Shunde to Liannan Yaozhai Route

Nangang Millennium Yao Walled City Nangang Millennium Yao Walled City is built on the mountain, with houses stacked on top of each other in a staggered manner; the stone paths are crisscrossed and the main and secondary are clearly defined. This fortress was built in the Song Dynasty and has a history of more than a thousand years. According to experts, Nangang is the largest, oldest and most characteristic Yao village in China and even in the world. The Yao people now living in the cottage are mainly from four clans: Deng, Tang, Pan and Fang. In the Ming Dynasty, they established the "Yao Lao System" of democratic election and formed the sacred and strict "customary law" to strictly manage the cottage. Now, only about 200 people and 368 ancient houses of Ming and Qing Dynasties, as well as the gate, wall and stone road remain in the ancient fortress. Environment Introduction Surprised to see the Yao village Stone wall mouth Built on the mountain Yao village flower drums Layers of terraced fields Recommended for two-day tours This section of the environment Introduction Walking into the ancient fortress, as if entering the time tunnel of history, thinking of ancient feelings arise, so that people feel the long history of the Yao people and the classical beauty of the traditional culture ... Known as "the first Yao village in China", Nangang Millennium Yao Village in Liannan Yao Autonomous County is the largest, oldest and most characteristic Yao village in China, which is an eye-opening experience for us. Surrounded by dangerous mountains, running streams and peaks. Looking upwards, rows of neatly organized classical architecture of residential houses all over the hillock, the ancient houses are all green brick walls, black tile roof, unique shape, extremely spectacular. Edit this section surprised to see Yao Zhai "Lingnan no mountain without Yao", in China's ethnic minorities, Yao's branch of the many, the distribution of the wide, the history of migration of the prosperous, are in the forefront. Nangang Town is located in the south of Liannan County, deep in the mountains, where the mountains rise and fall, scattered with a number of Yao compatriots of natural villages, and in one of the elevation of more than 600 meters high on the top of the mountain, there is a Yao compatriots have been living in the ancient Yao village hidden in the weeds, little known to the world, but the most tourists to recall the place. Edit this section of the stone wall mouth The car in the mountain road winding forward for a long time, in front of a wide open, blue sky, a Ming and Qing Dynasty style of green brick and black tile house layer by layer built on the mountain, sitting south to north imposing. Roughly estimated, the number of buildings in the ancient fortress has hundreds of more, a huge building complex as gray-brown Potala Palace, decorated in the mountains, vaguely revealing the splendor of the year's full bloom.　The stone wall outside the ancient fortress, a few ancient pine and cypress trees snuggly, as if the last guardian of the ancient fortress, across the stone wall into the mouth, there is a feeling like a lifetime ago. Thousands of years ago, the Yao family's rich flavor of the picture all of a sudden in front of us, the wind seems to carry a hint of confusing mysterious atmosphere.　Nangang Millennium Yao Village is built on the mountain, and the houses are arranged in a staggered manner on the slope of the mountain, so this kind of Yao people living on the mountain is called Paiyao. Nangang Millennium Yao Village has a history of 1,400 years. During the Sui and Tang dynasties, the ancestors of Paiyao migrated to the mountainous area of Liannan, and in order to avoid the intrusion of soldiers and bandits, they built a fortress on the high and steep mountains to live together. In the Ming Dynasty, it was already quite large in scale. The scale of Nangang Platoon is larger than other platoons, and the population is also larger, there were more than 5000 people in 600 households in the heyday, so it is also called "Big Brother Platoon" and "Chief Platoon", and its building is also better than other platoons, and it has its own unique features, and the Nangang Millennium Yao Walled City is the most well-preserved and the largest Yao Walled City in Liannan Mountain. Nangang Millennium Yao Walled City is the most well-preserved and largest Yao Walled City, the whole Millennium Yao Walled City covers an area of 129 mu, and the scenic spot covers an area of 250 mu.　These Yao rows are built on the steep slopes of thousand meters high mountains, depending on the mountains and slopes, dense rows and rows, overlapping and stacked, stacked on the mountain, often the roof of the house in front of the house and the ground behind the house level height, between which there is a corridor aisle. Horizontal streets and straight alleys with crisscrossing lanes and clear primary and secondary, connecting each house to form a pattern of yao rows. Most of these houses are bamboo-cement wall structure of the footstools, all the houses are built with green bricks on the outer wall and wooden structure inside, there are also fireplace ponds, stone grooves, stone sinks, bamboo water pipes like spider webs, airtight bedrooms, and other unique equipments inside. Edit this section built on the mountain Wandering [1] step ancient fortress, as if wandering between the time, heard the years of change issued in the vicissitudes of the sigh.　Ancient cottage construction of the house, distinctive, part of the although the years in disrepair, but decadent door between the defeated tile, still reveals the momentum of the year. Walled King's house, the door is immensely open, the distant green mountains surrounded by clouds, and even a glance at the three provinces of the "Sanzhou Mountain" are also worshiped in the Walled King's door. It is said that standing on the top of the "Three States Mountain", one can see Lianzhou, Wuzhou and Jingzhou, which belong to Guangdong, Guangxi and Hunan provinces. In the middle of the old fortress, there is a wide stone staircase, which is the "center square" of the old fortress. Whenever there is a big event, the Yao people will meet and discuss in this open space and drink to celebrate. It makes people yearn for the songs and dances in the heyday of Yao Village. Edit this section Yaozhai Flower Drums Yaozhai Flower Drums Bending mountain road, scattered houses, in the ancient village, the Yao people's ancient life style is completely preserved. There are simple and chic footstools, bamboo water pipes hanging high in the sky and crisscrossing the water pipes, fireplace ponds with fire and smoke, grain silos with cattle pens on top, and primitive wineries, tofu factories, oil presses, brick by brick, door by door, plainly displaying the state of existence of the Yao people thousands of years ago. Without noticing, my heart flew to that sunny afternoon thousands of years ago, and I saw the Yao people walking on the land with laughter and natural simplicity. Under the eaves of the back wall of an ancient house, one can still vaguely recognize the decorative paintings of Han cloud pattern, a few Chinese characters in block letters, "Hundred Sons and Thousand Grandchildren", carved in the Guangxu period, which makes people speculate that the owner's family back then might still be a big family with several generations under the same roof. In the walled village, you can still see the slogans left behind after the liberation, and the handwriting is clearly visible. The history of 1,400 years of vicissitudes is presented one by one in the 129 acres of land. Edit this section Layers of terraces Layers of terraces There are still people living in the ancient fortress, we walk through the mossy stone road in the ancient fortress, in front of the ancient houses, stone steps, occasionally see the old man and children dressed in Yao clothing. Because the cottage is built in the mountains halfway up the mountain, transportation is inconvenient, lack of water resources, the life of the Yao people for a long time can not be improved. Since the 1980s, the provincial government has allocated special funds for immigrants, and most of the Yao people have moved to live in the three villages below the mountain. Nowadays, there are only a few dozens of households left in Nangang Village, with more than a hundred people living there, most of them are old people and children. Walking on the quiet mountain road, one step at a time, the old house and the mountainous landscape is a perfect match, simple and beautiful, the sunlight in the green bricks, black tiles, withered wood, cast down, shining on the ground moss, slate, weeds, this scene, fresh and with a little bit of bleakness. There is also a thousand-year-old sarcophagus in the walled village. Thousands of years of ancient trees, Ming and Qing dynasty stone arch bridge, etc., but there is no Han scholars love those inscriptions, those pavilions, those small bridges and rivers ...... she is like a vegetarian mountain nun, shyly hiding in the onion cage in the forest, but has a more pleasant wind of the mountains and the wild.　Walking to the viewing platform on the small hill opposite the Millennium Yao Zhai, you can see the majestic and bleak full view of Nangang Millennium Yao Zhai. Next to the layers of terraced fields, in the rolling green hills, and under the golden light of the sun, the thousand-year vicissitudes of the Yao Village stretch out in the wind to their fullest extent, and the beauty is breathtaking.　Nangang Yaozhai Map Edit Recommendations for two-day tour D1: Start from Guangzhou, along the Guangzhou-Qingzhou Expressway - Qingyuan, then along the 107 National Highway - Lianzhou tour of Lianzhou Underground River, Nangang Millennium Ancient Yaozhai - Lianshan, tour of Lianshan Primitive Forest Waterfalls, live in Lianshan.　D2: Along National Highway 107 to Jiulong Town, Yingde City, touring the Yingxi Peak Forest Corridor----transfer from National Highway 107 to Guangqing Highway back to Guangzhou.　Lianzhou Underground River: The three-layer scenic area allows you to experience the sensory journey of "cave + underground river" at one time, and the most widely known is the underground river: there is a hole in the hole, a river in the hole, and a bridge in the hole. After three beautiful canyons, through the bottom of four hills, see the treasure of the town cave --- "Golden Rooster Dawn", "Flying Elephant Crossing the River", "Shouxing Gong".　Nangang Millennium Ancient Yao Village: Located in the mountains 25 kilometers south of Liannan County, it is known as the "Chief Row" with a history of 1400 years. The ancient town is built on the mountains, and it is the largest, the oldest and the most distinctive Yao Village in the country and even in the world. Ancient houses from the Ming and Qing Dynasties, as well as village gates, walls and stone paths are still standing. Walking into the ancient fortress is like entering the time tunnel of history.　Lianshan Primitive Forest Waterfalls: Through the old red maple road, you will come to the "Jewel Cliff Waterfalls". Take a look at the colorful rocks next to the cliffs, which are like jewels. Finally, there is the legendary "Hidden Gold Cave Waterfall". It is said that there is a several-mile-long cave behind the waterfall, in which mountain thieves and tycoons used to hide large quantities of gold in ancient times.　Food: White cut Qingyuan chicken, knife cut mochi, etc.; Lianzhou's preserved egg, preserved whole dog, Jiulong tofu, Yingde bamboo shoots, Yingde chicken, Dongxiang steamed meat, tea congee, sand snails, etc. are also good. You can eat at the night market snack street on Meihua Road, Fengguang Road and Chengxi Market in downtown Yingde.