Ya 'an is a city famous for its rain. More than 300 days of elegant rain throughout the year gave birth to fat and elegant fish and beautiful and elegant girls. With the opening of Chengya high-speed railway, Ya 'an was included in Chengdu's "1 hour economic circle". The change of transportation mode has promoted the development of local tourism economy. Some unknown beautiful and mysterious veils were slowly unveiled. Shangli ancient town, which is surrounded by mountains and rivers, is such a little-known secret ancient town.
Shangli ancient town is located at the intersection of four counties, with famous mountains and Qionglai in the east and Lushan and Ya 'an in the west. More than 2,000 years ago, it was an important post station of the Southern Silk Road and a transit station for the Red Army's long March northward. The countryside is a hill, the wooden house is a house, and the street is paved with bluestone, which is a diaojiao building in Ming and Qing dynasties; Green mountains and green waters, stone arch bridges that have slept for a hundred years, and old streets with unique folk customs in western Sichuan ... are fascinating step by step. It used to be the location of film and television dramas such as Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio and Don't Go Home Tonight.
This ancient village is surrounded by towering green hills, ancient and mysterious, and the adjacent mountains are close to the water. The whole Shangli ancient town is in a "well" sub-layout, with narrow streets, old-fashioned shops on both sides, mainly wooden buildings. This layout has created "there is water in the well, and fire and water are incompatible" to control water with fire and protect the peace of the town.
Throughout Shangli, there is actually only one main street in the whole ancient town, and the river twists and turns. On the rippling river, there is a rainbow-like stone arch bridge, which is particularly eye-catching. This is the Erxian Bridge with a history of hundreds of years. At the end of the ancient town, there is a new arch bridge across the river from Erxian Bridge. The poem "Two Rivers Catch a Mirror, Two Bridges Build a Rainbow" vividly depicts the whole picture of the ancient town.
Time flies, time flies. After a hundred years of wind and frost, the Erxian Bridge is now surrounded by green vines on both sides, like a bright and moving jade bracelet. Visitors to and from the ancient town will often take a walk on the stone bridge and have a look. There are many students painting in the shade of the river bank. From time to time, a beautiful image flashed by the stream stone. It was the newlyweds who were filming Happiness. On the broken bridge, young women were fiddling with rattan handicrafts, including turtles, grasshoppers and frogs, which attracted a group of people to stop and enjoy. At the other end of the bridge, there is a hundred acres of green tea garden.
Shangli ancient town, which is surrounded by mountains and waters, not only has a century-old bridge that has a moderate relaxation and jumps over the river, but also has an intriguing legend of "Shangli Wujiakou". According to reports, Shangli was once the gathering place of five major nationalities: Han, Yang, Chen, Zhang and Xu. Han Jiayin, a wealthy businessman, Yang Dingzi of an official family, Chen Jiazi of a large grain grower, and Zhang's walking stick, a beautiful and hardworking woman surnamed Xu. Concise sentences outline the humanistic outline of the ancient town. In the past, in this narrow stone street, how many competition stories were worth tasting?
Shangli Ancient Town is one of the top ten ancient towns in Sichuan. It is well-known in Ya 'an, adjacent to Bifengxia Panda Kingdom. The secret of this ancient village is gradually known. The ancient Shangli ancient town not only retains the diaojiao building of the cool breeze in the Ming Dynasty, but also has rich historical and cultural landscapes such as the Han Family Courtyard, the magical White Horse Spring and the Buddha's treasure stupa, one of the five famous people in Shangli. It is worthy of careful appreciation and taste.
Where there are ancient towns, there are delicious foods. As a branch of Sichuan cuisine, Ya 'an is rich in delicacies. Elegant fish with a long reputation, mouth-watering meat, full dada noodles, spicy and delicious mala Tang. There is also a delicious walnut cake unique to the ancient town, as well as a feast of insects that people can taste.
In the past, Shangli ancient town was a "poisonous road for Shu people" and an important checkpoint for Shu people to leave Dehong and enter Myanmar and Thailand. Now this is an ancient village in Shan Ye forgotten by the world. It is very quiet. There is no hustle and bustle of Old Town of Lijiang Bar Street, and there are no hotels and inns beside the Double Gallery. Here, the most primitive ancient town atmosphere has been preserved. In Zhongli Village, which is 0/5 minutes' drive from Shangli Ancient Town/Kloc-,there is a sea of lavender flowers, waiting for a romantic meeting with your skirt dancing and falling into that sweet dream.
In the dream, the water town is on a mysterious land. As touching as a poem, as beautiful as a picture scroll. Shangli ancient town, a forgotten rural secret. It's not as colorful as zhouzhuang town, and it's not as crowded as Fenghuang Ancient Town. The folk houses in western Sichuan with strong local flavor disappeared into the pastoral scenery.