Visit a small town in western Hunan: Fenghuang Ancient City in Misty Rain

"A river, a song, a gust of mist and rain, a touch of style, and a beautiful encounter. All these are calling to your lonely heart for a long time. Will you let yourself set off? Waiting for a city of mist and rain, wandering in In the morning dream of Fenghuang Ancient City, I spent a lifetime in love and was obsessed with the stilted buildings on both sides of the Tuojiang River. "This is Fenghuang Ancient City, a charming town in western Hunan described by Shen Congwen.

I have also seen photos taken by tourists after going to Fenghuang. The quiet ancient alley, misty rain, and the back view of a girl in red holding a red umbrella walking gracefully in the ancient alley are really very special. The beauty left a deep impression on me, so I yearned for it very much.

At the end of October, I was lucky enough to go to Fenghuang Ancient City, which I have admired for a long time, and finally walked into this dream-like ancient city.

Fenghuang Ancient City is located in Xiangxi Autonomous Prefecture. There is a mountain in the southwest that resembles a phoenix spreading its wings and getting its name. However, what really made him famous at home and abroad was the hometown complex written by the famous writer Shen Congwen. Because of this mountain, one water and one person, people traveled thousands of miles to search for it.

A river passes through the city, a boat goes upstream, the Tujia stilted buildings built against the river, the charming Miao girls, and the dimly lit Phoenix night?

< p> It was already afternoon when we walked into the ancient city of Fenghuang. The small bridges, flowing water, hanging towers and houses were enough to outline the charm of the ancient city. The ancient city is exquisite, leisurely and soothing.

The slowly flowing Tuojiang River is the mother river of Fenghuang Ancient City. It passes through the city. The water is clear and green, and the water plants at the bottom of the river are swaying.

Looking at the scenery on both sides of the Tuojiang River under the bridge, there is a small stone slab on the water upstream of the bridge, crossing the Tuojiang River. There is a small waterfall on it. People are on the river, and the water is on it. underfoot.

A Hongqiao flies across the north and south banks. It is extraordinary and carries the ancient charm of the Jiangnan water town.

It had been rainy and rainy in those days. Although the rain had stopped on the day we arrived, the weather was still misty. The bridges, rivers, and stilted buildings were all shrouded in mist, making them hazy and even more hazy. The mystery of the ancient city.

Even this kind of weather still cannot stop tourists from traveling. There are surprisingly many tourists, and there are people everywhere, crowded and crowded.

Several beautiful women wearing Miao costumes were very eye-catching and attracted me, so I took a picture of them with the camera.

When you climb the city wall, you can see the wall stacks standing along the river, which are more than one meter high and 50 centimeters thick. There are lookout holes and shooting holes on the wall stacks, and there are several ancient cannons on the city wall.

You can see local people wearing national costumes selling garlands everywhere. The price is very cheap, five yuan each. It is a woman's nature to love beauty, so no matter how old she is, everyone wears a beautiful wreath on their head, which becomes a beautiful scenery in the ancient city.

Little girl selling flowers

Local flower sellers carrying flower baskets kept passing by me, and I took the opportunity to keep their figures in the camera.

Fenghuang Ancient City is not big, and the streets and alleys paved with bluestone roads perfectly demonstrate the architectural style of Fenghuang Ancient City.

Walking through the small streets of the ancient city, you will feel the impression of antiquity. These brick and tile houses look antique and exude a charming atmosphere.

I bought a wreath to wear on my head and took photos of my visit.

The red umbrellas, blue slates, and quiet alleys are all the same as described in the poem, and it feels like they have been familiar before.

The bluestone slabs paved in the city have long lost their edges and corners, and have been polished smooth and translucent by the years. The faint footprints seem to tell the joys and sorrows of life one after another.

The alleys extending in all directions are quiet and different in length. This alley is hung with red lanterns, which is both quiet and prosperous. Walking on the bluestone road, my thoughts seem to go back to the distant past...

In the quiet alley, a man wearing a The girl in the red dress is sitting on a wooden chair, with "Utopia West Alley" written on the wooden board behind her. I wonder if she is a boss or a tourist? A person sitting quietly makes the alley more poetic and mysterious.

In Phoenix, the streets are full of shops, making it a shopping paradise.

The most popular ones on the street are those selling ginger candies. Xiangxi is humid and rainy, so ginger candies are sweet and slightly spicy, which is a wonderful medicine for removing dampness and repelling cold. I bought a few bags and tasted them. The taste was okay, sweet and spicy, crispy and fragrant.

Beating ginger candies manually is also a strenuous task, with a wooden hammer pounding it down.

In addition to ginger candies, there are also many handicraft shops on the street with a dazzling array of products, attracting the attention of tourists.

We strolled around, admiring the local specialties with ethnic characteristics, and feasting our eyes and mouths.

This kind of wine jar is rare in the mainland.

The chopping board is filled with various barbecue materials, attracting visitors.

Smoked and roasted pig head is rare and looks a bit scary.

One person, one dog, and one charcoal basin, grandma is still busy in her hands.

The diligence and business awareness of Phoenix people are obvious to all. From teenage children to grandmothers in their decades, they are all busy hawking. It is true that everyone is a businessman.

Grandmas selling various handicrafts can be seen everywhere in front of their homes. Some of them are still busy while looking at the stalls. Various handmade products are rich in ethnic characteristics and beautiful.

This grandma was sitting in front of her house, leisurely making handicrafts. When she saw me secretly taking pictures, she was not happy and said, "It costs five yuan to take a picture!" I was so scared that I didn’t dare to take pictures anymore. I didn’t know if I saw too many of them every day. They didn’t even mean to be friendly at all. They only talked about money.

Grandma counting money happily.

"I made a lot of money today!"

In the West Square, there is a bronze phoenix statue that symbolizes the ancient city of Phoenix.

When arriving in Fenghuang Ancient City, we have to visit Shen Congwen’s former residence. We walked into Mr. Shen’s former residence along the bluestone road that he walked.

The late literary giant Shen Congwen is the pride of Fenghuang Ancient City, and Shen Congwen’s former residence is the cultural essence of Fenghuang Ancient City. Because of it, the cultural charm of the ancient city permeates the air lightly.

Shen Congwen’s former residence is located at No. 10 Zhongying Street in the ancient city. It was built in the fifth year of Tongzhi in the Qing Dynasty (1866).

The courtyards, patios, daily necessities, pens, inks, papers and inkstones are somewhat mottled, yellowed and damaged due to their age, but it is a landscape carved by the years for the ancient city. Although it is silent, it still reveals the culture. The taste flaunts the flavor of culture and demonstrates the richness of culture.

This is a small courtyard house with two entrances, front and back, with a red stone-paved patio in the middle, the main house facing the main door, and three wing rooms on each side.

Looking around the small courtyard, the houses are all made of bucket-style wooden structures. The carved doors and windows are small and unique, and the carved decorations are lifelike.

Looking at the small regular script written by Mr. Wang in his early years hanging on the wall, my heart was full of admiration. In a remote ancient city, a small house, a big man actually walked out. Literary giant.

When arriving in Phoenix, there is another celebrity’s house that you must visit, and that is Chen Baozhen’s house. To be honest, I didn’t know much about Chen Baozhen before coming here. It was only when I saw Mr. Chen Yinke’s introduction that I learned that Chen Yinke was the son of Chen Sanli, and Chen Sanli was the son of Chen Baozhen.

Chen Yinke is the most knowledgeable scholar in modern Chinese history. He is one of the four famous mentors of Tsinghua University. He is a figure that only emerges in 500 years. His "independent spirit and free thoughts" are the key to today's scholarship and salvation. an idea followed.

I didn’t expect him to have such a prominent family. His father Chen Sanli is known as the last traditional poet in China and the fourth son of the Reform. His brother Chen Shizeng is a painter and a professor at Peking University. His second brother Chen Longke is also a famous poet. . Looking at Mr. Chen Baozhen's former residence, I think of Mr. Chen Yinke's thoughts. This trip is worthwhile.

After walking out of Mr. Chen Baozhen’s former residence, we came to Xiong Xiling’s former residence. This is really a Feng Shui treasure place where celebrities thrive. We visited the former residences of one celebrity after another.

We followed the tour guide to the Tuojiang River and prepared to take a boat.

Following the tour guide, we got on the awning boat. The river was clear and clear, and the wind was caressing it gently. The boatman shouted, tapped a bamboo pole, and the boat went down the river.

The boat moves in the water, and the people swim in the painting. The boatman's call, the Miao girl's singing, and the sound of the Tuojiang River linger over the ancient city.

I saw the boat sailing slowly in the water. The boat sailed in the gallery. Looking up, there were ancient stilted buildings on both sides of the river. They were high and low, like an ink painting from the south of the Yangtze River, painted along the river bank.

The white walls and high-flying eaves are reflected in the river. In this turquoise landscape, there are no gorgeous mountain flowers, only the river that has remained unchanged for thousands of years, reflecting the blue sky and white clouds.

The buildings on the riverside are all wooden turrets. From a distance, the wooden piles support the huts. The clear river water flows under the houses, which has a strong ethnic architecture. style.

Tuojiang River In the distance, on the bank of the bridge, many women were washing clothes with wooden mallets, beating them up and down with the sticks. The style of this picture looks so simple, and it has a feeling of traveling through time and space.

The ancient walls, bricks, and gates have gone through many vicissitudes of life, but they are still majestic, guarding the tranquility and serenity of the ancient city.

I passed a fishing boat with several ospreys standing on the boat. This was also the first time I saw ospreys.

The ancient city is so beautiful that it attracts many tourists to take photos of ethnic minorities on the riverside, leaving a wonderful memory of being a girl from an ethnic minority.

When the boat arrived near Hongqiao, a burst of singing floated in front of it. The singing was clear and sweet, echoing in the ears for a long time, like a handful of pearls thrown on the river.

Finally, I saw a Miao girl wearing national costumes, standing on the bow of the boat with an umbrella, singing a cappella national songs to the passing tourists, and waving to them politely.

The ancient city not only carries thousands of years of history and culture, but also contains too many ethnic customs. Their songs echoed on both sides of the Tuojiang River for a long time, with laughter...

Soon we will Come to the shore and continue your tour along the river.

Follow a local tour guide to visit museums, silver jewelry shops, and Longevity Palace.

Looking towards the river from the shore, a number of black-awned boats are wandering in the river. There are high and low stilted buildings along the river, and the green mountains in the distance are a natural ink painting of Jiangnan.

The mirror-like water surface exudes such tranquility, and the surrounding atmosphere seems to have solidified, forming a charming picture of small bridges and flowing water. Phoenix is ??so beautiful, with its mellow beauty showing simplicity, elegance and cultural heritage.

The most beautiful thing is the night in Phoenix, when the sunset is blurry; the landscape lights in the ancient city are turned on, and the lights on the stilted buildings on both sides of the river look particularly beautiful, and they match the bars. The flashing neon lights above are reflected on the Tuojiang River, colorful, swaying with the rock music playing in the bar, showing another kind of beauty.

Walking in Phoenix at night, Phoenix is ??very beautiful at night. There is a row of bars next to the river. The bars look similar to the West Street in Yangshuo.

The carnival music in the bar echoed in the night of Tuojiang River. The red-hot charcoal fire in the sharp-bottomed pot at the doorway was flashing with neon lights. The music was loud and the lights were blurry. Most of them were young people. Drinking heavily in the bar and swaying your body to the music is the world of young people.

Looking into the distance, you can see the lights twinkling among the houses embedded in the Miao village on the mountain. They are layered on top of each other and well-proportioned. The ancient city walls are outlined by the lights, the arch bridges on the water, and the cantilevered pavilions in the bridges. Full of lights.

The boats on the water and the inns along the river are twinkling with lights... They are all so bright, reflecting the charming night of Fenghuang Ancient City.

At night, the grandmother selling handmade products on the bridge is still selling.

My impression of Phoenix is ??clear and hazy, with moist bluestone roads, a small town surrounded by mountains and rivers, the clear Tuojiang River passing through the city, and city walls made of red sandstone standing on the shore. Full of poetry and painting, unforgettable...