Xidi Hongcun is located in Yixian County, Anhui Province, at the southwest foot of Huangshan Mountain, 11 kilometers away from the county seat of Yixian County, Huangshan City.
A peculiar cow-shaped ancient village in the ancient peach blossom garden. The entire village covers an area of ??30 hectares, leaning on Leigang and facing Nanhu Lake. It has beautiful scenery and enjoys the reputation of "the countryside in Chinese paintings".
Each ancient village will preserve a certain number of ancient buildings with carved beams and paintings, and the ancient building community in Xidi Hongcun is a classic achievement of the Huizhou style. The mysterious ancestral hall and the elegant academy are all showing people the glory of ancient Hongcun.
Xidi and Hongcun are rare in ancient residential buildings in China for their "layout workmanship, ingenious structure, beautiful decoration, exquisite construction, and profound cultural connotation."
Hongcun was built in the Shaoxing period of the Southern Song Dynasty (1131-1162 AD), with a history of about 900 years. The foundation and village planning of Hongcun were developed by Haiyang County (now Xiuning) Formulated by Feng Shui master He Keda.
Known as the “Peach Blossom Spring Village”, Xidi Village still has nearly 200 well-preserved Ming and Qing folk houses. The Huizhou architecture is well-proportioned and decorated with bricks, wood and stone carvings.