Guizhou’s green mountains and green waters have always been praised by foreign tourists, but most people only know the well-known scenic spots that are crowded with tourists and have been hyped up. The most pleasing scenery is often hidden in places that few people visit. Once you step into it, you will deeply experience what it means to be amazed.

Jinping County is very inconspicuous among the 88 counties in Guizhou, and many people have never heard of this name.

It is such an inconspicuous small county that hides many beautiful scenery that is enough to amaze the world.

The footprints left by the expansion of a dynasty in Longli Ancient Town

Photo by Yang Shengping

Speaking of this ancient town, maybe you are not very familiar with it because it used to have inconvenient transportation. The reason is that many people still have to go through some trouble to get here, and because of this, she does not have much of a commercial atmosphere.

Photo by Yang Shengping

Longli Ancient City, 64 kilometers away from Jinping County, was built in the 18th year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty. It still completely preserves the planning layout of the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Although it has suffered hundreds of years of wind, frost erosion and fire disasters, its entire appearance is still intact. It is one of the best-preserved ancient cities in the southern plateau of my country.

Longli Ancient Town was a military garrison during the Ming and Qing Dynasties. It was both a soldier and a farmer, able to fight and defend. Compared with other ancient towns, the Longli Ancient Town with a history of more than 600 years can only be regarded as a mini ancient town, only more than 200 meters square, which is only equivalent to the size of 4 football fields.

When you come to Longli Ancient Town, your steps will unknowingly slow down, and your mood will quietly soothe from the glitz and excitement of the city where you have been living for a long time. Entering the city from the towering Qingyang Gate in the east of the ancient town, it suddenly feels like stepping into an ancient time tunnel.

The boundless square/photographed

Every house on both sides of the streets is hung with lanterns, bright Spring Festival couplets decorate the fronts, and the cobblestone streets are covered with a layer of firecracker confetti. Although they have experienced centuries of Despite the ups and downs, the dragon and phoenix patterns paved on it are still clearly identifiable.

Fang Yuan Boundless/Photographed

The buildings on both sides have the same gables on both sides with raised corners, inlaid with colorful pattern frames, or exquisite paintings of flowers, birds, insects and fish, or delicate outlines of landscapes and figures. Xiao, agile, lifelike.

Fangyuan Wuyuan/Photographed

In Longli Ancient Town, you can always find the figure of the elderly leaning in front of the ancient door. From their eyes, you will read a trace of peace. peaceful. Even though they don't know each other, the old people will smile at you knowingly and say "here you come". Their simple and simple greetings will make you feel a sense of cordiality that you haven't seen for a long time.

The ancient city of Longli is a book, a book that cannot be read to the end. Everyone who has been there pays close attention to every street and alley here, marveling that it is a priceless treasure hidden in the mountains that no one knows.

There seems to be nothing to worry about here, nothing to worry about, and nothing to do. Life is very leisurely and peaceful. There were almost no foreign tourists, and no tourist shops. There were only a few grocery stores and a small vegetable shop that were purely for the residents of this town.

In Longli, which has simple and mellow folk customs, all you have to do is slow down and enjoy the peace and quiet.

Poetry and painting of Leitun Village, green mountains, rich people, and beauty of the village

Walking into Leitun Village, Dunzhai Town, Jinping County, one after another Huizhou style houses and Miao and Dong style houses are mutually exclusive. Staggered, hidden among the green trees.