Traveling to Xiangxi Town: Fenghuang Ancient City in Yu Yan

"A river, a song, a misty rain, a touch of amorous feelings, a beautiful encounter all these are calling for your lonely heart for a long time, will you let yourself go? Waiting for a city of misty rain, wandering the morning dream of the ancient city of Fenghuang, spending a lifetime of love, infatuating with the diaojiao buildings on both sides of the Lijiang River. " This is the ancient city of Fenghuang, a small town in western Hunan written by Shen Congwen.

I have also seen photos taken by tourists after they went to Phoenix. Quiet Gu Xiang, misty rain, a girl in red with a red umbrella, the leisurely back in Gu Xiang is really beautiful, which left a deep impression on me, so I am longing for it.

/kloc-at the end of 0/0, I was lucky enough to go to the long-awaited Fenghuang ancient city and finally walked into this dreamlike ancient city.

Fenghuang Ancient City is located in Xiangxi Autonomous Prefecture. In the southwest, there is a mountain named after a phoenix with wings flying. However, what really made him famous at home and abroad was the hometown complex written by the famous writer Shen Congwen. Because there is only one mountain, one water and one person, people have come all the way to Wan Li to find it.

A river crosses the city, a boat goes upstream, Tujia diaojiao building built by the river, Miao girls with various customs, and phoenix night with blurred lights?

Walking into the ancient city of Fenghuang, it is already afternoon. Bridges, flowing water, suspended buildings and people are enough to outline the charm of the ancient city. The ancient city is exquisite, leisurely and soothing.

The slowly flowing Tuojiang River is the mother river of Fenghuang Ancient City. It goes through the city. The river is clear and green, and the grass at the bottom of the river is swaying.

Looking at the scenery on both sides of the Tuojiang River under the bridge, there is a small stone slab across the Tuojiang River on the water surface in the upper reaches of the bridge, with a small waterfall on it. People are on the river and water is under their feet.

A Hongqiao flies across the north and south banks, bearing the ancient rhyme of Jiangnan water town.

It has been raining for several days. On the day we arrived, although the rain had stopped, the weather was still foggy. Bridges, rivers and diaojiao buildings are all shrouded in fog, which adds to the mystery of this ancient city.

Even this weather still can't stop tourists from traveling, but there are surprisingly many tourists, and people are everywhere and crowded.

Several beautiful women dressed in Miao costumes are very eye-catching and attracted me. The camera snapped a picture of them.

Climbing up the city wall, you can see battlements standing along the river, more than one meter high and 50 centimeters thick. The battlements are separated by observation holes and shooting holes, and there are several ancient cannons on the wall.

Local people who wear national costumes and sell garlands can be seen everywhere. The price is very cheap, five yuan each. It is a woman's nature to love beauty, so no matter how old she is, everyone wears a beautiful wreath on her head and becomes a beautiful scenery in the ancient city.

Little girl selling flowers

There are always local flower sellers passing by me with flower baskets, and I also leave their figures in the camera.

Fenghuang ancient city is not big, and the streets paved by Qingshiban Road perfectly show the architectural style of Fenghuang ancient city.

Walking in the small streets of the ancient city, I feel full of ancient impressions. These brick houses look antique and smell charming.

I bought a wreath to wear on my head and left photos of my visit here.

Red umbrella, blue slate, quiet alley, everything is the same as described in the poem, feeling deja vu.

The bluestone slabs laid in the city have long lost their edges and corners and have been polished smooth and bright by the years. Vague footprints seem to tell the joys and sorrows of one life after another.

Alleys extending in all directions are quiet and of different lengths. This alley is full of red lanterns, quiet and prosperous. Walking on the bluestone road, my thoughts seem to have returned to the distant past. ......

In a quiet alley, a girl in a red skirt sits on a wooden chair, and the board behind her says "Utopia West Lane". I wonder if she is a boss or a tourist. Sitting alone quietly makes the alley more poetic and mysterious.

In Phoenix, the streets are full of all kinds of shops, which is a paradise for shopping.

The most common thing on the street is selling ginger candy. Xiangxi is wet and rainy, and ginger sugar is sweet and slightly spicy, which is a panacea for eliminating dampness and driving cold. I bought several bags and tasted them. The taste was OK. There is spice in sweetness and fragrance in crispness.

It is also hard work to beat ginger candy manually with a wooden hammer.

In addition to ginger candy, there are many handicraft shops on the street, which are dazzling and attract tourists' attention.

We strolled among them, enjoying the local native products with rich national characteristics, feasting our eyes and having a full meal.

This kind of jar is rare in the mainland.

The chopping board is full of barbecue materials to attract tourists.

Smoked pig heads are rare. Looks a little scary.

One person, one dog and one charcoal basin, grandma's hand is still busy.

The diligence and business sense of Phoenix people are obvious to all. From teenagers to dozens of old women, they are busy selling, which is really a national business.

Grandma who sells all kinds of handicrafts at home can be seen everywhere, and some are still busy watching the stalls. All kinds of handmade products are rich in national characteristics and beautiful.

The old woman sat in front of her house, making handmade products leisurely. When she saw me taking a sneak shot, she said unhappily, "Take a picture for five dollars"! I'm too scared to shoot again. I don't know if they see too much every day, but they don't mean anything to be friendly. All you talk about is money.

An old woman who likes to count money.

"I made a lot of money today!"

There is a bronze statue of Phoenix in the West Square, symbolizing the ancient city of Phoenix.

In the ancient city of Fenghuang, we will also go to Shen Congwen's former residence. We walked into Mr. Shen's former residence along Qingshi Road.

Mr. Shen Congwen, the late writer, is the pride of the ancient city of Phoenix, and his former residence is the cultural essence of the ancient city of Phoenix. Because of it, the cultural charm of the ancient city permeates the air shallowly.

Shen Congwen's former residence is located at Zhongying Street 10 in the ancient city, which was built in the fifth year of Tongzhi in Qing Dynasty (1866).

Siheyuan, patio, rice, oil and salt, pen, ink, paper and inkstone are mottled, yellowed and incomplete because of their age, but they are a landscape carved for the ancient city in years. Although it is silent, it reveals the breath of culture, publicizes the breath of culture and highlights the thickness of culture.

This is a small quadrangle, divided into two floors, with a red stone yard in the middle, facing the main door, and three wings on each side.

Looking around the yard, the houses are all wooden buildings with bucket structure, carved doors and windows, small and chic, carved ornaments, lifelike.

Looking at the little book written by Mr. Wang in his early years hanging on the wall, I was full of admiration. A remote ancient city, a small house, unexpectedly out of a great writer.

In Phoenix, there is another famous house that you can't miss, and that is Chen Baozhen's house. To tell the truth, I didn't know much about Chen Baozhen before I came. Only when I saw Mr. Chen Yinque's introduction did I know that Chen Yinque was the son of Chen and Chen was the son of Chen Baozhen.

Chen Yinque is the most learned scholar in China's modern history. He is one of the four famous tutors in Tsinghua. It took 500 years to become a new person. His "independent spirit and free thought" is an idea followed in today's research and rescue.

I didn't expect it to have such a prominent family background. His father, Chen, is known as the last traditional poet in China and the four children of reform. His elder brother is a painter, Professor Peking University, and his second brother, Chen, is also a famous poet. Looking at Mr. Chen Baozhen's former residence, I thought of Mr. Chen Yinque's thoughts. This trip to glad you came.

Out of Mr. Chen Baozhen's former residence, we came to Xiong Xiling's former residence, which is really a treasure trove of celebrities. We visited the former residences of one celebrity after another.

I followed the tour guide to Tuojiang, ready to take a boat.

Guided by the guide, we boarded the ship in Wu Peng. The river is clear and the wind is gentle. The ferryman shouts, taps a bamboo pole and the boat goes down the river.

Ships walk in the water, and people travel in the painting world. Gong's chant, Miao's singing and Tuojiang's voice linger over the ancient city.

I saw the boat walking slowly in the water and the boat walking in the gallery. Looking up, there are ancient diaojiao buildings on both sides of the river, which are as high as Jiangnan in an ink painting.

White walls and cornices are reflected in the river. In this cool landscape, there are no gorgeous mountain flowers, only rivers that remain unchanged for thousands of years, reflecting the blue sky and white clouds.

The buildings along the river are all wooden diaojiao buildings. From a distance, wooden stakes hold up one hut after another, and the clear river flows under the houses, which has a strong national architectural style.

On the bank of the bridge in the distance of Tuojiang River, many women are washing clothes with mallets, and the sticks they picked up are beating up and down. The style of this picture is so simple, and there is a feeling of crossing time and space.

The ancient walls, bricks and Gu Men of the ancient city, despite vicissitudes, are still magnificent, guarding the tranquility and serenity of the ancient city.

I passed a fishing boat head-on. There were several osprey standing on the boat. This was the first time I saw the osprey.

The ancient city is so beautiful that it attracts many tourists to take ethnic photos by the river and be a minority girl, leaving good memories.

When the boat arrived near Hongqiao, a song floated in front of me, clear and pleasant, echoing in my ears for a long time, like handfuls of pearls thrown on the river.

Finally, I saw a Miao girl dressed in national costume and holding an umbrella, standing at the bow, singing national songs to passing tourists and waving politely to the guests.

The ancient city not only carries thousands of years of history and culture, but also contains too many ethnic customs. Their songs echoed on both sides of the Tuojiang River for a long time, and there were bursts of laughter. ...

Soon we came to the shore and continued our tour along the river.

Follow local tour guides to visit museums, silver shops and Wanshou Palace.

Looking at the river from the shore, Wu Peng's ships swam in the middle of the river bit by bit, with high and low diaojiao buildings along the river, and green hills in the distance, a natural Jiangnan ink painting.

The mirror-like water surface is so quiet, and the surrounding atmosphere seems to have solidified, forming a picture of a small bridge and flowing water. Phoenix is really beautiful, it is the mellow beauty with quaint and cultural precipitation.

The most beautiful is the night of the phoenix, when the sunset is blurred; The landscape lights of the ancient city are on, and the lights on the diaojiao buildings on both sides of the strait are particularly beautiful. They should be reflected on the Tuojiang River with the flashing neon lights in the bar, and swaying with the colorful rock music from the bar, showing another kind of beauty incisively and vividly.

Walking in the night, the night view of Phoenix is very beautiful. There is a row of bars by the river, which looks similar to the West Street in Yangshuo.

The music of the bar revelry echoed in the night of Tuojiang River, neon lights flashed, and the red-hot charcoal fire was burning in the pot with sharp bottom at the door. The music is loud and the lights are blurred. Basically, young people drink in bars and shake their limbs with music. This is the world of young people.

Looking into the distance, the houses embedded in Miao village on the mountain are flashing lights, layered and patchwork. The ancient city wall is outlined by lights, and the arch bridge on the water and the corner pavilion inside the bridge are brightly lit.

The boats on the water and the inn on the river are all flashing lights ... all bright, reflecting the charming night of the ancient city of Phoenix.

In the evening, the grandmother selling handmade products on the bridge is still selling.

Phoenix gave me a clear and hazy impression. The wet bluestone road, the small town near the mountain and the water, the clear Tuojiang River passing through the city, and the walls made of red sandstone stand on the shore, which are full of poetry and unforgettable. ......