An ancient town called “Lijiang in East Zhejiang”, it is known as “the No. 1 Confucian town in the south of the Yangtze River”, and it is like a paradise

There is such an ancient town in Ninghai, eastern Zhejiang. It was built at the end of the Song Dynasty. It is outside the world. The original version of the old Jiangnan residence is still well preserved. It is the largest settlement of children in Jiangnan and is known as the “living ancient town.” “, has the reputation of “Zhedong Lijiang”. Directed by the artist Chen Yifei, starring Chen Kun and Zeng Li, and nominated for the Best Picture of the Shanghai Film Festival’s Golden Goblet Award, the war of love film “The Barber” was shot here. The quaint and vicissitudes of the town in the film brought Zhejiang The unique charm of Donggu Town gives people a quiet and elegant beauty that is different from ordinary prosperous ancient towns. This Jiangnan town with strong ancient charm is Qiantong Ancient Town.

Qiantong Ancient Town is located in Ninghai County, Ningbo City, Zhejiang Province. It was built in the late Southern Song Dynasty and flourished in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. It has a history of nearly 800 years. We know that Ninghai County is the starting place of “Xu Xiake’s Travel Notes” and has extremely rich tourism resources. Qiantong Ancient Town, which is located here, is of course no exception. It has a profound cultural heritage and beautiful natural scenery. “Feng Shui Treasure Land” that does not block and hides Feng Shui. Here is the most typical style of Jiangnan ancient town, with white tiles, black walls, vines, stone carved windows, plus the quiet and shallow water of the white stream, painted doors and windows with carved beams, it’s completely “Every family has carved beams.” “Every household has living water”, unlike a water town, it is better than a superb view of the water town, and Qiantong is also known as the “Little Lijiang in the South of the Yangtze River” for this reason.

During the Shaoding period of the Southern Song Dynasty, the local Tong family moved here from Huangyan, Taizhou, and they were named “Qiantong” because they lived in front of Huiming Temple at that time. After thousands of years of multiplying, growing and studying, the children of the Tong family now have more than 2,000 households with a population of nearly 30,000, making it the largest settlement of Tong surnames in the south of the Yangtze River. Qiantong is the town with the most ancient Confucian culture in eastern Zhejiang, and is known as “the first Confucian town in the south of the Yangtze River”. The people here have always followed their usual way of life, cultivated in Dunmu, and trained their descendants to form the ancient cultural style of “small bridges and flowing water all over the courtyards, and eggs in the ancient courtyard of the ancient courtyard”. There have been many talents here from generation to generation. According to statistics, in the Ming and Qing dynasties alone, more than 200 people have obtained fame as scholars or above.

The ancient town does not have a strong commercial atmosphere. Walking on the maze-like pebble paths, the roadsides are blue bricks and ink tiles, and the stream is beautiful. You will find that the bricks, the walls, and the bridges here are exquisite works of time. It reveals a simple and quiet atmosphere, giving people a strong sense of vicissitudes of ancient rhyme. The entire ancient town is laid out in nine palaces and eight hexagrams according to the word “hui”, and each house corresponds to the eight hexagrams. There are still more than 1,300 ancient houses of Ming and Qing Dynasties. The houses, academies, and ancestral halls are all elegant and beautiful. The old streets, pavilions, and arches are each other. At first glance, they feel dilapidated.

In Qiantong, you can visit the solemn and solemn Tongda Ancestral Hall built in the early Ming Dynasty, you can also visit the majestic and beautiful Lianghuang Mountain in Xu Xiake’s Travels, and you can also experience the interesting and primitive folk customs of eastern Zhejiang. Of course, the most not to be missed is the “Zhejiang No. 1 Ancient Camphor” growing at the east end of Zhulin Village, Qiantong Town. The ancient camphor is commonly known as “five-branched camphor”. It is 18 meters high and 15 meters in diameter at breast height. It was planted between the Tang Dynasty and the Northern and Southern Dynasties. The tree is at least 1200 years old. It is famous for its age, luxuriant foliage, and full of vitality. It is listed as the first of the “Ten Best Ancient and Famous Trees” in Ningbo, was certified as a national first-class protected ancient tree, and won the reputation of “Ningbo Tree King”.