there is generally nothing interesting in the city. The following scenic spots are recommended:

Dehang is located in Xiangxi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture in the northwest of Hunan Province, in the west of Jishou City, about 18km away from the urban area, in the middle of Wuling Grand Canyon formed by the intersection of Yunnan and Guizhou and Wuling Mountain Range, with geographical coordinates of 19 3'–11 4' east longitude and 28 8'–28 29' north latitude. The planned area of the scenic spot is 18 square kilometers, which is divided into three scenic spots: Xiaolong, Donghe and Dehang. It officially opened on January 1st, 1987, was approved as a provincial-level scenic spot by Hunan Provincial People's Government in 1991, and was successfully declared as a national key scenic spot in 25. More than 2 films, such as "Anti-bandits in Xiangxi", "Anti-bandits in Wulong Mountain" and "Bloody Xiangxi", were filmed here.

Dehang has a subtropical monsoon climate with four distinct seasons. The annual average temperature is 16 C–18 C. Located at the critical point where the third step of China terrain climbs to the second step, the geographical fault creates a magnificent canyon landform. The natural scenery of the scenic spot is very beautiful, and it is a typical limestone canyon landform, which is praised as the "golden nail section" by the international geological community.

Dehang Miao Village, located at the core of the scenic spot, is a world-famous hometown of Miao and Drum, and has produced two generations of outstanding Miao and Drum Kings. The residential houses in Dehang Miao Village are all green tile wooden houses, and several criss-crossing green slate roads weave more than 1 families. Jiulong River passes through the village, and an ancient and elegant stone arch bridge spans the mountain stream.

Every year, on the day of "Solitaire", colorful flags are flying on the bridge and under the bridge, and crowds are bustling with suona gongs and drums. People from the four townships and eight villages dressed in festive costumes surrounded by "dragon girls" formed a mighty solitaire team to board the bridge and go to Yuquan Gate next to the village to "receive dragons". Such large-scale Miao traditional activities include Miao Drum Festival, Qingming Song Festival, Autumn Festival and Hundred Lions Festival. After the activity, you can be invited to visit the Miao family, feel the living customs of the Miao people, and taste the Miao-style Yinmi tea, five-grain rice, sour fish, sour meat and steamed corn. You can also be invited to add a spring fire party to watch Miao girls and boys perform "jumping drums", "solitaire" and "Youquan" for you. Every September, you can also watch the annual international rock climbing competition.

There are a group of Miao people living here, and the folk customs are ancient and simple. They love each other freely through songs. Women like to wear silver ornaments and collarless embroidered clothes; Men love to tie leggings and blow leaves. They grow their own mulberry and sericulture, spin and weave, and hand-woven goods are wonderful. People here follow the ancient methods of oil extraction, paper making, rice milling, weaving, and irrigation of fields with water by truck. By the brook, thousands of tube cars, large and small, creaked and turned, creating a beautiful rural scenery.

There are more than 8 families living in Dehang Village, and their festivals mainly include March 3rd, April 8th, June 6th, Miao Year, Bullfighting Festival, Sister Festival, etc., among which Miao Year is the most grand. Miao people's cultural activities include Miao songs, Miao dances, lion grabbing, knife climbing, bullfighting and bull racing. There are more than 3 kinds of colorful folk activities, such as Miao's being a guest, singing at the door, toasting, Miao's dancing party, song and dance, Miao's encouragement and seeing off guests with lights.

Miaogu Festival

Miaogu Festival is a traditional sacred festival of Miao people. On the ninth day of the ninth lunar month every year, Miao people in the four townships invite Miao drums to be sacrificed, drumming and reveling all night. Dehang is known as the first village of Chinese Miao culture. During the China Hunan Tourism Festival in 22, the aim was to show the Miao culture, folk customs and amorous feelings to tourists at home and abroad in Hunan, to enhance the tourism popularity of western Hunan, and to add a landscape to the celebration of the 2th anniversary of the founding of Jishou City. This Miao and Drum Festival is jointly sponsored by Xiangxi Autonomous Prefecture Government and Provincial Ethnic Affairs Committee. It invites Miao and Drum Teams from seven provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions to perform for the first time. At the same time, there are traditional folk activities with national characteristics, such as Miao Gu Zhuniu, Hundred Lions Climbing the Mountain, Miao Ge Pan Singing, Eight People Autumn, etc., and an exhibition of Xiangxi customs art and photography works is held.

Miao people catch autumn

The Miao people catch autumn festival is on the day of beginning of autumn in the lunar calendar (July 14th in the lunar calendar and August 22nd in the solar calendar). ) or a day or two later. At this time, a

cloud in the field is golden, how mature the autumn harvest crops are, and the harvest is in sight. The annual income is basically a foregone conclusion, and the harvest scene is inspiring. For this reason, the people hold a rally, which is called "catching up with autumn", and celebrate the Miao family's annual festival with great excitement, which will not only make the harvest of the five crops fruitful. On this day, Miao people dressed in festive costumes, men, women and children, some danced dragons, some played lions, some played with gold ingots and steel forks, some blew horns, suona, teams and teams, and the drums and drums were loud and colorful flags were flying, pouring into the autumn field from all directions. In the flat dam and the hills of the autumn field, the dragonfly and lion jump, the sword and fork fly, the folk literature and art, the swing fly around, the Miao songs echo, the crowd is surrounded, and the smiling faces are open. In an instant, the autumn field becomes a happy ocean.

Liusha Waterfall

Liusha Waterfall

Dehang goes 3 miles to the right along the stream side path, and reaches Liusha Waterfall, which is 216 meters high. It is said that the height drop ranks first in the country. Such as white practice volley, like silver gauze hanging on the wall. Most of the time, the waterfall flies down from the cliff, with a very high drop. When the water reaches the bottom, it is scattered into quicksand. Visitors can walk along the mountain roads on both sides and under the waterfalls. The faint water floats down like mist, and it feels like entering water curtain cave, and it is drizzling and immersed in the heart and spleen. Because of the strong wind in the canyon, the water flows around, and the word "flowing yarn" can just describe its characteristics.

near Liusha Waterfall, there is Yanzixia Waterfall Group, which is located at the end of Dehang River. It consists of 1 waterfalls with a drop of about 2 meters. In rainy season, the waterfalls are connected together, with a width of about 3 meters, and the scene is very spectacular. [5]

Aizhai Highway Wonder

Aizhai Bridge (4 pieces)

Aizhai Wonder Tourist Area is located in the northwest of Jishou City, Xiangxi Prefecture, on the border of Hunan, Hubei, Chongqing and Guizhou, with geographical coordinates of 19 3'-11 4' east longitude and 28 8'-28 29' north latitude. Located on the golden tourist route from Zhangjiajie to Fenghuang Ancient City, Changji Expressway, Jicha Expressway, Ji 'en Expressway, Jihuai Expressway, G319, G29 National Highway and S229 Provincial Highway pass by, 7 kilometers away from Tongren Airport in Guizhou and 15 kilometers away from Zhangjiajie Airport, and Zhiliu Railway passes through the territory.

"A century-old wonder of roads and bridges, a thousand-year Miao village customs and a thousand-year canyon scenery" is the distinctive feature of Aizhai Scenic Area, and its leisure tourism brand has become famous all over the country. Tianqiao (the world's first bridge-Aizhai Bridge), Tianlu (Aizhai Highway Wonder), Tianwaterfall (the biggest quicksand waterfall in China), Tiantai (Tiantai Landscape) and Tiangu (Seven Grand Canyon) in the scenic spot can be called "Wonders of Heaven and Earth". [6]

Xiangchuan Highway (National Highway 319) is the road of life for the Chinese nation to save the nation and survive during the Anti-Japanese War. Aizhaipo section of Xiangchuan Highway is the most steep section of this highway, with a vertical height of 44 meters, a horizontal advance of less than 1 meters, 13 big bends in 6 kilometers, a figure-of-eight bend and an overpass ... which constitute a magnificent world-class highway spectacle. Standing on the monument to the dead employees of Xiangchuan Highway by the roadside, the inscriptions inscribed by those figures of the Republic of China have become legends; Pioneering sculpture has become the spiritual totem of Jishou.

Guyun Jishou

Wonders of World Roads and Bridges In the past 1 years, two engineering wonders in the history of roads and bridges have been created here, namely, the "Wonder of Aizhaipo Highway" built in 1936 and the "No.1 Suspension Bridge in the World" which will soon be opened to traffic across Aizhaigou Grand Canyon.

The "best traffic police in history" Aizhai traffic police is moving China; In the future, this legendary highway will become a paradise for extreme sports enthusiasts and will surely write new legends. [7]

Ganzhou Ancient City

Ganzhou City, also known as Gancheng, was a stronghold of Miaojiang in ancient times, located on the banks of Wanrong River in Jishou City, the capital of Xiangxi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, Hunan Province. The 29 National Highway and Zhiliu Railway run through the north and south, and it is a traditional material distribution center in the border areas of Hunan, Hubei, Chongqing and Guizhou provinces. Shicheng wall twists and turns 198 meters, about two kilometers. There are three gates in the city: Sunward Gate, Hongwen Gate and Yihua Gate. During Jiajing period of Ming Dynasty, a border town was built here for nearly 2 kilometers, in order to block the rebellion of Miao people, and the center of this town became the base camp of the ruler's "Miao defense".

Historical overview

The ancient city of Ganzhou has a history of thousands of years of civilization. Ganzhou is surrounded by mountains, with a basin in the middle, through which the Tianxing River and Wanrong River pass, forming a three-land landscape, which is like a dry divination. The middle of the two rivers was called Ganzhou in ancient times, because it was called Ganzhou. The surrounding mountains are like nine turtles looking for their mothers, and everything is thriving. According to the rules of ancient geography, it is an ideal place to build a city and build a city.

During the Five Emperors, there were human activities here, which were called aborigines in history. During the Shang Dynasty, Bo people lived here, then moved to the southwest, then came Lin people, and then came Miao people. Ganzhou was an important commercial port in Qin and Han dynasties, and it was one of the four ancient cities in western Hunan. During the Song and Yuan Dynasties, the "Wuxi barbarians" refused to accept the jurisdiction of the court, and the court often sent troops to suppress them. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the imperial court extensively repaired side walls, set up barracks, built blockhouses and blocked barbarians in the areas of western Hunan and southeastern Sichuan. The ancient city of Ganzhou has Magpie Camp in the north and Zhengan City in the south. It is an important military command center on the defense line of the South Great Wall, and echoes Tongren, Zhenyuan and other ancient cities from a distance, and * * * imperial border passes.

Shili Ancient Street

During the Qin and Han Dynasties, it was an important commercial port pier, where the post stations and post roads from south to north met, and the water traffic was developed, which was a relatively developed place at that time. Ming and Qing Dynasties gradually became the political, economic, military and cultural center of the Miao border areas. It has been the first of the four ancient towns in western Hunan (Ganzhou, Pushi, Liye and Tea Cave) for generations. As early as in Shen Congwen's book Xiangxi, the ancient city of Ganzhou was described in this way: "Although the place is not big, the small stone town is neat and clean, and there are people with famous surnames in the history of nearly 3 years ..." He said that the ancient city of Ganzhou is an ancient, mysterious and prosperous place.

the ancient city of Ganzhou has outstanding people. In this ancient and mysterious land, Wu He, a Miao intellectual who devoted himself to the education in his hometown during the Ming Zhengde period, was raised successively. Wu August, leader of the Qing-Gan Jiamiao uprising; During the Guangxu period, Yang Yuebin, governor of Shaanxi and Gansu, recruited soldiers in his hometown to resist the French in Fujian and Taiwan, regardless of his age; Luo Rongguang, the Tianjin company commander who led the troops to fight against Eight-Nation Alliance, defend Dagukou and died in the line of duty; During the Republic of China, the army of the Republic of China helped General Fu Liangzuo and Shi Qigui, a Miao scholar who was enthusiastic about education in Miao areas and devoted himself to studying Miao issues. Zhang Yizun, one of the four outstanding contemporary horse painters in China, and other national talents.

picturesque Hujiatang

Hujiatang is said to have existed in the Tang Dynasty, and was named Hujiatang because Hu's timber merchant was the owner of the pond. She is one of the unique scenic spots in the ancient city, covering an area of more than 2,9 square meters. A curved "Qingfeng Bridge" divides the pond into a big pond and a small pond. In the small pond, there is an ancient well called "An Lan Well", which is bottomless and is the source of pond water and a treasure trove of geomantic omen. Dozens of families living around the pond have unique ancient buildings in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, which have nurtured many talents such as epigraphy painter Yang Weishu, Army Major General Gao Kunlu, Wu Keke Gao Xunyi and famous philosopher Zhou Liquan.

Hujiatang is permeated with the tranquility of "small bridges, flowing water and people" in Jiangnan water town. In particular, the lotus, which is full of mud but not stained, is like a holy and shy fairy, dancing with the green and wide lotus leaves in the breeze. The crystal clear jade beads are shining in the hollow of the leaves, which is really like a fairy throwing pearls and jade, and the earth is like a fairyland. In the dead of night, frogs are singing, crickets are singing, and fireflies are lighting up their thoughts ... The lotus pond has become a good place for traveling, taking a leisurely walk, fishing and swimming, and enjoying the lotus scenery. It is also a place for the Lotus Festival on June 24 of the lunar calendar every year.

The unparalleled "Three Gates Opening" in Ganzhou

The south gate of the ancient city of Qingshi in Ganzhou is a moon city, which has become a masterpiece in the architectural history of ancient cities in China.

Looking at the Moon City in China, there are two towers and two opposite gates. There are three towers in Yuecheng, the ancient city of Weiganzhou, with three gates, a main building in the middle and an ear building on both sides, which are arranged in a zigzag shape. The height and spacing of the main building and the ear building are perfect, which is the "three-door opening" of Ganzhou, which has been famous for hundreds of years.

The ancient city of Ganzhou is in the shape of a long and narrow comb. The city wall with "long side of comb teeth" is built along the Wanrong River. There is a river street stretching for several miles outside the city. On the side of the river street near Wanrong River, there are rows of stilts bent on the blue rock wall of the river bank, and the inner side of the river street is the city wall. "Sanmenkai" is located in the middle of the south city wall. Ganzhou market town formed along the river is long and narrow, extending vertically into the market town from the river street, with the deepest part less than 3 meters. Ganzhou Tingfu is located in the center of the market town, facing Wanrong River and less than 1 meters away from Wanrong River. It is extremely important to consider the safety of Tingfu when building the south gate.

in the ancient cold weapon era, building a city was mainly a military need, and a military barrier was built with city walls and moats to guard against enemy invasion. The south gate of the ancient city of Ganzhou needs to be built on the bank of Wanrong River, which is surrounded by steep bluestone walls. The construction of the south gate not only meets the military needs, but also facilitates residents to get water and wash in the river, so as to maintain the prosperity of the river street and keep people and goods flowing into the city.

The "Three Doors Open" is like a towering stone wall beside the water. There is no road under the "wall" and it is close to the river. Wanrong River is an excellent natural military barrier to protect the city. The enemy can't be Enemy at the Gates, but he can only be afraid. The main tower of Yuecheng is about 16 meters high, and the ear towers on both sides are about 1 meters high. The walls are all made of square blue stones, and the walls are bonded with glutinous rice flour slurry mixed with lime. The joint mortar is as dense as a line. The main building is made of brick and wood structure, with two floors, with colored gourd porcelain vases on the top of the ridge, upturned cornices and hanging copper bells. On the inner side, there is a porch window, and the other three sides are made of special giant bricks. There are two rows of watcheyes, which are in a horizontal and ascending shape. The width inside is over 5 cm, and the outside is a long gap. Both floors can station troops. On both sides of the first floor, a small door is opened to facilitate the patrol in and out of the city.

The Ear City on both sides is on the first floor, and the decoration is the same as that of the main building, where troops can be stationed. There is a row of barracks between the two ear cities in Yuecheng, which is used by the army. Each of the three towers has two gates, which are made of hard miscellaneous wood and are 2 cm thick. The gates are covered with iron sheets and riveted with numerous huge round-tailed nails to prevent bullets, knives and fire attacks. One gate weighs about one thousand kilograms, and it takes two or three mature soldiers to work together to start it. The three towers of Yuecheng are connected into a whole, with corridors connected and doors separated. This layout is easy to defend but difficult to attack, and it is rock-solid. As soon as the solid gates of the two ear cities are closed, the river street can be cut off and the invading enemy can be kept out of the city. It is also beneficial for us to attack the city gate as appropriate. On weekdays, the city gate is open, which does not hinder residents from getting water and washing in the river. The whole river street is still a line, unimpeded. It keeps the business prosperity of the river street and is very convenient for people and goods to enter the city.

"Sanmenkai" is a bright pearl embedded in the ancient city of Ganzhou, and it is one of the most dazzling highlights in the ancient buildings of Ganzhou.

Yang Yuebin's former residence

Yang Yuebin's former residence is located in the ancient city of Ganzhou. It was built by Yang Yuebin, the governor of Shaanxi and Gansu Province, the Prince Taibao and the first-generation famous soldier who recovered Taiwan Province, during Tongzhi and Guangxu years. It faces south, covers an area of more than 1, square meters, and has a brick-wood courtyard with three rooms and five entrances. The residence is profound and has a courtyard. It is a model of unified architectural pattern in the ancient city of Ganzhou and is well preserved. Scope of protection: Three elephants in the east, north and west of the former site of Ercheng, each extending 1 meters outside the courtyard wall, bounded by the street in the south.

Ganzhou City God Temple and guanyin temple

Located behind the old cinema of Ganzhou Ancient City, Ganzhou City God Temple was built in the 11th year of Kangxi in Qing Dynasty (1672). Qianlong was destroyed by war in the 6th year of Jiaqing, and it was rebuilt twice in the 1th year of Daoguang. There are inscriptions to prove that this temple covers an area of about 7 square meters, with a building area of 378 square meters, facing south and facing hard mountains.