The fall of Huizhou, always step on the time to come. In my memory, every year around mid-September, the weather is just not cold or hot, the length of day and night is also divided into an average, there is no summer heat and winter cold, the sky is clear and indistinct. The blue of the mountains is even deeper, colorful leaves, mist, autumn wind, wilderness, these beautiful words are put together, is the Huizhou autumn scenery.
Huizhou formerly known as Shezhou, including the Anhui territory of the Xuanzhou Jixi, Huangshan Shexian, Yixian, Huining, Qimen and assigned to Jiangxi Wuyuan, the ancient name of Huizhou six counties in one of the capitals, Huizhou has been renamed the city of Huangshan in recent years. Compared to the poetry of the rainy south, was separated by the mountains of the ancient Huizhou, just like a lot of writers and writers lifelong love, the Ming Dynasty opera singer Tang Xianzu issued a "lifetime of obsessed with the absolute place, no dream to Huizhou," the sigh of exclamation.
Nowadays, the Huizhou Ancient Road is still firmly at the top of the list of destinations in the country that make people's hearts yearn for it. All the way to the green brick tile horse head wall, famous mountain monuments and humanities beauty, coupled with the autumn unique spirit, travel among them, that a pavilion, half of the old bridge, or deep in the mountains of the unintentional a few running water home, light and then transformed into a Chinese wonderful landscape painting. Well, it's time to go to Huizhou.
Today, we recommend a classic driving route to Huizhou humanities and landscape, starting from Xuancheng in Anhui Province, passing through Wuyuan in Jiangxi Province, stopping at the Jiuhua Mountain, along the way, linking up the Huangshan Mountain, Mount Qiyun, Hongcun, Xidi and other familiar mountains and villages, whether it is the first time to Huizhou, or revisited, is a rare cultural journey.
Itinerary:
Huizhou humanities and landscapes route *** counts 680 kilometers, traveling about 10 days (can be deflated according to the time schedule), the line is planned for the Anhui Xuancheng - Jingxian - Jingde - Jixi -Shexian - Jiangxi Wuyuan - Yaoli - Anhui Yueting - Qiyun Mountain - Xidi - Hongcun - Huangshan Mountain -Jiu Huashan.
Accommodation Cuisine ：
The development of Huizhou tourist routes is relatively mature, all kinds of hotels, guesthouses, lodgings and farmhouses can be found everywhere, avoiding the peak season, and booking 1~2 days in advance. Of course, if you want to stay at the top of Huangshan Mountain, try to prepare earlier. Anhui cuisine, as one of the eight cuisines, is skillful in burning and stewing, and is suitable for thick and light, stinky Mandarin fish, hairy bean curd, knife board incense, Hu Shi Yipin pot and so on are very characteristic, and just find a restaurant to do the taste is good.
Highlights along the way:
Jingxian
Jingxian belongs to Xuancheng, and is historically an area of farming and mulberrying, as well as a place of many merchants and eunuchs, and a place where the literary style flourishes. Xuan paper, one of the four treasures of literature, is the best made in Jing County. When you come from Xuancheng, you will pass by Shengfengtang Xuanpen Factory in Huangcun along Provincial Highway 322, and you can stop and visit its production process. In addition, the Jing County Museum and the Shui Xi Twin Towers are also located around the provincial highway.
If Xuan paper, and human history is the heritage of Jingxian, then the natural landscape is the favor of God to Jingxian, which is most known to outsiders, is the Peach Blossom Pool. It is famous for the poem "Gift to Wang Lun" written by the poet Li Bai: "The Peach Blossom Pool is a thousand feet deep, not as deep as Wang Lun's love for me." And it is famous.
If you choose to live in the Peach Blossom Pool Scenic Area, you must get up early to watch the autumn water. Morning fog dancing in the river and mountains, the distant mountains are hidden, the sunrise dyed the sky pink, and the occasional flying bird crossing the sky. Standing on the riverbank, I'm afraid the only thing that comes to mind at this time is "dancing and making a clear shadow, why is it like being on earth".
Jixi
Jixi has been known as "Southeast Zulu", is the birthplace of Huizhou culture and Huizhou Opera, but also Huizhou merchants, one of the main birthplaces of Huizhou cuisine. There are many ancient alleys in Jixi County, with long and narrow pavements made of green stone slabs, which record the rise and fall of this small town. If you want to fully understand the history of Jixi, you can visit the Jixi Museum in the city, which has seven exhibition halls, such as Huiling, Huixi, and Huixi flavor, which is enough to penetrate into the ancient city.
Not far from the city, you can meet a garden-style building complex, which is the private Hui residential architecture museum purple garden. The garden is surrounded on all sides by mountains, a pool of blue water, pine and maple on the hill, and houses scattered under the hill. It concentrates various elements of typical Huizhou village architecture such as pavilions, ancestral halls and pagodas, and also opens restaurants and inns for rest.
Continuing to drive forward, you can see the thousand-year-old Renli Ancient Village and Longchuan Village in turn. Both villages have a history of more than a thousand years. The former retains a large number of buildings from the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, and was once a land and water port for merchants, and an important town on the Hui-Hang Ancient Road, while the latter is an ancient village where the Hu family lived, and the Hu Ancestral Hall, houses and other buildings are worthy of a good visit.
If your feet are strong enough, you can walk the Hui-Hang Ancient Road not far from Longchuan Village, which has become a paradise for beginner hikers as the third famous ancient road in China. In particular, the two treacherous peaks of Iiyan Tip and Wolf Dog Tip have delighted many hikers.
Shexian
Shexian is the birthplace of Huizhou culture, and Huizhou Ancient City, located in the county town, is the seat of the original Huizhou Prefecture. The most special feature of the Huizhou ancient city is the "city set city", the city of ancient residential groups intertwined, like a magnificent history museum. Even now, the city is still a place where generations of Huizhou people live.
Among the several gates of the city, the South Qiao Tower is the most distinctive, while the Huizhou government office and the Xuguo Stone Square are the best parts of the ancient city. The Old City is not closed, so if you are just strolling around the Old City, you can save the entrance fee by entering the city through the other small streets and lanes. If you want to complete the visit to the various attractions of the ancient city, you can buy tickets from the west gate into the city, not far away from the Xu Guo stone Square.
County outskirts of the attractions to the Huizhou ancient villages, but more scattered, you can choose a few representative stroll. For example, one of the most famous in the South Anhui Province, Tangyue Shade arch, with the "mother of the Oriental garden" reputation of the Bao family garden, "Huizhou first scholar village" Xu village, "prime minister's hometown" Xiongnu Village, and so on.
The Village of Xucun is the first village in Huizhou.
Wuyuan
The rape flowers in Wuyuan are the most attractive in spring, and in fall, the autumn sunshine of Huangling and the maple leaves of Shicheng in Wuyuan become the best spokesman of the autumn scenery.
Huangling's autumn sun since is needless to say, this is located in the high mountain pass village homes built on the mountain, the morning scenery is the most beautiful, the sunlight faintly shrouded the entire village, every family began to open the window will be the dustpan in the autumn harvest of fruits in the sun, the red chili peppers in the sunshine under the light emits a soft light, the terraces in the distance become like a fairyland is not quite real, layer upon layer of rice paddies golden golden, around the green trees, lining the rice paddies, the green trees, the green trees, the green trees, the green trees, the green trees, the green trees, the green trees, the green trees. The first thing you need to do is to get a good look at the color of the trees, and then you can see the color of the trees.
At this time, the maple leaves in Shicheng is also the most reddish color, walking in the village between the green tile white wall, looking at the old residential buildings on the mottled wall, feet on the green stone road, looking at the distant terraces on the paddy wave ripe, a golden yellow. Between the golden yellow and black and white buildings is the most eye-catching maple leaves, white fog can not hide the brilliant red, stepping on the stone steps up the hill, from the village outside the high can find the best location of the red leaves to take the view.
In addition to the famous villages, the whole wuyuan is a super big ancient village gathering place, big and small small villages scattered distribution, each attraction is not too far away from each other, especially suitable for self-driving tour. Those inconspicuous small villages may give more surprises and touches.
Yaoli
The ancient town of Yaoli has a history of more than 2,000 years, and is known as the "source of porcelain" because it is the main raw material of Jingdezhen. The ancient town belongs to the remaining veins of the Huangshan Mountains, the territory of high forests, canyons, clear Yaoli River through the old town, giving a person a sense of tranquility and simplicity.
Walking through the village in the ancient style and ancient charm, can be seen in the center of the ancient town of the residents of the flavor of the area, retained a number of large-scale Ming and Qing dynasty ancient architectural clusters. These old houses and ancient shrines are built on both sides of the Yaohe River in a staggered manner, with large red lanterns hanging high, some of the poetry of the Jiangnan water town. The most prominent are the Cheng's Ancestral Hall, Ming and Qing Dynasty Commercial Street, Chen Yi's old residence and other places.
Unlike some ancient towns later built commercial streets, Yaoli Ancient Town, Ming and Qing Dynasty Commercial Street has always been the most prosperous street on the ancient Huizhou Avenue, there is still a ballad "on the street, down the street, the street is wide and long; sugar, salt and vinegar, satin cloth, store nine hundred and ninety-nine," enough to see the prosperity of the once thriving. The streets are paved with three slabs of green stone, the eye-catching "Huizhou Avenue turn" signpost, is still standing at the intersection.
Yaoli Ancient Town is not big, but it is like a pearl scattered in the mountains, with a fresh attitude to maintain the original beauty of the posture, walk around, you can always find a person to return to the true sense of fullness.
Qiyun Mountain
Qiyun Mountain is located in the city of Huangshan, and Huangshan north and south of each other, because from a distance look at the top of the mountain, such as "a stone inserted into the sky, and the clouds and flush" and named. Although the altitude of this mountain is only 585 meters above sea level, with the "sky" to describe some exaggeration, but because of the typical Danxia geomorphology, hundreds of attractions composed of a piece of strange stone coquettish cloth, presenting a red haze beauty, coupled with countless strange peaks and rocks, flying streams and gurgling, mesmerizing.
There are two ancient paths leading to Qiyun Mountain, one Zhengde ancient path leading to Zhang Sanfeng's tomb, and one Yongle ancient path leading directly to Taoist temples and cliff carvings. Along the way, in addition to the exquisite natural landscape, scattered inscriptions and stone carvings are the most enjoyable, almost peaks have inscriptions, holes have inscriptions. Among them, Cave Heavenly Blessing, True Immortal Cave and Zixiao Rock three zones are the most concentrated, especially the True Immortal Cave has the most Qiyun Mountain Taoist essence.
Yuehua Street at the top of the mountain is another view. Just a few kilometers, the ancient Taoist houses, Huizhou-style houses, palaces, houses composed of high and low staggered complexes, dazzling clouds and mist winding, as if the heavenly market. In the evening, in the Lingxu Terrace can be viewed from a distance to see the whole picture, incense burner peak in front of it, Yuping Peak in the back, Yuehua Street, such as a brow crescent moon, attached to the Qiyunshan half waist, very good to see.
Xidi
In the many ancient villages in southern Anhui, Xidi and Hongcun are the most famous, if from the point of view of the ancient Huizhou architecture, Xidi is even better because of its ancestral temple is more, the building is relatively dense, and it enjoys the "Peach Blossom Garden". It is also known as the "Peach Blossom Garden of the Family".
Xidi runs through the east and west with a main road, and the streets parallel to it on both sides are distributed with many narrow alleys, and most of the streets and alleys in the village are built along the stream. There are small squares in front of buildings such as the Hall of Respect and Love, the Hall of Pursuit and the Plaque of the Assassin Hu Wenguang, which are mostly characterized by the Qing Dynasty.
The way to visit Xidi ancient Huizhou architecture, generally screened about 10 of them, the scenic area has a free tour guide, you can take an in-depth understanding of Huizhou architecture. If you stay here, don't forget to register your ticket at the ticket office to be able to enter multiple times.
Hongcun
Ang Lee's movie Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, a lot of footage will be set in Hongcun, the more classic bamboo leap down to the water's surface of the clip, but also in the Emerald Valley not far from Hongcun shooting. After that, although Hongcun has gained fame and has gradually become more and more crowded, but compared to some commercialized ancient towns, this place is still quiet and secluded. The village is a quiet place, especially when you enter early in the morning or at sunset, and the surrounding area is just like a paradise.
The village in the fall, the sky is high, full of golden yellow. Three or two students will sit around the South Lake, concentrate on writing. Green tile white walls, rolling hills, all natural reflection in the water, forming a natural picture. The village walk at this time, accidental encounters, will be able to find a lot of fun.
In addition to the unique architecture and beauty, the unique folk style is also very ritualistic. The large pieces of bacon are hung all over the house, densely packed, and the old buildings reflect the interest, no sense of contradiction. As for the flavor of the bacon, of course, you need to go here to taste it in person, in order to appreciate the taste.
Of course, if you have spare time, you can go around Hongcun. Qishu Lake, Mukeng Bamboo Sea, Nanping and other attractions are not too far away, blowing the wind, strolling, enjoying the leisure and relaxation.
Huangshan Mountain
Huangshan Mountain, known as the "heaven on earth", "the world's first strange mountain", needless to say, all year round with tourists from all over the world to climb. In the fall, while climbing and enjoying the autumn, the verdant pine needles and red maple leaves reflecting the strange peaks and rocks, only to feel the vastness of heaven and earth.
The South Gate of Mount Huangshan is the closest to the Tunxi district of Mount Huangshan, and most travelers will go up the mountain from here. The town of Tangkou, where the South Gate is located, also has a few good scenic spots, such as the Nine Dragons Waterfall, Emerald Valley and Phoenix Source, all of which are characterized by landscapes and scenery, and are relatively close and on the same line, which can be seen shortly after traveling along the national highway in front of the South Gate.
Jiuhua Mountain
Jiuhua Mountain is not as famous as Huangshan Mountain, but the beautiful landscape that Li Bai praised is still beautiful today, and the unique geological conditions have made it certified as a World Geopark, and the Buddhist temples are reflected in the golden woods in the fall, which makes you want to raise your camera when you see them.
Most of the temples, food and lodging on the mountains of Jiuhua Mountain are concentrated around Jiuhua Street. You can park your car on Jiuhua Street, walk around the temples and then hike up to Baisuigong to see the natural sleeping Buddha, past Dongyazhan Temple and Huixiangge to Phoenix Pine Scenic Spot.