Nanping is an ancient village with a long history, 4 kilometers southwest of Yixian County. Nanping still preserves nearly 300 ancient houses of the Ming and Qing dynasties, and there are 8 ancestral halls, 36 wells and 72 alleys in the village. Nanping is also the filming location of many film and television films such as "Ju Dou", "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", "The Great Turning" and "Hui Shang", and is known as the "Chinese Film and Television Village". In 2009, Nanping Village was listed as the fourth batch of "Chinese Historical and Cultural Villages".
Nanping. Nanping Village is located 4 kilometers southwest of Yixian County, Anhui Province, and is named after Nanping Mountain, which is like a barrier in the south of the village. There are nearly 300 ancient buildings of the Ming and Qing dynasties in the whole village, from the head of the village to the end of the village more than 200 meters on a central axis, there are still 8 large and small ancestral halls, the village still preserves the ancestral hall, the branch ancestral hall and the family ancestral hall of considerable scale, which is praised as the "ancient ancestral hall building museum of China" by tourists. The most distinctive building in Nanping is the ancestral hall group.
Ancient dwellings. 
Ancient dwellings. There are a total of 72 alleys and alleys in Nanping Village, so Nanping Village is also known as a "labyrinth village". Step by step alley is "long house lane", is the longest among the 72 alleys, the strongest sense of hierarchy, there are 23 steps at the end, one is higher than one level, so the villagers call it "step by step high alley", there is "ancient alley maze" said. Nanping Village is surrounded by mountains and rivers, the peaks are green and the forests are beautiful, the dwellings are in pieces, the ancient style is long, the winding paths are secluded, and it is called "another village in the depths of Taoyuan".
The bluestone alleys in the village.
Alley. 
Alley. 
Alley. 
Hug a book house. 
Hold the interior of a book house.
In the early 90s of the 20th century, the famous scenery film "Ju Dou" was filmed in Nanping Village, which contributed to the start of Nanping's tourism industry. The film and television films such as "The Great Turning" and "Hui Shang" successively filmed in the village have continuously improved the popularity of Nanping and are known as "China Film and Television Village". The village has successively launched tourism brands such as "Ju Dou" hometown tour, "high wall deep alley maze tour", "celebrity monument visit tour", etc., and the number of guests who come to Nanping is increasing day by day. In 1990, this little-known village attracted the world's attention when Ju Dou won the first Luis Buñuel Special Prize at the 43rd Cannes Film Festival in France. The great director Ang Lee also followed here, opening the prelude to the movie "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" starring Chow Yun-fat and Zhang Ziyi.
Ancient dwellings. Ancient dwellings.
Ancient dwellings. Jingxian Hall.
Shen Si Tang. Since the end of the Yuan Dynasty, the surname Ye moved from the nearby Baima Mountain in Qimen, the village has expanded rapidly, and the Ming Dynasty has formed a situation in which the three major clans of Ye, Cheng and Li gather and rule. During the Ming and Qing dynasties, with the rise of Hui merchants, the trinity of government, business and learning made Nanping an endless stream of outstanding people. In the Qing Dynasty alone, there were 14 people who had served as officials above the county level in the village, and 27 calligraphy and painting artists were recorded.
Ice Cube. Old wells.
Kitchen. Kitchen. Ye's ancestral hall: that is, the Xuzhi Hall, was built in the Ming Dynasty, covering an area of 2,000 square meters, resting on the mountain and heavy eaves, dignified and elegant. The front of the ancestral hall stands on the wall, the gatehouse is tall, the big stone drum that is more than one person high, the carving is very exquisite. In the ancestral hall, there are plaques such as "King James Hanlin", "Imperial Hanlin", and "Hand-appointed Zhixian". The ancestral hall is divided into upper, middle and lower halls. The hall is the hall of enjoyment, the middle hall is the hall of worship, and the lower hall is the place where the drum is played, and the stage can also be set up to act. The ancestral hall is built tall, spacious, gorgeous and magnificent, which is suitable for the solemn scene pursued by various clans in the sacrifice, so that people have solemnity and awe in front of it.
Ye's ancestral hall - the movie "Ju Dou" was filmed here.
In 1989, the movie "Ju Dou" directed by Zhang Yimou and starring Gong Li was filmed here, and it still maintains the original appearance when it was filmed. Xuzhitang is the main venue for Zhang Yimou to shoot the movie "Ju Dou", and it still maintains the original appearance of the movie "Ju Dou". Stills of "Ju Dou" are posted on the wall of the ancestral hall, and there are shelves for dyeing and drying cloth, winches, and dyeing pools in the ancestral hall. Nowadays, the Ye family ancestral hall has become the "old Yang family dyeing workshop" in the movie, and the horizontal plaque of the "old Yang family dyeing workshop" is still hanging high above the gate that should belong to the "Ye family ancestral hall", and the horizontal plaque of the "Ye family ancestral hall" has long disappeared. It has become a beautiful scenery for tourists to enjoy.
The Ye Clan Ancestral Hall (Xuzhitang) still maintains its original appearance when the movie "Ju Dou" was filmed.
Ye's ancestral hall: that is, the Xuzhi Hall.
Today, the Ye family ancestral hall has become the "old Yang family dyeing workshop" in the movie
Ye's branch ancestral hall: that is, Kuiguang Hall, was built in the Ming Hongzhi period, covers an area of more than 1,000 square meters, is the hall of Nanping Ye's worship of its fourth ancestor Ye Wengui Gong. Three vertical plaques are hung above the main entrance, which are "Hand-picked Hanlin", "Qinci Hanlin" and "Qintori Zhixian". The ancestral hall is a three-in-three bay structure, and the overall structure of the ancestral hall is tall and lofty, bright and open. It is one of the larger of the several ancestral halls that have been preserved today. In 1999, the movie "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" directed by Ang Lee and starring Chow Yun-fat and Zhang Ziyi was selected as the interior location in the play.
Yip's ancestral hall. Yip's ancestral hall. Cheng's ancestral hall: built in the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, although the scale is not large among the many ancestral halls in Nanping Village, it wins with exquisite stone carving art. On both sides of the ancestral hall gate, there is a group of Yixian bluestone carvings composed of guardrails, drum bases, and stone drums, and the right side is lined with stone drums by "three dragons and clouds", and the left side is "five phoenixes and rising sun" to hold up the stone drums.
Cheng's ancestral hall. Wandering through the bluestone streets, each house is a piece of exquisite architectural art.
Wandering in the bluestone street, each house is a piece of exquisite architectural art, inadvertently surprise you, the ancient houses and private gardens in the village abound, "hug a study" is one of the representative buildings of the Li family, the overall layout of the Bingling Pavilion house is similar to the courtyard in the north, the exquisite wood carving in the hall of the Nanxun villa can be called a must in the south screen.