Although it is an unheard of village, the scenery is super beautiful, and it is known as the "Little Nine Villages in South Zhejiang".
It has been left in the dense mountains and forests of southern Zhejiang, and has not been flooded by tourists or overly commercialized. Everything retains its original flavor.
There are beautiful terraces here, more beautiful than Wuyuan terraces. Looking at the beautiful lines, the farmers plowing in the morning mist outlines the leisurely idyllic life.
The ancient forest road here is quieter than the old tea-horse road. Many ancient and famous trees grow on both sides. The trees are more than a hundred years old, and their luxuriant branches and leaves form a natural sunshade. Even in summer, it's not too hot to walk here.
But what you can't miss is the beautiful corridor bridge that has amazed the world. Sitting on the bench of the ancient corridor bridge, looking out of the window at the babbling brook and the beauty of the green hills in the distance, there is a unique flavor;
there are hundred-year-old trees, and ancient homes with rustic and primitive features, and so on. A small village contains so many beautiful sceneries, it's really a good place for your soul to fly.
This is the ancient village of Village End, located north of Taishunling in Wenzhou. It is crowded with beautiful scenery and negative oxygen ions. If you don't know where to go to empty yourself on vacation, take a look at this fun little mountain village. I believe you won't be disappointed.
1, the ancient road Qingxi small terraces
left behind the beauty of Taishun.
The ancient village of Cunwei is not large, but it has beautiful scenery, dense vegetation, and the forest coverage rate is as high as 90%. Breathing and breathing is full of negative oxygen ions.
It is not an attraction in the traditional sense of the word, nor does it require an entrance fee. Instead, it has become a hideaway for many locals and tourists. Before coming to the ancient village at the end of the village, I heard this description: "It's beautiful all year round. There are green mountains and bamboo in spring and summer, terraced fields in fall, and red leaves and falling snow in winter, making it picturesque and intoxicating."
I thought it was an exaggerated description of the scenery, but when I saw it with my own eyes, I was mesmerized by the picturesque beauty.
Ling Terraces
The terraces are a miracle created in the process of human farming civilization: the mountains and rivers are plain paper, the farming tools are like magic brushes, and man and nature cooperate to leave a stunning piece of danjing in the mountains.
The ridge terrace is such a beautiful landscape stained with the poetry of Jiangnan. Although not as magnificent as the terraces in Yunnan, not as blessed as the terraces in Guizhou, but there is a kind of small family like the beauty of the spirit, vividly displaying the exquisite and lovely appearance of the terraces in Jiangnan.
Every year, during the spring and fall harvests, there are senior donkeys who come to the end of the village to stay for a few days in the village, just to feast their eyes on the "quiet years" and feel the quiet idyllic life.
Tianguan Mountain Road
People who love hiking are no strangers to the ancient Tianguan Mountain Road, which is one of the top ten forest roads in Wenzhou. It has a history of thousands of years and is a famous place to escape the summer heat.
The temperature inside the enclosure soared to 30 when it still maintained a cool temperature of more than 20 degrees. Along the way, green hills and green water accompanied by birdsong in the streams. The wind blew through your hair, taking away the dryness of summer and leaving a natural fragrance unique to the forest at the tips.
If you don't want to hike, there are stone benches and tables along the ancient path for rest. Stay quietly under the swaying shade of the trees and listen to the sound of rustling leaves, like the whispers of ancient trees on both sides of the road, telling you the story of an ordinary but not banal town.
This kind of leisure "watching flowers blossom and fall in front of the garden, gently looking at the clouds in the sky" is the life that Xiao Feijun aspires to.
Xishui Wanle
There is running water along the ancient Tianguan Mountain Road, and you can hear the sound of spring streams as you walk along
Playing in the springs surrounded by mountains and trees is the most enjoyable thing you can do. Take off your shoes and step into the water. When you squat down to splash, the cold water drips down on your cheeks and soaks into your skin, making it super refreshing. Even if you don't get in the water to play, the stream will cool your arms for ages.
However, the most fun way to backtrack in the ancient village at the end of the village is to step on the foothills and jump between streams. Anchoring is an ancient tool for crossing streams, in which a number of stones of roughly the same shape and size are arranged to form a path through the stream.
From a distance, it looks like a row of black piano keys, with the water flowing through them filling in the missing white keys. Together, they play the music of the mountain springs that characterize the ancient village of Murao.
Bat Mountain
On the other side of Bat Mountain is Fujian. Perhaps Fujian derives its name from Bat Mountain? Suddenly, I had an urge to go over the mountain to see what Fujian was like on the other side. Maybe it's a paradise like the old village at the end of the village.
2, corridor bridge flowing water old man
More charming than Wuzhen
Zhejiang's ancient villages and towns seem to have been dug. Wuzhen Xitang in the front attracts a lot of tour groups, and Anchang and Jinxi in the back keep tourists coming.
This pile of highly commercialized ancient villages and towns, only an empty shelf, but has long lost its soul. It's getting harder and harder to find original ancient villages.
But the ancient village at the end of the village is proud of its peach blossom-like location and still maintains the original flavor of the ancient village. Unperturbed by the outside world, it has only come into the public eye in recent years. It doesn't have the air of internet celebrity, so it conquers you with its simple folk style.
Guling Residence
From the entrance of the village, you can see the ancient houses with black tiles and stone walls. Unlike the other "white walls and tiles" in the south of the Yangtze River, in the humid and rainy valleys, the stone walls, as a complement to the wooden structures, are both fireproof and moisture-proof, uniting the experience and wisdom of many forefathers.
A stone wall, with nature's simplest soil and stone, shows the most beautiful scenery of life. Without deliberate carving, the original texture of the stone reveals a unique simplicity and nature.
Walking in the stone walled homes of the ancient village of Village End, the aroma of farmhouse meals wafts from the curling smoke; on the stone road, there are children's playful voices; between the green hills, the villagers are overflowing with the joy of living and working in peace and contentment ....................
Tonglang Bridge
Stills
The movie "Lingering Dreams on the Corridor Bridge" released in 1995 made a beautiful image of the corridor bridge with eaves above and a bridge below. But the most beautiful corridor bridges in the world are not in Europe and America, but in southern China.
The ancient village of Cunwei in southern Zhejiang Province still has corridor bridges of exquisite ancient charm, the most famous of which is the Lexin Corridor Bridge. Spanning Lingbei Creek, it is a typical leisure bridge. Instead of a single nail and rivet, all the bridges are tightly connected with rafters and trusses; its arches are made of hundreds of straight trees intertwined, woven, crimped and bitten together, making it a masterpiece in the history of bridges in the world.
In addition to the difficult construction process, the beautiful gallery bridge is also highly ornamental. The gallery*** is divided into three levels, 20 corners upward, light and lively like a bird spreading its wings. The walls are decorated with dragons and phoenixes, lifelike and vivid. The whole bridge is like a poetry and painting gallery, with perfect combination of practicality and art.
Tonglang Bridge not only undertakes the transportation function of crossing the river, but is also a good place for villagers to socialize. In summer, I sat on the bridge to cool off and talk about the shortcomings of my parents, with a lot of smoke and mirrors.
3. The hidden dream of the ancient village of Murao
There are also these delicious not to be missed.
As the saying goes, "a side of the water and soil to raise a side of people". Ancient villages located by mountains and water have superior natural conditions and the best ingredients. To borrow a phrase from "A Dream of a Corridor Bridge", high-end ingredients often require only the most primitive cooking methods.
The dishes of Village End Village do not require complicated techniques and have a strong local flavor
The rice noodles are soft on the outside and tough on the inside, and they taste like rice. The excellent rice noodles are soft and elastic, and duangduang is very appetizing. The innards are sauteed from green beans, cowpeas, shredded radish and pork. You can add crumbs, peanuts and chili sauce to your taste.
Fei Jun recommends adding some oil dregs to eat. The fried oil dregs are crunchy and have some oil stars, but they are not greasy when put into the rice dough. On the contrary, it enriches the texture with an oily feeling.
Glutinous Rice Bran
In Lingbei, the highest rite of hospitality is glutinous rice. It is made by repeatedly steaming local high-quality glutinous rice. The process is laborious but fun.
Using glutinous rice dough, it is thrown into a seasoning bowl (the seasoning usually consists of soybean flour, peanut flour, sesame seeds and sugar). Roll, roll, roll, roll, roll into a small ball covered in seasoning, and you're done.
The yellow, pink coat shells are so sweet and soft to bite into that you can't move a foot when you see a sweet treat.
Beautiful connection
As a delicacy of Wenzhou's intangible cultural heritage, the nine-layer cake is preserved all over Wenzhou. Among them, Taishun has the richest way of eating it, which can be fried, stir-fried or boiled in soup. It can also be flavored with soy sauce and pepper and dipped, shocking friends in other parts of Wenzhou.
But the fragrant sticky flavor is pretty much the same. Another interesting thing about eating nine-layer cake is that you can't cut it with a knife, you have to cut it with a thread. This may be a tacit understanding that only people in Wenzhou can understand.
There is more than one kind of nine-layer cake on the market now. Besides the original flavor, there are red beans, red dates, black rice and so on. However, if it is the first time to taste nine-layer cake, it is recommended to eat the original flavor first. The simplest flavor is often the most soulful.
Useful Information
[Transportation]
Address: Wei Village, Lingbei Village, Luoyang Town, Taishun County, Wenzhou.
Travel: Taishun County is not connected to the high-speed railroad, you have to take a bus at Wenzhou station first. You can also take a bus directly from Hangzhou to Taishun bus passenger center, the ticket price is 165 yuan per person; then take a taxi to the village tail village, about 40 minutes.
[Eat & Drink]
Recommended local specialties basically won't step on the mine, and many stores sell them.
[Accommodation]
There are not many inns in the village end, make sure to book in advance. 300 yuan/night or so.