Ancient town English

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Ancient towns generally refer to commercial market towns with a history of more than 100 years and large-scale ancient residential buildings that are still well preserved in modern times. It is a settlement form between the ancient city and the ancient village, which is mostly developed from commerce; The ancient city is the political, military and cultural center of a place, with the largest scale and often surrounded by city walls; This ancient village is the smallest, inhabited by agricultural population.

Once famous market towns in ancient times, now large-scale ancient residential buildings have disappeared, and they are no longer called ancient towns, such as Foshan Town, Jingdezhen Town, Zhuxian Town and Hankou Town. This kind of market town is called "famous town". It used to be a county in ancient times, but with the transfer of county administration or the revocation of county, the places that have declined in Cheng Zhen are sometimes called ancient towns, such as Anju ancient town (Anju ancient town).

China has a long history, and there are many ancient towns with profound cultural heritage on the vast land, among which Jiangnan and Southwest China are the most widely distributed and the best preserved. The name "ancient town" is very common in China, but it is rarely used in commercial market towns with large-scale ancient residential buildings abroad.

Tourism in ancient towns has developed rapidly, but behind this good development trend, the tourism pressure faced by ancient towns has gradually exposed, and tourism development has also brought some problems to the protection of ancient towns.

The biggest pressure faced by many people is the sharp increase of tourist flow, which exceeds the limit allowed by the tourist capacity of the ancient town. Especially in the tourist season, the ancient town is often in a crowded and chaotic scene: the quiet and leisurely living atmosphere is destroyed, which not only prevents tourists from visiting normally. It even caused damage to historical sites and buildings, which is called "tourism pollution problem". Among them, garbage pollution and water pollution are two serious problems.

With the tourism fever brought by weekends and "Golden Week", many places regard the development of tourism resources as an economic growth point, and heritage tourism has become a hot spot. The development of tourism has directly led to the substantial increase of commercial outlets, especially the opening of various shops on major tourist routes and the adoption of modern decoration materials, which has led to the change of architectural use and the decline of traditional features.