Preparations before going to the ancient city of Fenghuang

Phoenix is full of family hotels. If you want to find a Diaojiaolou Inn, it is usually 10-30 yuan or 5 130-50 yuan. If you stay more, you must bargain.

I stayed in the inn on the second floor of Tian Ziying's art view, clean and safe, and stayed for 30 nights.

It's cheap to live anywhere in Phoenix. If you choose to live by the Tuojiang River, a single person is about 15-20~~ Generally, a double room is 30-40 a day, with air conditioning and a separate bathroom ~ ~ But the price with or without air conditioning is up to you to negotiate with your boss, but Phoenix people are simple and won't kill people ~ ~ The height is not much higher.

You can take the train from Maoming to Jishou, and then transfer to Fenghuang. Because Phoenix can't go directly, you have to transfer from Jishou to Phoenix ~ ~ Don't take a taxi when you get out of the railway station ~ ~ Because they will tell you that 15 will take you to Fenghuang Ancient City alone. In fact, as soon as you get on the bus, he will sell you his route, which is probably more than 100 ~ ~.

You can go to Qiliangdong and Guzhai for a self-help tour in 5.6 days. One is 80, and the other seems to be 80 ~ ~ You can go to the show at night ~ ~ You can buy your own tickets ~~40~ There are many soliciting tourists in Phoenix ~ ~ You can take a taxi to wherever you want to go for fear of being cheated ~ ~ Because the taxi price starts from 2.5 ~

5.6 days ~ ~ If you want to play many projects ~ ~ bring 1500.

Full ticket to Fenghuang Ancient City 80 ~ ~ ~

build

Fenghuang Ancient City was built in the 43rd year of Qing Emperor Kangxi [1704]. After 300 years of vicissitudes, its ancient appearance still exists. At present, the ancient buildings of the East Gate and the North Gate are still there. The city's bluestone streets, wooden stilts along the river, Chaoyang Palace, Tianwang Temple, Dacheng Hall, Wanshou Palace and other buildings all have the characteristics of the ancient city.

Fenghuang ancient city is divided into old city and new city. The old city is surrounded by mountains and waters, and the shallow Tuojiang River passes through the city. The walls made of red sandstone stand on the shore, and ancient pagodas stand on both sides of Nanhua Mountain. The tower is still the rusty iron gate of the Qing dynasty, and you can still see the majestic appearance of that year. There is a narrow wooden bridge on the wide river at the north gate, with stones as piers. Both of them should pass sideways. This used to be the only way out of town.

Flavor gourmet

Xiangxi Phoenix Ginger Sugar, Phoenix Blood Duck, Sour Soup Boiled Tofu, Camus Sour Fish, Camus Roasted Vegetable, Peasant Tofu, Hot and Sour Fried Mushrooms, Xiangxi Ciba, Xiangxi Bacon, Phoenix Sour Radish, and Fried Pteridium with Smoked Bacon in the Next Year.

artware

Brocade, batik, tie-dyeing and silverware here have unique craftsmanship, strong local characteristics and high artistic value.

Phoenix batik is primitive and simple, and can be divided into two schools: one is Tujia batik calico; One is Miao batik homespun. Tujia batik printing pays attention to pure color matching and composition, and the cloth formed is colorful, with unique and pure artistic style and outstanding ironing process characteristics; Miao batik homespun pays attention to pure dyeing, not gorgeous carving, giving people a natural and pure artistic sense, and its outstanding technological feature is cool color.

Tie-dyeing can be called the sister art of batik, but its special technological performance is highlighted in the manual tie-dyeing production. Tie patterns, birds, insects, fish and other different images on pure white smooth cloth with white thread, soak them in the blue energy solution prepared in advance, put them in a ventilated and light-transmissive place to dry the string, and then vivid images will appear in front of your eyes. Finally, do some technical treatment to prevent the foot from falling off, and the whole process is completed.

Brocade mainly reflects Tujia style, hand-woven, fine workmanship; It takes longer than tie-dyeing and batik.

There are many silver ornaments in the ancient city, with exquisite workmanship and diverse styles. The silver ornaments here are divided into old silver and new silver. Old silver is collected from the people, and it has strong folk characteristics in both workmanship and design. Generally speaking, Miao silver ornaments are the mainstay here, and such silverware is more expensive. New silver, modern processing design, has a standard silver content, because the style and workmanship are different, and the price is different.

There are also some folk crafts, such as folk paper-cutting, weaving ribbons and so on.

Tourism taboo

1. Don't enter other people's houses with an umbrella.

Don't step on other people's doorstep.

When visiting other people's homes, men and women can't be in the same room.

4. When visiting the Miao family, don't step on other people's tripods and don't sit in the main hall (in the direction of the shrine).

Try not to make friends with married women in Miao village.

6. Don't whistle (attract ghosts) casually in Miao Village and Tujia Village.

Introduction of scenic spots

Tuojiang rafting

Tuojiang River is the mother river of Fenghuang Ancient City. It flows slowly along the city wall, feeding generations of children in the ancient city. Sitting on Wu Peng's boat, listening to the singer's songs and watching the Tujia diaojiao building with a history of 100 years on both sides of the strait have a unique charm. Down the river, across Hongqiao, a picture of a water town in the south of the Yangtze River is displayed in front of us: Wanshou Palace, Wanming Pagoda and Duocui Building ... a feeling of being far away from the world.

The south bank of Tuojiang River is an ancient city wall, which is made of purple sand and stone, elegant and majestic. There are two towers in the east and north of the city wall, which are still spectacular after vicissitudes.

Tuojiang River is clear, the river near the city wall is shallow, and the water flow is leisurely and gentle. You can see the grass swaying gently in the waves, which can support a long pole. The diaojiao building built along the Tuojiang River, near the Hongqiao at the east gate, and the rock jumping at the north gate, stands alone in the Tuojiang River with thin feet, like a landscape that will never come back.

Dongmenta

Dongmen Tower is located in the east of the city, close to Tuojiang River, formerly known as "Shenghengmen", which is one of the four gates of Fenghuang Ancient City.

Dongmen Tower was built in the fifty-fourth year of Kangxi in Qing Dynasty (17 15). The lower part of the city gate is purple sandstone and the upper part is ancient brick. The gate is 3.5 meters wide and 4 meters high, with a semicircular arch. Both gates are wrapped in iron sheets and nailed with round head nails, which are strong and firm. The city walls are all made of red sandstone, with fine drilling and consistent specifications. This wall is 0.8 meters thick. The inner and outer sides of the lower part are built with sandstone and lime slurry, and the middle is filled with gravel clay, which is compacted by layers. The middle filler at the top is changed into concrete mixed with lime, pebbles and loess, with a thickness of about 0.33 meters and covered with red sandstone.

Tower height 1 1 m, 8 holes above the gate. Xieshan roof, covered waist eaves, cornices upturned, exquisite and spectacular.

shen congwen's former residence

Shen Congwen, formerly known as Shen Yuehuan, is a famous writer, historian and cultural relic expert in China. His literary works have been translated by dozens of countries such as Britain, America, Japan, France and Switzerland, such as Border Town and Research on Ancient Chinese Costume. Known as the father of world local literature.

He is not only the pride of the Chinese nation, but also the pride of the people of Phoenix. His works of more than 5 million words in his life are a treasure house of world literature, and also left valuable historical documents for future generations to study China and Xiangxi.

The former residence was built in the fifth year of Tongzhi in Qing Dynasty (1866). It is a wooden quadrangle building, covering an area of 600 square meters. It is divided into two rooms, 10. Mr. Shen was born here on February 28th, 902, and spent his childhood and adolescence here. 1988 died of illness.

Xiong Xiling Former Residence

Xiong Xiling's former residence is located in an alley in the ancient city of BeiWenxing Street, and the beautiful Tuojiang River is 200 meters east of the former residence. The former residence is a quadrangle with ancient wooden tile structure in the south, which is short but exquisite. The four existing houses in the former residence basically keep their original appearance and are full of Miao sentiment. The former residence is a key cultural relic protection unit in the county.

1June 25th, 869 (Lunar New Year) Mr. Xiong Xiling was born here and spent his childhood here. Because of his talent, he is called "Hunan prodigy". Jinshi at the age of fifteen, Juren at the age of twenty-two, Jinshi at the age of twenty-five, and later Hanlin. 19 13 was elected as the first elected prime minister of the Republic of China, and was forced to resign soon because he opposed Yuan Shikai's restoration of monarchy.

Mr. Xiong devoted himself to charity and education in his later years and founded the famous Xiangshan Kindergarten on 1920. 1937 65438+On February 25th, the man of the hour died in Hong Kong at the age of 68. At that time, people said that a state funeral ceremony was held for him.

Yangjia ancestral hall

Yangjia ancestral hall was built in Daoguang 16 (1836). It is a two-story wooden quadrangle, covering an area of 770 square meters. It consists of a gate, a stage, a hall, a gallery and a main hall, and is rectangular. The stage rests on the top of the mountain, with a single eaves and a wishful bucket arch under the eaves, with a height of16m. The four pillars are carved with dragons and phoenixes. The stage is bucket-through, and the main hall is beam-lifting. The whole building is exquisite in workmanship and full of national characteristics, and it is a key cultural relic protection unit in the county.

Yangjia ancestral hall is located on the edge of the ancient city wall in the northeast of the county seat. In the 16th year of Qing Daoguang (1836), Prince Shaobao, Guo and Zheng 'an donated money to build Yang Fang. The ancestral hall consists of doors, platforms, pavilions, corridors, main halls and wing rooms. It is a typical quadrangle building with an area of 770 square meters. The stage rests on the top of the mountain, with a single eaves and bucket structure, with a height of16m, a width of 7m and a depth of 8m. There are jade arches under the eaves and dragons and phoenixes carved on the columns. The main hall is the girder building, and the gable is the cat's back arch, which is divided into three rooms: one bright, two dark. Both sides have wings. The Yangjia ancestral hall is exquisitely designed and beautifully made. Windows, doors and eaves are all hollowed out and carved, and the whole building has distinctive national characteristics and high architectural artistic value.

South Great Wall

The Great Wall of South China was built in the thirty-third year of Jiajing in Ming Dynasty (A.D. 1554) and completed in the third year of Apocalypse in Ming Dynasty (A.D. 1622). It starts from Tingzi Pass, which borders Tongren, and ends at Magpie Camp in Jishou, with a total length of 382 miles. It is called "the Great Wall of Wan Li in Miaojiang" and is one of the grand ancient buildings in the history of China.

Nanchangcheng set up side gates, camps and checkpoints every three or five miles along the city wall to prevent the Miao people from uprising. Such as Tingzi Pass, Five Dynasties Pass, Ala Pass and Jingbian Pass. Today, bunkers, forts and side walls are still faintly visible on this line. It separates the northern and southern Miao areas in western Hunan, and the northern part is the "living world" of foreigners, which stipulates that "Miao people do not leave the country and Han people do not enter the cave", thus prohibiting trade and cultural exchanges between Miao and Han people.

The South Great Wall is a real historical and cultural relic, which shows the characteristics of a dynasty, contains the political, economic, military and cultural phenomena of that dynasty, and frames the spiritual essence of the law of governing the country in that dynasty. It is a vivid historical material to study the conquest and rule of remote ethnic minorities in Ming and Qing Dynasties.

Huangsiqiao ancient city

Huangsiqiao ancient city is located 24 kilometers west of the county seat, which was called Weiyang City in ancient times. It was built in the second year of the Tang Dynasty (AD 686) and has a history of 1300 years. In the thirty-ninth year of Emperor Kangxi of Qing Dynasty (1700), in order to appease and suppress ethnic minorities, the imperial court set up the Phoenix Zhili Hall and the Yuan Yongjing Military Reserve Road here. In the fifty-ninth year of Qianlong (1794), the largest Miao uprising broke out here in history, that is, historians called it a war of the Qing Dynasty, and the Qing Dynasty went down from then on. Huangsiqiao ancient city is a part of the Great Wall in the south and the frontier of the struggle between Miao and Han.

The ancient city block faces east in the west, which is a stone city with bluestone structure. The stones used for the city wall are all limestone green stones, the largest weighing about 2000 Jin, and the smallest 1000 Jin. The stone has a smooth surface and exquisite workmanship.

The circumference of the city wall is 686 meters, the east-west length is 153 meters, and the north-south length is 190 meters, with a total area of 29,070 square meters. The wall is 5.6 meters high and 2.9 meters thick. The walkway on the wall is 2.4 meters wide and can be used for horse racing. There are 300 arrow piles, large and small, which open to the east, west, north and south respectively. 1983 10 Huangsiqiao ancient city is listed as a provincial key cultural relics protection unit.

Qiliangdong

Qiliang Cave, located four kilometers north of the county seat, is a typical carbonate cave, which is famous for its four characteristics: strangeness, beauty, vastness and seclusion. The cave is more than 6000 meters long and is divided into five scenic spots: ancient battlefield, gallery, paradise, Dragon Palace and Galaxy. There are mountains in the cave, and there are holes in the mountain, and the holes are connected with each other. It is composed of all kinds of stalagmites, stone pillars and stalactites, which form a magnificent picture.

A stream passes through the hole, and the water flow is gentle, and the light hits the rock wall, and the wrinkles are reflected in the water, which is like a dream.

Colorful neon lights are hung on stalagmites, stone curtains and stone flowers in the cave, creating a colorful world. There is a hall in the cave, which is said to be the place where Miao people gather. There is a stone with a small hole in the hall, blowing at the small hole. The whole hall will resound with a low horn, which was the way the Hmong gave orders in those days.