Guangxi has beautiful mountains and rivers and beautiful environment, is one of the provinces with the richest tourism resources in China, and it is also a famous longevity town, and there are 29 longevity towns named by the Chinese Gerontological Society. Today's xiaobian to say that this suitable city for the elderly, is not Beihai, nor Nanning and Guilin, the city is not only low-key, but also very characteristic, in Guangxi, looking at but "the least Guangxi", known as "Little Hong Kong", this city is Wuzhou.
Wuzhou is adjacent to Guangdong, as early as the Ming and Qing dynasties, Wuzhou is Guangxi's transportation hub and economic town, to the end of the Qing Dynasty to the beginning of the People's Republic, Wuzhou was once a developed city in Guangxi, convenient waterways make here become the southeast of Guizhou, Guixi, and Yunnan, Qian and other places of material distribution center. The climate here is humid, the water is abundant, the rice is abundant, and even the Cantonese people rely on Wuzhou for rice to eat, which has been a rich place since ancient times.
Wuzhou is a thousand-year-old city with rich cultural heritage, and it is also a leisure city that is livable and suitable for travel. Here away from the hustle and bustle of the big city, surrounded by mountains and water, fresh air, beautiful ecology, similar culture, folk customs, is a city full of streets people speaking Cantonese, eating Cantonese food and snacks, is an authentic Pearl River Delta back garden, one of the best tourist destinations for Cantonese people.
A large river divides Wuzhou into Hedong and Hexi. Hexi is full of fashionable and modern high-rise buildings, while Hedong is filled with a faint nostalgia and the fireworks of the old times.
Wuzhou is the birthplace of Lingnan culture and the birthplace of Cantonese, with a long history and cultural heritage, and has historically been the seat of the "Liangguang Commercial Port" and the Liangguang Governor's Palace in the Ming Dynasty. This is also a place where people are brilliant, from here have walked out countless historical celebrities, Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Li Xiucheng, modern celebrities Li Jishen, Li Pinxian, Liang Yusheng...
Wuzhou's economic development level is located in the middle reaches of Guangxi, the GDP in 2020 is only 108.1 billion yuan, ranking ninth in Guangxi District, but the entire city infrastructure is perfect, commercial development, there are several top three hospitals, with a certain level of medical care, in the development of the city has always been adhering to the concept that economic development can not be at the expense of the environment, its future development positioning is also to livable pension city as the overall goal.
Wuzhou is a livable city with green mountains and beautiful ecological environment, where there is clean drinking water, the water quality compliance rate is 100%, and the forest coverage rate is close to 76%. Wuzhou city has a mild climate, the average annual temperature is 21 degrees Celsius, the air is fresh, the river is clear, is a leisurely city with light clouds and light wind, the pace is not fast, Wuzhou is also the closest city to the Pearl River Delta in Guangxi, with convenient life and developed transportation, from the environment and living atmosphere is a city especially suitable for the elderly.
Wuzhou is rich in products, each county here has its own characteristic products, seedless watermelon in Fujian County, three yellow chickens in Cen Xi and "Cen Xi Red" granite are all local famous brand products, and the most famous in Wuzhou is also turtle paste, soybean milk crystal, honey date, known as Wuzhou "Three Treasures".
As the eastern gate of Guangxi, Wuzhou has unparalleled advantages in connecting with other cities in Guangxi in terms of docking the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, where the two Cultures blend, collide and infiltrate, when you walk in the streets and alleys here, you will see a lot of authentic Cantonese architecture, hear the purest Cantonese, taste the most authentic Lingnan cuisine. There is not only a deep cultural heritage of the two Cantons, but also low housing prices and prices, no wonder even The Cantonese people who study and work here frankly "love the culture and prices of Wuzhou".
Wuzhou Arcade, here a large number of arcades make you feel as if you have come to Guangdong, here hides the country's largest and densest arcade city, Hedong's qilou old street still exists 22, a total of 560 buildings, known as "China's arcade museum city".
The arcade building combines Chinese and Western styles, with a very Lingnan style, shops on the first floor, living on the second floor, and paving along the street is a sidewalk to shield the wind and rain. Strolling through the old streets of Wuzhou, you seem to have returned to that once prosperous era.
Wuzhou Dragon Mother Temple, built in the Northern Song Dynasty, the front main hall enshrines the statue of the Mother of Dragon, the Mother of Dragon is comparable to the "God of the West River" that Mazu is, and the folklore of the Mother of Dragon leads the people to open the mountains and control the water, which is deeply loved by the people.
Baiyun Mountain is the birthplace of Lingnan culture, according to the "Records of History", Emperor Shun collapsed in the wilderness of Cangwu (present-day Wuzhou, Guangxi), buried in Jiangnan Jiuxuan (Wuzhou Baiyun Mountain), and today there are Shenlutai, Guanghua Pavilion, Jinji Rock and other relics of Emperor Shun in Baiyun Mountain.
Zhongshan Park in Wuzhou City, which is built on the mountain, is lined with greenery and neatly greenery. In the early years, Sun Yat-sen went to Wuzhou three times to publicize the revolution, and the people of Wuzhou City built the Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall in Beishan Park in 1930 in honor of Mr. Zhongshan, and the park was renamed accordingly.
Wuzhou Bible College, built in 1899, at the end of the Qing Dynasty, foreign missionaries came here to carry out missionary activities, and the mottled walls still remind people of the vicissitudes of the past years.
The British consulate on the White Crane Mountain in the west of the Wuzhou River, in 1897, after Wuzhou was opened as a treaty port, the British established a consular office here, which was the commanding height of Wuzhou City in that year.
Wuzhou is a city of gastronomy. In the very early days there is "food in Wuzhou" said, Wuzhou City adjacent to Hong Kong and Macao, the food here is very strong Cantonese, eat or light, refreshing, tender, fragrant, its special cuisine paper wrapped chicken, aromatic, fragrant smell, tender and sweet, unique production process, so that the gourmets are amazing.
Wuzhou's flavor snacks also include paper boat porridge, glutinous rice fin, mugwort, fried field snail, soybean milk, turtle paste, fairy bowl, and the first porridge, intestinal powder, horseshoe (water chestnut) cake, banana leaf fin and so on. The Cantonese morning tea here is a specialty of Wuzhou.
If you are a foodie, then you must not miss the special snack street of Qilou city, you can enjoy the night view here, paper wrapped chicken, fried field snails, Cen Xi rice noodles and other special foods on this street can let you eat enough.
Slippery meat sausage powder, this dish needs to fry the pork until golden brown, the rolled intestine powder on the pot steamed, and then sprinkled with oil, seafood sauce and other condiments, so that the fried and steamed pork intestine powder can be both fragrant and smooth.
Raw stir-fried field snails, which is also a Wuzhou special snack, stir-fried with pork bone broth after boiling, fragrant, and then seasoned with garlic paste, ginger, tempeh, perilla leaves, etc.
Long powder, Cen Xi rice noodles are authentic Wuzhou cuisine, the water produced by it should choose dajing water, and the rice should not only choose late rice, but also go through multiple processes such as soaking, coarse grinding, fine grinding, fine grinding, etc., so that rice noodles are more powerful.
Wuzhou, an unknown guangxi city, life is comfortable, leisurely, low prices and house prices, is a rare place to live for the elderly, do you like this city?
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