What are the attractions in Yongning Ancient Town

1, Fanzai building

Fanzai building, also known as FanKeLou (FanZai is the past of southern Fujian area of the South Pacific people derogatory name), is a kind of Chinese and Western combination of southern Fujian (Quanzhou as a representative) residential architecture, it is the area of southern Fujian for the name of the foreign building. Fanzai building mostly for the Republic of China period, is the Minnan Nanyang overseas Chinese returned to build, and the traditional Minnan ancient residential greatly different, set the Minnan traditional ancient residential and Nanyang building features, exquisite craftsmanship, is an important architectural culture of the Minnan overseas Chinese hometown.

Yongning Ancient Town currently remains many early Fanzai building, unique Chinese and Western cultures collide here, carved beams and painted buildings, exquisite. Even though the years are full of scars, these standing Fanzai building quietly in this place to see all the wind and rain, witnessed generation after generation of people living and breathing, children and their love. These Fanzai building carries the past of the ancestors floating and sinking, in the fluttering flow of the years, even if the building is empty, but we can still glimpse the glorious scene of the heyday of the past here. In today's society, abandon the noisy red wine and green, inner more need a kind of leisure and peace of mind.

2, Red Brick Alley

We Minnan people call the house "Alley", red brick and red tiles, magnificent, colorful, flamboyant and not lose the simplicity and dignity. The red brick house draws on the traditional Chinese culture and the local marine culture of southern Fujian, which is an important part of the cultural system of southern Fujian. Red brick houses can be found everywhere in Southern Fujian, and are representative of Southern Fujian culture. With red walls and gray tiles, warm and exuberant, but low-key and stoic, swallow-tailed ridges on the roofs with spreading wings, and a variety of auspicious totems coming to life, Southern Fujian people's pursuit of a better life has not stood still.

3, temples

In the streets and alleys of Yongning, everywhere you can see large and small temples, all kinds of gods and goddesses bless thousands of believers. For me as a local Minnan people, I encountered the temple will also be devoutly go up to worship, hands together or a column of incense, and the gods to say something in their hearts, praying for the blessing of the gods, I have always been convinced that there is a blessing of worship, which is also our Minnan people for the gods always carry a heart of reverence.

4, the old street

Prior to the reform and opening up, Yongning's old street was prosperous, has always been Yongning's trade and commerce gathering place, vegetable market, post and telecommunications offices, banks, supply and marketing agencies, small workshops, miscellaneous supplies and so on. Now there are many residents living in the old street, drying dry goods, washing vegetables and clothes, chilling and nagging residents of the old street, where they live a comfortable and peaceful life. Those visible life, and invisible inner thoughts, leaving a string of historical footprints in the Yongning ancient town.

5, Yongning Zen Temple

Built in Ming Jiajing 45 years. Nanguan Village Road, west of a wide square, against the north from east to west side of the three quadrangle-style gate, which is the Dragon King Temple and Guandi Temple complex, renovated in 2013 and renamed the "Yongning Zen Temple". Inside the temple, there are murals, painted figures, flowers, clearly recognizable.