What are the famous ancient towns in Chongqing? How many have you been to?

1, Zhongshan Ancient Town: Located in Jiangjin County, Chongqing, it is one of the top ten ancient towns in Chongqing. The ancient town is built by the river, much like the style of Jiangnan water town. Only a three-kilometer-long narrow old lane is formed, with buildings in the Qing Dynasty on both sides. Coupled with the bluestone road on the ground, it gives people a feeling of simplicity and harmony. There are 209 families living in the ancient town, and the traditional folk business formats are like blacksmith shop and blacksmith shop. Walking through the old streets paved with indigo stones, walking through the winding stone steps and alleys of Catherine, the wind passing through the fields is filled with the fragrance of herbs from time to time, and the splash of fire in the blacksmith's shop and the tinkling of iron strike each other, which has an artistic atmosphere without carving, while the white-haired old man with bald head under the eaves of the street is at ease, like an oil painting, setting off the unique picture of living and working in peace and contentment in the ancient town.

2. Shengfeng Ancient Town: Located in the northeast of Banan District, 665,438+0 km away from Jiefang North in downtown Chongqing, it is the intersection of Banan, Fuling and Nanchuan. "One Foot and Three Counties" vividly and objectively clarified the location of the ancient town. Built in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, this town was once an important post station for Chongqing government to go to Nanchuan and Fuling. The mountains above the ancient town trough are steep and steep. Today, the recognizable ancient village sites include Tianping Village, Shanzhai Village, Laoya Village, Tiewa Village, Guanshanzhai Village and Shengping Village. What is even more fascinating is the gorgeous slate street in the ancient town. The well-preserved slate streets in the ancient town include Fushou Street, Cross Street and Banbian Street.

3. Dongxi Ancient Town: built town 1300 years ago. The ancient town has the Nanhua Palace and Wantong Palace with superb architectural skills, the oldest Maxiang County People's Information Bureau in southwest China, Longhua Temple and Guanyin Pavilion, the lush and tall ancient Huangge tree, and the ancient salt horse road that witnessed the vicissitudes of two thousand years. The special valley topography makes the ancient town present a poetic picture surrounded by mountains and rivers, so students often come.

4. Laitan Ancient Town: Founded in the Song Dynasty, it is one of the top ten ancient towns in China. There are cliffs on three sides in the ancient town, and there is a tendency that "one person can keep it, and ten thousand people can't force it". The urn was built in the first year of Tongzhi in Qing Dynasty, and it is the only one in Chongqing. There are four hidden soldiers caves in the city, which have the effect of closing the door and shooting at the dog. Wenchang Palace, a Qing dynasty building, is well preserved, and the woodcut relief of the outer column of the ancient theater is amazing.

5. Longxing Ancient Town: Located in the southeast of Yubei District, Chongqing, 36 kilometers away from the central area of Chongqing, it has a history of more than 600 years. Rich cultural heritage, diverse architectural landscape forms and talented people. More than 200 cultural celebrities in past dynasties. The ancient town retains many traditional folk activities, such as body singing, waist drum singing and Sichuan opera singing. Native products include dried bean curd in Longxing, old bacon, and the terrain around Longxing Town is relatively high. The ancient buildings are stacked on top of each other, with proper layout, rigorous structure, fresh air and beautiful scenery in the town, which has a distinct humanistic spirit and folk history of Bayu and Chongqing, making the ancient town have high tourism and artistic appreciation value.

6. Gongtan Ancient Town: Located in Youyang Tujia and Miao Autonomous County, Chongqing, on the east bank of Wujiang River at the intersection of Wujiang River and Apeng River, it is an ancient town with a history of 1700 years. Gongtan ancient town has about three kilometers of slate street, 1, more than 50 unique embankment walls, more than 200 quaint and quiet quadrangles, and more than 50 diaojiao buildings with unique local characteristics.

7. ciqikou ancient town: Three Treasures in the ancient town (Maoxuewang, stewed thousand layers of skin and salted peanuts are called the Three Treasures in the ancient town), Sanduo in the ancient town (there are many temples, celebrities' footprints and teahouses, such as Baolun Temple and Genting Temple), and scenic spots: ancient pier, Jiushigang river beach, bookstore teahouse, Hanlin Academy, Bayu folk house, Baolun Temple and Wenchang Palace.

8. Xituo Ancient Town: It was built in the late Eastern Han Dynasty and has a history of more than 2,000 years. It faces Shi Baozhai, the Pearl of the Yangtze River, across the river. Yunti Street in the ancient town is perpendicular to the Yangtze River, known as the first street of the Yangtze River, and is the starting point of the ancient salt road of Qianliba. On both sides of the ancient town, there are Tujia diaojiao buildings left over from the Ming and Qing Dynasties, which are layered and patchwork, like an elegant and beautiful ink painting.

9. Pianyan Ancient Town: Located between the two remaining veins in the southwest of Huaying Mountain Range, it is located in the hilly area, showing a trend of high in the northeast and low in the southwest, with an average elevation of 52 meters and the highest elevation of 942.9 meters. In the twenty-fourth year of Qianlong (1759), the town was built here. Because of the steep rock wall in the north of the town, it was named Pianyan Town. Although hundreds of years have passed, its streets, buildings, folk customs and market conditions still retain the simplicity and elegance of the past. The rocks are built by mountains and rivers. Standing outside the town, from a distance, you can see that the brick houses of the wooden house are distributed along the mountains, overlapping and patchwork. A crystal clear Heishuitan River surrounds the ancient town, flows through Sansheng Town and fuxing town, and finally flows into Jialing River.

10. Tanghe Ancient Town: Located at the junction of Chongqing and Sichuan in the southwest of Jiangjin City, Chongqing, it is in Gunziping of Heishishan Mountain, a scenic spot, adjacent to Baisha Town in the northeast, chengdu-chongqing railway and the Yangtze River Golden Waterway in the southwest and Hejiang in Sichuan. The ancient town has a long history and was inhabited as early as 2000 years ago. Since the completion of the Ming Dynasty, Wangye Temple has built market towns one after another, and reached its peak in the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty. Because the Tanghe River bypasses the fields, the street comes out from the riverside pier. The buildings along the street are mostly based on bluestone, with brick and wood walls, odd eaves and arches, carved beams and painted columns, which are scattered and beautiful. Among the overlapping houses in the ancient town, several rare Huizhou-style buildings in Bayu are interspersed among them, which is amazing and is a precious material for studying the historical and cultural development of Bayu.