China's top ten must-visit ancient towns, like a string of pearls with a thousand-year-old history, have built a bridge of time between modern civilization and traditional style. These ancient towns have not only become witnesses of history, but also carriers of cultural inheritance, and every stone and brick of them contains profound cultural connotations and historical stories. Here's a journey through the millennium to visit these ancient towns that are worth visiting.
1.Lijiang Old Town: Located in Yunnan Province, it is known for its unique Naxi Dongba culture and ingenious ancient water conservancy system. Walking through the bluestone paved streets, you can feel a sense of calm and distantness, as if time has frozen here.
2.Pingyao Ancient City: Located in the central part of Shanxi Province, it is one of the four most well-preserved ancient cities in China, with many cultural heritages of the Ming and Qing dynasties, such as "Qiaojia Courtyard" and "Rishengchang Ticket Number", reflecting the prosperity of the commercial economy and social life at that time.
3.Kashgar Ancient City: In the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, it is one of the important cities on the Silk Road. Handicraft markets, lively night markets and multi-ethnic buildings showcase the ancient Silk Road culture.
4.Xitang Ancient Town: Located in Jiaxing City, Zhejiang Province, it is famous for its water town characteristics, with smoke and rain corridors, small bridges and flowing water, white walls and black tiles, constituting a picturesque picture of the water towns in the south of the Yangtze River.
5.Yangshuo West Street, Guilin: Known as the world's smallest international city. The street is lined with restaurants and shops from all over the world, while retaining the traditional Guibei folk house style, and the cultural atmosphere is very unique.
6.Gubei Water Town: Located in Miyun District, Beijing, it is a new tourist attraction in recent years. Gubei Water Town is surrounded by mountains and rivers, and skillfully combines the natural landscape of the Great Wall at the entrance of Gubei with the antique buildings, showing the charm of the ancient town in the north.
7.Huangyao Ancient Town, China: Located in Guigang City, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, it is known as the "hometown of dreams". The ancient town has preserved a large number of ancient buildings and historical relics, and walking on the bluestone street is like entering an antique picture.
8.Huizhou Ancient City: Located in Huangshan City, Anhui Province, it is one of the famous historical and cultural cities in China. Huizhou culture is known for its "four carvings" (brick, wood, stone and bamboo), and those exquisite Huizhou buildings are the best representatives of this culture.
9.Jinxi Ancient Town: Located in Suzhou City, Jiangsu Province, it is famous for the ten scenic spots of Jinxi, crisscrossed by waterways, and the ancient trees on both sides of the river are towering to the sky, which is the original portrayal of the water town in the south of the Yangtze River.
10.Ciqikou Ancient Town: Located in the suburbs of Chongqing, it has a history of more than 1,000 years. Ciqikou is famous for the production of porcelain, and the ancient town preserves many Ming and Qing dynasty buildings and stone streets, and attracts tourists with special snacks and folk crafts.
Through the tour of these ancient towns, you can not only feel the rich and colorful regional culture and historical changes in various parts of China. Each place is like an open history page, allowing you to experience the hustle and bustle of commerce and trade thousands of years ago, experience the quiet and leisurely of Huiyun Jiangnan, and appreciate the majesty and longevity at the foot of the Great Wall. These ancient towns are like time machines, taking you to realize the dialogue with the ancients in ordinary days, and take a thousand-year-old time journey that you can just go.