The last secret place in Jiangnan

Go to an ancient town or village, step on the green stone board

Hand touch the old wall covered with moss

Feel the traces of a period of time left behind!

As the ancient towns are slowly being developed

and the tourism industry flourishes, the ancient towns are becoming more and more commercialized

and youthful and popularized

However, there is such a little-known secret place, hidden in the mountains in the south of the Yangtze River

The heritage of the culture, the history of the weight of the

Unlike the general old towns, this place is not specially set up to cater to the tourists, and there are no special facilities.

Some of the technology is now difficult to find traces of it, but found that the old days still remain here, where the local people buy and sell hoes, wood knives, vegetable seedlings, herbs, brown beds, cotton cloth, tin foil, lamps and candles ......

Farming, plowing, tea picking, water picking, cattle herding, which in the eyes of tourists as attractions, but y imprinted in the eyes of the tourists.

Withered vines, old trees, dim crows;

Small bridges, running water, homes.

Nowadays, this kind of vivid and simple place is quite hard to find!

This is Lishui - Songyang, Zhejiang Province

Situated on the Songgu Plain, the largest mountainous basin in South Zhejiang Province, on the banks of Songyin River, a tributary of the Ou River.

The terrain is dangerous in the west, and the transportation is closed in the south, so the people live a carefree life, which is a paradise in the world.

Because of the mountains around the water, isolated in a corner, the ancient villages here are well-preserved, known as the last secret of Jiangnan.

Being there, you will find that the scene in the original ancient ink painting is now in front of you

The ancient town here is not Huizhou, but it is more ancient

The ancient town here is not Qiandongnan, but it is more simple

The ancient town here is not Wuyi Mountain, but it is more pristine tea plantations

The ancient town here is not Niu Bei Mountain, but it is more surging into the sea of clouds, and the ancient town here is more pristine.

It is worthwhile to leave time for Songyang, stroll through the traditional villages, each with its own history

More than 200 days a year visible clouds and mist landscape, you can find a bed and breakfast for a few days, watching the clouds roll in and out, sunset and sunrise.

Xikeng Village began in the Ming Dynasty and is located on a hilltop plateau at an altitude of 640 meters. The village has an ancient Songxuan stagecoach road from the Northern Song Dynasty, which is still well preserved. The village still retains 12 ancient houses of the Qing Dynasty, ancestral halls, social temples, incense halls and other historical buildings

Pingtian is a paradise with more than 200 days of clouds and mist in 365 days of the year, a centuries-old village with ancient trees, and distinctive rural architecture.

Pingtian is named after the stream "Hengkeng" that runs in front of the village. The village layout is arranged in an inverted triangle, like a mighty king cobra lying in the depths of the bamboo sea.

Zhaitou's cloud is called Songyang one of the best, every time after the rain or air humidity, the unpredictable, dreamy sea of clouds will be covered in the mountain, lingering between the mountains, the scene is spectacular, such as being in a fairyland, attracting countless photography enthusiasts to go to the creation of.

Standing on the hill overlooking the village of Chenjiapu, dozens of old buildings made of clay, wood panels, bricks and stones, is a typical stepped ancient village.

The village has a history of more than 350 years, and the stepped architectural pattern is known as the "Potala Palace" in Jiangnan. The architecture of the ancient houses is relatively simple, and the biggest highlight is that on the courtyard wall of each old house, there are classic phrases and ancient teachings, such as "Poetry and Classic" and "The Analects of Confucius", written in brushstrokes.

Located in the mountain concave, the village head of the pale pine to welcome guests, as if the ancient landscape painting of the ancient pine, "straight dry strong Chuan Yue, show color without equal." It can be called the landmark of the village.

Songzhuang Village is a typical ancient village by the water, located in the mountain passes of the mountains, the mouth of the water thick forests cover the village, from the narrow intersection into the village, immediately open.

Ching Hui is located in the village of Sandu Township in a tandem on the waist of the mountains, the village on both sides, up and down are layers of terraced fields, the village in front of the open, surrounded by mountains.

National traditional village Dai head, about 20 kilometers from the county, is located in the county southwest of the South Dai Mountain peak Mashi tip of the southern foothills, 860 meters above sea level, the old name "Dai Feng".

The layout of the village is like a gossip labyrinth, which is closely integrated with the natural feng shui. The old houses are lined up, the lanes are twisted and turned, and the tall and lofty horse-head walls make the lanes cramped and deep.

The name of the village is quite simple even in Songyang, and the village has a history of more than 400 years. The persimmon trees at the entrance of the village are swaying with yellow and red every time the wind blows in the fall.

Each mansion in Shicang has an elegant hall name, most of the gatehouse buildings are brick imitation wooden beam structure, "spring wells, large water tanks, hard hilltop, horse head wall, carved beams and painted buildings, mud walls and green tiles" is a true reflection of the ancient dwellings in Shicang.

As the largest Hakka cultural settlement in Zhejiang Province, as the Chinese Academy of Fine Arts, Professor Sun Heng lamented: "ten miles of ancient houses, a hundred miles of mountain roads, for the official Que's, Min Min custom Min tone, mountain streams tumbling, stone bridge sedan chair, wonderful Shicang, is still three hundred years of style".

Cross Zhang Village is located in Lishui City, Songyang County, Dandongba Town, surrounded by mountains, simple and natural, built in the Jiaqing seven years (1802) of the Bao ancestral temple, Songyang to Longquan of the ancient road, the entrance to the village there is a temple, temple had an ancient large camphor tree, the branches of which stretched out horizontally outside of the road, the name of the village thus came to be.

Zhangshan, is a She-Han multicultural mingling place, She culture, oil tea culture, farming culture, ancient village culture ...... they by their own advantages, respectively, blossomed a brilliant luster.

Telling the humanistic story of Jiangnan