Ten must-see attractions in Kaiping.

Ten scenic spots that Kaiping tourism must visit: Kaiping Diaolou Cultural Tourism Zone, Guangdong Chikan Ancient Town Xiang Qiao International Tourism Resort, Gigi Lai Village Diaolou Group, Liyuan Diaolou Group, Majianglong Diaolou Group, Chikan European Style Street, Jinjiang Lidiaolou Group, Chikan South Building, Chikan Film and Television City and Tianxia Granary.

Kaiping Diaolou Cultural Tourism Zone 1

Kaiping, the hometown of overseas Chinese, architecture, art and watchtowers, is located in the southwest of the Pearl River Delta in Guangdong, with a total area of 1.438 mu, mainly including: Gigi Lai Village Watchtower, Majianglong Ancient Village and China Overseas Chinese Garden.

2. Guangdong Chikan Ancient Town Overseas Chinese Town International Tourism Resort

Located in the middle of Kaiping City, Guangdong Province, by the Tanjiang River. Chikan ancient town, with a history of 370 years, was developed by Shangbuguan clan and Xiabugou Stuart clan who lived at the east and west ends of the town. It has more than 600 arcades and was named as a famous historical and cultural town in China in 2007. For hundreds of years, under the benign competition between Guan and Situ, Chikan ancient town has developed into a unique commercial port in Lingnan with its unique overseas Chinese culture and family management system.

3. Gigi Lai Village Diaolou Group

Located in Tangkou Town, Kaiping City, it is one of the world cultural heritages. The village has a beautiful natural environment, with ponds, lotus ponds, paddy fields and grasslands scattered in it, which is in harmony with many watchtowers and residential buildings. Beautiful, forming a unique rural farming ink painting with Lingnan pastoral flavor. Gigi Lai Village has 15 watchtowers with different styles, exquisite shapes and rich connotations, and is an outstanding representative of Kaiping watchtower in its heyday.

4. Liyuan Diaolou Group

Liyuan, a national AAAAA-level tourist attraction, is a garden villa built by Mr. Xie Weili, an overseas Chinese living in the United States in the early 20th century. Relying on the Grand View Garden depicted in A Dream of Red Mansions, the Pear Garden skillfully combines the charm of classical gardens with the architectural features of villas popular in Europe and America, presenting a unique beauty of architectural art, which is a first-class garden built by overseas Chinese in China.

5. Majianglong Diaolou Group

Located in the southeast of Baihe Town, Kaiping City, 20 kilometers northeast of Kaiping City, it consists of five natural villages: Yong 'an, Nan 'an, Hedong, Qinglin and Longjiang. It was built by the Huang Heguan family in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China. Majianglong Village is backed by the majestic Baizu Mountain and faces the mirror-clear Tanjiang River. The five natural villages are like a bead chain, strewn at random between green mountains and green waters. Immersed in the scene, the bamboo is lush, the trees are shaded, the birds are singing and the flowers are fragrant, just like a paradise.

6. Chikan European Style Street

Chikansu is famous for its ancient buildings and simple folk customs, especially the unique ancient buildings on Xidi Road. This nearly 400-meter-long building blends Chinese and western architectural styles. Here are the architectural drawings brought back from abroad by overseas Chinese in Chikan, Europe and America, combined with the local architectural art in Kaiping.

These buildings not only pay attention to the beautiful shape, but also consider the firmness and practicality of the building, so a large number of building materials are imported. While retaining the local traditional architectural style, they also transplanted western European-style buildings on their hometown land, forming a unique cultural charm of Chinese and western architecture, so this area is also called "European Style Street".

7. Jinjiang Lidiaolou Group

There are three striking towers in Jinjiang Tower Group, namely Shengfeng Tower, Jinjiang Tower and Ruishi Tower, which are known as "the first building in Kaiping". Ruishi Building, built about 1923, has 9 floors and a height of 25 meters. It is the highest existing watchtower in Kaiping and a typical watchtower that can be lived and guarded.

Ruishilou is a masterpiece of Kaiping Diaolou's architectural technology, with exquisite overall shape and meticulous carving. Thanks to the rich financial resources of overseas Chinese in Kaiping, the interior decoration of the building used materials such as rosewood at that time. After more than a hundred years of hot and humid climate, Lingnan is well preserved and almost never repaired. It's a rare architectural heritage.

8. Chikan South Building

Located in Tengjiao Village, Chikan Town, Kaiping City, it faces Tanjiang River in the south and Donglong Highway in the north. It is a land and water transportation hub from Sanbu to Chikan, with dangerous terrain. 19 12, Stuart built this building to prevent thieves. The building is 7 stories high, 19 meters, and covers an area of 29 square meters. It is a reinforced concrete structure, with rectangular holes on each floor and observation deck on the sixth floor, with machine guns and searchlights.

9. Chikan Studio

Chikan Film and Television City is located in Shangbu, Chikan Town, Kaiping City, Guangdong Province. It was built in 2004 and covers an area of more than 6,000 square meters. The whole building is designed and built according to the plot and scene of the TV series Sanjiaxiang. The main buildings are the "foreign comprador" Chenjiayang Building, the feudal landlord He Family Mansion, the ordinary citizen Zhou Family Mansion, etc., which were built in full accordance with the architectural style of the 1920s.

The ingenious integration of Studio City and the famous arcade-style ancient buildings in the East has enriched the architectural culture and historical connotation of "European Style Street" and made this ancient city more attractive.

10, the granary of the world

As a rural tourist attraction in Kaiping Tangkou, it has not been developed too much, and it has been restored to its original appearance as much as possible, retaining the original local flavor. The "granary in the world" is all made of ancient building materials and traditional handicrafts. More than 654.38 million pieces of blue bricks have been used for more than 100 years, and all the production tools and daily necessities are the original old things.

The above contents refer to Baidu Encyclopedia-Chikan European Style Street Baidu Encyclopedia-Kaiping Chikan Ancient Town Baidu Encyclopedia-Kaiping Diaolou.