The four great ancient cities are which four great ancient cities

The four great ancient cities refer to: Anju Ancient City in Chongqing and Langzhong Ancient City in Sichuan Province, Shanxi / Ping / Yao Ancient City, Anhui Huizhou Ancient City and other four ancient cities.

Langzhong Ancient City

Langzhong Ancient City, the birthplace of the Spring Festival culture, the national 5A tourist attractions. 1986, the State Council announced Langzhong as a national historical and cultural city; 1991, the county was abolished to establish a city, is the municipality of Sichuan Province (by the Nanchong Municipality); 1992, the State Council approved the opening up of the city; 2001 was awarded the national ecological demonstration city, 2004, was named China's outstanding tourist city. In 2006, Langzhong City was officially named "World Millennium Ancient County" by the United Nations Geographical Names Research Organization. In 2009, Langzhong was awarded the honorary title of "International Best Tourism Resort" by the United Nations Best Friends Council and the International Tourism Marketing Association at the Global Tourism Resort Forum, and in 2010, Langzhong was awarded the "Hometown of Chinese Spring Festival Culture" by the Chinese Folk Literature and Artists Association.

Langzhong Ancient City is located in the northeastern part of the Sichuan Basin, in the middle reaches of the Jialing River, and was the last capital of the State of Ba during the Warring States period. In 314 B.C., Langzhong County was set up, followed by counties, states, prefectures, provinces, counties, etc. It was the temporary capital of Sichuan for 19 years during the Ming and Qing Dynasties, and has a history of more than 2,300 years. Langzhong is known as the largest "Feng Shui Ancient City" in Sichuan, which is well preserved and is one of the four major ancient cities in China. It is known as "Langyuan Fairyland", "the key point of the Ba State and Shu State", "the first river and mountain in the world", "the world of Langzhong is scarce", "the world's thousand-year-old county", "the best international tourist resort", and "the hometown of the Spring Festival culture in China", and so on. Sichuan Province, the eighth 5A-level scenic spots.

Langzhong is in the transition zone from the Sichuan Basin to the low mountains. It lies between 105°41′~106°24′ east longitude and 31°22′~31°51′ north latitude. It is close to Bazhou District of Bazhong City and Yilong County of Nanchong in the east, Nanchong Nanfang County in the south, Jiange County of Guangyuan in the west, and Cangxi County of Guangyuan in the north. [2]

/ping/yuan ancient city

/ping/yuan, a national historical and cultural city, is a World Heritage Site. The ancient city of /Ping/Yao is located in the central part of Shanxi Province, at the southern edge of the Taiyuan Basin, 90 kilometers from the provincial capital Taiyuan. Fen River flows southward through the territory, and South Tongpu Railway and Dayun Highway pass by the northwest side of the county, which is located in the key position and convenient for transportation. /Since ancient times, Pingyao has been a market for commerce and distribution, and is known as "Pingyao City" and "Little Beijing".

/Ping/Yao ancient city, located in Ping/Yao county, central Shanxi, is a cultural city with a history of more than 2,700 years, with the second batch of national historical and cultural cities of Langzhong in Sichuan Province, Lijiang in Yunnan Province, Shexian in Anhui Province, and known as the "four best-preserved ancient cities", and is also one of the only two ancient counties in China with the entire ancient city declared a success of the World Cultural Heritage.

/Ping/Yao Ancient City is one of the best-preserved ancient county cities in China, and is an outstanding example of Chinese Han cities in the Ming and Qing dynasties, showing an extraordinary picture of cultural, social, economic and religious development in the development of Chinese history.

/Ping/Yao was formerly known as "Gutao", in the early years of the Ming Dynasty, for the defense of the foreigners to the south, began to build the city wall, Hongwu three years (1370 AD) in the old wall on the basis of the reconstruction and expansion, and a comprehensive package of bricks. Later Jingtai, Zhengde, Jiajing, Longqing and Wanli dynasties have carried out ten times of repair and repair, update the city building, additional enemy platform. In the forty-third year of the Kangxi reign (1703 AD), the emperor passed through Pingyao on his western tour and built four large towers, making the city even more spectacular. / Ping / Yao city wall total perimeter of 6163 meters, the wall height of about 12 meters, the area of about 2.25 / Ping / square kilometers / Ping / Yao County, a separation of two very different styles of the world. Within the wall, the streets, stores and market buildings retain the Ming and Qing Dynasty forms; outside the wall is called New Town.

Ancient City of Huizhou

National AAAAA level tourist attractions, Huizhou Ancient City is located in the center of the national historical and cultural city of Shexian County, Hui town, the millennium Huizhou Prefecture, the location of the Xuguo Stone Square, Xu Guo Xiangfu, South Qiao Tower, Yang and the door, the Huizhou Prefectural Government Offices, Hui Garden, as well as the Doosan Street and other prefectural streets and lanes, and the Jiangnan Dujiangyan fishing beams of ancient dams, China's historical and cultural streets, such as the Yuyang street, is a display and embodiment of Huizhou culture. Show and embody the important physical architecture of Huizhou culture, focusing on the Han cultural characteristics of the Ming and Qing dynasties. She (Shè) County, for the national historical and cultural city, is ancient for the Huizhou government seat, is the birthplace of Huizhou culture and the national essence of Beijing opera, but also the main birthplace of Huizhou merchants, is the four treasures of Huizhou ink, She ink stone's main place of origin, Shexian County is located in the eastern part of Huangshan City, in Hangzhou, Thousand Islands Lake, Mount Huangshan, Jiu Huashan Tourism Line center point, Hui-Hangzhou, Tun-Wu Highway in the junction of the Anhui-Ganxi Railway through and through the mountains and water. The scenery is beautiful. There are gardens, pavilions, ancient bridges, stone workshops, ancient towers and ancient houses everywhere.

Huizhou, referred to as "Hui", the ancient name of Shezhou, also known as Xin'an, for the earliest prototype of Zhejiang Province at the end of the Tang Dynasty, Zhejiang Road, but also after the division of Jiangnan Province, Anhui Province, "Huizhou" the source of the name. Song Huizong Xuanhe three years (1121 years), change Shezhou for Huizhou, the prefectural seat of today's Shexian, and from then on through the Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, the unified government six counties, Ming and Qing Huizhou merchants dominated the Chinese business community for more than 500 years, there is a "Huizhou is not a town," "Huizhou merchants all over the world," it is said. Hui culture has also become the focus of Chinese and foreign scholars to study one of China's three major regional cultures. 1987, the State Council approved the change of the Huizhou region for the city of Huangshan. Now under the city of huangshan huizhou district for a long time has been for the shexian prefecture, in January 1988, the division of shexian seven townships established. [4]

Anju Ancient City

Anju Ancient City is located in Chongqing Tongliang District, 17 kilometers northwest of the city, 66 kilometers away from the Chongqing Municipal District, once in the Sui and Tang dynasties and Ming Dynasty period of the establishment of the county, is a set of unique location advantages, a long time of cultural heritage, rich in cultural relics, beautiful natural scenery in one of the millennium of the ancient city.

There are 197 cultural relics and monuments in the ancient city at the municipal and county levels, and one item of intangible cultural heritage; in particular, the eighteen temples of the Nine Palaces are famous in East Sichuan, and the eight scenic spots of Anju, Huguang, Fujian, Jiangxi and other places are famous for their guild halls; the minister of the Ministry of Ceremonies, ministers of the Frontier, Hanlin and university professors of the talents; the poet Han Yu, the calligrapher Mi Fu has also lingered on in Anju, Feng Yuxiang, Liu Bocheng, and other revolutionary predecessors have all worked and lived in this place.