The seven most beautiful villages in the world

Xidi and Hongcun, the most beautiful villages in the world, went to Anhui for the first time and saw Xidi Hongcun, which is known as the "village in Chinese painting". It's fascinating. Standing at the gate of Hongcun, you seem to have entered a beautiful oil painting. Xidihong Village is actually two villages. Xidi Village was founded in the Song Dynasty, and was originally the location of Xidi Shop of the ancient post road. It was named after Sanxi's "East Water Flows West". Hongcun, also called Hongcun, means broad and developed. Perhaps because of the need to apply for world heritage, they are linked together. Xidihong Village can be said to be the birthplace of Huizhou merchants and the birthplace of Huizhou's Millennium culture. What impressed me most was the wonderful rural scenery of Hongcun. Niuxing village and its artificial water system. The water system is designed according to the image of cattle, and the clear spring is called "ox intestines", which flows in front of one household. After flowing into the moon pool called "Cow's Stomach" in the village, the "Cow's Intestine" is filtered, and then the house is bypassed to the South Lake called "Cow's Stomach" outside the village. Filter again and flow into the river bed. This kind of water system is one of the unique architectural arts of ancient Chinese villages, which naturally attracts experts from Japan, the United States, West Germany and other countries to study it carefully. Besides, its folk houses reflect the characteristics and charm of Huizhou culture Huizhou architecture. For example, the wood carvings on the beams, arches, flower gates and windowsills in the main hall are complex in hierarchy, numerous in figures, different in appearance and different in spirit, which can be called the wood carvings in the "three sculptures" (four sculptures: wood carving, stone carving, brick carving and bamboo carving) and "three wonders" (residential gardens, ancestral temples and memorial archways) of Huizhou School. According to historical records, "Chengzhitang" is the most complete preserved ancient residence in Yixian County. Xidihong Village was named "Top Ten Charming Towns" by CCTV together with Wuzhen in 2005. At that time, its acceptance speech was as follows: This is the first world cultural heritage of villages and towns in China, and its site selection planning, construction and development, after 800 years, have condensed the achievements of the sustainable development of Chinese traditional agricultural civilization. The magical artificial water system is unique and pioneered bionics. Folk houses, ancestral halls and memorial archways are well preserved, adhering to ancestral temple culture. Couplets and plaques highlight the elegance of Huizhou merchants, and stone carvings and leaking windows entrust farmers' feelings. Xidihong Village is a museum of residential buildings in Ming and Qing Dynasties, and it is also a model of the combination of man and nature today. What I show you here is just the tip of Hongcun.