Selected jokes of China Wanrong

There are many county-level administrative units in China, and each county has its own unique characteristics. This county town in Shanxi Province, seemingly unknown and low-key, is the "hometown of jokes" of the whole country, and the first wooden building in China. Not only that, this county also has a large number of cultural relics and historic sites, and it is a mysterious small county that is little known but rich in tourism resources.

This county is located in Wanrong County under the jurisdiction of Yuncheng City in the southwest of Shanxi Province. Wanrong County is located on the east bank of the Yellow River, where Fenhe River meets the Yellow River. Wanrong County is adjacent to hancheng city, Shaanxi Province in the west, and Nanping Gufeng Mountain is connected with Linyi County and Salt Lake District. The Wangji Mountain in the east is connected with wenxi county, and the terraced fields in Emei in the north are adjacent to Hejin City. Wanrong County has a long history and is one of the important birthplaces of the Chinese nation. However, Wanrong's history as a county name is not long, which originated from the merger of Wanquan and Rong counties in 1954. As a remote inland county, how can Wanrong County be called "the hometown of jokes"?

Wanrong county has a long history, and it won this honor because the "Wanrong joke" originated in Wanrong county was included in the national intangible cultural heritage. Wanrong Joke is a folk oral literature in this area, which is lively and interesting. Moreover, in Wanrong County, there is a joke Expo Park with jokes as the theme, which is an entertainment park with laughter culture as the carrier, and consists of theme areas such as Happy Square, Joke Kingdom and Apple Baby Paradise. There are also laughing doors, laughing walls, laughing streets, laughing rivers, joke mazes, projection joke theaters, mock joke libraries, Wanrong joke exhibition halls, "Wanrong joke village" and jokes.

As the "hometown of jokes", Wanrong County also has the first wooden structure building in China-Feiyun Building, which is located in Dongyue Temple in the county and is made of pure wooden structure. It is said that there is a local saying that "Wanrong has a non-cloud building, half of which is inserted in the cloud", hence the name. The construction time of Feiyun Tower is unreliable. After the war, it was repaired in all generations. The existing building is Yuan and Ming style, with a height of more than 20 meters and an area of nearly 600 square meters. The archway of the whole building is dense, exquisite and majestic, and it is also called "South Tower and North Tower" with Yingxian Wooden Tower. Feiyun architecture, with its exquisite structure, superb skills, exquisite modeling and magnificent appearance, has become a masterpiece of ancient wooden structures in China.

In addition to the two honors of "Hometown of Jokes" and "China's First Wooden Building", there are many scenic spots in Wanrong County, among which the famous ones are the Li Family Courtyard, Houtu Temple, Mountain, Xitan and Dongyue Temple. Among them, the Lijia Courtyard is a national-level scenic spot and the highest-level scenic spot in Wanrong County. The Li Family Courtyard was built in Daoguang period of Qing Dynasty, and the building community is a vertical quadrangle. At the same time, it absorbed the architectural style of the Southern Huizhou School and integrated the two architectural features of China. The ancient courtyard is orderly, well-structured, durable, beautifully decorated, simple and elegant, and it is the most typical huge house in southern Shanxi. Houtu Temple is located in Qiancun North, 40 kilometers southwest of Wanrong County. It is the oldest temple dedicated to the afterlife in China and the largest temple in China. In particular, the famous Qiu Feng Tower in the temple was named after the poem Autumn Wind written by Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty. The existing Qiu Feng architecture is magnificent and well-preserved, which perfectly reproduces the superb skills of ancient craftsmen.