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Introduction to Longmen Ancient Town

Introduction of Longmen Ancient Town: Longmen Ancient Town in Hangzhou is located in Fuyang District, Hangzhou City, Zhejiang Province, 38 kilometers away from the center of Hangzhou, on the south bank of the beautiful Fuchun River, with beautiful environment and obvious traffic location advantages. Longmen Ancient Town, the hometown of Sun Quan, the emperor of the Three Kingdoms, has a long history and profound cultural accumulation, retaining a strong clan atmosphere and unique folk customs. Up to now, the magnificent ancient buildings in the Ming and Qing Dynasties that are well preserved are rare in China. The types of ancient buildings include ancestral halls, halls, folk houses, ancient pagodas, stone bridges and memorial archways. Longmen ancient town scenic area is 2 square kilometers, with more than 7,000 people in the town. More than 90% of the residents are surnamed Sun, which is the largest settlement of descendants of Sun Quan. It is extremely rare for such families to get together. The ancient town is bounded by Tongxi in the north, and Longmenxi and Tongxi pass through the ancient town in a T-shape, surrounded by mountains and green fields. The ancient town takes the highly defensive divergent streets and lanes as the skeleton, and the ancestral hall and the guild hall as the center to build a labyrinth of traditional residential settlements. Exquisite residential buildings, halls, ancient pagodas, ancient bridges, archways and temples all have high value. With simple folk customs and unique customs, the ancient town is a typical rural landscape town that embodies the traditional clan inheritance system in China.