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Which are the top ten ancient towns in China?

Huangyao Ancient Town, Danba Zangzhai, Ancient Village on the shore of Kanas Lake, Wuyuan Ancient Town, Wuzhen, Zhouzhuang, Tongli Town, Xitang Ancient Town, Chikan Ancient Town, Changting County.

Introduction of the first three ancient towns:

Huangyao Ancient Town

Huangyao is located in Zhaoping County, Guangxi, 200 kilometers away from Guilin, is a more than 900 years of history and culture of the Ming and Qing dynasties, located in the lower reaches of the Lijiang River, known as the "Poetry Home". The ancient town is 1 square kilometer in circumference and is a typical karst landscape.

Huangyao is a place full of poetry, each outside the attractions do not need to deliberately look for, along the stone road slowly walking, perhaps inadvertently you may find something to surprise you.

The town has more than 600 residents, eight streets, most of the houses keep the style of Ming and Qing Dynasty, the streets are made of green slate. The ancient town preserves more than 20 temples, temples and shrines, more than 10 pavilions, mostly Ming and Qing Dynasty buildings, the famous ones are Civilization Pavilion, Baozhu Guan, Xingyu Temple, Lion Temple, Ancient Theatre, Wu's Ancestral Hall, Guo's Ancestral Hall, Zuo Long Temple, See Long Temple, Belt Dragon Bridge, Protecting the Dragon Bridge, Natural Pavilion and so on.

The humanistic attractions also include the ink inscriptions of Han Yu and Liu Zongbiao, the statue of the martyr Qian Xing, the apartments of cultural celebrities such as He Xiangning, Gao Shiqi, and Qian Jiaju, as well as many poems and inscriptions. Generally speaking, the more conventional attractions include the Memorial Hall of the Former Site of the Work Committee of the Guangxi Province of China***, the Ancient Theater, the Emperor's Imperial Decree, the Baozhu Guan, the Carp Street, the Eight Immortals' Sleeping Banyan Tree, the Zolong Bridge, the Thousand-Year-Old Banyan Tree, and the First Stone Slab Street in Lingnan.

Danba Tibetan Village

Danba County is located in western Sichuan, Ganzi Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture next to the east, and Daofu, Kangding County and Aba Prefecture, Xiaojin, Jinchuan County borders, the county's total total area of 5,649 square kilometers, jurisdiction of a town of fourteen townships, inhabited by 15 nationalities, mainly Tibetan **** more than 57,000 people. Danba County is the Bayan Kara Mountains, Qionglai Mountains and other convergence of the place, but also Geshiza River, Yak River, the size of the Jinchuan River or the origin of the flow path of the place known as the "City on the top of the rock" and "Dadu River, the first city," the name.

There are rolling hills, lakes, forests, boundless, the local Tibetan people to the characteristics of the "mountain tops snow-capped, mountainside forests green, the sea at the foot of the mountain sparkling". Is a hidden in the Hengduan Mountains in the little-known paradise, magnificent scenery, infinite mystery of the beauty of the valley, quiet as the poetry of the vernacular dwellings, unique ancient stone towers, colorful style, amazing Danba magic and beauty.

Ancient villages on the shore of Kanas Lake

Tuwa Village is located in the Kanas Valley, 3 kilometers south of the southern shore of Kanas Lake, surrounded by mountains and beautiful water, beautiful environment, is the way to travel to Kanas Lake in Burqin County. There are more than 100 households and 1400 people living in Tuva Village. Touwa people live in the tower-shaped wooden house built with pine, this building is called "wooden house", four walls are logs, there is a ceiling and a floor, the roof of the pointed slanting to adapt to the mountainous areas of the environment of rain and snow.

The Tuva people's way of life is mainly based on animal husbandry, supplemented by hunting, fishing and gathering. In the spring when the flowers bloom, they drive their cattle and sheep to the summer pasture in the deep mountains; in the late fall, they drive their livestock down the mountain again, and live in wooden houses to spend the long winter. Tuva people mainly live in the Womu-Kanas Mongolian Nationalities Township of Womu Village, Kanas Village, and 18 kilometers west of Kanas Lake outside the village of Baihaba, with a population of about 2,000 people or so.