Chengdu is a city where fashion and classicism coexist. If you want to be in go on road trip, Chengdu during the Mid-Autumn Festival, the following beautiful ancient towns should not be missed.
1. Huanglongxi
Huanglongxi, an ancient town in western Sichuan with a history of more than 1,7 years, is located in Shuangliu County, about 3 kilometers southeast of Chengdu. Six old streets, such as Main Street, Xinjie Street, Hengjie Street, Shanghe Street, Xiahe Street, Fuxing Street, etc., have just been closed for one year, all of which have been paved with red stone streets, and the buildings on both sides have also recovered their true colors and are antique.
In the ancient town of Huanglongxi, buildings from the Ming and Qing Dynasties abound and are still well preserved. Streets paved with red stones, pavilions and houses with wooden columns and green tiles, and beautifully carved railings and windows all give people a feeling of simplicity and tranquility. There are also six big banyan trees in the town, all of which are more than a thousand years old. They are luxuriant and cover the sky, which adds a lot of aura to the ancient town. There are still three ancient temples in Zhenjiang Temple, Chaoyin Temple and Gulong Temple in the town, which are deep and winding. There are many small restaurants on both sides of the street, and most of them have a white wine flag on a blue background in front of the door, such as "Yuxiangzi", "Lvhuitou" and "Tangsu Store", which keep dancing in the wind to attract guests. The stone mill tofu pudding in the ancient town is very famous, and almost every family can make it, but each has its own characteristics. Walking through a street, I saw another lane, with bare bluestone road at the foot, shiny black door panels and antique signs, which were full of ancient meaning.
Gourmet: Jiaopi elbow, pearl bean curd, scrambled eggs with wild vegetables, vegetable-fried wild grey vegetables, braised yellow spicy diced vegetables, etc. are the special foods of Huanglongxi, so you must try them. The most enjoyable thing is to hire a boat around 1 yuan, call all kinds of delicious food on board, and enjoy the scenery on both sides of the strait while tasting it. When you are full of food and wine, you can go ashore for a tour, and the boatman will wait on the shore and return to the ancient town by boat two hours later.
2. Yuelai Ancient Town
Yuelai Ancient Town, located in Heming Township, Dayi County, is the main throat leading to Xiling Snow Mountain and Huashuiwan Hot Spring. Yuelai is a typical ancient town in western Sichuan. On the yue lai zhen, everything is quiet and harmonious. People are playing long Sichuan cards in the lazy afternoon sun, sitting in a small tea shop at the bridge, drinking a bowl of scented tea with three cents. Time seems to have stopped, and the excitement and noise in their eyes are only illusory.
The ancient town of Yuelai is small, with only four streets. The ancient buildings are mainly concentrated in Yuelaizheng Street and Heba Street, which are basically the architectural styles of western Sichuan towns from the late Qing Dynasty to the Republic of China. There are many houses with the integration of Chinese and western architectural style elements, which is the special feature of Yuelai ancient town from other ancient towns.
Gourmet: There are many small restaurants in Yuelai ancient town. Of course, the most distinctive ones are Ma mutton, mutton in milk soup, steamed vegetables and wild mushrooms.
3. Huaiyuan Ancient Town
Huaiyuan Ancient Town is located in chongzhou city, with a history dating back more than 1,6 years. It is small and covers an area of only one square kilometer. Most of the ancient town buildings were built during the Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China, while maintaining the pattern of four doors and four streets. There are more than 3 existing streets, of which more than 1 are well preserved, including Xiaobei Street, Nanjie Street, Xiaxin Street, Zhengxi Street and Linjiang Street. Most of the buildings are built in accordance with the law of the Ministry of Industry in Qing Dynasty, and most of them are built in wooden structures. The basic style of Huaiyuan ancient town is to put columns on the street, combine the front hall with the backyard, combine the corridor with the building and lead the alley to live in the courtyard, but its specific streets and lanes have many different characteristics.
More than 2 criss-crossing streets and alleys are full of silk shops, tea shops, bamboo weaving shops, oil shops and drug shops, and the town is very lively. Huaiyuan's most famous "three weaves": rattan weaving, brown weaving and bamboo weaving, almost every family has skilled craftsmen. In the hands of those old people, rattan, brown and bamboo have become a work of art, which is dazzling along the street. Huaiyuan has a large number of "three-series" professionals. According to preliminary statistics in 1985, there are more than 1,9 professional households in the town with more than 3, employees. In the east of the town, a 9-meter-long rattan street is emerging in the first section of Donghua Huailu Road and the lower section of Wenjing New Street, and more than 3 large rattan houses have set up workshops here.
Gourmet: When you come to Huaiyuan, you must eat the "three musts" here: tofu curtain, frozen cake and yeerba.
4. Jiezichang Ancient Town
Jiezi is well-known among more than 1 ancient towns around Chengdu, and it still follows the typical ancient towns of western Sichuan with low tile eaves, wooden doors and Qingshi Road. However, compared with those ancient towns where wide roads have been built to the door, the street is like Lijiang Sifang Street, with clear rivers flowing down both sides of the street, showing the simplicity and elegance of the street.
Self-driving route: Take the West Gate of Chengdu, pass through chengwenqiong expressway, get off at Chongzhou Exit, and then go to Jinjiang, Yuantong Town and Shangyuan to Jiezi Town. You can also go from Chengguan Expressway to the finish line, go up the highway of Qingcheng Mountain, and go to Jiezi via Qingcheng Town and Daguan Town.
5. Shangli Ancient Town
Shangli Town is located in Yucheng District, Ya 'an City, Sichuan Province, 27 kilometers away from the urban area. Shangli Ancient Town was the Southern Silk Road in ancient times, and it was also an important station for Linqiong Ancient Road to enter Ya 'an. Shangli lives in the included angle where the two rivers intersect, and it is said by the people that it is a treasure place where "financial resources" gather. The ancient town is surrounded by mountains and waters, with idyllic hills, wooden houses as homes, stone paved streets, and 18 hills of "eighteen arhats facing Guanyin". Eight ancient stone bridges represented by "Erxian Bridge" have a long history and different styles.
The first thing you see when you arrive in Shanghai is a memorial archway of "Double Filial Piety Festival" which was built in Daoguang for 19 years. The archway is a four-column, three-eaves and multi-ridge stone carving workshop, which is tall and fine; There are also more than 2 groups of stories of more than 1 dramatic characters engraved on the beam. The memorial archway is a relic of feudal etiquette, which was established at that time to promote Han's "never losing his virginity or changing his driving, and honoring his parents and in-laws for life". The stone archway, which was built by Yang Han's mother-in-law and daughter-in-law for two generations, is a testimony of the feudal system in China that binds women and is also a fine stone carving art in China. At present, there are still three stone archways in the town, namely, the provincial-level protection unit "Double Filial Piety" stone archway, as well as the municipal-level cultural protection units Chen's "Ninth Cohabitation" and Chen's "Chastity" archway.
Gourmet: There is a dish in Shangli Ancient Town called "Stewed Yam with Black-bone Chicken", which is delicious and nourishing, 25 yuan/serving. Big meat is also very fragrant.
Self-driving route: There are two ways to drive from Chengdu to Shangli: one is to take Chengya Expressway, get off at Ya 'an North Exit, and pass through Xiali, Zhongli and Shangli; The other is to take Wenqiong Road to Qionglai, first visit Pingle Ancient Town and Jiaguan Ancient Town, and then go up the mountain to White Horse Spring. This is a circular line. Self-driving cars can go one way and then return from another.