What are the ancient village attractions in Zhuhai?

Paishan Village: Paishan Village is an ancient village with Lingnan characteristics. Because the residents are arranged along the sloping hillside from high to low, it was originally called Xieshan Village, and later renamed Paishan Village. It has a history of more than 230 years and is a rare ancient village in the Qing Dynasty in Zhuhai.

Most of the existing houses in Paishan Village are rammed earth walls and tile-wood structures, including 70 rammed earth houses, 6 red brick houses and 9 blue brick houses, but these old houses are basically uninhabited now. Walking through the village lane, you can see ancient wells and ancient woodcut couplets everywhere, which are antique. There is a crescent-shaped river in Paishan village, which is called "descendants pond" by local villagers, and it protects the whole village.

Huitong Village: Huitong Ancient Village is also an ancient village with a history of 170 years, hidden behind the bustling Zhuhai. Gu Men, Diaolou, Ancestral Temple, Qixia Fairy Hall and rows of antique houses in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China are preserved here, and every place exudes ancient meaning.

As an ancient village with typical Lingnan architectural style, Huitong Village is a unified Lingnan residence, and every household is covered with grey tiles and blue bricks. However, the architectural pattern continues "three streets and eight lanes", that is, the north-south "Xiahengjie" and the parallel "Zhonghengjie" and "Shanghengjie" which gradually increase according to the mountain trend. "Eight alleys" are eight east-west stone streets.

"Eight alleys" connect three main streets along the mountain from bottom to top, and "three streets and eight alleys" crisscross each other vertically, forming a square and regular "chessboard" spatial organization structure. In the courtyard where ancient and famous trees are full of vitality, there are also Chinese hexagonal pavilions, Japanese square-bottomed Mao Ting and Indian Yuli pavilions, which mix diverse architectural cultures and add to the legend of Huitong Village.