Travel Notes | Qinglong Ancient Town - the back garden of Taiyuan City

☽ 2021.3.11

Author: Zi Mina

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Hello, my name is Zimina. I have a lofty ideal of traveling around the world. Haha, don’t think it’s too whimsical. In fact, as long as I go to one more place, I will feel closer to my dream. After all, ideals are meant to be infinitely close.

Qinghai, Yunnan, Hangzhou, and Chengdu that I visited before are no longer recorded (no pictures are saved). Starting from today’s article, I will improve the “Travel Notes” series little by little.

Travel Notes 01 | Starting from Home “Qinglong Ancient Town”

Time: 2021.2.15

Location: Qinglong Ancient Town, Shanxi Province

Characters: Little cute family

Affected by the epidemic in 2020, Mina prepared for the exam at home for nearly a year and also spent some time in the study room. Therefore, the travel plan is 0.

In February 2021, the national epidemic prevention and control achieved very good results. The Spring Festival Gala of the Year of the Ox has returned to a lively, festive and peaceful atmosphere. On February 15th (the fourth day of the first lunar month), our family of four drove to the back garden of Taiyuan City - Qinglong Ancient Town.

"Qinglong Ancient Town" was once awarded the Qinglong Flag by the royal family, and "Running Man" also came here to shoot the location!

Qinglong Ancient Town has a long history of culture

The original name of the village was Jinghaozui (a kind of Chinese medicinal material, Artemisia, which is named because it is evergreen all year round). During the Jiaqing period of the Qing Dynasty, Wang Shengzhong, a member of the Wang family in the village, donated one million taels of silver to the Qing Dynasty, and the royal family gave him a gift. "Million Ropes" A plaque and embroidered "Blue Dragon" The flag of the Qinghaozui River was raised to indicate that the Manchus and the Han people were one family. Qinglong Town .

The Wang family became a official and merchant wealthy businessman with shops all over the country. After they became successful, the Wang family built their hometown in their hometown based on the ups and downs and curved terrain of 5 miles from north to south, imitating the construction techniques of the Summer Palace in Beijing, Kunming Lake, Dongwen and Xiwu. , Wenchang Temple was built in the east, Dragon King Temple was built in the west, and Fengtou Village was built in the north, forming an overall layout of east Wen Xiwu, south dragon and north phoenix, and dragon and phoenix showing auspiciousness.

Today, the entire ancient town looks like a vivid dragon and has become a famous town in the north in history.

It has different architectural styles, superb construction level, ingenious wood carving, brick carving and stone carving designs and exquisite craftsmanship. Many temples stand majestically on the high slopes around the ancient town and along the Mizokou Road. The majestic temples protect the auspiciousness and peace of the ancient town.

Light up the blue dragon lantern

Decorated quaint tower

Main entrance ↓

Through the doorway,

It's like walking into history

Source: Internet

Stepping on the bluestone

Caressing the carved beams and painted buildings soaked in history

On both sides of the road are

Unique shops

Ignore tourists by yourself hehe

Pepper Shop ↓

Vinegar ↓

Head south and will find

Someintangible cultural heritage inheritors and craftsmen

Sugar painting, carving, printing and dyeing, gourd heat transfer...

Their stalls are extremely small, but attract the most people.

There is a peacock at the end of the road ↓

snack street

Red bean cake ↓

In the Folk Art Village and Wuwei Garden, you can find all kinds of local Shanxi specialties such as candied haws, jujube noodles, roasted sweet potatoes, grain pancakes, seedless fruits, marshmallows, and colored glaze.