Find a homestay enjoy a moment of simplicity and tranquility

Green water and green mountains, mountains and wild fields, during the day outside the tour, at night, back to the small courtyard of the homestay, in this carefully arranged "small world", friends urge knees, taste food, nag homely, a few days to steal the floating life half a day idle days...

For a homestay, go to a scenic spot, now, the homestay is no longer just a resting place on the journey, but has become the "original intention" of tourists to embark on the journey.

With the change of people's travel style, short-distance tours, surrounding tours have become the mainstream, and various homestays have also ushered in more and more self-driving tourists, whether it is food punch cards, agricultural experiences or health vacations, all of which attract people to come, temporarily leave the hustle and bustle of the city, and have close contact with nature.

In recent years, Shanxi has continuously made efforts to build homestays to retain "poetry and far away" for tourists. With the unique latitude, altitude and advantages of cultural tourism, forests, hot springs, traditional Chinese medicine and other advantages, our province has excavated health resources, and characteristic homestays have emerged one after another, which has not only become an important form of rural tourism, but also an important starting point for driving rural economic growth and boosting rural revitalization.

Shanxi is mountainous, and there are many treasure guesthouses hidden in the mountains, each of which is a work of art that cannot be reproduced. Come to Shanxi to enjoy the style of the homestay together!

Pingyao Ancient City Yide Inn

Pursuing the organic unity of modern demand and historical charm, guests walk into the inn, and the antique cultural conception comes to the face, as if crossing through history.

The inn is located in the ancient city of Pingyao in Jinzhong City, close to the county Ya, Ming and Qing Streets, the inn building was built in the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, consisting of six houses in the upper courtyard, the lower courtyard, the study courtyard, the carriage and horse courtyard, the garden and the ancestral hall, and is a folk inn developed by the former residence of the prince Wang Bin of the ticket number family.

Deep laneways, long-ago horse stones, tethered horse pillars, typical two-entry courtyard. Exquisite weeping flower gatehouse, exquisite carving and painting, traditional earth kang, classical Ming and Qing Dynasty furniture... Walking into the inn, it is as if you have walked into a dusty time, feel the enlightenment of culture, artistic conception, wisdom and the tranquility of life, and experience the impetuousness accumulated in the world slowly diluted, and the heart is clear and clear.

Hou Wangbin's former residence is one of the former residences of Jin merchants, Hou Wangbin was once the big treasurer of Tiancheng Heng's ticket number, the family started in business, the courtyard has a glorious past, and it is also a living specimen of Jinshang culture. In 2021, the National Tourism Standardization Technical Committee announced the results of the national Grade A and Grade B tourist homestay evaluation, and two Grade A homestays in our province were selected, and Pingyao County Yide Inn was among them.

Yunqiu Mountain Kangjiaping Homestay

Meet Kang Jiaping and return to the home of your dreams.

Kangjiaping Homestay is located in the Yunqiu Mountain Scenic Area of Xiangning County, Linfen City, at the intersection of Lüliang Mountain and Fenwei Graben. Yunqiu Mountain is a national 5A-level tourist attraction, with rich natural resources, cultural landscapes and cultural heritage, known as "the first scenic spot in Hefen".

Walking into the scenic spot, visitors can meet everything in the mountains and forests and explore the wonders of the ice cave group 3 million years ago; Secluded in the century-old cave compound of Kangjiaping and returned to the countryside; Roam the ancient village of Tarpo and ask about thousands of years of folklore...

The homestay here does not have high-grade materials piled up, no ornate decoration, so that everything returns to authenticity. The courtyard of the homestay is built on the mountain, surrounded by green trees, the environment is quiet, and the houses are simple. Kangjiaping Homestay is committed to promoting a life-oriented tourism form, starting from health care, experience as the process, healing people's hearts for the purpose, adding historical and artistic elements, and creating the image of the brand "slow living culture" ancient village.

Most of the ancient villages here are ancient buildings from the Ming and Qing dynasties, which look simple and old after hundreds of years of wind and rain. The construction method of using the leeward to the sun and the roof cover of the cave as the roof not only resists the wind and the sun and rain, but also ensures that the cave is warm in winter and cool in summer, and the living experience is comfortable. These ancient residential courtyards also retain the original concept of living. The main architectural style is the cave dwelling of the earth cliff and the kiln dwelling constructed of stone and the rammed earth version of the lifting beam structure, which is a living fossil of the ancient dwellings in Shanxi.

Moraine Mouth Ancient Town Lijiashan Homestay

Located in Linxian County, Lüliang City, Moraine Kou Ancient Town is a small town located by the Yellow River, about 50 kilometers away from the county seat of Linxian County, and one of the birthplaces of Jinshang. Moraine mouth according to the Luliang Mountains on the Yellow River water, the Ming and Qing Dynasties to the Republic of China years with the Yellow River water transport has become a northern commercial and trade town, has a glorious history, more splendid culture.

Moraine Mouth Ancient Town is a famous historical and cultural town in China, and today the ancient town is still quaint, and it is a typical ancient village tourist place where the community and scenic spots overlap. Lijiashan Homestay is surrounded by mountains on all sides, and there are two different worlds connected at both ends of a sheep gut trail, when the moraine mouth ancient town outside the mountain is bustling with traffic, it is like a natural filter, filtering out the hustle and bustle of the world, and clinging to a simplicity and innocence.

Here, visitors can truly appreciate the "cave buildings", these caves are terraced and stacked, up to nearly ten floors, perfect and rational use of terrain for construction, layered, staggered, majestic and magnificent, like a three-dimensional picture. As the painter Mr. Wu Guanzhong said, "It is like an isolated peach blossom garden." Such a village, such a house, it is difficult to find it again throughout the world. ”

Zhangbi Ancient Castle Ancient Locust Inn

In Zhangbi Ancient Castle, each alley has an alley door, and the Ancient Locust Inn is located in Wangjia Lane. The inn is located 100 meters west of the famous scenic spot "Huai Bao Liu" in Zhangbi Ancient Fort Scenic Area. There is such an alley door outside the door of the inn, which witnesses the history of the ancient castle, records the style of Wangjia Lane, and witnesses the rebirth of the old courtyard in the past.

Climbing up the alley door, the quiet beauty of the entire inn and the historical beauty of the ancient castle can be seen at a glance, as if it is close at hand. The entire inn covers an area of 5,000 square meters, with 6 traditional courtyards and 18 rooms. The inn has complete supporting facilities, including a meditation square, an observation deck, a Zen tea room, a multi-functional hall, a breakfast room, a library lending room, and a business center. Each courtyard has a different style and different functions, which can meet the needs of different groups of people close to nature.

As night falls, the stars hang high, walking on the cobblestone road, lying on a wooden bed, sitting in front of the tea table... Choose your preferred way to enjoy life until you return to silence. The whole courtyard inherits the essence of traditional Chinese architecture, maintains the style of traditional architecture that integrates quaint, simple, plain and exquisite, and takes nature as a refuge, appearing natural, relaxed, leisure and simple.

Baby Creek Village Wo Wo Tou Homestay

A homestay awakens a lost village.

The old village of Baby Creek Village in Pingyao County is the closest to the "original ecology", the village is longer than the history of Pingyao Ancient City, and it is the original site of the evening photos of the Eight Great Scenery Baby Creek in Pingyao. Here hides a nest head homestay, where the landlord and the couple have built a free and simple life "utopia".

The house is quite mysterious, the house was built from rammed earth, a natural raw material from the Loess Plateau, and it is said that the designers studied the rammed earth structure for a long time, overturned and rebuilt many times, and finally built it according to the shape of the barn. The rammed earth itself is insulated, breathable and environmentally friendly, the tapered shape has enough height to keep it cool all summer, and the real fireplace in the guest room can also provide warmth in the cold winter.

The rooms are white, clean and tidy, each room has its own festival, winter solstice, spring equinox, small full, autumn, reflecting the outdoor barren wilderness. When you enter the guest room, you feel that there is no hole in the sky. The B&B has a lot of space, two floors, large beds and independent tatami mats, and the literary style decoration style makes people relax at once. Away from the turmoil of the city, or three or two friends, or lovers, or alone in silence, find this peace in the lost village.

Anze County, Qingye Township

"Crabapples are pale, white dew is frost, the so-called Iraqi people, on the side of the water."

Originally just an ordinary small village in Anze County, Linfen City, under the background of the rural revitalization strategy, the integration of characteristic industries was integrated, and the local government built it into a rural revitalization experimental field with the characteristics of Feiling Village. From this, the Qingye Rural Residence was born, which is a Yellow River family that "came out" from the poetry.

The courtyards in the village are very interesting, named "Fusu, Curly Ears, Indigo, Fei Peng, Hibiscus, Gantang", all taken from the earliest collection of Chinese poetry "Book of Poetry", each courtyard is worth savoring.

With the theme of "Ideal Pastoral Life", Qianye Village has created a characteristic homestay integrating nature, ecology, leisure and art, and carefully designed 8 high-end boutique experience homestays on the basis of not affecting the overall style of the village. Each homestay has a different theme, different styles and different functions, on the basis of meeting the accommodation function, it adds entertainment and social places such as tourist reception centers, crab leaves cafes, and rural taverns, forming a multi-dimensional experience chain of pastoral life.

Enjoy a moment of leisure in a pristine village. Smelling the fragrance of the earth, listening to the cicadas, watching the sun fall, every corner can make people immersed in it, feel the unique experience of time and space interlacing. In the evening, twilight falls, cooking smoke, villagers returning home in pairs, the café has long been lit up with soft lights, lighting up different colors at night, making people feel a different experience. (Zhang Ting, Zhang Xiaoyan)

Source: Shanxi Daily