Yongjia has been named as the county name since 589. Yongjia means "water is long and beautiful". Yongjia has beautiful scenery and rich resources. Nanxi river, a national 4A-level key scenic spot with the reputation of "the first river in the world", is famous for its beautiful water, strange rocks, numerous waterfalls, ancient villages, beautiful beaches and beautiful forests. Nanxi river is 300 miles long, and the river is crystal clear, which makes people linger. The vegetation in the area is good, the surface water still maintains the most primitive water appearance, and the purity exceeds the national first-class surface water standard.
Natural scenery: nanxi river, a national key scenic spot, is located in Yongjia County in the south of Zhejiang Province, with a total area of 625 square kilometers. It is divided into seven scenic spots, including more than 800 scenic spots. It is famous for its beautiful water, strange rocks, many waterfalls, ancient villages and beautiful beaches and forests. It is the only national scenic spot in China famous for its rural scenery.
Ancient villages: Yongjia has countless ancient villages, large and small, dotted with them. They add rich humanistic flavor to the scenic spot and give nanxi river rich cultural connotation, which is of great value in the study of China's architectural history and planning history. The ancient villages in nanxi river, which are based on the ideas of "harmony between man and nature", "theory of qi", "eight diagrams" and the five elements of yin and yang, have preserved a large number of complete genealogies. These precious historical and cultural remains can give us a general understanding of the "farming and reading society" and "clan culture" in ancient China.
Revolutionary sites: Yongjia is the land of heroes, leaving countless revolutionary footprints and many revolutionary sites. In the 1920s, Xie Zaiyongjia, an important leader of the early Chinese Communist Party, founded an independent branch in Wenzhou, which ignited the flame of the revolution in southern Zhejiang. 1930 In May, the 13th Army of the Chinese Workers and Peasants Red Army was proclaimed in Yongjiu Village, Yongjia.