What to do in Gongtan Ancient Town of Youyang

Gongtan Ancient Town is located in the western part of Youyang County, Chongqing Municipality, and has a history of more than 1,700 years. There are still about three kilometers of stone streets in the town, more than 150 unique fire wall, more than 200 simple and quiet courtyard, more than 50 different forms of footstools, unique local characteristics, is a well-preserved and quite large-scale Ming and Qing Dynasty architectural complex. Many experts and scholars pointed out that, Gongtan Ancient Town can be compared with the World Heritage Lijiang Ancient Town. In addition to its unique cultural heritage, Gongtan Ancient Town is also a famous film and television shooting location. Gongtan ancient town in different periods, there are different cultural characteristics, the following gives you an introduction:

1, Lahai Festival

Activity time: the eighth day of the eighth month of the Lunar Calendar, a period of 5-7 days

Festival situation: the Tujia people in the Lunar New Year, there is the custom of eating Lahai congee to celebrate the harvest, and it has been handed down to the present day. Tujia people will glutinous rice, millet, chestnuts, red beans, red dates, peach kernels, almonds, peanuts, brown sugar, etc., boiled in water, outside the grapes, melon seeds, in order to dye. During the festival, the children of the family is the most happy, no matter which family in the simmering congee, as long as the aroma of a pass out, the children of the ancient town will go to guard, fragrant porridge represents a good omen for the coming year.

2, Tujia planing soup festival

Activity time: December-January, a period of two months

Festival situation: the Tujia people eat planing soup, also known as eating planing pig soup. In the coming New Year's time, the family will kill the New Year's pig, the pig is their own family feed, feed basically grain, kill the pig to invite friends and relatives, the pig's fresh meat and offal and so on to cook a pot, with other dishes, we eat and drink together to play, finished the enthusiastic hosts generally have to give a knife to the guests to send a cut of meat, which family to eat "planing pig soup", that day This family will be very lively in the home, eat and talk, both contact friendship, and exchange of information, but also planning the next year's development, quite meaningful, so this "eat planing soup" culture, can be inherited to this day.

1, take a boat tour of the 100 miles of the Wujiang River Gallery and the Abong River Canyon

Ride location: Gongtan Ancient Town Passenger Terminal, Freight Terminal

Tour time: 1-3 hours

2, to enjoy "Gongtan Ancient Love," large-scale ethnic songs and dances

Activity location: Gongtan Ancient Town West Qin Hall

Activity time: National Day Holiday (performance time subject to the actual announcement)

3, Tujia Hand Dance

Performance time: every Friday, Saturday, national holidays (7-8 p.m.

Participation: Gongtan Ancient Town Square

Participation: when the bonfire burned up, the Hand Dance music, you can walk into the dance, and then you will be able to enjoy the dance, and then the dance. comes to mind, you can walk into the dancers and follow them. There are children as young as 3 years old, as old as 70 years old. The Tujia Pendulum Dance has been passed down for thousands of years in Yudongnan, and is even more in their blood. Tujia people, everyone can dance the Pendulum Hand Dance, everyone can sing

mountain songs, and everyone can blow wooden leaves.

4, playing the night watch

Activity time: every night 10:30-11:30

Activity location: Gongtan Ancient Town Old Street

Activity situation: inherited from the old night watchman playing the night watch scene, the night watchman knocked out the powerful clapper sound, along with the clapper sound with the fluttering of the yell: "The day is dry, be careful of fire and candles", and sometimes as a scenic fire safety publicity and notification of major things. When you sleep in the inn, that familiar sound comes, you will sleep especially solid and happy. --Information from the town microblogging