Monuments in Luome Ancient Town

The ancient town of Luomu, also known as Qinglongchang, was founded in the first year of the Tang Emperor Wu De (618 AD). It was originally a county on a par with Emei and Suishan, and belonged to the jurisdiction of ancient Jiazhou. Song Qiande four years (966 AD) to withdraw the county to change the town, and into the Emei County, for the Song Dynasty, the famous Emei one of the five towns. Luomu ancient town has a long history, although the official establishment of the county in the Tang Dynasty, but the county jurisdiction as early as the Shang Dynasty and Zhou Dynasty inhabited. Because it is located under the Er'e Mountain, which was developed earlier than the current Emei Mountain (Da'e Mountain), many famous figures in history were active in the area of Luome in the Shang and Zhou Dynasties.

The town still retains its ancient style. The town has preserved the charm of the old houses. Walking through the streets of Shunhe Street, Wanchuan Road, and Hanbian Street, you can see the old wooden houses with carved dragons and phoenixes on every street and alley. The wooden houses are often built on the side of the street with grooved boardwalks and openings on the side, which lead to a long tunnel and then into a small courtyard, where three or more generations of a family live together under the same roof. Carved lintels, wooden latticework window panes, moss in front of the steps, walls covered with green vines, all of which seem to tell a long story to people in silence.

The town has retained its traditional handicrafts. There are four or five blacksmith stores on half of the streets. The "whirring" of the bellows and the anvil's "ding ding dong dong dong dong dong" sound of hammering added some pleasant notes to the silent town. The next is more than ten gabion stores, with the bamboo gabion wicker basket, basket, hats, grass steak, steamer and other living, production equipment set up a street.

The town has preserved many traditional snacks. Pork blood soup, steamed sausage, braised beef, tofu brain, the town's cheap snacks are everywhere. Long benches, four square table, store small and affordable, shopping hungry to sit in a bowl of snow-white tender tofu brain, or fresh spicy blood Want soup, golden crispy loose seeds, deep-fried soybeans, big head of cabbage, red cooked oil chili peppers, just look at the condiments will be mouth-watering.

The town is both traditional and fashionable. The town's stone road and street side can often see such a strange scenery: wearing leather shoes of businessmen and wearing a small fence cage grass shoes of the farmers parallel; lipstick, mention Kunbao fashionable women and wearing clothes and vegetables burden of the peasant woman rub shoulders; dressed in a fashionable "fuck brother" and "bar" smoke dry cigarette old man sat with The old man sitting in the same teahouse with a dry cigarette ...... change and unchanged, the town for thousands of years so come over, like the street stream, quietly flowing, never look back.