There are many ancient towns worth visiting around Chengdu, allowing friends to experience the ancient beauty. So let us take a look at the top ten ancient towns around Chengdu that must be visited!

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1. Jiezichang Ancient Town: Introduction to Qingcheng Back Garden Ancient Town: Jiezi ranks among the more than 10 ancient towns around Chengdu. It still follows the typical Western Sichuan ancient town composition of low tile eaves, wooden door panels, and bluestone roads.

But compared with those ancient towns where wide roads are built all the way to your doorstep, streets like Lijiang Sifang Street have clear rivers flowing along both sides of the streets, showing the streets' everlasting simplicity and elegance.

Jiezichang is located at the foot of Fengqi Mountain, 25 kilometers northwest of Chongzhou City. It is connected to the back mountain of Qingcheng and is surrounded by mountains and rivers.

It not only benefits from beautiful mountains and rivers, but also has 32 temples and other historic sites centered on the Guangyan Zen Temple, an ancient temple in the Tang Dynasty. It integrates natural scenery and cultural landscape.

Jiezichang has ancient temples from the Jin Dynasty - Guangyan Temple, Fengqi Mountain Tourist Scenic Area, thousands of acres of primeval forest, thousand-year-old ginkgo biloba, thousand-year-old phoebe, ancient temples, ancient pagodas from the Qing Dynasty, and an ancient street built in the late Qing Dynasty and early Republic of China.

The site of the uprising of national hero Wang Xiaobo, a poet from the Tang Dynasty, the former residence of Tang Qiu (Tang Qiu Memorial Hall), the ancient dragon pond with magical legends, Wuguituo, Yunwu Cave, etc., and more than 20 various cultural relics and historic sites in the town.

Most of the old houses in Jiezichang today are relics left over from the Ming and Qing Dynasties. If you want to enjoy the scenery, the editor recommends that you go to Yulong Bridge. There are more than ten tall ginkgo trees beside Yulong Bridge, and their large branches stand with lush leaves at the entrance of the venue.

on the edge of the dam.

Next to the ginkgo tree, there is a red pagoda built in the late Qing Dynasty. It is made of fine workmanship. Whenever the mountain wind blows, the small copper bell on the pagoda will make a pleasant sound. The ancients called this kind of pagoda "ziku".

Highlights: Jiezichang is a place full of hermit legends.

According to the "General History of China", Zhu Yunwen, the son of Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, mysteriously disappeared in history. According to the research of many folk experts, Zhu Yunwen actually lived in seclusion near the ancient temple of Guangyan Zen Temple in Jiezichang.

Since 1404 AD, he has lived in the mountains for more than ten years.

And when you walk into the nearly century-old shop of Duan Lin on Zhenwu Street in Jiezi Town, you will find something surprising.

There is a wooden wall that is as tall as two people hidden in his room. The wooden wall is about 4 meters high and divided into 6 grids. Each grid is like a wooden screen. The wooden wall has a quilt similar to plaster.

There are traces of smearing on the wooden wall, and a clear picture has appeared on the rightmost panel of the wooden wall. The beautiful woman's skirt is fluttering in the picture, and her belt is blowing in the wind, which is very similar to the "flying sky" in the Dunhuang murals.

This is how Jiezi often gives you unexpected surprises. All you need is your wise eyes.

Bus route: Depart from Chengdu, pass through Chongzhou and Yuantong Town, and arrive at Jiezi Town.

Departing from Chengdu Jinsha Station (available in the city are Route 5, 17, 801, 47, 78, and 69), there are buses to Meihua Village and the Ancient Temple once a day from this station at the following times:

9:10 and 10:50, the fare is 10.5 yuan/person; there is also a bus to Chongzhou, which leaves every four minutes, the fare is 6.5 yuan/person (wild yellow "noodle", via Yuantong Town,

Self-driving route from Jiezi Town to Meihuazhai (or Ancient Temple): Exit the west gate of Chengdu, pass through the Wenqiong Expressway, get off the expressway at the Chongzhou exit, and then drive through Jinjiang, Yuantong Town, Shangyuan to Jiezi Town.

From the Chengdu-Guan Expressway to the end, go up the road to Qingcheng Mountain and go to Jiezi via Qingcheng Town and Daguan Town. Food and accommodation: For tourists who love food, they will definitely covet the "Tangma Cake" which is said to be passed down only to daughters-in-law but not to sons.

According to reports, this snack was created in the 51st year of Qianlong’s reign in the Qing Dynasty and is currently sold at home and abroad. It is one of the four famous snacks in ancient Shuzhou. Bus route: There is a shuttle bus to Huanglongxi from Chengdu Xinnanmen Bus Station, 8:00-16.

: 00, the bus departs every 1 hour, 8 yuan/person; the bus from Hongpailou leaves every half hour, 7 yuan/person. Food and accommodation: charred pork elbow, pearl bean curd, scrambled eggs with wild vegetables, vegetarian fried wild gray vegetables, braised yellow vegetables

Spicy diced food is a must-try in Huanglongxi. The most enjoyable thing is to hire a small boat for about 100 yuan and bring all kinds of delicacies on board.

You can go ashore to visit the Great Buddha Temple. The boatman will wait on the shore and take the boat back to the ancient town two hours later. The cost of staying in the town for one night ranges from 15 yuan to 40 yuan per person. Usually, you can return to Chengdu on the same day as the tour of Huanglong River.

2. Luodai Ancient Town: The first Hakka town in the west Introduction to the ancient town: Luodai Ancient Town is located 10 kilometers north of Longquan Town and located at the foot of Er'e Mountain in the middle of the Longquan Mountains. It is said that it was built during the Shuhan period of the Three Kingdoms. It is said that the jade belt of Liu Chan, the queen of the Shuhan Dynasty, fell.

It was named after entering the Bajiao Well next to the town. There are more than 20,000 Hakka residents in the town, accounting for 90% of the town's population; therefore, it is known as the first Hakka town in western China.