties in China. Experts and scholars believe that Gongtan ancient town is comparable to Lijiang ancient town, a world cultural heritage.
Qingshiban Street in Gongtan Ancient Town is as beautiful as jade, connecting the whole town in series. The street is an antique wooden hanging building with a high cliff. It is an ideal scenic spot for visiting ancient times, exploring wonders and exploring. The section from Gongtan to 10,000 mu, the main stream of Wujiang River, is more than 60 kilometers long, including two ancient towns, Gongtan and Qingquan, and the section from Gongtan to Dahekou, the first tributary of Wujiang River, which is the essence of Wujiang Gallery.
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Gongtan Ancient Town is located beside the 3 19 National Highway, and it is one of the scenic spots in Qianjiang ethnic customs tourist area. Starting from Chongqing, you can go straight to Gongtan along Wujiang waterway. The road from Pengshui to Gongtan is flat, and the highway from Youyang to Gongtan is being rebuilt. Chongqing, Fuling and Pengshui have direct speedboats to Gongtan, and Qianjiang and Youyang have opened special tourist lines to Gongtan. The traffic in the scenic spot is mainly Wujiang shipping, including battery boats, sampans, motorboats and other means of transportation, as well as special traffic such as artificial sedan chairs, cycling and riding cattle.
There are three two-star (quasi-two-star) hotels in the county. Gongtan hotel can accommodate 200 people at the same time, and tourist boats can accommodate 100 people at the same time. The international and domestic long-distance direct dial telephone has been opened, and the mobile phone signal can be received.
2. Laitan Ancient Town
The ancient town of Laitan should actually be called Laitan Ancient Village. It has been more than 200 years now. How to find a story that the air is still a little damp by walking deep into an old yellowed photo. According to local people, in order to prevent Taiping Army from entering Sichuan and Li and Lan Uprising, Laitan carried out large-scale reinforcement and maintenance during Tongzhi period, and built stone defense facilities around the whole ancient village. Today, this stone wall is still strong enough to prove that history. Laitan Village covers an area of 0.25 square kilometers. The four gates are crossed and symmetrical, and the walls in the village are all made of stones more than half a meter long, which is very strong. There are also 200-meter-long bluestone streets and more than 400 houses in Qing Dynasty in Sene. Looking back through just visiting, I returned to the Xianfeng period of the Qing Dynasty. Because it is close to Qujiang, it is good for boating. Bed beach is also a famous water pier, which can attract businessmen when there is water. At that time, merchants gathered in Laitan Village, and the market was prosperous and very prosperous. The two Buddhist temples built on the mountain were also treasures of geomantic omen.
3. Longtan Ancient Town
Longtan town is located in the southeast of Youyang County, Chongqing, 30 kilometers away from the county seat. Because the two pools in the town are shaped like "longan", they often accumulate water into pools, hence the name "Longtan". It covers an area of 7.2 square kilometers and is home to 35,000 Tujia, Miao and Han nationalities. 13, Yongzheng in Qing dynasty, (1735) was destroyed by a fire, and then moved to Longtan River (formerly known as Shumeihe River) for reconstruction. With the convenience of Longtan River and Youshui River, it has gradually developed into an important commercial market town, which was called Longtan Cargo and Pool Front in ancient times. The slate old street, quadrangle and uphill wall, which were built in the first year of Qing Qianlong (1736), have been preserved for more than 200 years and are unique buildings. In the town, the walls made of refractory bricks are as high as ten meters or twenty or thirty meters, and then wedges with a height of about 1 meter are made of iron or wood to protect the walls and repair the houses inside. The first floor is called "Silver House", which looks like a square seal. This is a unique bank up barrel.
4. Lukong Ancient Town
Lukong Ancient Town is located in the east of Rongchang County, Chongqing. Zhenjie is 0/3 km away from the county seat/kloc-with an area of 24 square kilometers. The name of this ancient town comes from a folklore. According to legend, there was a monk named Zeng Ao in the Ming Dynasty who traveled here by cloud. Seeing the pleasant scenery across the river, he decided to build a temple here. I found six caves on the slope, which seemed to communicate with the river, so I poured the chaff shells into the caves and tried it. Soon, chaff shells really emerged from the river, so I called it "Liukong River" and later called it "Lukong River". Deer empty field, deer empty lane and deer empty town are also named after this.
5. Shuangjiang Ancient Town
Shuangjiang ancient town, located in the northwest of the county seat, is adjacent to Fujiang River and Canal in front, and its courtyards are dotted with unique features of Qing Dynasty. The quaint quadrangle column wall of Luomen is beautifully carved, with high cornices at four corners, deep courtyard, exquisite courtyard and lush flowers and trees in all seasons, which is the typical charm of Bashu ancient town. This is the hometown of former president Yang.
Shuangjiang Ancient Town is the hometown of Yang, one of the founders of China's early revolution. 1920 Yang Angong returned from studying in Japan and actively carried out Marxism-Leninism propaganda activities in Chongqing. 1925 served as secretary of Chongqing District Committee of the Socialist Youth League, 1926 served as the first secretary of Sichuan Provincial Party Committee and led the "Uprising along Shanghai".
6. Pianyan Ancient Town
"Located between the two remaining veins in the southwest of Huaying Mountain Range" is located in the hilly area, showing a trend of high in the northeast and low in the southwest. The average altitude is 52 meters and the highest is 942.9 meters. In the Qing Dynasty, it belonged to Liu Jia in the ceremony of Jiangbei Hall. Twenty-four years in Qianlong and nine years in Menmen. It was built here as a town. Because there are steep rock walls in the north of the town, it is named Pianyan Town.
This town is an ancient industrial and commercial town on the ancient road from Chongqing to Huaying. In the past, merchants gathered and prospered, and they were famous for their Sichuan-Shaanxi-Huguang. Although hundreds of years have passed, its streets, buildings, folk customs and market conditions still retain its quaint and elegant features. The ancient town is built by mountains and water, and stands outside the town. From a distance, you can see that the brick houses of the wooden house are distributed along the mountain, overlapping and patchwork.
7. Zhongshan Ancient Town
Zhongshan Ancient Town, commonly known as Sanhechang, also known as Longdongchang, is located in the southern mountainous area of Jiangjin City, about one and a half hours' drive from Chongqing 125 km, and is connected with Simian Mountain, a national scenic spot. The back of the ancient town faces the water, and the buildings of the town are built by the water, which is connected by three small streets: Longdong, Huangzhongba and Gaoshengqiao. In the past, Sanhechang used to be a bustling water pier and a commodity distribution center in Sichuan and Guizhou mountainous areas. At present, there are still 82 words carved in the Southern Song Dynasty, describing the boating trip of Li Jiyong and the fish fairy, as well as the ancient tomb of the Han Dynasty, Pipa Rock.