Thirteen Walled Villages is located in Qianjiang, Chongqing.
Thirteen Walled Villages (international AAAA level tourist attraction) is located in Qianjiang District, Chongqing City, Xiaonanhai Town, Xinjian Village, east of the Xiaonanhai Earthquake Ruins Park, south of the eight-face Mountain Natural Scenic Area, west of the Zizhu River connected to the Wuling Immortal Mountain, the north of the Yu'e Scenic View of the Jigong Mountain, from the main city of Qianjiang City, about 30 kilometers, the scenic area of 6.5 square kilometers, with a typical 13 Tujia courtyard, the Tujia people living 200 households of nearly 1,000 people. There are 13 typical Tujia compounds, where more than 200 households with nearly 1,000 Tujia people live.
Thirteen villages are distributed along both sides of the Panjiao River, and the villages are in a variety of styles, including half-enclosed zigzag, full-enclosed courtyards, and foot-hanging towers. Roof flower ridge and corner, surrounded by balustrades corridor, carved railings and flower windows. Primitive Tujia footstool dwellings, the original ecological production and lifestyle, the original flavor of the Tujia folk customs, landscape scenery, farming and gardening, Tujia dwellings, folk customs.
Thirteen Zhai's main features
Folk crafts pass to the nine states. In Thirteen Walled Villages, there is a wide range of Tujia handmade commodities such as brocade kapoks, embroidered shoe mats and national costumes. Tujia women have the embroidery craft of handmade insoles and cloth shoes, which have been passed down from the Tujia for thousands of years.
The national songs and dances are like an ocean. The Tujia people are famous for their hospitality. In the thirteen cottage, at any time you can hear the villagers singing songs. It is understood that the villagers of the thirteen cottages can sing and dance well, and the songs here have been listed as intangible cultural heritage in Chongqing Municipality. Thirteen Walled City has a folk performing arts team, members of the team consists of more than 30 villagers, every large-scale activities they will participate in the performance.
Science and culture set three Zhai. In the Walled City's Pendulum Hall, there are local celebrities Mr. Lu Moujia transcribed the "Golden Proverbs of the World", "Model Rituals", "Anan sends rice" and "Three Filial Piety Records" and so on. In the "Golden Proverbs", there is the "Exhortation to Abstain from Foreign Cigarettes", which discusses the harmful effects of smoking foreign cigarettes and gives examples to prove it. There are also articles such as "Planting Flowers", "Planting Bamboos", "Planting Melons", "Jigongshan", "Xiaonanhai", etc., which record hundreds of years of farming techniques and encyclopedic knowledge, and are the encyclopedias of the Thirteen Villages.
Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia-Tujia Thirteen Walled Villages