This trip route: Changde - Furong Town in western Hunan - Chadong Ancient Town in the border city

Although Xiangxi has been to Fenghuang Ancient Town several times and twice, due to the rush of walking, Furong Town is just go through. I have always felt that such a quiet town is suitable for me to live quietly for a while with my meager luggage and the richest self when there are no trivial matters. I have always longed for it and finally realized it.

Furong Town, also known as Wangcun, is an ancient town with a history of more than 2,000 years, with magnificent waterfalls passing through it. It is also known as "the thousand-year-old ancient town hanging on the waterfall." Because of the movie "Furong" starring Jiang Wen and Liu Xiaoqing, "Town" was filmed here and was renamed "Furong Town"? Furong Town has not been overly commercialized. The ancient town still retains its unique cultural atmosphere everywhere, including the antique Tujia stilted buildings and the shiny bluestone lanes. The shocking waterfall makes people forget to leave. ?

Transportation route:

The fare from Changde Bus Terminal to Yongshun is 85 yuan for 4 and a half hours, and the 100-minute fare from Yongshun to Furong Town is 25 yuan. Get off the bus and transfer to the minibus to Sanjiaoping. The fare is 2 yuan (why is it called a minibus? It really doesn’t look like a bus. I got off the minibus and was looking for a bus. I really didn’t see it, so I asked the owner of the small restaurant, so the boss Pointing at the small bus in front of me, I said, "No, that green one." I just realized that I was walking around it before. It's not green at all.)

Accommodation:

I made a reservation in advance on Qunar.com to meet the youth hostel. It is the only youth hostel in the town. When I arrived at Sanjiaoping, I opened Baidu Map and turned left and right in the alley of Zhenjing. Since there was no signboard, I still waited until the boss came. pick me up. My friends who come to Furong Town can stay here (35 yuan for a bed room and 30 yuan for a tent room at the Encounter Youth Hostel in Furong Town, Xiangxi, and the boss is very talkative)

Furong Town Day: 1

< p>The youth hostel is an apartment-style house on the second floor. There are only me and the boss in the entire youth hostel. When he went to set up a stall in the ancient town, he left me the key so that I could do whatever I wanted and feel as comfortable as returning home.

The boss is also a backpacker named Shunzi and has traveled to many places. The people are super nice, and they are very enthusiastic and take the initiative to tell me what time to enter the ancient town to evade fares, etc. Haha. He is also a handsome guy with a lot of heart. He keeps the youth hostel clean and orderly all by himself. The quilt cover has a dolphin pattern that I like. When I turned off the light, I realized that the ceiling was covered with luminous stars and moons. I looked at all this with the corner of my mouth. It always rises unconsciously and makes people feel warm. It helps me realize a small dream. I have a sense of sight of sleeping under the stars hahaha. Shunzi must be a warm and affectionate lovely person< /p>

The message said that in his dream he has a youth hostel of his own. But Furong Town is very secluded. Even though it is the only youth hostel in the town, there are few tourists and business is sluggish all year round. In order to maintain this dream, Shunzi also set up a stall in the town to practice archery, sell tambourines and some musical instruments. It's cool to be a person who runs both sides of the world and lives a serious life with goals and hard work. It's a pity that I am a very slow-tempered person, with a calm nature, and I lie in bed all day long in my room watching the stars and the moon. I am also very busy with Shunzi's two stores, so I have never had much communication with him.

Come here after hearing this quietness. It’s been almost a month since I’ve had enough sleep to have a good sleep for a few days

Furong Town Day: 2

It was already past 11 a.m. when I woke up naturally. Although the sound of children laughing and playing in the alley early in the morning and the voices of aunts talking in Tujia dialect that I couldn't understand disturbed my sleep, luckily, I pulled the quilt over my head and fell asleep again. I still haven’t seen Shunzi all day long, maybe it’s because I got up late. After taking out the Meituan takeout at noon and soaking up the hot and sour noodles I brought in the evening, and eating the snacks in my backpack, it was also the first time I read a martial arts novel by Gu Long in one day, and said two sentences: Afternoon facing The children who were still playing in the alley outside the window said hello, "Hey, kid"; I said "thank you" to the delivery boy.

Furong Town Day: 3

Although it was very quiet on Monday morning without the sound of children playing, I woke up early and wanted to sleep well for a few days. During the journey, I always go to bed early and get up early naturally, and I really enjoy this rhythm of life. It was a bit scary to live alone in the clean and large eight-bed room for girls. Even though the room was full of stars and moon, I still turned on the flashlight in the middle of the night until dawn.

Every time I finish reading a good book, I will always be fascinated for a while. I am also a nerd who lies in bed during the day and thinks about the lonely and loyal male protagonist walking alone like a wolf in Gulong's book. I imagine He also wanders around the world without any worries and with an innocent heart.

We set out at 6 o'clock in the evening, bringing with us the fare evasion strategy map of the ancient town. Shunzi said that no one would check the tickets before 7 o'clock in the morning and after 6 o'clock in the evening. You can go in at any time and follow the fare evasion route map to bypass it. The ticket check gate is wide enough. It’s scary to walk on the path to the small waterfall when it gets dark. There is no night light. Every time this happens, I picture scenes from various horror movies and thrillers in my mind, such as the mysterious Xiangxi and deserted mountain trails. It was the perfect background for the sneaky appearance in the movie, so I turned around and ran back

When the red clouds filled the western sky, I strolled leisurely in the ancient streets, square dance continued to develop, and it has become a unique The unique folk art has taken root in the lives of the public. The aunties in the Lotus Square happily stretched out and danced neatly. When I arrived late and suddenly wanted to take pictures of lotus flowers, the lotus pond had already opened. It is already a depressing scene, and even the lotus leaves have begun to gradually deteriorate.

The local specialties are rice tofu shaped like pepper; August melon, the big one is 10 yuan and the small one is 8 yuan. I negotiated a good price of 5 yuan and bought a medium-sized one, which is quite delicious

Furong Town Day: 4

In the quiet and deep ancient town, there were bursts of crying in the middle of the night. After I woke up and calmed down, I found that it was a child crying. I felt it was not that scary and turned on the light. I didn't sleep all night, so I simply got up early to take a look at the ancient town that had not yet awakened. We set off on the fare evasion route at 6:30. Although it was not very far and it was still not bright yet, we were still nervous walking on the mountain path. Fortunately, there were uncles sitting by the river fishing early on the way and grandma weeding in the vegetable garden. gave me the courage to move forward. Enter the ancient city and sit by the river in a daze, take pictures of the thousand-year-old ancient town hanging on the waterfall, and eat some dry food. A little later, the residents started to get up one after another. After a while, there were sounds of banging clothes from the river, and then the day's life began. It didn’t take half a day to visit Furong Town. I still walked around three times, one to take photos, and two to walk around slowly.

Customs and customs along the way

The more roads I travel, the more I like to stay home, and the more people I meet, the more I like children. Half of the four days in Furong Town were spent at home. When I came to this lonely village, walking on the bluestone alley, there were pedestrians in twos and threes, the air was fresh, and my impetuous heart calmed down, as if this was what Tao Yuanming wrote about " "Utopia", this place is isolated from the turbulent struggles of the outside world.

Not finished... Next stop, Chadong Ancient Town in Huayuan County.