What is the best time to visit Yangmei Ancient Town?

The best time to visit Yangmei Ancient Town: suitable for all seasons

This is a well-preserved ancient town located in the lower reaches of Zuojiang River, about 30 kilometers away from Nanning City, with convenient land and water transportation . The ancient town was built in the Song Dynasty. At that time, it was a commodity distribution center with a radius of nearly 100 kilometers. Xu Xiake, a famous traveler in the Ming Dynasty, once visited here by boat from Nanning and praised Yangmei Town's scenery along the river.

There are eight major scenic spots in Yangmei Ancient Town, including Kuixing Tower, a street in the Qing Dynasty, ancient buildings in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, and the former residence of Liang Liya (a patriot of the Xinhai Revolution). Whenever the sun sets, The sparkling river surface, green water and green bamboos reflect the ancient town, making it look particularly beautiful.

Yangmei Ancient Town was built in the Song Dynasty and has a history of thousands of years. Because it is surrounded by rivers on three sides, it only benefits from waterways. It was once prosperous in history and was a famous commercial port on Zuojiang River. Nowadays, there are three or five small passenger cruise ships docked at the pier. The boatman squats in the cabin and smokes, waiting patiently for the guests on the shore to return. Under the shade of the trees, there are about a dozen peasant women using dustpans on the ground to sell bananas, pickles, and tempeh produced in the town. The sight of cargo ships lined up along the river bank, with big ships stern connected to small bows, people chatting in south-to-north accents, and cargo ships turning around are no longer visible on the pier. Perhaps, only the towering old trees on the shore can bear witness to the past prosperity of the town.

On the right side of the pier, there is a gate in the shade of the trees, with the words Linjiang Street written on it. Going from here is a famous street in the Qing Dynasty. The three-hundred-meter-long street is paved with bluestone slabs. It is narrow and slender, less than four meters wide. It is lined with houses with blue bricks, gray tiles and door piers, which are quite ancient. There are several quotations from Chairman Mao painted on an old wall. The vermilion handwriting has been somewhat obliterated, which makes people feel strange after reading it. Over time, some old houses have collapsed. Planting a few grapefruit and pomegranate plants and pots of flowers and plants on the homesteads adds to the liveliness.

Another landscape in Yangmei is the sunset of Longtan at the end of the village. The Zuojiang River flows through here, forming a large bay. There are many ancient trees on the bank, towering and blocking out the sun. There is a small hexagonal pavilion hidden among the trees. Whenever the sun sets, golden light flashes on the water. Standing in the pavilion and looking at Longtan, the scenery is charming.

There are also many historic sites scattered in Yangmei Town. The Confucius Temple, Kuixing Tower, Muyi Gate, Huang Manor, the former residence of Jinshi and the former residence of Liang Lieya, a revolutionary figure of 1911, are all worth visiting.

Walking through the ancient houses and alleys of Xialeng and Yangmei is like walking on the corridor of time. As time goes by, cultural relics, historic sites, strange rocks, and clear streams unfold before your eyes. Different, poetic and picturesque, it makes people linger.

Why is this ancient town still well preserved and has become a tourist attraction for modern people? At that time, because the ancient town of Yangmei had been connected to the outside world by the Zuojiang waterway for thousands of years, and Yangmei was surrounded by the Zuojiang River on three sides, it naturally formed a long peninsula with a width of 6.5 square kilometers. The beauty is gone. In addition, there is a ferry that must be passed to reach Nanning. The Yongjiang River naturally separates Yangmei Ancient Town from Nanning, so it is well preserved and has become a paradise in the western suburbs of Nanning.

Yangmei Ancient Town was built in the Song Dynasty. The ancestors of the four surnames Luo, Liu, Lu and Li were the first to live here and create the ancient fair. Because the local flowers are everywhere, it is also called "Baihua Village". Later, General Di Qing of Shandong led his soldiers to the south to flatten the barbarians, and people from all over the country continued to migrate here, forming an ancient town. In addition, some of the ancestors of Yangmei are the old and young who followed Nantao, the leader of Guangxi, in the late Ming Dynasty. The total area of ??the ancient town is 6.5 kilometers. Yangmei was very prosperous during the Qing Dynasty. There are eight ancient stone streets from the Song Dynasty and eight ancient docks from the Song Dynasty. However, in the late Qing Dynasty, due to the inconvenience of land routes, the status of convenient waterways was replaced by Nanning and Guigang. From then on, Yangmei gradually became quiet.

Yangmei not only has a long history, but also has a large number of talents. It has produced Du Yuanchun, Xie Yuan, Liang Dejian, and Liang Lieya, an activist of the 1911 Revolution (former secretary of Dr. Sun Yat-sen). Yangmei people advocate culture. There were 5 candidates from Linjiang Street in the Qing Dynasty, and more than 10 Jinshi from the whole town.

The buildings of the residents of the ancient town are very beautifully decorated, with exquisite floral decorations on the eaves, doors and windows, auspicious animal patterns, dragon sculptures on the roof, ancient stone dogs, ancient stone piers, etc., giving people an ancient and simple look. . Yangmei also has rich ancient music and folk arts: singing and watching spring oxen, Shigong Opera, dragon boat rowing on March 3rd and other activities.