Which ancient town is most worth visiting?

Check out 20 ancient towns worth visiting in China

1. Pingyao Ancient City

Pingyao Ancient City is one of the four intact ancient cities in China, with a total of 2,700 With many years of history, you will feel like you are on a journey centuries ago, and you will be in a trance back to the glorious era of Shanxi merchants one or two hundred years ago.

Pingyao is suitable for traveling all year round. Autumn is cool and pleasant, and there is also a photography festival held at the end of September, which is very lively.

2. Nuodeng Ancient Town

Nuodeng is a Bai village with a history of more than a thousand years. The residential buildings in the ancient town are built on the mountain, layer upon layer, in a well-proportioned manner, with the Dragon King in sequence. Temple, ancient Jiangxi Guild Hall, Wanshou Palace, etc. The archway in the ancient town is the largest existing ancient wooden archway in western Yunnan.

The ancient village of Nuodeng has beautiful scenery and a long history. It is a microcosm of feudal society and the best place to understand the ancient Chinese salt well culture.

Dali Ancient City + Tengchong Heshun + Nuodeng Tai Chi 6-day tour

3. Huangyao Ancient Town

Huangyao Ancient Town is one of the top ten most beautiful ancient towns in China one. Compared with many bustling ancient towns such as Lijiang and Fenghuang, Huang Yao grew up in a boudoir and was unknown to people. She is quiet, delicate and as elegant as a fresh little girl.

Because the transportation is not convenient and the publicity is not strong, the humanities and customs of this quaint town are not polluted.

4. Wuyuan

Wuyuan, located in the northern part of Jiangxi Province, is famous for its rapeseed fields and well-preserved Huizhou buildings in spring.

Whenever the flower season comes, Wuyuan Huangling, known as one of the "Four Seas of Flowers in China", will welcome a large number of travelers and photography enthusiasts.

5. Xijiang Qianhu Miao Village

Xijiang Town is located in southeastern Guizhou Province. It is one of the eight ancient towns in Guizhou Province and is known as the first Miao village in China. Xijiang is the transliteration of "Jidao" in Miao language, which means the place where the Xi branch of the Miao people lives.

Xijiang has a long history of civilization and development and is an important birthplace of Miao culture. The original lifestyle of the Miao people is still preserved here.

6. Shaxi Ancient Town

Shaxi is a small town with a long history, which can be traced back to the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period more than 2,400 years ago. Sideng Street in the town is a tea horse A relatively complete ancient market preserved on the ancient road.

The ancient town now also has attractions such as the Ancient Stage, Yujin Bridge, and Xingjiao Temple, as well as many unique shops. It can be said to be a very pleasant thing to walk around slowly...

7. Wuzhen

Wuzhen is one of the four famous towns in the south of the Yangtze River. It is an ancient town with a long history of more than 6,000 years. The white walls, black tiles, small bridges and flowing water bring the atmosphere of Chinese ink paintings to your face...

April-May and October-December are the best times to travel to Wuzhen, especially around the Qingming Festival , has a typical spring scenery in the south of the Yangtze River, and the scenery is unique.

One-day trip to Wuzhen Water Town

8. Nanxun

Nanxun, like many ancient towns in the south of the Yangtze River, has a typical water town style, but it is not high-profile and silent. The place is waiting for its rich cultural heritage and tourists who truly understand it.

Nanxun Ancient Town is suitable for tourism all year round, and the best time to go is in spring. The water is warm, the flowers are blooming, the sun is shining brightly, and the new green willow trees along both sides of the river are particularly charming!

Nanxun Ancient Town Electronic Ticket

9. Fenghuang Ancient City

Fenghuang Ancient City is a national historical and cultural city. It was once praised as the most beautiful in China by the famous New Zealand writer Rewi Alley small town.

Fenghuang Ancient City was built during the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty. This "Pearl of Western Hunan" is worthy of its name as "small". It is so small that there is only one decent east-west street in the city, but it is a green corridor.

Multi-day tour of Zhangjiajie

10. Huanglong River

Huanglong River is located in the southern part of the Chengdu Plain, 40 kilometers away from Chengdu city. It is a new tourism destination in the suburbs of Chengdu. Hotspot, known as the hometown of Chinese folk art fire dragon.

Huanglongxi Ancient Town is an ancient town on the water in Western Sichuan with beautiful scenery, a long history and strong cultural heritage. It has rich natural landscape resources and cultural tourism resources.

One-day tour of Huanglongxi Ancient Town

11. Anchang Ancient Town

Anchang Ancient Town, located in Shaoxing County, is a famous Jiangnan water town with a thousand-year history. . It is one of the four famous ancient towns in Shaoxing.

Anchang Ancient Town is a typical ancient town in the south of the Yangtze River, with traditional shops and workshops, well-proportioned arcades, Taimen houses with pink walls and black tiles, winding and deep stone alleys, ancient and colorful Various stone bridges.

12. Zhouzhuang

“There is heaven above, Suzhou and Hangzhou below, and Zhouzhuang in the middle.” Zhouzhuang is known as the best water town in the world.

It is best not to go to Zhouzhuang on holidays. At this time, there are often huge crowds of people, and it may be difficult to appreciate the tranquility and beauty of the ancient town and water town. If you have the opportunity to stay, you must not miss the dusk and early morning in Zhouzhuang.

One-day tour of Zhouzhuang Ancient Town

13. Tongli

Tongli Town and Suzhou City are only half an hour away by car, but it is a quiet town Compared to the prosperous city, it is a different world. There are many rivers, many bridges, and many literati here.

It’s not that big. You can use your steps to measure every inch of the stone road leading to the quiet place. You can watch the boats coming and going on the river bank near the water and relax yourself.

Tickets for Suzhou Tongli Ancient Town

14. Xitang

Looking at the water town from a distance, the white walls and ink roofs, the shadows of boats and the light, are just like a light rice paper painting; Walking into the ancient town, the old corridors and sheds and the deep lanes seem to have entered a long history...

But Xitang is not silent. The shops on the West Street and under the Misty Corridor are connected one after another. The streets are filled with bars at night, so you can find your own nightlife.

One-day trip to Xitang

15. Qiandeng

Qiandeng is located in Kunshan, Suzhou, Jiangsu Province. He was an outstanding thinker, writer and patriot in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties. The hometown of scholar Mr. Gu Yanwu.

The town not only has Yu's Pawn Shop, which is called "the best in China", but also has the Ming and Qing slate streets, which are "unique in the south of the Yangtze River", and the precious Burmese white jade, which is exquisitely carved into a custard apple. Statue of Muni Nirvana;

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Qiandeng Electronic Ticket

16. Xidi

Xidi , located at the southern foot of Huangshan Mountain, is known as the "Peach Blossom Spring". Xidi Village is currently the most complete group of Huizhou-style buildings, with nearly 200 Ming and Qing folk houses still intact.

The Huizhou style buildings are well-proportioned and dotted with bricks, wood and stone carvings. They are rare among domestic ancient residential buildings and can be regarded as a model of Huizhou ancient residential architectural art.

17. Dawei

Dawei Ancient Town is located in the southeast of Guilin City. It is an ancient town with a long history. Most of the houses on the roadside are two-story Ming and Qing dynasty buildings with blue bricks and blue tiles. , the vicissitudes of history can be seen everywhere.

Dawu is surrounded by Shegong Mountain, Jingshan Mountain, Mopan Mountain and Zhenxi Maozhou. It is surrounded by water and has beautiful scenery and picturesque countryside.

Guilin 4-day boutique tour

18. Zhenyuan Ancient Town

Zhenyuan is located in southeastern Guizhou, Guizhou. It has a history of more than 2,200 years and is the oldest on the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau. famous city.

Compared with the famous ancient cities of Yangshuo, Lijiang and Fenghuang, Zhenyuan Ancient City is much quieter. Most of the people doing business are locals. The nightlife here is not very rich. It doesn’t take long before dark. After that, the street gradually returned to tranquility.

Multi-day tour in southeastern Guizhou

19. Xingping Ancient Town

Speaking of Xingping, you will feel very familiar, because this is the name on the back of 20 yuan pattern. Xingping has gone through many vicissitudes of life, but its simplicity remains the same. The bluestone slabs that have been polished by time reflect the original flavor of Yangshuo.

Many home-loving villagers and those who came from afar fell in love with this place and settled here, always sticking to this land where traces of time can be seen everywhere. Suitable for tourists who like nostalgia.

One-day tour of Guilin (including Xingping Ancient Town)

20. Heshun Ancient Town

Heshun is the birthplace of the earliest cross-border trade in Yunnan and an ancient silk road in the southwest. It is a century-old village deeply influenced by the culture of the Central Plains.

The Southwest Silk Road goes all the way west from here, eventually connecting West Asia and South Asia. Therefore, many legendary stories have been left here, and there are still historical buildings such as Ai Siqi's former residence, Cun's Ancestral Hall, Wanlouzi, and Heshun Library.