Hongcun is backed by Yangzhanling and Leigang Mountain. The terrain is high, and the clouds are often light, sometimes like heavy ink, sometimes like freehand brushwork, really like a slowly unfolding landscape scroll, so it is called "the country in Chinese painting".
Hongcun, called Hongcun in ancient times, is located at the southern foot of Huangshan Mountain in Anhui Province, which is 1 1 km away from yi county County. It is a strange cow-shaped ancient village in the ancient Peach Blossom Garden. Geographical coordinates: east longitude 1 17 38', north latitude 3011',village area19.10/hectare, Hongcun was founded in Shaoxing, Southern Song Dynasty (A.D./. According to the Wang genealogy, it was called Hongcun because it was "enlarged into Taiyi elephant", and it was even more Hongcun during the reign of Qing Qianlong.
The bull-shaped village and artificial water system planned and built by Guhong Village people are today's "great miracles in architectural history": the towering Leigang is a bull's head, the towering ancient trees are horns, and the scattered residential groups from east to west are like the body of a pet cow. Qingquan, named Niuchang, flows into the Moon Pool named Niuwei through the village, and then flows to the South Lake named Niudu outside the village after being filtered. People also set up four bridges as supports on rivers and streams around the village. This ingenious and scientific design of village water system not only solves the problem of villagers' fire-fighting water, but also regulates the temperature, which provides convenience for residents' production and living water, and creates a good environment of "there are clear springs in front of every household, so it is not necessary to prevent streams from being far away".
There are more than 40 well-preserved Ming and Qing ancient dwellings/kloc-0 in the village, which are simple and elegant and full of interest. "Chengzhitang" is magnificent and beautifully carved, which can be described as the oldest residential building in southern Anhui. The pavilions and pavilions of Nanhu Academy complement each other with lakes and mountains, and have the traditional Huizhou architectural style. Jingxiutang, Dongxiantang, Sanlitang and Renxutang are magnificent or simple and dignified. Coupled with the towering ancient trees in the village, the old ivy on the walls of residential houses and the century-old peony in the courtyard, it can be said that it can be said that it can be painted everywhere step by step. At the same time, they also reflect the profound cultural heritage left by a long history.
Hongcun must-see scenic spots
The South Lake in Hongcun looks like a tripe, and Fiona Fang is just in the tripe, which makes it famous. The South Lake spans the east and west, and large lotus leaves fluctuate with the wind, which is picturesque and beautiful. South Lake is connected with the big river outside the village, which plays the role of flood storage.
Moon Bay in Hongcun, the belly of a cow is half moon, and the shape of Moon Bay is just right. Moon Lake, also known as Half Moon Lake, is the most important place in the village. The ancestral temple is located on the north side of Yuenuma. In those days, people living around the Moon Bay were very respected.
Chengzhitang is the residence of the first wealthy businessman in Hongcun. The interior is beautifully carved with wood, and some of them are gilded. The home furnishings of Shangzimen and Dongping Xijing are very representative. Chengzhitang is called the Forbidden City.
The pavilions and pavilions of Nanhu Academy complement each other with lakes and mountains, and have the traditional Huizhou architectural style.
On the outskirts of the scenic spot, Jicun Street, which is more than 1000 meters long, is crowded with people at the beginning of the lights at dusk. On both sides of the street, stalls selling cooking, barbecue and tourist souvenirs were crowded and packed. Visitors can find good and cheap goods here.
While enjoying tea in Tang Yiyi, Genxintang and Qin Bamboo Slips Hall, you can also enjoy the Huizhou Tea Ceremony. At the same time, if you have leisure time, you can join the ranks of local sketch students and paint the Hongcun village in your eyes through your own hands. At the same time, there is an Internet cafe at the entrance of the village, so people who can't sleep at night can pass the time.
The best travel time is 1, from the end of March to the beginning of April every year, which is the season when rape flowers are in full bloom, with white walls and tiles, green mountains and green waters and yellow flowers everywhere. This is a natural picture.
2. Every year165438+1early October is the season with rich autumn colors, and the red leaves in Tachuan are no less than those in Beijing Xiangshan.
3, Mukeng Bamboo Sea is a bamboo forest all year round, but it is recommended not to go in April and May, just in time for bamboo to change leaves, there will be some greenish yellow.
Travel planning
It is suggested that you visit with the village guide (free of charge), appreciate the profound heritage of Huizhou culture from the ancient houses in Hongcun, and then stroll around according to your own preferences. What needs special attention is that the feng shui pattern of Hongcun Villa is a cow-shaped structure layout. The two trees at the head of the village are horns, the Moon Bay is the belly of cattle, and the waterway in the village is the intestines of cattle, which is very interesting.
To visit Hongcun, you'd better stay for two or three days, and you must stay in the village, so you don't have to buy more tickets to enter and leave Hongcun. And most of the villages are old houses. If you are lucky, you can still live in a wing with a carved queen bed. Moreover, the price is not expensive. In the off-season, you can stay in 80 yuan for almost 50-20 minutes, including two meals. But in that case, don't be too picky about your diet. You can eat whatever your master eats. In fact, they will always think about you.
Day 1: Go to Hongcun that afternoon and stay for one night.
The next day: Get up early and enjoy the effect of ink painting in the village. It is more appropriate to come out at 6: 00, and tourists begin to increase after 7: 30. In the afternoon, you can go to see the bamboo sea and the wood carving building. Autumn scenery in Tachuan is also a great scenic spot. Photography lovers must not miss it.
Day 3: Leave and bid farewell to Hongcun!
Recommended tourist routes in Hongcun:
One-day panoramic tour of Hongcun
Features: One-day tour of Hongcun classic scenery.
Route design: Nanhu → Nanhu Academy → Jingdetang → Moon Hall → Retreat Hall → Chengzhitang → Shu Ren Hall → Taoyuanju → Red and White Ancient Trees.
Hongcun Huizhou Ancient Architecture Tour
Features: "Village in Chinese Painting", a model of Huizhou architecture.
Route design: Nanhu → Nanhu Academy → Jingdetang → Jingxiutang → Chengzhitang → Shu Ren Hall → Taoyuanju.
Tickets for scenic spots and Hongcun 80 yuan are valid for 3 days, and the student ID card is half price (graduate ID card is available). Local people can get a 10% discount if they buy it.
Note: it is very difficult to evade tickets, unless it is dark and it is still not bright. Even if you wander around the village at 5 am, you may meet the ticket inspector.
Deyitang: Visit 2 yuan/person and have tea in 5 yuan/person.
Park: Visit and take photos of 5 yuan/person.
Chengde Hall: Visit and take photos of 2 yuan/person.
Night tours such as Genxin Hall, Qin Bamboo Slips Hall and Qin Bamboo Slips Hall are similar to visiting and drinking tea.
Mukeng: Tickets to 20 yuan.
The traffic in Hongcun is very convenient. You can take the train from all over the country to Huangshan Railway Station, and then take the bus to Hongcun.
It takes about 1.5 hours by bus from Huangshan bus station to yi county county, and then it takes 10 minutes by shuttle bus to Hongcun.
The traffic from Tangkou to Hongcun is also a very convenient bus route: there is a shuttle bus from the south gate of Huangshan Scenic Area to Hongcun, and there are four buses every day at 7: 20-9: 40 in the morning and 1: 20-3: 40 in the afternoon, including 9: 40 and 3: 40 in Yixian, and then transfer to 2 yuan bus (Yixian-Hongcun) after arriving in Yixian. The bus ticket from Tangkoukou to Yixian County 15 yuan/person, the driving time is about 1 hour and 20 minutes.
There is no direct bus to Hongcun at Tunxi Railway Station. You can take bus No.2, No.8, No.9, 10 from the bus station, or take a taxi (more than one 7 yuan) to the bus station, and then take the shuttle bus from Tunxi-Yixian-Hongcun to Hongcun. The whole journey takes about 1 month and a half hours, excluding waiting time.
Hongcun self-driving route: start from the south gate of Huangshan Scenic Area, follow S 103 and drive all the way to Huangshan City. It takes about 15 minutes to reach China Petrochemical Gas Station. At this time, you will see a road sign to Hongcun, turn right, enter Hongru Highway, and arrive at Hongcun scenic spot parking station in 20 minutes.
Hongcun food Hongcun snacks are various, and Huizhou is the most distinctive one, such as Huangshan hairy tofu, stinky fish, yi county Laba tofu, Tanhong tofu milk, Hongcun royal cakes, and snack bars abound. There is a big cake shop on the edge of Moon Bay. Melaleuca cakes are very distinctive. Don't ask where Hongcun's special snacks are, just eat them all the way.
You can barbecue in the wild, and Jushantang can provide a full set of barbecue equipment and barbecue food. Eating in such a beautiful nature must be an appetite.
Tourism and shopping "Huizhou Three Carvings" refers to brick carving, stone carving and wood carving. Brick carvings have only been seen on the stairs and have not been sold; The larger stone carvings can't be moved, and the smaller ones are all seals, which are not practical; What feels better is wood carving. Wood carving here is not as simple as carving a picture on a board. It is carved from a whole piece of wood, with high artistic value, ranging from tens of yuan to hundreds of yuan according to its size and fineness.
Bamboo carving is a must for home travel. The reason is that bamboo carvings are diverse and cheap. From small mobile phone chains to bigger name tags (waist tags) to bigger tables and walls, there are various forms, and the price is only a few yuan or more.
Tea is abundant in the mountainous area of southern Anhui, and tea shops abound. There are many kinds of tea. You can take some home if you are interested.
Accommodation Guide There are several hotels at the entrance of Hongcun Village, but they are often filled by students who sketch, which is quite noisy. Hongcun is the village where most tourists stay at present. Accommodation includes "Shu Ren Hall" and "Jushan Hall", generally ranging from 60 to 50 per person, with air conditioning and rooms with bathrooms. The best place to live in Hongcun is Jushantang, and Hongcun is the only place that takes an ancient house as a hotel. The carved Gu Lou, with its wooden walls, windows and ancient wooden beds, shows a strong historical charm, as if indulging in history. Eating and living with the host is quite a kind of intimacy to go home. The farm food and all kinds of game in the store are very rural, with three meals a day and all-inclusive accommodation, 80 yuan/person.
Hongcun Inn recommends:
Hongcun Huiyuanju (Inn): From 100 yuan, it is located in Hongcun Scenic Area, on the tourist route, adjacent to the coast of South Lake and Moon Bay, and is a typical Huizhou quadrangle building.
Hongcun Tianyitang Boutique Hotel: Located in 320 yuan, Hongcun Scenic Area, adjacent to Lucun Wood Carving Building, the hotel's decoration style is very quaint and has Huizhou architectural characteristics.
Surrounding scenic spots
Xidi, which is 0/8km away from Hongcun/Kloc-0, is as famous as Hongcun and is a world cultural heritage. Xidi has a large number of talents and a strong cultural atmosphere, and its architectural level and ancestral temple scale are obviously higher than Hongcun. However, Xidi lacks the perfect ancient water system like Hongcun, and its tourism value is not as good as that of Hongcun today.
The bamboo sea, 9 kilometers away from Hongcun, is full of bamboo. Moon Bay and South Lake are the shooting places of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. For northerners, this is a good tourist destination, but it doesn't matter to southerners. There are no related entertainment and cultural buildings in Zhuhai, and the tour route just turns around the valley, which is not very fun.
Lu Guan, Nanping, Lucun, Pingshan and Tachuan are relatively well-preserved ancient villages, which are 24 18, 2 15 and 3 kilometers away from Hongcun respectively, including many excellent buildings. Interested friends can go and have a look.
Huangshan Mountain is 3 1 km away from Hongcun, with beautiful scenery and is famous all over the world.
Travel tips 1. When you go to Hongcun in summer, you must pay attention to sun protection. Because the air quality in mountainous areas is good, the atmospheric reverse radiation is weak, and the ultraviolet radiation intensity is high, especially 1 1 to 15, it is best not to go out. It is recommended to take sunscreen, hat and parasol to Hongcun.
2. Hongcun people still live a normal life in Hongcun. They should handle the relationship with residents and respect the living habits of local people. Hongcun people are friendly (with a few exceptions) and simple in folk customs. I hope friends from all over the country will not destroy the harmonious atmosphere of Hongcun.
3. The consumption level in southern Anhui is relatively low, and the goods are relatively cheap, but there is still room for bargaining, especially in the night market outside the village at night.
4. There are places like Hongcun Hotel outside the village, and the price is cheap; Some old houses in the village have also launched "farmhouse music" to provide accommodation. Although the price is higher, living in traditional Huizhou folk houses is also a good choice.
The use time of tickets is three days. You don't need to buy tickets separately in the village during the period (you don't leave the village during the period), but you should remind tourists that it is best to live in the village and avoid buying tickets many times when entering and leaving Hongcun. Also, be sure to bring your ticket when you go out, and the staff will check it from time to time. The security in Hongcun is very good, but if you travel at night and walk by the lake, you must be with many people to be safe.
6. In Hongcun, you don't have to rely on tickets to enter any big house. It's best to get acquainted with the landlord and let him take you to see some authentic local houses, such as the three-story house with panoramic view of Hongcun and the triangular house next to Moon Marsh, which are all very distinctive. The owner of the house will be happy to explain it to you. You'd better give the host 35 yuan after the visit. Although some of them didn't want to accept it, you bothered others and enjoyed the visit.
7. Hongcun is a good place for photography. It should be noted that it is mainly residential and rural scenery. Photographers should try their best to bring equipment suitable for taking pictures here, and remind tourists that if they take pictures by themselves, it is best to wear traditional China clothes, so that the photos they take will be better.