Anhui, from south to north,
Huizhou culture, Wanjiang culture, Huaihe culture, Central Plains culture, etc. complement each other,
leaving countless strong memories Beautiful ancient towns,
Let’s take a look at the 12 most beautiful niche ancient towns.
Yingshang County is the hometown of Guan Zhong, a great statesman in the Spring and Autumn Period. Shencheng Town has a long history. The long history has left Shencheng with Guan Bao Temple, Zhuyi Pavilion, Mosque, Confucian Temple Dacheng Hall, Kuixing There are rich cultural landscapes such as the Pavilion, Guandun Stepping in the Moon, Willow Waves on the East Causeway, Wufeng Shuyu, and Flying Dragons. Dozens of folk arts such as flower drum lanterns, colorful car lanterns, colorful boats, lion dances, dragon dances, Horse Crossing Festival, colorful sedan chairs, elbow pavilions, Sanxian Hui, and donkey racing have been performed in Shencheng for a long time. The numerous historical sites and monuments bear witness to the historical evolution of Shencheng, and the distinctive folk art is the crystallization of the wisdom of the people of Yingcheng.
Guanzhong Old Street in the town is the most famous and beautiful. It integrates northern and southern buildings, and has both ancient and modern styles. It looks both rough and graceful, both simple and modern. It has become a business card of Yingshang County to the outside world.
The gate of the old street is very grand, with four characters "Guan Zhong Old Street" written in the center. The locals have regarded Guan Zhong as the pride of Yingshang and commemorated it for thousands of years. Strolling through the old streets, the night view is especially beautiful.
Zhengyangguan Town belongs to Shouxian County, Huainan and is one of the Eight Great Passes in China. It was once an important town on Huaihe River and was known as "Little Shanghai". From the Republic of China to the eve of liberation, it was one of the eight important cities in Anhui. After its liberation, a large number of merchants, capitalists and soldiers went overseas and to the treasure island of Taiwan. The people in this ancient town have many overseas relatives, which is quite spectacular.
Zhengyangguan Town is very rich in tourism resources, including the Xuandi Temple built during the Zhenguan period of the Tang Dynasty, three ancient city gates built during the Tongzhi period of the Qing Dynasty, and many ancient streets, lanes, and ancient residences.
Zhengyangguan, an ancient town that once prospered on the banks of the Huaihe River, has always been known as "Seventy-two waters return to Zhengyang". The ancient city gate in the town has four characters "Fengcheng First Town" written on it. The mottled and peeling green bricks on the ancient city gate seem to tell people the vicissitudes of life it has experienced.
Located in Ma On Shan. Yuncao Ancient Town has a history of more than 1,700 years. Its typical style is "wooden buildings and stone pavements crossing the streets, and blue bricks and small tiles and horse-head walls". It is located 40 kilometers south of Hanshan County, with a total area of ??70.3 square kilometers.
The establishment of Yuncao Town can be traced back to the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, nearly 1,500 years ago. Around 530 AD, Emperor Wu of Liang Dynasty in the Southern Dynasty sent General Hou Jing of the Eastern Wei Dynasty to lead his troops across the river to develop this barren land and named it "Liaohuazhou". During the Chenghua period of the Ming Dynasty, the name of the town "Yuncao Town" was derived from Caohe River.
During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Yuncao Town ranked first among the "Eight Major Towns in Jiangbei" for its market town size and prosperity. There were a number of buildings such as the She Family Ancestral Hall, Li Hongzhang's Pawnshop, ancient Ming and Qing dwellings, and Yuncao Old Street. The precious cultural heritage has been preserved to this day.
Wujiang Town is located in the northeastern corner of He County in Ma'anshan, 21 kilometers away from the county seat. It is located at the junction of Jiangsu and Anhui provinces, facing the Yangtze River, forming a tripod with Nanjing and Ma'anshan City, and is known as the gateway to Jinling. In 202 BC, Xiang Yu, the overlord of Western Chu, finally refused to cross the east of the Yangtze River and crossed the Wujiang River. This ended the conflict between Chu and Han, and the Wujiang River became famous all over the world. After Xiang Yu's death, a "grave tomb" was built for him locally.
In the 29th year of Shaoxing in the Song Dynasty (1159), Xiangyu Temple in Wujiang was named "Yinghui Temple". It has been repaired and expanded many times in the past dynasties, and there are 99 and a half rooms including the main hall, Qinglong Palace, palace, and Shuilingfu. There are statues of Xiang Yu, Yu Ji, Fan Zeng and others in the hall, as well as cultural relics such as stone lions, morning boats, bells, tripods, plaques and stele. Tang and Song poets Meng Jiao, Du Mu, Su Shunqin, Lu You, Wang Anshi, Li Qingzhao, etc. all wrote poems. Later, it suffered repeated military battles and most of the buildings were destroyed. In the seventh year of Tongzhi in the Qing Dynasty (1868), the statue of Overlord was rebuilt. There is a plaque with the inscription "The mountains are unmatched in the world", and there is a couplet saying "The water belt on the edge of the mountain, the roar of tigers and the roar of dragons".
The streets in the town are criss-crossed, and the buildings are mostly in the form of low deep alleys. The roads are narrow and long with bluestone slabs. The town has developed commerce, including cotton stores, rice stores, shops, teahouses, guest schools, etc. Hundreds of families. Wujiang is an ancient town with a thousand years of history and profound cultural heritage. It is the hometown of Zhang Ji, a famous poet of the Tang Dynasty, Zhang Xiaoxiang, Zhang Xiaobo, Zhang Jizhi, a famous writer and calligrapher of the Southern Song Dynasty, and Lin Sanzhi, a contemporary grass saint.
Located in Lu'an, Anhui.
Subu Town has a history of more than a thousand years since the Song Dynasty. It has many historical sites and rich historical and cultural resources.
The thousand-year-old street is well-preserved. The blue bricks and black tiles, heavy beams and high ridges tell the story of the prosperity of Subu in the past. The well-preserved ancient buildings in the street include Baima Club, Liu Mingchuan Pawnshop, Huikang Bank, and Xiao Longsheng Mihang, Wang Dazhong's private residence, etc. The bronze statue of Xu Shuai and the Yonghui Temple, the former site of the Sujiabu frontline command port, and the Zhujia courtyard wall, the former site of the Sujiabu Campaign Headquarters, tell the story of the glorious victory of the "encirclement and reinforcement" campaign in the Red Army's war history. Yonghui Temple and the Zhujia Family Courtyard The courtyard wall is already a provincial-level cultural protection unit.
The majestic Dabie Mountains and the surging Pihe River. Sujiabu Town is located at the northeastern foothills of Dabie Mountain, the middle reaches of the Pihe River, and western Anhui Province. It was first built in the Yuan Dynasty, flourished in the Ming Dynasty, and flourished in the Qing Dynasty. It has a history of thousands of years. The prosperity of Sujiabu is due to the benefits of boating on the Pihe River. It started when a man named Su ferried on the Pihe River, which was known as "Sujiabu". Later, with the progress of society and the continuous development of production, large quantities of bamboo, wood, tea and hemp were collected, distributed and transshipped here, and it gradually became a wharf and shops. It was first called "Sujiabu" in the Song Dynasty.
The street is centered on Cross Street and extends in all directions, divided into four main streets in the east, west, south and north and dozens of back streets and alleys. The long cross streets extend in all directions, crisscrossing each other, with winding paths, rows of old shops and houses with wooden structures, and anecdotes about the high-walled courtyards, leaving indelible traces here.
At that time, people were traveling from south to north, east to west and out, with three religions and nine streams, all kinds of things, and everything. It had the flavor of Shanghai World and Nanjing Confucius Temple before liberation. No wonder there is a popular saying among the old people in Sujiabu: "What you can't buy can be bought here, and what you can't sell can be sold here." It is evident that business is booming.
The morning light shines into the attic at dusk, and the shadow of someone upstairs looks shy. There is a deep dream hidden in the darkness of the boudoir, and I am tired of combing my hair in the morning and dusk. Don't look at the withered and dilapidated scene now. Once upon a time, this was a privileged view only available to wealthy families. A boudoir lady, a down-and-out scholar, a peddler's apprentice... so many flowers ago and under the moon, passionate affairs were locked up in silence high up in the attic.
The ancient customs still exist to reflect the vicissitudes of life, and the long cross streets are lonely. The history of the old street is fading away day by day, and the story of the old street is obscured day by day, but those marks of prosperity and those vivid traces will not be erased. They are the root and soul of the old street.
The old streets in the town were built in the Yuan Dynasty, flourished in the Ming Dynasty, and flourished in the Qing Dynasty. Nowadays, half of the streets and alleys are in depression. There are no more bustling traffic and no more flowers, but there are the everlasting traces carved by the years.
Located in Lu'an, Anhui. Maotanchang Ming and Qing Old Street is located in Maotanchang Town, Jin'an District, Lu'an City, Anhui Province, outside the junction of Shucheng, Huoshan and Jin'an counties. The old street was built in the early Ming Dynasty, with a total length of 1,320 meters and running in a north-south direction. It is the most complete ancient residence preserved in western Anhui so far.
The old street is more than a thousand meters long and only three to five meters wide. It runs north-south. Most of the houses are from the late Qing Dynasty. There are more than 750 houses facing the street and nearly a hundred private houses. Some of them have facades like Shop.
The middle of the street is made of evergreen stone slabs, with cobblestones on both sides. There are deep tracks on the bluestone strips, traces left by old wheelbarrows.
Old Street was built in the late Yuan Dynasty and early Ming Dynasty. After Zhu Yuanzhang captured Nanjing, in order to fight against the Yuan Dynasty cavalry, he implemented the "horse policy" and raised horses in the prefectures and counties in Jiangsu and Anhui to transport troops. This place is surrounded by mountains and rivers, with fertile pastures and is suitable for raising horses. So the state officials set up a factory to raise horses, which was called "Maotan Factory" (the Ming Dynasty called the shed for raising horses "factory"), and later it gradually became "Maotan Factory". "Tanchang", due to the change in sound pattern, cannot be tested.
After the reunification of the Ming Dynasty, Maotatan became an important town with numerous factories and travellers. The Qing Dynasty implemented the "tea-horse policy", exchanging tea for horses, which led to the rapid development of the tea economy here and the emergence of many large merchants. In 2007, Maotanchang Old Street was awarded the title of "China's Famous Historical and Cultural Town".
Datong is located in the middle of Tongling City. It was named Lanxi in ancient times and has been established for thousands of years. Historically, it was an important riverside town famous both at home and abroad. Together with Anqing, Wuhu and Bengbu, it was also known as Anhui's "Four Major Commercial Ports" .
Datong Town was built in the Western Han Dynasty and was known as "Lanxi" in ancient times. In the Tang Dynasty, the "Datong Water Station" was built here and became a famous transportation artery. The town was established in the eighth year of Kaibao in the Song Dynasty (975 AD) and has a history of thousands of years.
During the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China, Datong Town served as an important trading port for the "Yantai Treaty". Heyuezhou was once the headquarters of the Salt Investment Promotion Bureau, the Yangtze River Navy, and the Anhui Provisional Military Government. It was prosperous for a while and was sometimes known as "Little Shanghai".
To this day, there are still well-preserved traditional handicrafts such as steelyard making, fishing net weaving, and rattan weaving on Lanxi Old Street.
According to historical records, a water post was first established in Datong in the Tang Dynasty, which was called Datong Water Post. During the Southern Song Dynasty, the market activities of "marketing at sunrise and dispersing at noon" were replaced by "towns". The poet Yang Wanli's poem "The Boat Passes Datong Town" contains the poems "The fishing rafts are the most obstructive to the boat" and "Fish and crabs do not care about money", which left a vivid portrayal of the fishing town.
Walking on the old street, you feel like you are traveling through time and space. There is no high-pitched hawking sound here. It is like a child who has not yet woken up, lying quietly in the embrace of the Yangtze River! We also slowed down our usual hurried pace and walked leisurely, quietly savoring the vicissitudes of time.
The bell tower of the Catholic Church in the ancient town was built by the Spanish. It has experienced nearly 70 years of cold and heat, and its majesty remains unchanged. It echoes the Tuashi Pavilion in the distance, allowing Eastern and Western cultures to interact with each other here, becoming a major cultural landscape of Datong Town.
Located in Linhuan Town, Suixi County, Huaibei City, Anhui Province, it is an ancient town with a history of thousands of years. Famous scenic spots include the ancient city wall, Wenchang Palace, City God's Temple, Uncle Jian's Tomb, Ji Kang's former residence, traditional old streets, characteristic ancient teahouses, the former site of the General Front Committee of the Huaihai Campaign, etc. It is a famous historical and cultural town in Anhui Province and "Chinese Folk Culture and Art". It is an Anhui Provincial Historical and Cultural Reserve.
Linhuan Ancient Town, also known as Zhi in ancient times, is also known as the ancient tea town. In the local area, teahouses are It confirms the history. There are 16 teahouses on the one-mile-long street in the center of the town, with more than 300 tea seats and more than 600 teapots. Teahouses in the ancient town began in the Ming Dynasty, and Linhuan people have been drinking tea for 600 years. , the teahouse in Linhuan Town still retains the old wooden tables, khaki coarse sand bowls and rusty copper teapots from the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Every day old teahouses come leisurely with their tobacco bags to drink tea, play cards, chat and enjoy Leisure time.
Zhangdu Ancient Town, also known as Jingxi Ancient Town, is located 20 kilometers west of Jingxian County in southern Anhui Province, on the north bank of the upper reaches of Qingyi River. Zhangdu was named Qilindu in ancient times and has a history of more than a thousand years. . The ancient town is built along the Qingyi River. The houses face the river and are suspended on the Qingyi River with wooden pillars. The river flows underneath, giving the building a Jiangnan water town atmosphere. 2 Huali, there are more than a thousand wooden pillars used, so it is called "Jiangnan Thousand Legs" - Diaojiao Tower, also known as Diaodong Pavilion.
Zhangdu was named Qilindu in ancient times and has a history of more than a thousand years. When Li Bai, a poet of the Tang Dynasty, visited Jingxian County, he once praised Zhangdu as "a town from the west" in southern Anhui. He visited the Dalan Mountain south of Zhangdu and wrote a poem: "The blue cens on the sky wall are as abrupt as a whale's forehead. Running and frowning across the clear pool, swallowing falling stars and rocks. The autumn moon shines brightly on the sand belt, and the water shakes the cold mountain green. A good environment should be slow, and the clear light can attract guests. I hate you for blocking my pleasure trip, which makes me frightened. Everything is predicted and built, and the alchemy liquid is formed. ”
In the Tang Dynasty, Zhangdu was an important water and land town in Jing County. A port state was established here to govern three counties. The water of the Qingyi River flowed through the town, and the development of shipping made the small town The town is prosperous and is known as the "Thousands of Diaojiao". The old street of Zhangdu was built in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties and has a history of more than 300 years.
The "Thousands of Diaojiao in the South of the Yangtze River". "Legs" is a unique ancient residential building with a tile-roofed wooden structure and a front shop and a house in the back. Because the main frame of the house is supported in the air by wooden pillars, it is also called Diaodong Pavilion. It is located in Zhangdu Old Town. On the south side of the street, there are shops facing the street. The other side faces the Qingyi River. Whenever there is a flood, the water can always reach the street. From a distance, the Diaodong Pavilion looks like a row of floating buildings on the water. House.
Zhangdu Old Street is 4 meters wide and paved with bluestone. There is a stone axis in the middle. It was paved in the past to facilitate the walking of wheelbarrows. It is a narrow street about 100 meters long, close to the river. This side is the "Diaodong Pavilion", and the other side is mostly dilapidated and abandoned houses. According to reports, the old street was a gathering place for merchants in the southwest of Jing County in ancient times. During the Anti-Japanese War, it became an important distribution center for the New Fourth Army to transport supplies.
< p> Chitan is located at the intersection of Qinxi River and Qingyi River, 7.5 kilometers north of Jingxian County, Anhui Province. It is an ancient water town on the Qingyi River waterway. It has been the seat of the township (town) government since the Ming and Qing Dynasties, and has become a city miles away. The political, economic and cultural center. It was once one of the eighteen famous ancient towns in Jingxian County and is now part of Qinxi Town.Chitan Ancient Town was built in the Song Dynasty and has a well-preserved ancient street from the Ming and Qing Dynasties. The building complex, with cobblestone pavement, blue bricks and black tiles, horse head wall, and four water entrances to the hall, has an Hui style architectural style, simple and elegant.
The wheelbarrow grooves left on the bluestone slabs record the ancient town. The glory of the past.
There is a folk culture exhibition hall, which displays more than a thousand long-dusted folk objects, recreating the epitome of folk life in the past.
In addition, the monks of Yanlong Temple come and go, and the bells ring melodiously. The relics of the great monk Guangqin in the Buddhist Culture Exhibition Hall are crystal clear and solemn.
Lingyang Town is located in the south of Qingyang County, Anhui Province. It is named after it is located at the foothills of Lingyang Mountain. It has a history of more than 2,000 years. When Dong Biwu, the former vice president of the country, passed through Lingyang, he left a hymn of praise for "the prosperous Lingyang town and the romantic Xiejia village".
"Wealthy Lingyang Town" is a "mantra" of people in my hometown, and it is also a proud and self-sufficient mentality of Lingyang people. Objectively speaking, it is due to the geographical environment that there are many mountains and few fields, so there is a lot of business going out. Merchants from Lingyang were a powerful force among Huizhou merchants. Their footprints are all over Shanghai, Wuxi, Nanjing, Wuhan, Wuhu, Bengbu, Datong, Huizhou, Tunxi and other places. Most people doing business in other places are just clerks, accountants, and have a small salary. There are also some capable people who gradually develop into capitalists. These people still have shops in the local Lingyang Town and have their agents. The high-rise buildings in Lingyang Town are all places where their families can settle down or stay in their hometowns.
Lingyang Town is located in the tourism hinterland of Anhui’s “two mountains and one lake”. Since ancient times, it has been an important town in the south of the Yangtze River and a distribution center for local products in the mountainous areas. It is an important passage for Huizhou merchants traveling from north to south. There are karst cave groups such as the "3A" scenic spot Shenxian Cave in the territory, Huangshi Creek, which is called "Little Jiuzhaigou" inside and outside the province, and the famous Shenlong Valley tourist attraction. Among them, Kumeitan Waterfall is nearly 100 meters high and magnificent. There are also many ancient Huizhou buildings from the Ming and Qing dynasties that have been preserved in the town. There are 156 ancient houses and more than 40 ancient bridges in the town, especially Taipingshanfang, Li's Ancestral Hall, Ning's Ancestral Hall and Nanliu Bridge.
Kongcheng Ancient Town is an ancient town with a long history, which has a history of nearly 2000 years. Located in Tongcheng, Anqing City. It used to be an important water transport terminal connecting the Chaohu area and the Yangtze River area. It was extremely prosperous. After thousands of years of ups and downs, now there is only one old street, which is peaceful and lively.
This small ancient town in Huizhou has a long history. After the wars of the Three Kingdoms, Lu Xun of Soochow was still stationed in this area. Water brought prosperity to Kongcheng Town. Those who do business, open restaurants, run single-service gangs, open grocery stores, fishermen and blacksmiths; sail boats and do business, tell stories and perform arts, traveling from north to south. According to incomplete statistics at the end of the Qing Dynasty, there are as many as 254 businesses and shops of various types.
The ancient town has not been commercialized and still retains the original style of the old town. The old streets of Kongcheng that remain today were built after the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. Kongcheng Old Street is second to none in scale and is the most completely preserved old street in Jiangbei area. The shop buildings are all made of blue bricks and gray tiles, with many cornices and carved wooden windows. They are row upon row, which is quite characteristic of the Jiangnan water town. The Hui-style architecture in Kongcheng Old Street combines the aura of the mountains and rivers with the essence of customs and culture. Residential houses, ancestral halls and archways are the most typical. They are known as the "Three Unique Ancient Buildings of Huizhou" and have always amazed the architectural circles at home and abroad.
The Ancient Village is edited from the Internet