A complete guide to ancient town tourism. What are the main attractions in Dachang Ancient Town?

Dachang Ancient Town was built in the Ming Dynasty. In the seventh year of Chenghua in the Ming Dynasty (1471), Wei Jin, the county magistrate, built the city wall. In the second year of Zhengde (1507), the county magistrate Dong Zhong built additional east, west and south gates. In the twenty-sixth year of Jiajing (1547), the city was rebuilt. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, Zhang Xianzhong defeated Dachang several times and the city was destroyed. In the early Qing Dynasty, the earth city was rebuilt. In the ninth year of Jiaqing (1804), earth forts were built and the city gates were reinforced. In the first year of Daoguang (1821), the Daning River surged and the city walls and gates were flooded. In the fourth year of Daoguang reign (1824), the county magistrate Yang Peizhi repaired the city walls and gates.

The ancient town currently has three city gates in the east, south and west. Chaoyang Gate in the east, Yongfeng Gate in the west and Tongji Gate in the south. The gates are all well preserved. There are also several well-preserved streets built in the Ming and Qing dynasties. The archways and ancient buildings on the street have carved beams and painted roofs, with raised corners?

Pictures of Dachang Ancient Town

Floating eaves, rich in ancient style.

Nanmen Ancient Road

Outside the south gate of the ancient town, there are dozens of stone steps leading to the river. They have been polished very brightly. On the arches made of bluestone bricks, there are There is an old locust tree that is hundreds of years old. Its roots are stuck in the stone cracks of the arch and stretch up along the stone. Its branches are lush and leafy, like a door god guarding the city gate. A pair of damaged stone lions on both sides of the stone steps guard the town gate, showing a bit of loneliness and desolation. They seem to be telling the long history of the town and reminding people of its past glory.

Architectures of the Ming and Qing Dynasties

Entering the ancient town up the stairs, you will see two rows of old houses facing the street with their eaves and warped walls, flaunting the prosperity of the past. In the middle is a long and narrow bluestone ancient road. The town has only two main streets, the north-south street is more than 150 meters long, and the east-west street is more than 240 meters long, covering an area of ??less than 10 hectares. There are thirty-seven ancient residential buildings of the Ming and Qing Dynasties with cornices and cornices in the town, as well as a complete ancient city wall. Most of the houses were built in the late Ming Dynasty and early Qing Dynasty. They have blue bricks and black tiles, double-tube eaves, cornices, carved beams and painted beams, and wooden facades, showing a simple beauty.

The Wen Family Courtyard

The Wen Family Courtyard is the largest and best-preserved building in the ancient town.

This building, built in the early Qing Dynasty, faces east and west and covers an area of ??more than 320 square meters. The courtyard consists of three parts: the entrance hall, the main hall, and the back hall. They are all made of wooden beams and have 12 columns and 37 beams. The window lattice has wood carvings and exquisite craftsmanship. The entire building has a bucket-type structure. You can enter through the front door and exit through the back door. According to Wen Guanglin, the tenth generation grandson of the Wen Family Courtyard, his ancestor was a governor of the Qing Dynasty and he started building the Wen Family Courtyard while he was still alive. In fact, the Wen Family Courtyard is just a microcosm of Dachang, a thousand-year-old town. As early as 227 BC, Dachang was the seat of Wuxian County at that time. Later generations gradually understood the history of Dachang from a large number of unearthed cultural relics through continuous archaeological discoveries. In 2000, through archaeological research on the ancient town, the Institute of Archeology of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences preliminarily concluded that the ancient town of Dachang may have been the capital of the Ba people in the past.

Guandi Temple

It is located about 300 meters northeast of the ancient city. It is a Qing Dynasty building with a construction area of ??810 square meters. It has a wooden structure and faces south from the north. It has three groups of courtyards. The year when it was first built cannot be determined, but it was overhauled in the second year of Jiaqing in the Qing Dynasty (1797).