Where is Hibiscus Town?
Address: Hibiscus Town, Yongshun County, Xiangxi Autonomous Prefecture, Hunan Province
Hibiscus Town Tourist Tips
The movie Hibiscus Town was filmed in the 1980s. The movie was directed by the famous director Xie Jin, starring the famous actor Liu Xiaoqing and Jiang Wen, and became popular all over the country once it was released.
In the movie, the narrow streets of Hibiscus Town are very beautiful, simple and simple, peaceful and quiet. Flying waterfalls around the river hammock flow, the years are quiet, even if the impetuous people can be calm.
755-79000 success of the movie "Wang Village" location of Xiangxi Yongshun County, a long-lost thousand-year-old town famous, so Wang Village simply renamed Furong Town.
"The most beautiful and peculiar pier of the White River is the Wang Village of Jiahe Mountain, with its walled peaks, bamboo trees, dark rocks, deep and clear water, and fish as big as human beings." Mr. Shen Congwen once praised Wang Village's Today's Hibiscus Town.
Furong Town is an ancient town with a history of more than 2,000 years, situated on the banks of the Youshui River. As early as in the fifth year of Han Gaozu, it was designated as the seat of Youyang County, and was called "Youyang Xiongzhen" in history. Because of the convenience of the Youshui River, it reaches Sichuan and Guizhou and sends out to Dongting Lake. Since ancient times, it has been one of the important trading ports in western Hunan. It is known as "Chu Shu Golden Boy" and enjoys the reputation of "Four Famous Towns" in western Hunan.
The ancient town is surrounded by water on three sides, and the water of the five-mile stone street meanders up the mountain. The cliffs of the Tujia footstools are all built on the water. The strangest thing is that the Youshui River runs through the town, and when it flows through here, it encounters two cliffs one after the other, forming a secondary waterfall that is 60 meters high and nearly 40 meters wide. The waterfall is cut into several large pieces by the rugged cliffs and falls from a height of dozens of meters. It is huge, like a huge army, and the roar of the waterfall's flowing water impacts.
At the entrance of the waterfall on the cliffs by the river, there is a luxurious Tujia courtyard called "Youyang Palace", commonly known as the Tusi Wangxing Palace. Palace built on the mountain, all wooden structure. Flying eaves, black tiles and wooden walls. Eaves overhanging, wooden railing at the corner. It is magnificent. Can be described as "on the patio, the sun and the moon can turn, Danchi fish can swim in spring, summer, fall and winter".
Walking into the Tusi Palace, you can't help but be solemn, and it must be amazing to see the corner of history buried in it. The earliest Tusi regime dates back to 910 AD. The Tusi King, Peng Chushi, was the founding emperor of the Tujia tribe and established the Tusi dynasty that built its capital here. The palace was also built during this period, and the Tusi Shrine Village was named Wang Village after his surname.
At that time, Wangcun governed more than 20 counties in the Xiang-E-Chu-Qian border area and was the political and economic center of western Hunan. In 1135 A.D., the king of Tusi, Peng Fusi, moved the capital to Yongshun and made it a summer resort.
The building we see now was rebuilt in the Ming Dynasty, and it has a history of more than 400 years. Still well-preserved, it is a perfect combination of Tujia architectural culture and natural landscape, and is known as "the soul of the landscape Furong Town".
A five-mile-long green stone road runs through the town. It has no name, so people just call it WuliStrip. stepping on the ancient street is like stepping on the debris left by the long years. From a distance, it looks like a threadbare book opened by the hand of God. It spreads quietly and steadily along the Youshui River. The spine of the book is a lapis lazuli polished by the years, while the stilts on the pages and the sorrows and joys outside the building move with the years, enacting many resounding, warm, and tumultuous stories.
The sky is drizzling, and the green stone street is as smooth as a mirror. After a thousand years of wind and rain, the pure and simple atmosphere is analyzed everywhere.
The whole street layout is simple and decent. Walking
Walking through the curved streets and alleys, lined with rows of wooden houses with green tiles, staggered along the mountain. Tujia folklore can be seen everywhere, Youshui fish, rice tofu, bandit cigarettes, bamboo wine, Tujia brocade made from cloth rafters signboards swinging in the wind in front of the eaves of each store, all afraid of the breeze and rain.
When in Furong Town, you must try the rice tofu. There are rice tofu stores everywhere in the streets and alleys, and every one of them has a signboard that reads "Authentic Liu Xiaoqing Rice Tofu", which is very eye-catching. A few bowls of rice tofu are placed on the street tables, and a steady stream of tourists stop into the store to have a bowl of rice tofu with gusto.
Rice tofu, which is also the business of Hu and Hu, the actress of the movie "Hibiscus Town," is seen as the face of rice tofu in today's Old Street. I walked into an "authentic Liu Xiaocheng rice tofu" store, where there were many customers, most of whom were eating their rice tofu with their heads down.
I picked a spot near a cliff overlooking a waterfall and sat down. I couldn't wait to yell at the store "Two bowls of rice tofu!" The boss's wife should say "Yes!" Warm and generous, with the flavor of Liu Xiaoqing back in the day.
In a short while, two bowls of rice tofu served on the table: white rice tofu quietly lying in the bottom of the bowl, looks crystal clear, with red pepper, green onion, white flowers of garlic, crunchy diced mustard greens, sour vinegar, black soy sauce. It was red, tangy, green, crunchy, colorful and really eye-catching.
Scooping up the rice tofu with a spoon and tasting it slowly, it feels smooth, sour, spicy and full of flavor; savoring it, it feels fragrant, spicy, fresh and tender, with an overflowing aroma that is very addictive. The rice tofu slips through the tip of the tongue, the base of the tongue, and the throat. That kind of smooth feeling, that kind of sour and spicy flavor, that kind of salty flavor is beyond anyone's imagination.