Sichuan has a thousand-year-old town with beautifully carved buildings and is also known as the 'Hometown of Orchids'.
Ancient towns are a unique landscape in Chinese tourism culture. Ancient towns in different cities have their own characteristics, providing a good window for modern people to understand history. But not all ancient towns are well-known. In the Sichuan area with rich cultural landscapes, there is an ancient town that is not favored and visited by tourists, and its reputation is not very high. This is the ancient town of Jiezi in Sichuan.
Located in Jiezi Town, Chongzhou City, Chengdu City, Sichuan Province, it is located at the foot of Fengqi Mountain in the northwest of Chongzhou City and is connected to Qingcheng Back Mountain. Jiezi Ancient Town has a long history and has been established for more than a thousand years. It was named "Hengqu Town" during the Five Dynasties, and it was named after it was located across the Weijiang River. The ancient town is surrounded by rolling green hills and mountains and peaks. It not only has the benefits of beautiful mountains and rivers, but also has an ancient temple in the Jin Dynasty with rich history and culture. It is a rare historical town that combines nature and humanity.
Jiezi Town is the ancient town of Qingcheng Mountain. The ancient town concentrates the unique natural scenery and profound cultural accumulation of the southwest dam junction in Sichuan. The existing buildings in the ancient town are simple and small, such as the Zikuta, Guangyan Temple, Tang Qiu's hometown, etc., all of which are typical objects reflecting the style of the southwestern town of the motherland in the Qing Dynasty. When you come to the ancient town, you can see these ancient buildings full of historical charm at a glance. This trip is definitely worth your visit.
The town is surrounded by mountains and rivers, with beautiful scenery. Entering the ancient town, you can see several ancient streets that extend far. Among them, the six streets centered on Gujiangcheng Street are the earliest streets in the ancient town. There are large and small ancient buildings scattered on both sides of the street. These ancient buildings are generally constructed according to the "Rules of the Ministry of Qing Industry". They are mainly buildings in the middle and late Qing Dynasty, as well as the remains of Ming Dynasty wells, which have a strong historical charm. The individual buildings in the late Qing Dynasty buildings also have some European-style decorations, which are very rare and exquisitely carved individual buildings.
Jiezi Town has a history of more than a thousand years. After the Five Dynasties, Yongkang County was established, and the county government was established here. This is its most prosperous period. Tang Qiu, a poet in the late Tang Dynasty, was from the street. Every time he got money from writing poetry, he would twist it into a ball of paper and put it into the gourd he carried with him. Fortunately, the residents on the shore found and salvaged it in time, so that 35 and a half poems were left behind. Therefore, he is called "a scoop of poets". Although his poetic name is not as well-known as Li Du of the same period, his traces can be found in "Full Tang Poems" and "Tang Caizi Biography". Tang Qiu's hometown was set up here. Visitors can visit the poems written by him, which are profound in artistic conception and rich in emotion.
In addition to the rich natural landscape, Jiezi Ancient Town has bred a variety of precious orchid species due to its unique geographical location and unique natural environment, and is known as the "Hometown of Orchids". The reputation of Jiezi Ancient Town as "Hometown of Orchids" is closely related to the poet Tang Qiu. Tang Qiu lived in seclusion in Jiezi Town, forming a local custom of raising orchids. The faint fragrance of orchids, there is no charm and beauty of roses, and there is no worldly vulgarity. The blooming orchids show a kind of uprightness everywhere. The edge of solution.
The long history of Jiezi Ancient Town adds to its profound cultural heritage and the fresh and beautiful natural landscape around it, making it a place for tourists to visit. The Jiezi Soup hemp cake produced in Jiezi Town, Chongzhou is one of the local specialties. The baked hemp cake is crispy, all natural and green, and can be kept fresh for half a year. Friends who go to visit can Bring some back for family and friends to try.