Travel in Yunnan 2013 ~ Heshun Ancient Town

I have traveled to Yunnan several times by car, and my memory is a bit blurry, and it is difficult to find old photos, but the places that are more profound in my mind are still worth recording.

We drove there during the high-temperature holiday of our work in 2013. Together with two university teachers from Xi’an, we started from Chengdu, passed through Yuanmou and the Nujiang Grand Canyon, and arrived at Heshun Ancient Town.

During this trip, it was the first time I used WeChat to send messages to Moments.

Heshun Ancient Town is located in Tengchong, Baoshan, Yunnan. It is promoted as the business card of Tengchong tourism culture. It is a famous hometown of overseas Chinese. It has been shortlisted for the top ten charming towns in the country and won the only annual award. It has cultural and artistic value. The ancient residential buildings also gave birth to Ai Siqi, the great modern Marxist philosopher in China.

The ancient town is built on the mountain and is located near the water. It is well-proportioned and the residential buildings are built around the mountain. The roads from here are paved with bluestone slabs, criss-crossing like the blood of the town. A small river bypasses the ancient town and winds up into a natural lake with crystal clear water. The lotus flowers were in bloom when we went there, and the weather in Heshun was not too hot. There was a library with a combination of Chinese and Western architectural styles. There were many world famous books in the library, which shows that the people of Heshun Ancient Town had been doing business with overseas countries for a long time and had advanced ideas. The bougainvillea in front of the museum was in full bloom, which left a very good impression on us.

For more than 600 years, Central Plains culture, Western culture, Nanzhao culture and border culture have blended and collided here, forming a unique overseas Chinese culture and caravan culture, making Heshun one of the four typical examples of Yunnan Province One of the eco-cultural villages. Heshun has a fine tradition of advocating literature and religion since ancient times. In the Ming and Qing Dynasties, more than 400 scholars and scholars were produced here. It is the hometown of Yin Rong, the national teacher of Myanmar in the four dynasties, Zhang Baoting, the Jade King, and the famous philosopher Ai Siqi.

We walked into the homes of the residents of the ancient town. The courtyards are simple and the potted plants are elegant. We can visit them at will. There are "three squares and one screen wall", "siheyuan", "four in five patios", etc. Here you can appreciate the charm of Huizhou architecture with pink walls and black tiles, and you can also find elements of Western architecture. Especially the wood carvings on the doors and windows of the old house, the various carvings are lifelike. The particularly regional feature of the house is the stone steps made of volcanic stones, which can effectively prevent slipping in rainy weather.

Walking into Heshun, what is unfolding before us is a picturesque scenery, with beautiful mountains and clear waters, weeping willows blowing on the table, and green shadows whirling. "The mountains in the distance are vast and green, the rivers near are melodious, and under the hills of thousands of houses, they are better than the small Suzhou and Hangzhou." - This is how Mr. Li Genyuan, a veteran of the Republic of China, once praised harmony in a poem.

If you go to Heshun Ancient Town in autumn, you will definitely be amazed by the golden ancient ginkgo trees!