Each of these five ancient towns in Guizhou is touching. Which one have you been to?

In recent years, ancient town tours have gradually become popular. When you take a tour of the ancient town, you can not only see some beautiful mountains and rivers, but also touch the white walls and black tiles and feel the culture and history. It is really a special experience. If you want to ask me, which province has more ancient towns? The first thing that comes to my mind must be Guizhou. This province with rich scenery has many ancient towns, and each ancient town is full of characteristics. When you go to Guizhou, you should not only fall in love with Huangguoshu You should visit these ancient towns to take a look at the Great Falls or Longgong Cave.

The styles of ancient towns in Guizhou are not uniform. Each ancient town style has its own characteristics. They may be as picturesque as a water town in the south of the Yangtze River; some may be pastoral with green fields; or they may be rich in history, vicissitudes of life and ancient... Walking quietly among them, you will not only reap the wonderful scenery, but also appreciate the vast and far-reaching Guizhou culture. style.

Zhenyuan Ancient Town, located in southeastern Guizhou, is a town that everyone will visit when they first enter Guizhou. It is surrounded by mountains and rivers, with a bit of the flavor of Fenghuang Ancient City. The clear Wuyang River passes through the city, and behind the city stands the steep Miao Mountains.

Zhenyuan, "a city surrounded by nine mountains and a government position by a river", has been an important military town for military strategists since ancient times. To this day, there are still many ruins of ancient city walls and gates in the ancient city.

You can see many Hui-style buildings here. They all have layers of horse-head walls, coupled with bluestone streets and green plants and wild flowers on the streets, making you feel unique and comfortable.

At night, when the lights are on, standing on the New Bridge and watching the night view, you will feel that everything here is so quiet and beautiful.

Get up early in the morning and walk into the Consecration Bridge. You will see the "Qinglong Cave" on the side of the Acropolis. This is a complex of 36 single buildings. The complex has both garden charm and With a bit of a temple style, Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism are integrated here, forming the unique style of Zhusheng Bridge.

Zhenyuan Ancient Town has countless delicacies, including dishes, fish in sour soup, bacon hot pot, Anjia sesame cakes, jelly... You can enjoy a delicious meal while visiting the ancient town, and let your eyes and taste buds record everything in Zhenyuan Ancient Town.

There is a Yi town hidden deep in the mountains on the branch of Wumeng Mountain in Liupanshui. It is very close to Yushe National Forest Park. If you come here for a walk, you can better understand the culture of Guizhou and the Yi people, and feel the ethnic customs you have never seen before.

The Yi-style town is pleasant all year round. When you enter the town, the first thing you see is the brown thatched house surrounded by flowers. The doors and windows are all wooden and carved with unique patterns of the Yi people. , every road is a bluestone road, coupled with the blue sky, various colors of flowers, and green grass, it is pleasing to the eye at a glance.

"Haiping" means a large open space in Yi language. The Yi compatriots thrive in this open land and live a relatively primitive life. Every Torch Festival, the Yi people sing and dance in this open land, slaughter and eat sheep. The "biggest pot in the world" with a height of 1.8 meters and a diameter of 6.24 meters witnesses the annual Torch Festival of the Yi people on June 24th of the lunar calendar. Grand occasion - this big pot can cook more than 300 sheep at the same time and serve 20,000 people for meals. Coupled with the blazing flames, you should be able to imagine how joyful the Yi people are when they gather here every year during the Torch Festival. How lively.

After visiting Qianhu Yi Village, Tusi Manor or Yi Customs Street, don’t forget to take a look at Jiuchong Palace. This is a good place to display the most comprehensive display of Yi culture and history. Its appearance resembles the ancient Yi king. The palace is a magnificent courtyard-style building complex. With a central axis as the symmetry line, the houses overlap and the upper and lower houses are connected. When you walk inside, it is magnificent and full of cultural relics about the Yi people. When you visit it, you will be deeply infected by the cultural charm of the Yi people.

At the junction of Hunan and Guizhou, there is a "Cinnabar Kingdom" where the most primitive and advanced technology is used to mine and smelt tribute ore. Mining tunnels can be opened underground 970 kilometers above the ground to produce The cinnabar produced is of large quantity and good quality, ranking third in the world and first in Asia. Here is Zhusha Ancient Town.

Cinnabar Ancient Town has a high altitude, and you can see the wonders of the sea of ??clouds all year round. The negative ion content in the air is as high as 120,000 per square centimeter. It can be said to be a pure natural oxygen bar. Wanshan, the top of the mountains in the easternmost part of Guizhou, is right here.

Wanshan Mountain has high valleys, secluded peaks and strange caves. There is a thrilling cliff glass plank road on Wanshan Mountain. After visiting it once, you can re-walk the thrilling path that miners used to commute to get off work, and enjoy the view of the people. While looking at the winding mountains and the gurgling springs in the valley, I can appreciate the hard work of the miners.

16 ethnic minorities have taken root here, and the mountains and rivers are connected by strong ethnic friendship. They gather together to eat rice dumplings during Qingming Festival and eat bamboo shoots at the beginning of summer. Eating the most solemn "pig-killing dish" is the best reward and summary of a year's hard work in this area.

The Shexiang Ancient Town in Bijie, Guizhou is located at the foot of Yunlong Mountain. It is a very beautiful but little-known place.

The buildings here all have iconic vermilion pillars, cornices and horns, which are antique, the window grilles are all hollow, and the sound of wind chimes under the eaves is endless when walking among them. Every corner is dotted with clear water and beautiful bamboos, and gurgling streams line the snake-shaped paths. This kind of environment makes people feel comfortable in it.

These are not the most beautiful. The most beautiful ones are undoubtedly the terraces in Shexiang Ancient Town. The terraces in Shexiang Ancient Town are full of pastoral poetry. The 180 acres of terraced fields are layered on top of each other, forming a huge spiral embedded in the ancient town. Among them, the bird's eye view from a high place is amazing, and you can take a beautiful photo just by taking it.

After night falls, the layers of terraces will be illuminated by lights, making the extravagant and fragrant terraces even more dazzling at night. After seeing it, you will never forget it.

On the southwest edge of Jinping County, Qiandongnan Miao and Dong Autonomous Prefecture, Guizhou Province, there is a city forgotten by the world called "Longli Ancient Town".

When Wang Changling was demoted to this place, his friend Li Bai was very sad and wrote: "When the flowers have fallen and my son returns to cry, I smell the dragon marking the five streams, I send my sorrowful heart to the bright moon, and follow the wind until Yelang The sad poem of "West".

This place has both the exquisiteness of the Jiangnan water towns and the charm of Beijing courtyards. In this mountain basin, there are thousands of acres of fertile farmland and crisscrossing roads. Surrounded by mountains, covered with thick shade, the scenery is beautiful. Despite hundreds of years of wind, frost, erosion and fire disasters, the entire ancient town still remains intact and is one of the best-preserved ancient towns on the southern plateau of my country.

When you come here, you can sing Han opera, recite stories, and play dragon lanterns with the villagers here. Longli pickled fish, Double Ninth Festival wine, rice crackers, fried rice and other delicacies will also make your taste buds want to stop. Although this ancient city is niche, it will definitely make you linger.

There are more than these five ancient cities in Guizhou. Each ancient city has its own characteristics and charm. If you have the opportunity to travel to Guizhou, you must take the time to walk around and visit these ancient cities. Good scenery and cultural customs are hidden in these ancient cities, waiting for you quietly...

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