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Published: March 21st 2014
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Introduction
The Phoenix Ancient Town is located in Xiangxi Tujia & Miao Autonomous Prefecture,Hunan Province,and also border on the southwestern Guizhou Province and the West Songtao, Tongren County.It is one of the smaller counties in Hunan,but now it is known as the most beautiful ancient town for its long history and well-preserved appearances.The name of Phoenix town mainly derived from the Phoenix Mountain which is in a phoenix shape.
The Phoenix town today consist of 5 zones and 27 townships. With 300,000 people, which is a multi-ethnic County with Miao, Han, Tujia, and so on. The County is in sub-tropical moist monsoon climate,and the average annual temperature is 15.9 ℃. Phoenix is not only rich in natural resources,beautiful mountains and rivers, but also possessing many scenic and historical sites. Next are 9 famous spots in the ancient town.
Some famous Sightseeings in the town:
(1)Tuojiang River:
-It’s the mother river of this ancient town. Choose to take a boat covered with black matting and tour along the river,go sightseeing the Miao wooden house projecting over the water along either side of the bank river,hearing the boatman’s folk songs, you will feel yourself keeping far away
from the mortal life.
(2)Hong Qiao Art Building:
It lies above the Tuo River,crisscrossing with the National Street,and makes up a folk picture of the ancient town’s marketplace.Hong Qiao is an ancient building with a history of more than six hundred years,It was built at the beginning of Hong wu in Ming Dynasty,and consists of two floors.The first floor is a capacious pavement for people to come and go,with make shops on both side,selling all kinds of folk arts and crafts,local specialities,etc. Live applauses of hawking and whispers of bargaining makes up a Feng Huang “riverside scene at Qing Ming festival”. The second floor is the belvedere and also demonstrating the tea ceremony.Go up to the second floor, overlooking the whole beauty of phoenix town,savoring a cup of tea,you will fell completely relaxed and joyful.
(3)The Former Residence of Congwen Shen:
Congwen Shen is a famous litterateur,historian and expert in ancient artifacts in China,who is also known as the father of the native literary world. His valuable creation of more than 900 million words works contribute a lot to the research on china and the Xiang xi area.The residence was built in the 5th year of
Tongzhi,Qing Dynasty(1866),it is a wooden courtyard dwellings and now listed as provincial units of cultural relics protection. Congwen Shen was born in Dec.28th,1902 and spent his childhood and adolescence here.
(4)Wanshou Palace:
Wangshou Palace,also called Jiangxi Assembly Hall,was built during the 20th year of Qianlong,Qing Dynasty,covering 4000 square meters.It consists of the tri-gate,stage,main hall and Xiachang pavilion. The structured and unique style,attic stage, great pillar,etc,show the exquisite workmanship at that time.In 1999, it’s listed as state county units of cultural relics protection.Now the Wanshou Palace is the folk museum of Phoenix town:the first floor is folk customs hall and hundred years chamber of commerce hall;the second floor is the art gallery of Huang yongyu.
(5)The Eastern Gate Tower:
Located at east of the town and nearby Tuo River,formerly known as “Shenghen Gate”,the Eastern Tower is one of the four gates of phoenix ancient town.It was built in Kangxi fifty years (1715),Qing Dynasty.The lower part of the tower were built with amaranthine sandstone and the upper part with ancient bricks. The Gates is 3.5 m wide,four meters high, showing a semicircle arch. Two gates were both covered with iron sheets and nailed with rounded-headed nails to make
it firm and strong. The wall was built with red sand stone in the same size and is about 0.8m thick, both sides of the lower part were with stone stripes and crushed stones in the middle layer. On the top of the intermediate filler was instead of lime, pebbles, loess blended into the crushed, about 0.33 meters thick. The gate tower is 11 meters high,and there are eight loopholes at the door.All the designs and decorations are exquisite and spectacular.
Services: quality to attract foreign tourists
In the alleys of the ancient city of Phoenix in the walk, not in Lijiang, such as Beijing or afterthe sea, from time to time with unfamiliar Speaking of the Chinese foreign rub shoulders, plus a night in the morning, careful calculation, but also met 3, 5 foreign tourists. This ancient city life, how can foreigners are not interested in?LIU Hong-yu, deputy county said that the ancient city of Phoenix does not take the initiative for the promotion of overseas visitors to do, even so, the reception of overseas visitors last year reached 68,000, here is the vast majority of backpackers, most of the tour Zhangjiajie is the main line, Shun
came to the Phoenix. At present, foreign visitors to Japan and South Korea mainly, but also a part of Europe and other regions of the tourists because of Zhangjiajie, Japan and South Korea in the line of promotion, attracted a large number of visitors.
County Magistrate Liu said that if the current Phoenix to expand the scope of overseas promotion, self-confidence is not because foreign tourists are supporting facilities and services, demanding, such as Japan and South Korea, many tourists, we live in demands four-star hotel, and at present Phoenix travel services can not meet the requirement. However, Phoenix is also considering the current international development, is building two four-star hotel and is expected to be completed next year, when, in attracting overseas visitors, will also do some of the targeted planning.
Different ancient city of Phoenix in his life waiting for the millennium, there has been a famous New Zealand writer Rewi Alley praised China for "the most beautiful town." "Leshan wise, benevolent Water Music", the ancient city of Phoenix not only across the ancient and modern, more financial landscape of the ancient city of the United States, enough to get visitors from all over the community.
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