China's most beautiful and most worthy of 20 ancient towns, the absolute national style and ancient charm, worth punching oh

Xitang, Zhejiang

In Xitang, you can savor the slow life here, you can enjoy tea and listen to music in the tea house, or wait for the night in Xitang to put on a stunning coat, take a rocking boat to see the various reflections in the water, or go to the bar to sit down and find a little modern sense of quaintness.

Even standing on a bridge overlooking a wooden boat, looking out over the eaves, or wandering aimlessly under the canopy is a pleasure.

There are many local residents living in the ancient town, and you will see that there are often grandmothers washing clothes by the river, and grandfathers playing chess in the gallery shed, and the atmosphere of life is quite strong.

Jiangsu Mudu

Mudu Ancient Town, known as the "First Town of Wuzhong", not only has the interest of real mountains and real waters, but also has the quiet of small bridges and flowing water, and there are many cultural monuments such as private gardens and celebrity former residences, which have a unique atmosphere in many ancient towns.

Hunan Phoenix

Phoenix Ancient City is an ancient city with national characteristics and temperament, half of the tourists who come here to see the scenery, half to experience the culture. The city's bluestone streets, stilt houses along the Tuojiang River, numerous ancient buildings, and strong Miao customs constitute a unique Xiangxi charm.

It has been praised by the famous New Zealand writer Louis Eli as the most beautiful small city in China, comparable to the ancient city of Lijiang in Yunnan and the ancient city of Pingyao in Shanxi, and enjoys the reputation of "North Pingyao, South Phoenix".

Wuzhen, Zhejiang

Wuzhen is a historic Jiangnan ancient town in the northern suburbs of Tongxiang, the main scenic spot is divided into Xizha and Dongzha, enjoying the night view of Xizha, riding a boat, watching folk performances, is an experience that tourists will not miss. It is also the filming location of "Like Water Years" starring Huang Lei and Rene Liu.

The Qing Dynasty residential buildings on the streets of Wuzhen are well preserved, and the wood and stone carvings on beams, columns, doors and windows are exquisitely crafted. Local residents still live in these old houses. Wuzhen began to develop tourism in 1998, with the goal of keeping Wuzhen the same as it was a hundred years ago.

Tongli, Jiangsu

Jiangnan water town Tongli ancient town is located in Suzhou Wujiang, surrounded by lakes, the network of rivers will divide the town into seven islands, the ancient town is almost home adjacent to the water, there are many narrow alleys and old buildings of the Ming and Qing dynasties, there are not too many tourists on weekdays, there is a sense of quiet and peaceful. At night, the lights are lit up along the eaves, which is beautiful.

Pingyao, Shanxi

A famous historical and cultural city of nearly 3,000 years, it is one of the four best-preserved ancient cities on the mainland. As the financial center of China in the late Qing Dynasty, the cultural atmosphere of Jin shang can be felt everywhere in the ancient city.

The streets of the ancient city are in the shape of "earth", and climbing the ancient city wall of Pingyao can overlook the whole city. In the Rishengchang ticket number, you may wish to let the old treasurer in the robe and horse coat write you a bill of exchange in the earliest way of a bill of exchange.

Xizhou, Yunnan

Xizhou Town is located in the north of Dali City, Dali Bai Autonomous Prefecture in the northwest of Yunnan Province, and the town has a total of Bai residential buildings with characteristics of the Ming Dynasty, Qing Dynasty, Republic of China and contemporary periods.

From a distance, it looks like a simple and elegant city, more like a huge museum of residential buildings. That unique shape, that almost perfect structure, all give people a solemn and majestic but not lose the light and flexible, simple and elegant but not lack of free texture and beauty.

Huangyao, Guangxi

Huangyao Ancient Town has a history of nearly a thousand years, it originated during the Song Dynasty, because the town is mostly surnamed Huang and Yao, so the name "Huang Yao".

Huangyao Ancient Town was not a well-known place before, until "Tea is Hometown Strong" and "Wine is Hometown Alcohol" were filmed here, the two hit dramas and films "Veil" of that year, which made Huangyao appear in the spotlight, fortunately it was still not overdeveloped.

Like many small towns in Jiangnan, Huangyao also has small bridges, flowing water, people's homes, elaborately carved cornice beam murals, and ancient houses with poetry and painting walls on the eaves. The cobblestone street is still the same as it was hundreds of years ago, and the green brick roof houses are connected into a large area, which looks long and deep. However, compared with the ancient towns around Zhejiang, Huangyao has less hustle and glitz, more of a sense of tranquility and far-reaching, and is a beautiful ancient town worth recommending in China.

Wuyuan, Jiangxi

Huangling is a typical mountain village on the eastern line of Wuyuan, and local villagers have been using bamboo plaques to dry their crops since ancient times. Every harvest season, hundreds of Huipai houses scattered in the sun, and the colorful harvest results on the sun rack constitute a splendid "sunshine autumn" landscape, attracting many photographers to come here to shoot and create.

Lijiang, Yunnan

Lijiang Ancient City, also known as Dayan Town, is one of the famous towns on the Tea Horse Ancient Road, and film and television dramas such as "One Meter Of Sunshine" and "Mufu Fengyun" have been filmed here. In the ancient city, the wooden building green tiles, the ancient streets and stone alleys, the small bridges and flowing water, standing on the east street of the ancient city, you can look up at the Yulong Snow Mountain, and the scenery is very beautiful.

Guizhou town far away

Zhenyuan Ancient City (Zhenyuan Ancient Town) is located in Zhouzhenyuan County, Southeast Qiandong, on the banks of the Wuyang River, and the river meanders through the city in an "S" shape, forming a style similar to taijitu, so it is also known as Bagua Ancient Town. Every summer, tourists from the surrounding area gather here, which is very lively.

Hunan Furong

Before 1986, the town of Furong was still called her nickname Wang Village. At that time, her little family was as small as jasper and comfortable, and there was no dispute with the world. Surrounded by water on three sides and the position of the mountain on one side, she occupied the feng shui. Because of the magnificent waterfall that runs through it, it is also known as the "thousand-year-old town hanging on the waterfall".

On the stilt tower on the edge of the waterfall, enjoy the night view and the waterfall, listen to the sound of the waterfall flowing, and then order a few specialties, especially a rice tofu, and taste the rice tofu sold by Liu Xiaoqing in the movie "Furong Town"! Taste the Xiangxi rice wine again, it is very comfortable!!!

Nanxun, Zhejiang

Nanxun Ancient Town, located in Nanxun District, Huzhou City, Zhejiang Province, has a long history of more than 700 years. Wandering around the ancient town of Nanxun, looking up is a staggered wall of horse heads, and looking down, you can see that there are black canopy boats paddling on the water. Walking through the arches of the ancient town, it is as if you have traveled back to the old time hundreds of years ago.

Qingyan, Guizhou

Qingyan Ancient Town is located in Huaxi District, the southern suburb of Guiyang City, together with Zhenyuan, Bing'an and Longli, known as the four ancient towns of Guizhou. The ancient town was founded in the Ming Dynasty, originally a military fortress, the town has well preserved a large number of ancient buildings from the Ming and Qing dynasties, and the filming of the movie "Looking for Guns" has made Qingyan Ancient Town well known to more people.

Jinxi, Jiangsu

Jinxi Ancient Town, located on the banks of Dianshan Lake in the southern suburbs of Kunshan, is a thousand-year-old jiangnan water town. The ancient town is not large, the ancient lotus bridge of Chinese landscape paintings, the mysterious Chen Fei water tomb attract tourists to come to explore, various folk collections are also worth visiting, and there are various snack bars on the old street.

Walk along the water alley to the end of the old street, in front of the open, in front of a pond full of rocking boats sits the Lotus Pond Zen Temple and Wenchang Pavilion, which were built in the Southern Song Dynasty, and the incense in the temple is very strong. On the lake near the Zen Temple, in the summer, the green lotus flourishes, reflecting the ancient lotus bridge, the scenery is very beautiful, and it is a scenic spot for photography. On the surface of the lake lies the Chen Fei Water Tomb, which is the tomb of the favorite concubine of Emperor Xiaozong of the Southern Song Dynasty, and it is said that no matter how the water level changes, the water tomb is always exposed on the lake surface, which is a famous scene.

Zhouzhuang, Jiangsu

Zhouzhuang is a world-famous water town in Jiangnan, the town waterways are longitudinal, the old buildings of the Ming and Qing dynasties are built by the river, the double bridges painted by the painter Chen Yifei depict the gentleness of the small bridges and flowing water, and the South Lake in the south of the ancient town is open and beautiful. At night, Zhou Zhuang turned on the lights, and he had a different mood.

The main buildings of Zhouzhuang are Jiangnan residences, of which there are nearly 100 ancient mansions, most of which are buildings of the Ming and Qing dynasties. The ancient town is surrounded by water on all sides, so that the ancient town is formed by the river, and the waterways of each road form a "well" glyph embedded in the ancient town, so that Zhouzhuang has formed a characteristic pattern of relying on water into a street and taking the street as the city. On top of the water lanes in Zhouzhuang, there are 14 ancient stone bridges built in the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, and the ancient bridges, water lanes and ancient houses are in the true sense of "small bridges and flowing water people".

Shawan Ancient Town, Guangdong

Walking into the Shawan Ancient Town Area, you can clearly identify the historical context of the development of the ancient town, the existing streets and alleys are staggered, the ancestral halls are dotted among them, the eaves are delicately carved, and the ancient village pattern of the "Stone Steps Stone Lane" in Shawan Ancient Town is well preserved, and a large number of ancient buildings from the Ming, Qing and Republic of China periods have been preserved. It is an outstanding representative of the Cantonese culture in the center of the Pearl River Delta, and the fluttering colors here are known as the artistic wonders of the southern country.

Anhui Hongcun

Hongcun Scenic Area is a representative of the ancient village of Huipai and has the reputation of "the countryside in Chinese painting". The first thing to come to Hongcun is to see the water features brought by the water conservancy system, and the South Lake and the Moon Swamp are the essence; The second is to look at the three sculptures of the Huipai school on the building, brick carving, stone carving, wood carving, as fine as paper-cutting, and the cultural landscape and natural landscape are well integrated.

Jingdezhen, Jiangxi

Yaoli Ancient Town is the birthplace of Jingdezhen ceramics. It is known as the "source of porcelain, the hometown of tea, and the sea of forests", and is a national historical and cultural town.

Surrounded by mountains, lush and deep primeval forests, small bridges and flowing water, birds chirping, waterfalls and springs are a good place to escape the summer.

Chongqing Gongtan Ancient Town

The thousand-year-old town Stilt House leans against the edge of the cliff Without the passion of Pengbai twenty years ago, there is more tranquility... The bluestone slabs still reverberate, and the story of 1700 continues... The world buried under the water, tired of the worldly, can get a moment of comfort here...