Pingle Ancient Town Travel Guide: Let’s go. What is fun about traveling? Is a one-day trip expensive?

Pingle Ancient Town is famous for its quaint neighborhoods and the original and simple folk customs of Western Sichuan. In the ancient town area, you can enjoy the ancient charm and tranquility that you have not seen for a long time outside the city. After removing the impetuousness of modern civilization and seeing the aura-filled mountains, rivers, flowers and plants, what you have is to relax your mind, forget your worries, indulge in the mountains and rivers, and turn back time...

Nine Scenes of the Ancient Town

Pingle has been "the first town on the Tea Horse Road and the first stop on the Southern Silk Road" since ancient times. In today's Pingle, we can still see the footprints of history - —Jiugu: ancient streets, ancient temples, ancient bridges, ancient trees, ancient weirs, ancient squares, ancient roads, ancient customs, and ancient songs.

The ancient town has 235,400 square meters of buildings from the Ming and Qing dynasties, lined up in rows and filled with ancient styles. It is famous for its "Qin and Han Culture·Western Sichuan Water Town" style. There are 33 old streets in the ancient town, with seven twists and turns and winding paths leading to quiet places.

Pingle Ancient Town retains ancient dwellings from the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Most of the houses on both sides of the ancient street are wooden structures with one floor and one floor. The lower floors are generally paved and the upper floors are used for living rooms, reflecting the strong Western Sichuan style. . Although the shops on both sides of the thousand-year-old alley have changed hands several times, they are still in business. The Pingle town government is accelerating the development of tourism and showing the world the charm of the thousand-year-old town.

In terms of folk culture, simple people have created folk song festivals, river lantern festivals, cow lantern festivals, life release festivals, Guanyin Festival on June 6th, etc.

Walking around the ancient town, tourists will personally experience the various customs of the ancient streets, listen to the good stories of the ancient bridges from generation to generation, sit in the shade of the ancient yellow oak trees, and watch the rolling waves of the ancient weirs that divide the water. , taste the leisurely atmosphere of the ancient residential compound, and join the shouts of the ancient song "Bamboo Ma Haozi"... As the "first town on the Tea Horse Road", Pingle was once a bustling water and land dock. Things have changed and the stars have changed. The ancient town is today It has regained its unique charm. The folk art that has been inherited for thousands of years and the residential buildings that have stood for hundreds of years have been dyed into the water and mountain scenery with strong local characteristics. They have become the epitome and symbol of the ancient water town in Western Sichuan, interpreting a picture that blends the past and the present. "Along the River During Qingming Festival".

Folk Customs and Customs Institute

Pingle Folk Customs and Customs Institute is also known as Tiangong Yingwu Museum. There are farmlands, farmyards, and playing dams in the courtyard. Visitors can participate in and experience farming here. Activities and folk cultural performances can also be watched.

The main building in the Fengqing Courtyard is the Tiangong Courtyard, also known as the Wang Family Courtyard. The owner of the Wang Family Courtyard was originally Wang Zhitong, the magistrate of Dingxian County, Hebei Province in the Qing Dynasty. His descendants later moved to Hongya County and built a four-in-one courtyard at No. 57 Chenghuang Street, Hongya County in the 45th year of Qianlong's reign (1780). Professor Ji Fuzheng, director of the Institute of Vernacular Architecture of Southwest Jiaotong University, praised him as a "Hongya treasure". In 2003, Hongya County was engaged in urban construction. Although famous figures such as Ruan Yisan, Feng Jicai, and Ji Fuzheng called for the preservation of this ancient house, the Wang family courtyard was still demolished, and the owner registered and piled the dismantled wood together. Three years later, when the Pingle Town Government learned of the news, it immediately decided to purchase the Wang Family Courtyard and move it to another place for protection. In this way, the Wang Family Courtyard was moved hundreds of miles away and rebuilt here.

There are sceneries outside the town

In addition to the ancient town area, Pingle Ancient Town is also supported by four major scenic areas: Lugou Natural Scenic Area, Jinhua Mountain Scenic Area, and Huachuan Mountain Scenic Area and the Qin and Han Ancient Post Road Scenic Area.

Attraction 1: Breathe the mountains and rivers, the miraculous Lugou Natural Scenic Area

Close your eyes and take a few breaths gently. The first thing you will feel is an incomparable feeling. Relaxing and exciting; this is the Valley Gallery of the thousand-year-old ancient town. It is located 1 km northwest of Pingle Ancient Town, with a radius of 8.6 square kilometers and a bamboo covering area of ??16,000 acres. It enjoys the reputation of "Twenty Miles Green Corridor, Natural Oxygen Bar" The valley is deep.

Four kilometers into the ditch, there is a natural stone Buddha statue hidden in a sea of ??bamboo. His eyes are slightly closed, and he is kind and kind. The Buddha's body is on a 100-meter mountain peak, higher than the Leshan Giant Buddha (72 meters). Mountain people call it "Mountain" It is a Buddha, and the Buddha is a mountain." "Bamboo is the support of Buddha, and Buddha is the soul of bamboo."

Going up the stream, huge rocks are neatly split in the middle and stand apart from the water. According to legend, it was the place where Yang Shen, the heavenly official of the Ming Dynasty, tested his sword. It is better than the sword-testing stone of Sun Quan, the "No. 1 king in the world" in Zhenjiang, and is more powerful. .

At the Tianguan Tomb on Zhaizi Gang, the national treasure giant panda often appears nearby.

At the foot of Yuya is the "Marshal's Well". When Marshal Xu Qianqian led the Red Second Front Army to fight the Kuomintang army for seven days and seven nights, he used this well to draw water for cooking and drinking for his horses. The Red Army combat bunker still exists on Yuya. Climb to Jianshanzi, the best viewing point, and you can have a panoramic view of Pingle Ancient Town and the beautiful scenery of the Marco Polo Bamboo Sea.

There are also scattered ruins of ancient papermaking workshops in the scenic area. The perfect combination of nature and humanity is found in the Lugou Valley.

Attraction 2: Jinhua Mountain, a beautiful place to worship the gods

Jinhua Mountain is one of the "Top Ten Tourist Attractions in Qionglai City", located 1 km southeast of Pingle Ancient Town . Lingshan is an outstanding place whose reputation can be traced back to the Qin and Han Dynasties. Since the mid-Tang Dynasty, the Jinhua Giant Buddha and Tiangong Temple have been popular in Western Sichuan. It has wonderful mountains and beautiful waters, unique topography and numerous cultural relics, with distinctive features:

Firstly, "one step presents a scene". Dafogou naturally curves into a huge "S" shape, just like a This natural Tai Chi picture adds a bit of mystery to Jinhua Mountain. The steep and quiet stone staircases, the stilted pavilions with Western Sichuan characteristics in the green mountains and green waters... give people unlimited imagination.

The second is that "three religions converge on one mountain". Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism form a wonderful harmony among the countless cliff statues. The stone Buddha on the cliff on the mountainside is majestic, the Tiangong Temple on the top of the mountain is simple and solemn, and the "Picture of Heavenly Horses in the Sky" in front of the big Buddha seat is a masterpiece of cliff sculptures, with only two remaining in the country.

Attraction 3: Local people, a paradise, the Emperor’s Grace Huachushan Scenic Area

4 kilometers west of the ancient town, drive along Huangjinyan to Huanghua Road for about 20 minutes, and cross After passing the bamboo sea for more than 10 miles, we arrived at the Huachuan Mountain Scenic Area, which is known as "a paradise for local people".

The scenic area is surrounded by green hills, green trees and gurgling streams. There is the Rowan Tribute Tea gifted by the Emperor Kangxi as "the best garden in the world"; there are thousands of acres of bamboo sea with winding paths; there is a ten-mile long corridor that is refreshing and refreshing; and there is also the mysterious Guantian Cave. The ancient residential complexes of the Qing Dynasty, represented by the Li Family Courtyard with the imperial plaque "Emperor's Favor of Tin" given by Guangxu himself, still maintain the original style of a hundred years ago. The folk houses in western Sichuan scattered scattered deep in the bamboo forest constitute the strong local characteristics here. The simple people plow the fields, work hard, and live a quiet and comfortable farm life. It is a hometown where modern urbanites return to simplicity and appreciate the pastoral. It is a paradise for people to nourish their body and mind and have a leisure vacation.

Attraction 4: Thousand-year-old ancient road, the Qin and Han post roads in pursuit of the sound of historical hollows

The ruins of the Qin and Han post roads are located in Chenghuang Gang, Qilong Mountain, Pingle Town. It was one of the transportation arteries leading from Chengdu, Qiongzhou, and Yazhou to Tubo, Dangxiang, Nanzhao and other minority areas. One of the eleven routes to fight against Tibet. Local elders call the post road site "Jiannan Road" or "Madaozi". Modern people call it China’s “Southern Silk Road”.

Because the Yidao ruins are located in the primeval forest of Qilong Mountain, although it has experienced thousands of years of wind, rain erosion and man-made destruction, it can still preserve a relatively complete section of Pingle. It is about two kilometers long, with a road width of 4m and a fish-ridge shape. A straight central line is built with flat-topped large river pebbles in the center, and rows of river pebbles are used to pave the road on both sides. It is very solid and shows the wisdom and ingenuity of the designers and builders at that time.

There are walls on both sides of the post road, just like the "corridor" since the Qin and Han Dynasties. "Historical Records: The Chronicles of Qin Shihuang" records: Qin Shihuang "built the Ganquan Palace and built the corridor." The note said: "It is said that the wall was built outside Chidao (main road), and the emperor walked in the middle, and outsiders were not seen." The walls on both sides of Qiongya Post Road will The main road is sandwiched in the middle, which is completely consistent with the scale structure of the "corridor" in the Qin and Han Dynasties. The walls on both sides of the Qiongya Post Road are built with river pebbles, with a height of 1.4m. The walls were originally built to prevent enemies from looting and transporting supplies. Judging from the development of road construction history, walls also played the role of maintaining roads such as drainage and resisting landslides. Just like today's mountain roads, a solid stone ridge is often built on the side of the road under the steep slope of the mountain rock. The post road was built along the direction of the mountains. When it was intact, it looked like a Great Wall, winding between the mountains in southern Sichuan.

Attraction 5: Emerald Manor with beautiful scenery and a blend of Chinese and Western styles

Emerald Manor is located at the junction of the "Three Golds" scenery in Pingle Town. It is built along the river and backed by lions. Mountains, the manor is surrounded by vines hanging willows, bamboos and trees, and green trees. The lawns in the manor are green, the osmanthus garden, banana garden, and loquat garden complement each other. The underground hot springs bathe in the dust, and the water karaoke hall is full of lingering sounds. Five generations live under the same roof. The courtyard and European-style architecture blend Chinese and Western styles. Since its establishment, the park has been listed as the "International Youth Soong Ching Ling Foundation Base" and is now one of the top ten tourist attractions in Qionglai City.

Attraction 6: Original ecological landscape, visit the Jinji Valley on a walking tour of historical sites

Go up the Baimo River to the west of the ancient town. About three kilometers away, you will see a small river that merges into the Baimo River. Coming out of the ditch, there is an arch bridge at the mouth of the ditch. In front of the bridge and behind the bridge are chicken heads and tails. This is Jinji ditch. The ancient bridge we saw was the Jinji Bridge built in the 10th year of Guangxu's reign.

Enter the entrance to Jinjigou

Picture of Immortal Couple Muyun Bridge

Picture of Immortal Couple Muyun Bridge (2 photos)

Cheng 15 miles, 30 miles round trip. Along the small stone road beside the bridge, there are green bamboo forests, strange peaks and rocks on both sides. Covered in bamboo groves, you can play in the water, go outing, and taste game... Visit historical sites (ancient paper mills) and find people living in the mountains... The scenic spot mainly highlights the bamboo sea, rock climbing, high-altitude rope bridges, and fitness walks, and "outdoor sports" is the main attraction of the scenic spot. core values.

There is also the Xianlu Muyun Bridge in the Jinji Valley. It is known as the most difficult to construct, the longest span, and the highest high-altitude narrow-bottomed canyon tourist rope bridge in the country. It is about 318 meters long and 1.5 meters wide. It is 162 meters above ground and can be regarded as the biggest highlight in the scenic area.

Bring necessary supplies, such as kettles, travel backpacks, medicines, etc. In addition to bringing your own snacks, you are also responsible for carrying some food for the picnic. Then we can, under the guidance of our guide, carefully appreciate this pristine valley and have a picnic in Jinji Valley.

Attraction Seven: Rural Life, Water Park Qikou Scenic Area

The scenic area is located in the lower section of Baimo River on the northwest edge of the ancient town, separated by only one water from Shuikou Town. The river in the scenery is wide and the water and sky are the same color. In the river, you can raft on bamboo rafts and surf on speedboats. On the shore, there are green bamboo forests and winding paths. Deep in the bamboo forest, Qikou Country Club, Chilin Villa, Silver Carp Villa and other special farmhouses are nestled among them. Wild river fish, roasted lamb and rabbit will keep you entertained. It is a water park for modern people to enjoy fishing, rafting and surfing.