Go to the ancient town for a different festival

In China's long-standing traditional culture, ancient towns have attracted much attention as a special cultural form.

This year, have you ever wanted to go to the ancient town for a Spring Festival and experience the New Year's flavor of the Jiangnan water town?

Go to the ancient town for a different festival

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Tangqi Ancient Town, a thousand-year-old town where you can make an appointment with three or two friends on weekends to check in. Here, there are stone tablet carvings given by Qianlong under the south of the Yangtze River, a modern barn museum, and countless authentic delicacies.

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Fengjing Ancient Town is a famous historical and cultural town in China, and is also one of the eight scenic spots in Shanghai, known as the famous town of Wuyue because it is located at the intersection of Wu and Yue in history, and it is also a large and well-preserved water town in Shanghai.

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Qingyan Ancient Town was an important military town in the Ming and Qing dynasties. The comprehensive tourism service area also has a racing track, a performing arts center, an ancient town style street, a characteristic inn, etc., which adds a modern atmosphere to the ancient town.

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Zhenyuan Ancient Town, located in Zhenyuan County, Qiandongnan Miao and Dong Autonomous Prefecture, Guizhou Province, the river meanders, passing through the city in the shape of "S", the north bank is the old mansion city, and the south bank is the old acropolis. Both cities were built in the Ming Dynasty, and there are still some city walls and gates.

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Anchang Ancient Town is one of the four famous ancient towns in Shaoxing, and is the first batch of historical and cultural towns announced in Zhejiang Province. Its architectural style inherits the typical characteristics of the water town in the south of the Yangtze River, a dress with water, simple and elegant, its special products Anchang sausage, pulling sugar are famous far and wide, and the water wedding with the water town style is also unique.

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Longmen Ancient Town, located on the south bank of the beautiful Fuchun River, has a beautiful environment and obvious transportation advantages. The folk customs of the ancient town are simple and unique, and it is a typical landscape and pastoral ancient town that embodies the traditional Chinese clan inheritance system.

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Baisha Ancient Town, bordered by Yulong Snow Mountain in the north, Longquan in the south, and Yizhi Mountain in the west, is the ancient capital of the Naxi people, the world-class "ancient Naxi Kingdom", and was once the political, economic, commercial and cultural center of Lijiang of the Naxi people. As one of the important birthplaces of Naxi culture, the Naxi Mushi Tusi has accumulated experience in planning towns in Baisha.

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Shuhe Ancient Town, a small market town around the Old Town of Lijiang, has a history of 1,000 years. As an integral part of the ancient town of Lijiang, Shuhe Ancient Town has well-preserved ancient roads, markets, and nearly 1,000 traditional houses, and the indigenous residents are mainly Naxi people, which is one of the earliest settlements of Naxi ancestors in Lijiang Bazi.

Xitang Ancient Town, one of the first historical and cultural towns in China, has a long history and is one of the birthplaces of ancient Wuyue culture. As a heritage of traditional culture, Xitang has a rich grassroots cultural accumulation of folk customs for thousands of years.

The ancient city of Phoenix, composed of 28 ethnic groups such as Miao, Han and Tujia, is a typical ethnic minority settlement area, and is named after the green mountains that resemble a phoenix with wings ready to fly. There are 68 cultural relics and ancient buildings, 116 ancient ruins, more than 120 characteristic dwellings in the Ming and Qing dynasties, and more than 30 temples and pavilions in the ancient city, which is the county with the most existing cultural relics and buildings in southwest China.

Jinxi Ancient Town, an ancient water town in the south of the Yangtze River with a history of more than 2,000 years, is known as the "hometown of Chinese folk museums", and retains many cultural landscapes, historic sites and countless buildings with unique characteristics of the Ming and Qing dynasties. Famous attractions include Tongshen Imperial Temple, Chen Fei Water Mound, Lotus Pond Zen Temple, etc.

Tongli Ancient Town, the town was built in the Ming and Qing dynasties of the garden, temple, mansion and the former residence of celebrities are numerous. The history of Tongli can be traced back to the "Songze Culture" and "Liangzhu Culture" five or six thousand years ago. As early as the Neolithic Age, there were ancestors who cultivated and lived here. The superior natural conditions make this the richest place in Wudi, so it was originally called "rich land".

With so many representative cultural towns, have you figured out where to go?