What are the ancient towns around Beijing worth visiting

Where to play on vacation? Scenic spots don't think about it, people and more, the price is expensive, how about in the ancient towns around Beijing over a farmhouse, climb the mountain, bubble hot springs, eat an authentic farmhouse meal? Maybe this kind of vacation also has a different flavor.

Nuanquan Ancient Town

This place is a collection of "ancient houses, ancient temples, ancient castles, ancient theater" four cultural wonders as a whole, is the ancient Uizhou 800 Zhuangzhuang fortress in the most unique, the best preserved example.

Nuanquan built the town in the Yuan Dynasty, the Ming and Qing Dynasties developed into? Three Fort, six alleys, eighteen Zhuang? Three fortresses into each other's horns, West Fort in the southwest, small and medium-sized Fort in the West Fort East, North Fort is in the other two Fort Northeast, once the war broke out, the three fortresses can support each other, with the war.

The three fortresses constitute the skeleton of the town, and they are also in the north from the Yan to the HuLiuHe basin and even the North China Plain on top of the ancient road.

The pattern of the village, fort, street and alley in the ancient town is still well preserved, with urns, fort gatehouses, fort walls, fort trenches, playhouses, pagodas, mansions, pavilions, terraces, buildings and pavilions abounding in the ancient buildings, and temples such as Huayan Temple and Dizang Temple all over the town.

There are still more than 180 ancient residential homes, including more than a chain of sets of homes, the largest for the Nine Links, a number of courtyards connected to each other, between the houses are connected to the corridors, most of these homes for the brick and wood structure, the green bars of the cornerstone, white ash brick walls, roof ridge, an anastomosis, overlaying the green plate tile. The town's north gate urn is the movie "Let the Bullets Fly" set.

Nuanquan town's unique folk hit tree flower has a history of more than 300 years, more than 1,000 degrees Celsius of iron juice exploded after the outbreak of ten thousand sparks, hit the city wall above the spectacular flood? Fire trees and silver flowers? Landscape, incomparable spectacular.

It should be noted that the Nuanquan Ancient Town of open buildings and hit the tree flower show only in the peak season, that is, April-October, every year in April every Saturday at 19:30 to hit the tree flower show, May-September every Friday and Saturday night at 20:00 there is a performance in October `1 to 4 at 19:30 in the evening there is a show. There are no performances at other times, and the town's old fortress and buildings are closed at other times, but there is no entrance fee at this time, so you can wander around the quaint town at your leisure. In addition, the paper-cutting is also the Nuanquan town's best.

Address: located in Nuanquan Town, Weixian County, Zhangjiakou City, Hebei Province.

Tickets: 80 yuan. Tickets for the Tree Fighting Flower Show: 160 RMB, (only available from April - early October each year)

Transportation: There are about 18 buses to Weixian from Beijing Liuliqiao and Beijiao Bus Terminal **** every day. The Beijiao Bus Terminal departs from 6:00 am to about 17:50 pm. Liuliqiao Bus Terminal departs from around 7:00am and the last one departs around 17:10pm. The journey takes about 4 hours and the ticket price is about 90 RMB. In addition, Zhaogongkou Bus Station in Fengtai has a daily shuttle bus to Weixian at 13:00, and the fare is about 81 yuan.

Yujia Stone Village

Yujia Stone Village was built during the Chenghua period of the Ming Dynasty, more than 500 years ago.

Here is the birthplace of the direct descendants of Yu Qian, the politician and national hero of the Ming Dynasty. During the Chenghua period of the Ming Dynasty, Yu Qian's eldest grandson, Yu Youdao, moved here from the village of Nanyu in the Defile, and has been reproducing for 24 generations, and more than 95% of the whole village is Yu's family.

Over the past 500 years, the Yu family has used their hard-working hands to excavate the mountains and chisel the stones, take materials from the ground, and utilize the rich stone resources to build terraces, build houses, and carve stone tools, creating a rare stone kingdom.

The village **** six streets, seven alleys, eighteen hutongs, a total length of more than 3,700 meters, streets and alleys are all paved with lapis lazuli, where the old houses are basically two types, one type of tile houses built in the Ming and Qing dynasties, is still preserved nearly 1,000, lapis lazuli walls, gray tile roof, ancient colors, elegant and commonplace.

The other type is the stone coupon kiln, which is a local unique building. Kiln wall width of nearly one meter, with the processing of stone masonry, the top thickness of one meter Xu, to natural stone arch coupon. Stone kiln cave on the ground, no beams, no pillars, left arch right coupon, peculiar structure, durable, beautiful, wide walls, thick roof, warm in winter and cool in summer, is the boutique of residential.

Address: Yu Jia Stone Village, Jingfu County, Shijiazhuang City, Hebei Province.

Tickets: 30 yuan in peak season (reference price, subject to the selling price on the day)

Transportation: Inconvenient transportation, it is recommended to drive.

Zhangjiakou Jixingyi

In recent years the unique style of this place has been favored by the film industry, the "Battle of Taierzhuang", "The Great Wall of Blood", "Armageddon", "Homeland without a double", "Blue Flowers", "Superwoman Spy", "The Great Tide of 600 days" and other films have been filmed in the area.

The Jiuming Post is the best-preserved, largest and most characteristic postal complex in China.

In 2003 and 2005, Jiumingyi was twice included in the list of 100 World Heritage in Danger by the World Cultural Heritage Foundation.

The most famous post station? He Family Compound? It was once the place where Empress Dowager Cixi and Emperor Guangxu stayed when the Eight-Power Allied Forces invaded Beijing in the late Qing Dynasty.

To this day, there are still bricks engraved on the wall of the second courtyard with four characters in regular script, "Hongxi Jiefu", as a reminder of Empress Dowager Cixi's stay here.

Address: Jimingyi Village, Jimingyi Township, Huailai County, Zhangjiakou City, Hebei Province.

Tickets: 40 yuan

Transportation: You can take the Y505 train (direction: Zhangjiakou South) at Beijing Station, get off at Xiahuayuan Station, and take a taxi to the scenic spot, which is only 5.32 kilometers.