What attractions are there in Anju Ancient Town?

Anju Ancient City (a national AAAA-level tourist attraction) is named after Da'an River (Qiongjiang River) within its territory, which means living and working in peace and contentment. The ancient city is located in Anju Town, Tongliang District, Chongqing. The scenic area covers an area of ??13.2 square kilometers, including 3 square kilometers of the core area of ??Anju Ancient City and cultural tourism functional areas such as Heilongzui, Pipa Island, Huangjiaba, and Bolun Temple.

Tongliang Anju Ancient Town

Tongliang Anju Ancient Town

It has a superior location and convenient transportation. Anju has developed waterway transportation since ancient times, tracing up to western Sichuan and down to Chongqing, Wuhan, and Shanghai. Sampans, Shuangfeiyan, and Anyue ships shuttle back and forth, and wine gangs, salt gangs, Zaozha gangs, slaughter gangs, weaving gangs, and dyeing gangs There are many gangs and other guilds, and it was once an important cargo distribution center in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River. Anju Ancient City is 17 kilometers away from Tongliang City, 23 kilometers away from Hechuan City, and 66 kilometers away from the main city of Chongqing. It can be reached by car only 3.5 kilometers away from the Shaoyun Interchange of the Chongqing-Sui Expressway. It is home to Dazu Rock Carvings, Hechuan Diaoyu City, and Tongnan Yang Family. The former residence and other central nodes of the Yuxi tourism ring have obvious location advantages. The ancient city located at 30 degrees north latitude has been endowed with endless mystery since ancient times.

It has a long history and many monuments. As early as 20,000 years ago, ancestors were living and multiplying in peace. Villages were formed in the Han Dynasty, and by the Sui and Tang Dynasties, they had become the main waterway in the lower reaches of the Fujiang River. Anju was established as a county three times in the eighth year of Kaihuang in the Sui Dynasty (AD 588), the seventh year of Xining in the Northern Song Dynasty (AD 1074), and the seventeenth year of Chenghua in the Ming Dynasty (AD 1481). It was merged in the sixth year of Yongzheng in the Qing Dynasty (AD 1728). Entered Tongliang County. Anju Ancient City is an ancient Feng Shui city with a well-preserved system, large scale, and a very three-dimensional sense. The ancient city has Feifeng Mountain in the east, Hualong Mountain in the south, Wumu River in the west and Guanzi Mountain in the west, and Fujiang River in the north. It is winding and steep. The wall stands on the river bank. There are 197 municipal and district-level cultural relics and historic sites in the city, as well as 1 national-level intangible cultural heritage. There are many ancestral halls, guilds, chambers of commerce, and Ge Lao guilds, the "nine palaces and eighteen temples" are dazzling, the streets and lanes are lined with Ming and Qing buildings, the aroma of Qiongjiang and Chongde academies is alluring, and the guilds in Huguang, Fujian, Jiangxi, Guangdong and other places are famous far and wide.