Longtan Ancient Town Longtan Ancient Town is located at No.28 Longquan Street, longtan town, Youyang Tujia and Miao Autonomous County, Chongqing. It has a history of 1700 years. It is the best preserved and largest ancient town in Chongqing, because of the convenience of Longtan River and Youshui River. In ancient times, it was an important commercial market town, and also had the reputation of Longtan goods and Gongtan money.
Longtan ancient town has beautiful natural scenery and rich cultural landscape, including Wenchang Palace, Tianhou Palace, Xuanyuan Palace, Yu Palace, Wanshou Palace, Longwang Temple, Huoshan Temple, Zhaojiayuan, Zhao Shiyan's former residence, Youyang No.1 Middle School, Wang Jianhong's former residence, and memorial hall for soldiers killed in the Anti-Japanese War and the founding of the People's Republic of China. The natural scenery mainly includes Longtan Sun Yan Grand Canyon, Huanglong Shangtan, Maoer Town Beach, Guabang, Lazy Snake Downhill, Luohan Stone Statue, Erlong Gunjiang, Jiuqiao Creek Fan, Longdong Baoshan and so on.
Liu Ren's former residence, Wanshou Palace and Zhao Shiyan's former residence are not to be missed. In Zhao Shiyan's former residence, there is a bust of Zhao Shiyan and a quadrangle structure. It has been rumored that Wanshou Palace is a royal palace built for Emperor Qianlong to go down to the south of the Yangtze River. Although Emperor Qianlong has never been here, there have been large-scale ceremonies and grand celebrations here, and the architecture is also worth exploring.
Longtan ancient town is a place suitable for free play all year round. It is recommended to play for about three hours, because the roads in the ancient town are mostly paved with bluestone slabs, which are smooth when it rains, so you should be extra careful when walking at night. In addition to Longtan ancient town, Chongqing Youyang Taohuayuan and Gongtan ancient town are all worth going together.
There are delicious snacks such as Wujiang fish, spicy tea, Li Zhengyuan mutton noodles, salt tea, goat oil tea, Ma Xiao rice tofu, rape residue, fermented sea pepper, steamed cake, sugar gum and so on in the ancient town. There are also some special products in the scenic spot for tourists to buy, such as Xilankapu, Lentinus edodes, pickled walnuts, black honey, rattan, root carving, strange stones, oranges, flowers, embroidery and so on.