What interesting villages are there in Cangnan County, Wenzhou, Zhejiang? Guide to Mid-Autumn Festival and National Day tours

In southern Zhejiang, there are many very good villages in southern Zhejiang. It is said that the villages there are very developed. In Zhejiang Province, my aunt told me that the villages in Zhejiang are very developed. A simple rural infrastructure may be as good as a county in Guizhou. What’s more, some villages in Zhejiang are far away from the city, but they are ancient villages with a long history! The villages worth visiting in Cangnan County are recommended to everyone and reserved for the Mid-Autumn Festival and National Day!

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When autumn comes to Cangnan, when you walk slowly and quietly, you will find a unique feeling in the ancient villages scattered everywhere. Such silence. Of course, Cangnan is famous for its natural beauty, such as Yucang Mountain, Yuliao, etc., which are one of the favorite tourist destinations of Wenzhou people. But what I want to make a difference today is the ancient villages, where I can see the unique autumn colors. , would you like to experience another kind of leisure?

Without further ado, this village guide is for you! Go to Puzhuangsuo City. It is located in Pucheng Township, Mazhan Town, Cangnan County. Although it is not an ancient village, it has ancient meaning.

Have you ever heard of "one pavilion, two pavilions, three archways, three gates, four lanes and seven nunneries, east, west, north and south cross streets, twenty-four wells and eight stages"? There is no need to use too many adjectives, the image of the ancient village is vivid and vivid. superior. Good guy, this place was actually built in the Hongwu period of the Ming Dynasty. If you calculate it, it is more than 600 years ago. It turns out to be a well-preserved anti-Japanese coastal defense castle building in the Ming Dynasty.

How did you get this name!

This place was originally along the corner of Pu Bay. Due to the rise and fall of the tide, sedimentation gradually turned into a tidal flat covered with calamus and reeds. The ancestors came here to build a hut and reclaim the wasteland, and weaved the cattail leaf as a door, so it is called " Pumen", due to its dangerous terrain, has been an important coastal defense area since ancient times, also known as "Puguan". Pumen garrison was established in the Tang Dynasty, Pumen village (inspection inspection) was established in the Northern Song Dynasty, a garrison department was established in the Yuan Dynasty, and Pumen city was built in the early Ming Dynasty. During the Longqing period (In 1567, because the strongman’s castle was repeatedly attacked by Japanese invaders and difficult to defend, it was merged into Pumensuo City and was collectively known as Puzhuangsuo City.

This castle is surrounded by mountains and sea. It has a very special shape, with the south facing straight and the north facing. The city is arcuate and the plane is in the shape of "a round sky and a square place". The streets and lanes in the city are arranged in a "four" shape. , visit the ancient houses, admire the Houying Temple, and feel the historical changes, and your mood will become much more peaceful. Interestingly, Pucheng, with a population of only more than 6,000, actually speaks three dialects: Ou, Minnan, and She. Among the residents in the city. The common Ou dialect must have never been heard by people in Xiamen. It is said that the dialect spoken by the anti-Japanese military officers in Wenzhou was influenced by the local Hokkien dialect. It is very powerful. I recommend everyone to listen to it.

Xiangdong Village on the Jiangnan Plain, 18.7 kilometers southeast of Cangnan County, is also very historical. It was first called Yingqiao Xibao. Most people have the surname Xiang. In the fourth year of the Southern Song Dynasty (1244), Xiang Guifa, the top military scholar.

Different from the ancient villages you can see in Xiamen, Xiangdong Village has done a lot of work on water. Yu Qing, the teacher, said poetically: "It is surrounded by rivers and has waterways extending in all directions. It can be said to be a typical ancient village in the south of the Yangtze River, with small bridges, flowing water, gray tiles and white walls. Just imagining it is quite artistic. Going to such an ancient village It must be great to go.”

Introduction to Xiangdong’s poetic and picturesque Xiangdong Village

So, it’s impossible to go to this village without taking a boat to enjoy the wind. The boat trip is only 50 yuan per hour, and one boat can seat 8 people, which is very cost-effective.

By the way, don’t forget to go to Fude Bay, which is the most famous ancient village in Cangnan. The south side of Fanshan Town, Cangnan County, the "Alum Capital of the World", is a village that was born and prospered due to alum mining and refining in history. It is quite unique. Many people will feel a lot of emotion when they go there.

What is so special about this village? You can see from the picture that the old street is surrounded by alum refining ruins from the Republic of China period. There are tall chimneys of alum refining kilns. It is very different from other places at first glance. In 2016, it was awarded the UNESCO (UNESCO) Honorary Award for Cultural Heritage Protection in the Asia-Pacific Region

The unique taste of Fudukwan’s ceramic crafts

In addition to walking around the old streets and looking at the pottery making, Fudukwan. At the ruins, an important task is to appreciate the alum sculpture craftsmanship. It sounds very high-end, but it turns out that a copper wire wrapped with threads of various colors is used to create flowers, trees, insects, fish, pavilions, birds and animals, landscapes, etc. Model, and then put the model into the alum crystallization pool that produces alum, so that the yarn on it is stained with crystal clear alum, as if the model is covered with a layer of transparent white jade.

Look, alum sculptures are more transparent than ice sculptures, and the colors are bright and eye-catching. They look very cute, right? Visiting ancient villages and castles can not only relax your body and mind, but also find a different kind of fun. I give it 8 Very good!

When talking about ancient villages in Cangnan, Wanyao Ancient Village is definitely indispensable. It also has a history of 600 years. It used to be called Jiaotan or Jiaotan Wanyao. It was built in the Hongwu period of Ming Dynasty and is located in the beautiful Jade River. Many people say that the upper reaches of Longhu Lake is the most beautiful countryside in Zhejiang Province and a living fossil of ancient dwellings. You can only know how beautiful it is after visiting it.

The beauty of Wanyao Ancient Village likes to come here by hand

Someone described it this way: "Looking from the Wanyao parking lot on the other side of Yulong Lake, there are villages in the mountains, and kilns in the villages. It's like an overlapping mountain city.

"This village still completely retains the ancient village form. The more than 300 octagonal buildings and stilted buildings built in the early Qing Dynasty are very distinctive, as well as the ancient dragon kiln and ancient stage. They are all products of the passage of time, quietly telling a story. History.

What will probably make the children very happy is that Wanyao still retains the most original handicraft workshop and the most traditional 18 production processes, including porcelain clay mining, soil picking, and crushing. It is worth exploring the process of laundering, washing and bleaching, drying mud, mixing soil, drawing and shaping, printing, sharpening, drying, painting, glazing, scraping, loading the kiln, firing the kiln, leaving the kiln, opening the bowl, and acceptance inspection.

A'Zhu, a native of Xiamen who visited this summer, said that in the ceramics workshop of Wanyao, there is a master who demonstrates bowl-making skills to tourists, and many people like to watch it.

How about choosing these places for the Mid-Autumn Festival and National Day? It’s super convenient to travel!