On this road, there are dozens of primitive villages of ethnic minorities, including the romance of Fenghuang ancient city, the beauty of hometown, the mystery of Grandpa Mao's former residence, and more Hunan secrets that you have never known.
Take the road trip route: Changsha-Yiyang-Changde-Taoyuan County-Zhangjiajie-Fenghuang-Huaihua-Hongjiang-Huitong-Xinning-Yongzhou-Hengyang-Shaoyang-Xinhua-Loudi-Shaoshan-Changsha.
Total length of the line: 1050km.
Estimated itinerary: 5-7 days.
Vehicle recommendation: car /SUV is ok.
Road conditions: all expressways/national highways/township roads/paved roads.
1. Jinggang Ancient Town
Jinggang Town is located in the northwest of Wangcheng County, Changsha City. It is a thousand-year-old town in central Hunan. Jinggang town has the advantage of water transportation since ancient times, and is located on the west bank of Xiangjiang River. It used to be a prosperous commercial port for the distribution of materials in Sanxiang, and it has the reputation of "Little Hankou".
"The waterfowl there always go home along a fixed route at dusk. The carpenter there always wakes up at the same time after a nap, and then opens his tools and windows. The tofu workshop there knows when it is best to start grinding without any clocks. Then, the smell of ground beans spread throughout the slate. " -Wang Han
Special food: ginger sugar, wooden hammer crisp, grilled fish, dried incense, Mao Mao fish, bean sesame tea, hammer sugar; Glutinous rice liqueur, ginger sesame bean tea, grilled fish, handmade noodles, eight bowls, Yao Ji jar dishes, Beijing, Hong Kong, Hunan and Jiangxi.
Sam Sun Chowder: AtNo. Bao 'an Street 1 12, there is a restaurant that once remembered chowder. He has been cooking chowder since his grandfather's generation, and his specialty is three fresh chowder. The owner of the chop suey museum relishes this dish: the three fresh chop suey here, because the special raw material-well water in Jinggang ancient town, can't be eaten anywhere else. Three fresh chowder is divided into small portions, medium portions and large portions. Add a special dish, such as a small portion of trotters or a small portion of braised pork, and order a green vegetable, which is more than enough for two people. The price is around 40 yuan. Eight bowls, grilled fish, and sugar and oil Baba are all very distinctive. If you are not satisfied, you can pack it and take it home.
2. Taohuayuan
Taohuayuan is near the southwest of Taoyuan County 15km water west. Face Shui Yuan, back to the mountains, pine and cypress. The legend was written by Tao Yuanming, a poet in the Eastern Jin Dynasty. Peach Blossom Garden is named after Peach Blossom Garden and its poems. From Tongfang, ten miles below the county seat, back to Yuanjiang and to Taohuayuan, it is about forty miles in total.
Special food: Waergang seven-star pepper, Taoyuan chicken, sweet-scented osmanthus sugar, Taoyuan deer beard lobster sauce, Baba meat.
3. Zhangjiajie
Legend has it that Avatar was chosen in Zhangjiajie, so we must stop here and have a look. Zhangjiajie City is located in the northwest of Hunan Province and belongs to the hinterland of Wuling Mountain. Zhangjiajie Forest Park is the first national forest park in China. Wulingyuan Natural Scenic Area, which consists of Zhangjiajie National Forest Park, Suoxiyu Scenic Area, Tian Zi Scenic Area and Yang Jiajie Nature Reserve, has been included in the World Natural Heritage List.
Special cuisine: When you come to Zhangjiajie, you must try the most ethnic Tujia cuisine. Tujia cuisine in Zhangjiajie not only maintains the national flavor that has lasted for hundreds of years, but also integrates the essence of Hunan cuisine. This kind of integration can't help but make people's appetite open and their mouths water. In addition to the spicy Hunan cuisine, Tujia people also like to eat wax, acid and kimchi. Therefore, if you want to appreciate the authentic flavor of Tujia cuisine, you have to order authentic dishes such as preserved pig's head, "Tuannian cuisine", blood tofu, sour fish, loach and tofu.
In addition, you can also try social meals, pig blood porridge and other snacks, with different tastes. I would like to remind you that hotel meals in Zhangjiajie Scenic Area are very expensive, as everyone knows. Therefore, it is suggested that you can bring your own food to eat in the scenic spot, and you can eat in the urban area after visiting the scenic spot, especially at night, the streets are full of food stalls in the night market, which has a strong sense of life. Famous night markets include Nanzhuangping Market, Dongmenqiao and People's Cinema. For those who love nightlife, don't miss them!
4. Hino
Liye, located in the hinterland of Wuling Mountain in Hunan Province, at the junction of Hunan, Hubei, Chongqing and Guizhou provinces, belongs to Longshan County, Xiangxi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture. People lived there as early as 6000 years ago. Although there are magical natural scenery and peculiar ethnic customs, due to inconvenient transportation, the economy and culture have been relatively backward, and it is a remote town. But it's also because it's remote and nobody bothers me. I live a good life at leisure.
Among Xiangxi snacks, rice tofu is very representative. This popular food made of polished rice has always been the favorite of people in western Hunan. On the way to the market, there will be rice tofu stalls at the bridge, pavilion and shade. People here are used to eating a bowl of rice tofu to satisfy their hunger and thirst when they go to the streets and go to the market, and have a rest and chat. But this simple bowl of delicious food is rare in big cities.
Food specialties: Chuanmingshen, Yam, Tujia Brocade, Lily, Amorphophallus, Ge Fen.
5. Fenghuang Ancient City
If you want to witness the real Xiangxi customs, you have to take a trip to Fenghuang (also known as Tuojiang Town). Fenghuang is the county seat of Fenghuang County, Xiangxi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, located 53 kilometers south of Jishou. It was built on the bank of the Tuojiang River, and the wooden houses in the diaojiao building were covered with hillsides. This is the hometown of literary master Shen Congwen, who once described its quaint and charming features in Border Town.
Special food: other special foods in Fenghuang Ancient City-snacks: 1, Fenghuang Ancient City Ginger Sugar 2, Kiwifruit King 3, Twisted Sugar 4, Asparagus Crisp 5, Fenghuang Ancient City Cold Rice Noodles 6, furong town Rice Tofu 7, Fenghuang Sour Radish 8, Xiangxi Ciba.
Other specialties of Fenghuang Ancient City-dishes: 1, Xiangxi Phoenix Bacon 2, Phoenix Blood Duck, Wild Onion Club Meal 4, Hot and sour fried mushrooms 5, cottage tofu 6, Camus baked vegetables 7, Camus sour fish 8, bean curd cooked in sour soup 9, bracken fried smoked bacon the following year.
6. Wan Foshan of Dong nationality
Tongdao Dong Autonomous County is located in the southwest of Hunan Province, at the southern end of Huaihua City. Dong, Han, Miao, Yao and other ethnic minorities live there. The simple and unsophisticated folk customs and the endless Danxia Wanfo Mountain are the key to the complete life of ethnic minorities here, which has hardly been destroyed. Compared with shangri-la, it is not good at all.
Food features: Dong people are generally used to cooking all day in the morning and taking them up the mountain to eat. Among them, the "steamed rice" made by Xianghe rice is particularly sweet, and there is a saying that "a steamed rice is fragrant in the whole village". The tea that Dong people drink refers to camellia oleifera, which is a thick soup made of tea, popcorn, fried peanuts, crisp soybeans, glutinous rice, meat, pig water, salt, chopped green onion and tea oil. It can not only quench thirst, but also satisfy hunger. Accompanied by rice and tea, there are vegetables, fresh fish, meat, melons and fruits, game, fungi and drinks, and the food sources are extensive.
7. Qianyang Ancient City
Hongjiang city Qianyang Ancient Town, surrounded by water on three sides, is an important town at the junction of Hunan, Chu and Miao Di, which is 100 years earlier than Dayan Ancient Town in Lijiang, Yunnan, and 900 years earlier than Fenghuang Ancient Town in Hunan. This is a place where historical sites coexist with real life: ancient houses are densely packed, the sound of chickens and dogs is endless, and some old people sit in the old street in twos and threes, smoking, drinking tea or playing, which is ominous.
Eating wind-blown sweet potatoes in the New Year is a custom handed down from Qianyang, a thousand-year-old city. The villagers hung sweet potatoes under the eaves, letting the wind blow the red peppers under the eaves, the ancient city of Qianyang and a spider web, which concentrated the light and shadow for more than 2000 years. The "power" iron lock can lock the vicissitudes of wooden doors, but it can't lock the massiness of history, and it can't lock the footsteps of drifting home.
Food specialties: Zhijiang duck, Dongxiang preserved fish and bacon, stone carving, Nuo mask, Dong brocade and Lusheng; Eat a bowl of Huaihua rice noodles with a particularly fragrant heavy oil and visit this ancient town that has existed for more than 2,200 years and has a leisurely life.
8. Explore the ancient village of Gaoyi
Gaoyi Ancient Village is located on the banks of Wushui River in Huitong County, Hunan Province. It used to be a land and water transportation hub, and it was also the only place on the smoky road in history. The roads connecting every household and village are criss-crossed, like a net and a maze. People in the village usually only take a few main roads, and many buildings are connected, but no one dares to walk. Even the local old people may not know whose house every road in the village leads to. Even our own people don't know where the road is. Due to the complex terrain, this village has never been invaded by bandits for hundreds of years.
Huitong navel orange is very famous. It is necessary to eat oranges in Hunan during the Spring Festival. In your hometown, you can rarely buy bad oranges. Once peeled off, the hands are full of sweet and sour aftertaste.
Food Features: Huitong Navel Orange, Huitong Tang Huo Bacon, Huitong Flower Cake, Fried Pepper, Blood Cake Sausage, Black Rice and Huitong Winter Bamboo Shoots.
9. Xinning _ Shandan Gorge
Ai Qing, a famous poet, once taught in Xinning Mountain. His poem "Why are there always tears in my eyes, because I love this land deeply" is here. Director Feng has made the film "Down the Mountain" and has also made a film here. The mountain in the film is heartbreaking.
_ Mountain is divided into six scenic spots: Tianyi Lane, Pepper Peak, Jiang Fuyi, Bajiaozhai, Xiazidong and Tianshengqiao. The tour routes are different, so you can choose according to your own preferences. 10. Dream hometown-Upper Gan Tang
Shanggantang Village is located in Xiazipu Town, 25 kilometers southwest of Jiangyong County, Yongzhou City. The whole village is surrounded by mountains and waters, east and west, with Pingfeng Mountain in the east and the clear Xiemu River in front of the village, forming an excellent feng shui closure. The house built in the late Qing Dynasty, an acre of rape field, is not deliberately beautiful, but impressive, and it is poetry and rivers and lakes in life.
Because the land here is rich in selenium, the special products here are all related to the word "Xiang": Are these pomelo, taro, fragrant ginger, fragrant rice and mushrooms all found in big cities? Perhaps only by staying away from the bustling, noisy and crowded and returning to the true colors of nature can we smell the fragrance and return to the hometown of human body and mind.
To get into the crowded women's alley and walk through the alley where only one person can pass, it is the narrowest alley in the whole ancient village. You might as well walk and look up at the towering walls on both sides and the blue sky overhead. Stroll on the English Bridge, listen to the sound of running water under your feet, look at the ancient buildings inside, and lament the progress of the times and the changes of society. Maiqiao is the only ancient bridge in Song Dynasty discovered in Hunan Province so far.
Food features: Ningyuan blood duck, drinking snails, Chili fried meat, sashimi, Dong 'an chicken. It is recommended to eat Ningyuan blood duck, cook it with duck blood and stir-fry it with wine. It tastes very good.
1 1. Cai Lun Zhuhai Roaming.
Before Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon in Zhang Yimou, for Hunan people, the greatest significance of bamboo forest is to eat bamboo shoots! If you must take the bamboo forest as a landscape, then go to Huangshi Town and Dayi Township, leiyang city, Hengyang, where there is "Cai Lun Bamboo Sea". The vast territory and the green shock do not lose the peerless beauty in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon by Zhang Yimou.
Yes, digging bamboo shoots in the bamboo forest in childhood is an unforgettable time for girls in Hunan. Digging winter bamboo shoots in winter and frying with smoked bacon at home are delicious as long as they are recalled. Even in the Qingming period, you can dig out the spring bamboo shoots that have just emerged, which are equally delicious!
Food specialties: lake wine, fish balls, sliced bar, beef tendon sweet potato, sweet potato powder;
12. Eighty Li Nanshan
Picking tea under the east fence, leisurely see "Nanshan". 80 kilometers southwest of Chengbu County, Shaoyang, there is a good place called nanshan pasture. It is located in the southern section of Xuefeng Mountain, stretching for more than 80 miles, and is called "80-mile Da Nan Shan"-many Hunan people grew up eating this brand of milk powder! Is it?
13. Xinhua Mozi Magpie World
To go to the world of purple magpie, you have to follow the driveway to the mountain. Standing on the high observation deck, the dignified and exquisite terraces are displayed in front of us: the hazy drizzle turns the surrounding mountains into an ink and wash landscape background painting, and the farmhouses that emerge from time to time in the middle of the terraces are looming in the fog. Looking down from a distance, the terraced fields filled with water are sparkling and dotted.
Food specialties: waterwheel bacon, air-dried salted duck, fish jelly; If you are in the mood, you can also make pork balls and glutinous rice cakes with the locals, and then take your "labor results" home; When you arrive in Chick, you must stay for one night. Experience transplanting in spring and harvesting and mixing in autumn.