What district has the largest number of ancient villages in Beijing

Mentougou is the largest number of ancient villages in Beijing.

Ancient villages refer to villages built before the Republic of China, which have retained a large amount of historical evolution, i.e., the architectural environment, architectural style, and location of the village have not changed significantly, and have unique folklore and folk customs, which have gone through a long period of time, but are still serving the people today.

The consciousness, lifestyle and interests of the residents of the ancient villages greatly exceeded the ideology of the farmers and the general public class, but retained and pursued with the literati, officials and eunuchs in line with the class, and therefore has a strong cultural flavor.

The residential complexes of the ancient villages, built on the mountains and facing the river, are lined up with households and houses, with gray tiles stacked on top of each other, white walls, black and white walls, and a compact and elegant layout.

Ancient villages in southern Anhui:

Ancient villages in southern Anhui refers to the mountainous area south of the Yangtze River in Anhui Province, Xidi and Hongcun as the representative of the ancient villages. It is a historical traditional village with *** same regional cultural background, with strong Huizhou cultural characteristics. South Anhui mountainous area has a long history, deep cultural deposits, preserved a large number of similar form, distinctive traditional architecture and its villages.

Ancient villages in Southern Anhui not only combined with the topography, landscape, water, and coupled with the strong economic strength of Huizhou merchants during the Ming and Qing Dynasties to support their hometowns, cultural education is increasingly prosperous and developed, and returned to their hometowns to the elegance, the text, the noble, the transcendent mentality of conceptualization and construction of homes, making the ancient villages of the cultural environment is richer, the village landscape is more prominent.

The biggest difference between the ancient villages in Southern Anhui and other villages is that the construction and development of the ancient villages in Southern Anhui are to a considerable extent detached from the dependence on agriculture.