Jiangxi Anyi Ancient Village Group, a good place for leisure, experience traditional Gan culture, see thousand-year-old trees, green walls and black tiles
💁If you like cultural relics, Anyi Ancient Village Group⛩ Scenic Area is a place not to be missed. 📍Between the blue bricks and stone tiles,✔️there are traces of history everywhere, exuding a strong ancient charm. 🚶Wandering in the ancient village, walking in the ancient streets and alleys, 👏looking at the white walls and green tiles, the small bridges and flowing water💦, time seems to slow down, 👇get to know the local folk culture, the villages are relatively compact, ⏯you can walk slowly, ⏬it’s the first time I’ve seen such a large ancient camphor tree with a sense of fireworks, ↕️commercialization and the aborigines live in harmony, ↗️it’s ok to relax and stroll around, ✔️it’s very good to take your kids out for a weekend trip‼ ️
📍Address of scenic spot: Anyi Gannian Ancient Village Group, Luotian Village, Shibi Town, Anyi County, Jiangxi Province
Opening hours: Summer 08:30-17:30,
Open in winter from 08:30 to 17:00
🎟️Ticket related:
Tickets: 👱 Adults 80 yuan, online discount price 55 yuan
👦Children/student ticket🎫: 40 yuan
👉Children: 1.2M-1.4M Students: Full-time primary, secondary and university students (excluding adult education and graduate students)
👉Free of charge for those under 1.2M, and free of charge for those over 70 years old
🚗 Transportation to attractions:
Transportation: Take bus No. 181 in the city to Anyi Ancient Village Scenic Area bus stop and walk for 5 minutes
If you drive 🚘 or take a taxi 🚖, you can park your car in the parking lot at the door for free.
Sightseeing bus, 15 yuan/person. ⤴️Sightseeing bus route: Visitor Center-->Tangzhang (walk to) Lotus Pond-->Huang's Ancestral Hall-->Jingtai Village 3 times/person
🌟Highlights:
✔️It has preserved a large number of ancient Gan-style residential buildings, ↗️ancient couplets, ↗️ancient wood carvings, ↗️stone carvings, ↗️brick carvings and other cultural relics. 👏It is a model of the combination of Gan culture and Gan merchant culture. The Shi Dafudi in Luotian Village is the most typical and the most preserved.
📍It consists of three villages: Luotian, Shuinan and Jingtai. There is a drainage system from the Song and Yuan dynasties that "does not wet embroidered shoes on rainy days", ✔️China's oldest household registration management system, and the Lijia culture is still in use today. 👇The three villages are about 300 meters apart, and the villages are connected by Changshou Avenue, Qifu Ancient Road and Fenglu Avenue👈
👍️Must-see attractions:
✔️The main attractions include ancient streets, ancient wells, 🌲ancient camphor trees, ancient archways, ancient theaters; more than ten temples, ancestral halls, incense halls, and ancestral halls, 👇as well as the well-preserved 48-courtyard mansion Shi Dafudi, Mo Zhuang, Guixiu Building, Baifutu, Bainiaotu🐤, Baihuatu👉 and Lijia Building Management System, etc.
📍In addition to some ancient buildings, there is the big locust tree🌲🚩The original ecological lifestyle and simple folk customs here deeply moved me. ⏯The old people were basking in the sun leisurely in front of the door, and the children were playing and chasing in the alley. ↕️The quiet and harmonious picture makes people feel peaceful.
↖️Every brick and tile, every lane and alley are engraved with stories and traces of the years. ⤴️You can also taste authentic farm dishes and local snacks, 👇which let your taste buds immerse in the mellow fragrance of history.
✅Fu Tong handicrafts are dazzling, and the spirit of craftsmanship flows through every detail. 💁The hospitality of craftsmen.
🚩Each village has its own unique scenery and historical culture. 👏Among them, Luotian Village is the largest, Shuinan is the second, and Jingtai is the smallest. ✔️Each of the three villages has its own characteristics. ↗️There are many intangible cultural heritages, such as paper cutting and handicrafts. ↗️You can also see a large sea of flowers in the spring, which is great for taking photos.
✅Must experience:
🈶Luotian Village
🚩There are various shops on the front street, ⤴️teahouses and restaurants on the cross street, and warehouses and inns on the back street. ✔️The three streets are still well preserved, with granite slabs and ancient wheel tracks clearly visible, ↖️and a complete underground drainage system is still preserved.
✅Shi Dafudi
↗️A representative work of the old houses in the ancient village, 👈48 patios, halls and corridors, stone door lintels, carved doors and windows, ➰the high level of architecture and exquisite carving skills at that time.
✅Embroidery Building
👉It is an old farmhouse, ⏬ "Folk Embroidery Collection Exhibition", ✔️It displays a lot of folk embroidery crafts, 👇such as headscarves, hats, bibs, bellybands, three-inch embroidered shoes, etc.
✅On the hillside behind the "Shi Dafudi" building complex, there is a dry-year-old camphor tree🌲. This ancient camphor tree is always lush and vibrant, huge and magnificent.⏯Many people hang wishing boards, which require additional payment.
🈶Shuinan Village
✅They are descendants of the Luotian Huang family branch. ↖️There are more than 20 ancient houses in existence. ↕️The carvings in the houses are exquisite and unique, including "Hundred Flowers Picture", "Hundred Birds Picture", "Hundred Rats Picture", 🚩 "Hundred Blessings Picture", "Poem Couplets", etc., which are known as "the best of Chinese ancient wood carvings"⤵️
✅The Hundred Blessings picture in the back hall, ↖️The bats are vivid and undulating, with a good three-dimensional effect, ↕️The swastika pattern sets off the fine and even pattern, the lines are uniform, and the pattern is strong. 👈It is a scroll that combines realism with decorative patterns.
✅Lady's Building
↖️In the back hall of "Yuqing Hall", ↕️it is composed of a hall building and a corridor building. ⤴️The wooden boards are decorated with exquisite patterns. People can look down from the corridor on the second floor and see everything in the patio downstairs. ⤵️When standing in the patio and looking at the corridor upstairs, they can't see anything. ☑️Two small windows are opened on the wall for viewing the outside world.
🈶Jingtai Village
✅Xilu is a typical Gan-style Ming and Qing dynasty building, magnificent and grand, ↕️with 48 patios, ⤴️but the main building is now seriously damaged.
✅Liu's "Mo Zhuang" is the largest private school in the scenic area. 🆗It is the private school of the Liu family. 💓It can also provide schooling for children from the whole village. 🆗It has four classrooms, a teacher's room, a study room, "Yang Zhuo Zhai" (book collection room), and "Shou Cheng Zhai" (practice room)
✅The stone archway in the alley of the village ↖️is the boundary between two surnames of villagers, the left one is Liu, ↕️the right one is Li. The top of the archway is composed of a top ridge and a tile-like surface. On both sides of the ridge are stone pillars, beams and rafters, and the components are connected with mortise and tenon joints.
✅The ancient stage faces south and north. 🔷It was once very lively. From the ancient stage with carved dragons and painted phoenixes, 👈you can still find the grand scene and the grand occasion of the performances in those days
✔️There are many entertainment activities, 👇There is a famous farm amusement park with everything you need for eating, drinking and having fun, including archery, horse riding, and various small games‼ ️
✔️There are many farm dishes and stir-fries in the ancient village. ↗️You can go there to eat; the food tastes good too.
⤴️You can also experience the intangible cultural heritage, 🈶Song Dynasty tea making, you can learn tea making in the tea room, ☑️or order a cup of local specialty tea, Anyi white tea, while tasting the tea and enjoying the beautiful scenery of the ancient village‼ ️
💗Other tips:
☑️The facilities are relatively complete, including a visitor center, toilets, farmhouses, etc. There are many shops on the ancient streets, where you can buy local handicrafts and snacks.
☑️Nanchang Tourism Card is free of charge🎫, you can enter by scanning your face. It is recommended to drive by yourself, as it is difficult to wait for the bus back to the city🚍.
☑️The attractions are far apart, ✔️It is recommended to buy sightseeing bus tickets, which is more convenient, 👉Otherwise it is still a bit far to walk.
☑️ Elderly people/young children who need strollers/people with leg injuries who have difficulty walking need to be aware that wheelchairs are not easy to navigate. ⏬ There are many high thresholds ➰ steps and stone slabs inside.
☑️There is also a kind of electric car for rent in the scenic area, ✔️The price is a bit high, 🚶But most of the scenic areas are bumpy cobblestone roads, which are not easy to ride.