Which ancient town around Chongqing is worth visiting?

There are many ancient towns around Chongqing that you can visit. Next, let me introduce to my friends the nine ancient towns around Chongqing. let's see! If you have time, you can visit. Please see below for a detailed introduction to the ancient towns around Chongqing.

1. Zhongshan Ancient Town

Zhongshan Town, located in Jiangjin County, Chongqing City, is one of the top ten ancient towns in Chongqing. The ancient town built along the river has the style of a Jiangnan water town. It just forms a narrow old alley three kilometers long. The Qing Dynasty buildings on both sides are mainly well preserved, and the bluestone roads on the ground give people a sense of ancient harmony. There are now 209 households in the ancient town, and traditional private commercial businesses such as blacksmith shops, traditional Chinese medicine stores, and barber shops still exist. Walking through the old streets paved with black bluestones and walking through Catherine’s winding stone alleys, the wind passing through the fields is filled with the fragrance of herbs from time to time. The sound of spitting fire and the clanking of iron in the blacksmith shop are so harmonious, with an artistic atmosphere that does not require carving, while the old man with shaved head under the eaves of the street looks calm and comfortable, like an oil painting, which sets off the ancient town. A unique picture of living and working in peace and contentment.

2. Songgai Ancient Town

Yongchuan Songgai Ancient Town is located in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, with a long history and profound cultural heritage. It retains the longest ancient street in Chongqing, with a total length of more than 5,000 meters, including magnificent carved buildings, stilted buildings built on the mountain, ancient courtyards, ancient county offices symbolizing power, as well as the Luojia Ancestral Hall, Dongyue Temple, and Jingchen Temple. Representative ancestral halls and temples. Songshui Ancient Town attracts tourists most with its ancestral temple culture and traditional cuisine. The ancestral halls and temples in Songshui are called "Nine Gongs and Eighteen Temples" and can be called "ancestral hall museums". Such as Wenchang Palace, Zhang Family Ancestral Hall, Jia Fan Ancestral Hall, etc. Among them, the Luo Family Ancestral Hall, which was built during the Hongwu period of the Ming Dynasty, has unique architecture and sculptures and is well preserved. It has been renovated, and there are still "Family Law Plaques" given by the royal family of the Ming Dynasty and the "Luofu Ancestral Hall" inscriptions from the Eighth Palaces of Qianlong. The traditional delicacies of the ancient town Songshuiyu are "Songshuiyu" and "Nine Bowls", which were praised by Song Meiling during the Anti-Japanese War. There are also salted cabbage, fried rice sugar, healthy vinegar brewed from pure grains, roasted sweet potatoes, steamed buns, bazan and so on.

3. Laitan Ancient Town

Laitan Ancient Town is located on Jiufeng Mountain 32 kilometers east of Hechuan City, Chongqing. Surrounded by Qujiang River, it integrates ancient temples, ancient cities, and ancient Buddhas, and has beautiful scenery. Setan Ancient Town has a long history and began to take shape as early as the Song Dynasty. The ancient town is adjacent to Qujiang, with beautiful natural scenery, well-proportioned Ming and Qing folk houses, simple and elegant old streets and alleys, and well-preserved barbicans built in the Qing Dynasty, which are only found in Chongqing. Setan Ancient Town is divided into fields and fields, which are very close to each other. They look like brothers and sisters, one high and one low, one up and one down, one strong and one soft, taking care of each other. The ancient village still retains the appearance of an ancient castle, with narrow and winding stone streets and suitable scale, and more than 400 houses from the Qing Dynasty. The well-proportioned small blue-tiled buildings with wooden structures basically maintain the original style of the Ming and Qing Dynasties. They are simple and elegant, giving people the feeling of returning to nature and stepping into a quiet mountain city.

4. Gongtan Ancient Town

Gongtan Ancient Town is located in Youyang Tujia and Miao Autonomous County, Chongqing City, on the east bank of Wujiang River at the intersection of Wujiang River and Apeng River. It is a town with a history of more than 1,700 years. ancient town. The existing ancient town has about three kilometers of stone streets, more than 150 embankment walls with different characteristics, more than 200 simple and quiet courtyard houses, and more than 50 stilted buildings of different shapes. It has unique local characteristics and is a well-preserved large-scale Ming and Qing architectural complex in my country. Experts believe that Gongtan Ancient Town is comparable to the World Cultural Heritage Lijiang Ancient Town. Gong Qing Shiban Street

5. Tanghe Ancient Town

is located in the southwest area of ??the Chongqing-Sichuan junction in Jiangjin City, Chongqing City, within the Heishishan-Gunziping Scenic Area. It is adjacent to Baisha Town in the northeast, close to the Chengdu-Chongqing Railway and the golden waterway of the Yangtze River, and borders Hejiang River in Sichuan to the southwest. This ancient town has a long history. As early as 2000 years ago, people lived in compact communities. Since Wangye Temple was built in the Ming Dynasty, houses were successively built into a market town. It began to prosper during the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, so it was named after the Tang River. This street is built along the mountain, winding up in steps from the pier by the river. Most of the buildings along the street are made of bluestone, with brick and wood walls, odd eaves and brackets, carved beams and painted columns, which are well-proportioned and beautiful. In the overlapping rooms of the ancient town, several Huizhou buildings that are rare in Bashu are interspersed, which is breathtaking. It is a precious material for studying the historical and cultural development of Bashu.

6. Shuangjiang Ancient Town

It is located in the lower reaches of Fujiang River, a tributary of Jialing River. The ancient town is paved with bluestone slabs, with alternating shops, scattered terraces, deep courtyards and full of ancient charm. Built in the late Ming Dynasty and early Qing Dynasty, it has a history of more than 400 years. Today, there are 9 streets, including Zhongjie, East Street, Shangxi Street and Xiaxi Street, criss-crossing each other, forming the unique characteristics of Shuangjiang Ancient Town. These houses have a long history, and some of them are Ming and Qing buildings. They are well preserved and unique. They are dotted in the ancient town, forming a unique landscape, and include the former residence of Chairman Yang. It is praised by experts as "a rare residential building complex in the Qing Dynasty". On the 700-meter-long "Qing Dynasty Street", towers and terraces are scattered in an orderly manner, and the courtyards are deep and antique. Unique, flexible and eclectic in layout, architectural styles vary greatly and are rich in layers.

7. Ningchang Ancient Town

Ningchang Ancient Town is one of the first batch of historical and cultural towns announced by the Chongqing Municipal Government. Located in the ancient town of Wuxi County, it is built near mountains and rivers. Qingshi Street is narrow, with ancient buildings and residential buildings such as stilted buildings and cross-street buildings winding along the Houxi River. It is commonly known as "Seven Miles and Half Side Street". Guning Town has a history of salt production for more than 4,000 years.

And because of salt, it has the glory of "a spring of white jade, thousands of miles of gold". Therefore, Ningchang Ancient Town is the birthplace and cradle of ancient human civilization in the Three Gorges region. It can be called the world's "ancient salt capital" and the "originator" of the world's handicraft workshops.

Gu Ning Ancient Town, with its profound cultural heritage, simple folk customs and quiet mountains and rivers, is a new tourism product for cultural appreciation of Chongqing’s ancient towns, a high-quality tourism product for the North-South Tourism Corridor of the Three Gorges, and a beautiful ancient town for new Three Gorges tourism. The product is a unique ancient town product at the junction of Chongqing, Shaanxi and Hubei. It is the best ancient town tourism product in the golden triangle of Fengjie, Wuxi and Wushan, and is China's "ancient salt capital".

8. Pianyan Ancient Town

It is located between two remaining mineral veins in the southwest of Huaying Mountain. It is located in a hilly area, with a trend of high in the northeast and low in the southwest. The average altitude is 52 meters, and the highest altitude is 942.9 meters. In the 24th year of Qianlong's reign (1759), a farm was built here as a town. Because there is a steep rock wall in the north of the town, it is named Pianyan Town. The town was an important trading town on the ancient road from Chongqing to Huaying, where merchants gathered in the past. Although hundreds of years have passed, its streets, buildings, folk customs, and market conditions still retain the simplicity and elegance of the past. The rock is built against the mountains and rivers and stands outside the city. Looking from a distance, you can see the brick houses of wooden houses distributed along the mountain, overlapping and scattered. A clear black water beach river surrounds the ancient town, flows through Sansheng Town, Fuxing Town, and finally merges into the Jialing River. There is a long bluestone bridge across the water at the entrance of the ancient town. The streets are paved with bluestone and are about 400 meters long along the Heishuitan River. There are more shops on both sides of the street than others. Most shops are made of wood and bamboo, or the walls are made of long wooden boards, or the walls are wooden

9. Lukong Ancient Town

Lukong Ancient Town is a famous The scenic area has rich historical and cultural heritage and charming water town scenery. The ancient town is located in the eastern part of Rongchang County, Chongqing City, 13 kilometers away from the county seat and 38 kilometers away from the world cultural heritage Dazu Rock Carvings. Konggu Town is surrounded by mountains and rivers. The tall Wanling Mountain and the clear Laixi River quietly accompany the ancient town. Kong's name is due to a beautiful folklore. As early as the Southern Song Dynasty, Lukong was famous. Since water transport also produced honey as tribute to the imperial court, Lukong was a famous water dock and material distribution center, and the government's money, grain, and weapons all passed through here. After thousands of years of vicissitudes, this ancient town still retains its unique style. Ancient city walls and gates; Caoyun Wharf; Zhao's ancestral hall and Manfu; Han Dynasty tombs and Song Dynasty Thousand Buddha Cave; ancient temples, ancient bridges, ancient trees; one after another beautiful folklore and allusions, all of which are permeated with the rich charm of the ancient town. cultural connotation. Surrounded by green mountains, the ancient town is surrounded by clear water. Boating on the creek is an idyllic poem with lingering sounds; a genre painting is full of cigarettes and haze. The tall poplars, the verdant mountains, the endless bank of bamboos, the smoke from the farmhouse, and the shepherd boy playing the piccolo will make you linger and forget to leave, as if you are in a paradise.