What are the interesting places in Xiangxi?

Fenghuang ancient city in western Hunan has a long history and many historical sites. Antique city walls, neat stilts and blue-gray stone roads are called "the most beautiful town in China". Besides Fenghuang Ancient City, there are many places worth visiting, such as furong town, Chadong Town and Liye Ancient Town.

Fenghuang ancient city 1

Magnificent ancient city walls, uniform diaojiao buildings, grey and slippery stone roads and Miao girls along the Tuojiang River are the first impressions of Fenghuang Ancient City. Fenghuang, located in Xiangxi, Hunan, is a county where Miao and Tujia people gather. It has a long history and was once called "the land of barbarians". However, a movie named Border Town pushed this ancient city to the world.

Today's Phoenix is called "the most beautiful town in China" by New Zealand writer rewi alley and "the hometown of painting" by painter Huang Yongyu. It can be compared with Old Town of Lijiang in Yunnan and Pingyao in Shanxi. It is an ideal place for many tourists to travel, sketch and take photos.

The core ancient city of Fenghuang was built in the Kangxi period of Qing Dynasty, and it was named after a mountain in the southwest shaped like a phoenix flying with wings spread. There are four towers in the east, west, north and south of the city. Zhengdong Street is the central axis of the ancient city, and the streets in the ancient city crisscross. You can go wherever you want.

2. furong town

Furong town, a tourist attraction that combines natural scenery and ancient ethnic customs, enjoys Tujia Diaojiao Building and Qingshiban Road, and strolls here in the drizzle, which is refreshing. As the gateway of Mengdong River Scenic Area, it is really the best scenic spot to visit ancient times. Guanpu Diaojiao Building has a collection of more than 300 Tujia cultural relics, which has a strong cultural atmosphere and is the best embodiment of Tujia civilization. The Museum of Bronze Pillars and Movie Posters in the Western Zhou Dynasty is also a must-see for tourists.

3. Chadong Town

Xiangxi, a border town with one foot across three provinces, is known as "one foot across three provinces" and is one of the four famous towns in Xiangxi. Before liberation, the mountain city was majestic, the city walls were winding, the river was leisurely, and the bluestone road was neat and elegant; The diaojiao building is antique, the white tower stands tall and the ancient ferry is picturesque. The poem says, "The scenery in the border town is intoxicating, and it is suspected that you are traveling in the world of pictorial." Shen Congwen, a famous literary master, wrote his masterpiece Border Town with the tea cave as the background. Since then, Border Town has become famous at home and abroad. Nowadays, tea cave is still an old habit. Every time there is a market on the second or eighth day of the lunar calendar, it is called "market". At eight or nine o'clock in the morning, people of all ethnic groups at the border of the three provinces will gather in tea caves in groups of three or five. Men, women and children, most of them go out to be guests on holidays. After dressing up, especially young women, all dressed up beautifully, with silver ornaments on their chests and big earrings on their ears, shining in the sun.

4. Liye Ancient Town

Liye, together with Wangcun, Pushi and Chadong, is known as the four ancient towns in western Hunan, and is one of the birthplaces of Tujia nationality. This is the ancient city of Liye Warring States, which was once rated as one of the "Six Archaeological Discoveries in China". There is a high evaluation of "Terracotta Warriors and Horses in the North and Liye Qin Bamboo Slips in the South". This ancient city with a long history in the Qin Dynasty was built in the Warring States period and abandoned in the early Western Han Dynasty. The present Liye ancient town was rebuilt in the Qing Dynasty, and it still retains the style of that year.

5. Qifeng Lake

Qihu Scenic Area is located in Youyou Shui Gu in the north of Guzhang County. 1993 was approved as a provincial-level scenic spot by the Hunan provincial government, with a total area of 43 1 km2, of which the water surface is 25 km2. Qifeng Lake has a wide outer lake, a circuitous inner lake, rich levels and strange mountains, as well as ancient and magical national culture and historical sites.