The place of Laosicheng was first known about 20 15 years ago. When a group of tourists visited Tangya Tusi City in Enshi, the locals said that Tangya Tusi City in Enshi and Xiangxi Laosicheng were packaged together and would apply for world heritage. Teacher Jiang Hai, who can play in the corners, has been to Laosicheng many times and said that Laosicheng is a good place! Many years ago, I wanted to go to the place of Laosicheng. I want to know why Laosicheng, which successfully applied for the World Heritage, became a world heritage. What are the reasons and highlights of Laosicheng's successful application for World Heritage? Therefore, on this trip to Xiangxi, I went to Yongshun Laosicheng at the first stop. As long as you want to go to a place, no matter how long it takes, you will go!

The site of Laosicheng is located on the bank of Lingxi River, Sicheng Village, Lingxi Town, east of Yongshun County, Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, Hunan Province. The site of Laosicheng was built during the reign of Peng Shichong, the 11th leader of Peng clan in the 5th year of Shaoxing in the Southern Song Dynasty (1 135), and abandoned in the 2nd year of Yongzheng in Qing Dynasty (1724), which was the political rule of Yongshun Peng clan. As an important bearing place of original ecology, original site, original culture and aborigines, Laosicheng site has preserved a complete pattern, a large scale and rich remains, and is the most representative Tusicheng site with valuable characteristics. Xizhou Copper Pillar 196 1 year, an important relic of Laosicheng, was identified as the first batch of national key cultural relics protection units by the State Council, and the site of Laosicheng was announced as a national key cultural relics protection unit by the State Council in 200 1 year. In 20 15 year, at the 39th United Nations Heritage Conference held in Bonn, Germany, Laosicheng was successfully listed in ".

Old Sicheng witnessed the rise and fall of China's unique toast system in the world, casting a world miracle with a family ruled by Liang, Tang, Jin, Han, Zhou, Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties for more than 800 years. It is the best-preserved toast site in China and even in the world.

Laosicheng is the birthplace of Tujia culture, and the 800-year-old Tusi culture has been passed down here. Intangible heritage The ancient original ecological songs and dances, such as Maogusi, Daliuzi, Waving Dance and Tima Divine Songs, were performed as national characteristic programs at the Beijing Olympic Games and the Shanghai World Expo.

Old Sicheng is home to primitive and simple Tujia villages, with a boat and a small bridge flowing water, which hides the strangeness and beauty of seclusion for thousands of years, and tells the glory of the Tusi dynasty for 800 years.

Under the scorching sun, we sweated on two embroidered arch support observation platforms, climbed to see the site of Laosicheng's successful application for World Heritage and Yujiapu Tujia ancient village, visited the site museum of Laosicheng, looked at the precious cultural relics under national protection, such as Xizhou bronze column and the seal of Tusi, and watched the costume scene modeling of the intangible cultural heritage Maogusi song and dance. Under the blue sky and white clouds, full of green was photographed on the observation platform of "Ten Thousand Horses Returning to the DPRK", which was a continuous ups and downs.

This time, when I went to Laosicheng, I realized that the Hailongtun site in Bozhou, Guizhou Province was also successfully packaged with Laosicheng and Tangya Tusi City. Later, when I went to Guizhou, I had the opportunity to see the Hailongtun site in Bozhou again, which expanded the extension of my trip.