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The place with the most ancient villages in Beijing

The oldest village in Beijing is Mentougou District.

Mentougou District is a place with the largest number of ancient villages, the best preservation, rich traditional culture connotation and high research value in Beijing. 90% of the most beautiful ancient villages in Beijing are concentrated in Mentougou District in the west of Beijing, which is also the Yongding River cultural belt in Xishan. Ancient villages must have been prosperous in ancient times.

But in modern times, it seems relatively closed, and there is no place that has been sizzled on a large scale, otherwise it will not be preserved. Yongding Valley is a channel for cultural and commodity exchanges between ancient nomadic civilization in northwest China and Han people in Central Plains. However, with the rise of modern marine civilization, it seems relatively closed, so many ancient villages have been preserved. ?

Introduction of Mentougou District

Mentougou District is a cultural relic area in Beijing, with rich cultural relic resources, complete varieties and great value. By the end of 20021,there were 556 immovable cultural relics registered in the whole region, accounting for 14.5% of the city, ranking first in the city. Among them, there are 5 national key cultural relics protection units, 5 municipal cultural relics protection units 15 and 65 district cultural relics protection units.

For example, the famous Tanzhe Temple, known as "Tanzhe Temple in front of Beijing", Jietai Temple, known as "the first altar in the world", Yue Ling Temple, an ancient wooden structure building complex built during Zhenguan period in Tang Dynasty, and the ancient mountain village complex discovered and preserved for the first time in China-the ancient building complex of Cuanxia Village, Wan Li Great Wall in Mentougou section of Beijing.

Red revolutionary cultural relics such as the former site of the Eighth Route Army marching into the headquarters, the wanping county People's War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression Monument, the former site of the Deng Song detachment meeting, and the first party branch in Tianzhuang Village in Jingxi.