One of the four ancient towns in Guangxi, Daxu Ancient Town
The town was founded in the year 200 AD!
Daxu Ancient Town was once known as Chang'an Market and Lutian Market, commonly referred to as Daxu. It was a small settlement during the Han Dynasty and became a bustling commercial town in the Northern Song Dynasty, and was one of the four great ancient towns in Guangxi during the Ming Dynasty.
Its commerce began to flourish in the Song Dynasty, where a tax office was established; it prospered in the Ming Dynasty, and in the thirty-first year of the Qing Dynasty's Guangxu period, the 'Lingui County Annals' referred to it as 'a wharf for both water and land transport'.
Daxu Ancient Town is a half-hour drive from Guilin city center, and it's free❗️ A free ancient town with historical and cultural heritage, you definitely don't want to miss it.
🌱Recommended attractions
✔Stone-paved road
The stone-paved road is made up of about 15,000 bluestones, and most of the houses alongside the road have hundreds of years of history, with many of them now housing shops selling jade, handicrafts, bamboo weaving workshops, old barber shops, restaurants, photo studios, etc.
✔Wanshou Bridge
Built during the Ming Dynasty, over 400 years ago, it is a single-arch stone bridge made of stone and is a county-level key cultural relic. The bridge is 29 meters long, 7 meters high, and about 16 meters wide. There are more than twenty steps on each side, as well as stone lions. The movie 'Liu Sanjie' was filmed here.
✔Wanshou Palace (Jiangxi Guild Hall)
✔Hanwang Temple
✔Gao Family Courtyard (Gao's Guangchang Cloth Shop)
✔Guandi Temple
✔Museum
✔Daxu Wharf
The ancient town has a total of 13 wharfs, which is 5 more than Guilin city. The wharf that tourists often visit is the one that goes to Maozhou Island.
If you want to try local delicacies, you can take a 10 yuan boat ticket (round trip) to Maozhou Island to taste local chicken and fish, or pick fruits, etc.
🎫Ticket: Free
📍Address: Daxu Ancient Town, Lingchuan County, Guilin City
🚌Bus: Take bus 306 at Sanlidian in Qixing District of Lin City, the ticket is 3 yuan/person, about 45 minutes per trip.
🚘Self-driving: Navigate directly to Daxu Ancient Town parking lot
🍛Food recommendations: Glutinous rice, glutinous rice chicken, fried river crab, Li's sour snacks.
Daxu Ancient Town, I can only describe it in one word: "shocking", I touched the decaying ancient wood, walked the already smooth stone bricks, looked at the ancient city with a long history, it seemed to be synchronized with the ancient people, I have seen too many ancient cities, I even think I went before Not the ancient city, Instead, under the name of the "old city" commercial street, I think the real ancient city should be a simple folk customs, to effectively integrate the ancient city with culture, less commercialization. Of course, the commercialization will decrease, and the income of local people will decrease, but I think that too much commercialization will lose the original charm of the ancient city. In order to protect this culture, the state of commercialization and the ancient city should be relatively balanced. And precisely this, the ancient town of Daxu is very good, there is a quite strong ancient city culture, without breaking the foundation of the original life, it is indeed to integrate the ancient city and the people's lives. It is recommended to feel this slow life, away from the hustle and bustle of the city.
The ancient town of Daxu has a thousand years of history, "going against the water on Guilin, falling sails down the river in Guangdong", so there were merchants gathered in the Song Dynasty. The most preserved buildings in the town are the structures of the Ming and Qing Dynasties and the Republic of China, and most of them are integrated with different styles of ancient and modern Chinese and foreign. The content can be travel photography, bamboo raft tour of the Lijiang River, visit museums, and taste various local snacks.
Daxu Ancient Town was built in the Northern Song Dynasty, Xing in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, and flourished in the Republic of China. It has a history of thousands of years. The prosperity and prosperity of the ancient town has disappeared into the sky with the Lijiang River, the ancient streets and stone alleys, and the deep courtyard wall. Along the Lijiang River, the old street is covered with smooth bluestones, and the old houses on both sides of the street basically maintain the pattern and style of the year. The streets and narrow lanes carry a hundred years and a thousand years. Now there are still many bamboo weaves, straw shoes workshops, Chinese medicine clinics, traditional barber shops... a group of ancient shops, they watch the last ancient town. The ancient town has no scene of the past, like an old man full of melancholy in the eyes of the years, people have an indescribable feeling. The moss-covered walls, eaves, and the steps of the raindrops "water drops and stones" over the years are everywhere. However, in the quiet ancient town, in the mottled blue brick black tile memory, we can still find a far-off civilization, still can feel the hustle and bustle, still can see the glory of the ancient town of four people, eight middle school, twenty-four small family and the history of this ancient town. Remember.
The Lijiang River is not far from Guilin City Small and quiet [View]
The rustic ancient town that has not been commercialized, there is no ticket, and the small town for free tour experience is a day trip. This is a place full of fireworks. Most of the ancient town are Aboriginal people. The houses are original and suitable for taking pictures.
This antique town is really rare, especially the intact preservation, more rare is that it is almost not commercialized here, just don't know how long it can last, otherwise it is difficult to find a peaceful land.
The car traveled along the river, and a very prosperous town was on the side. Among them, it took a few photos of alleys, houses, ancient bridges and riversides. It entered the arms and tasted the warmth of the world for a hundred years. The ancient town of Daxu is one of the ancient "four big town" in Guangxi. The ancient town of Daxu was built in 200 AD. The old Daqi Old Street stretches 2 kilometers along the Lijiang River. The streets are covered with bluestone slabs. The old houses are well preserved on both sides of the stone road. The ancient town of Daqi is on the east bank of the Lijiang River, southeast of Father and Son Rock, north of Mopan Mountain, and 23 kilometers from Guilin. Historically, the ancient town was built in the early years of the Northern Song Dynasty, ZTE in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, and flourished in the Republic of China. It has a thousand years of history. More than 600 years ago, Daxuan became the most famous of the four Daxuan towns in Guangxi. Daxuan ancient town was once famous for Chang'an City and Lutian City, commonly known as Daxuan. The Han Dynasty has formed a small settlement, the Northern Song Dynasty was a prosperous commercial market town, Ming is one of the four ancient towns in Guangxi. Its business first appeared in Song Dynasty, and a tax officer was once set up; ZTE Yuming, Qing Guangxu 31 years "Lingui County Zhi" called "Land and Water Wharf", the anti-Japanese period has "Little Guilin" called, the number of people in the rush to the sea is up to 10,000 people, as many as two or three hundred boats, the local commercial culture accumulation is deep, distinctive. To travel to Guilin, you must go to the ancient town of Daqi, in addition to the antique, there is also a lively market. There are also many celebrities' activities in the town. When Sun Yat-sen fell to the north, he set up a base camp in Guilin to start at the Daqitangfang Pier (December 4, 1921) and give a speech on the riverside. The earliest Communist Party organizations in Lingchuan, the Dongxiang District Committee of Guilin of the Communist Party of China and the Maocun Branch of the Communist Party of China, were established in Daegu in August 1928. Under Maozhou Mopan Mountain, there is also a cemetery for Taiwan's famous anti-law and anti-Japanese generals, Tang Jingxuan, who was in the late Qing Dynasty. The quaint Daxu Town, the movie "Liu Sanjie" took a lot of exterior scenes here, more than a dozen movies, TV dramas are all filmed here. To Daxuan, Wanshou Bridge is a must-go place. Wanshou Bridge was built in the Ming Dynasty and rebuilt in Qingguangxu 25 years (1899), a single arched stone bridge, located at the confluence of the Mahe and Lijiang River, is a stone arch bridge built of stones, the stone of the bridge has been polished and shiny, a little grass, simple and natural. To the west of the bridge is the Lijiang River, which is an excellent location to enjoy the Lijiang River and Luoji Mountain on the other side.