Xidi is located about 8 kilometers southeast of Yixian County, surrounded by mountains and trees, and a large area of peach forest has been planted on the hillside in the southeast. In early spring and March, peach blossoms are in full bloom, and the village is more delicate and charming in the green mountains and green waters, and it has the reputation of "people in the Peach Blossom Garden". Xidi village covers an area of about 13 hectares, with two sharp ones in the middle. Like a sailing ship, Xidi Village is also known as the "boat village". Xidi Village has 124 well-preserved ancient dwellings in Ming and Qing Dynasties. The ancient dwellings are well preserved, neatly arranged, ingenious in structure, beautifully decorated, unique in creation, profound in cultural accumulation and profound in connotation. It has the reputation of "China Ming and Qing Dynasties residential architecture art treasure house", and now more than 20 buildings are open to the outside world, receiving Chinese and foreign tourists.
Xidi is the residence of Hu people. According to the genealogy of Hu Jingshi Sect in Xi Ming Di, the ancestor was the son of Ye Li in Tang Zhaozong. In 904, Zhu Wen, the King of Liang, threatened to move the capital to Luoyang. Fearing Zhu Wen's arrogance, he left Chang 'an in a hurry and drove eastbound. When passing through Shaanxi Province and Henan Province, Queen He gave birth to a baby boy. Ye Li knows that Zhu Wen is by no means a good man, and his future is uncertain. He secretly entrusted Shaanxi official Hu San to take the prince back to Wuyuan, changed the surname of the little prince Li to Hu, and named Changyi the ancestor of Hu in Xidi. Therefore, Xidi people joked that the Hu surname of Jixi belongs to the "real" Hu, and Xidi's Hu surname belongs to the "fake" Hu.
In a blink of an eye, Hu Shiliang, the fifth-generation ancestor of the Hu family, went to Nanjing, passing through Xidi, and was attracted by this scenic land of geomantic omen. He resolutely moved his family to Xidi in 1077, where he cultivated, built houses and thrived.