[2025 Wuxi County Attraction] Travel Guide for Ningchang Ancient Town (Updated Mar)

| Ningchang Ancient Town. ◾️ Ningchang Ancient Town is located about 10 kilometers from Wuxi County. This is a thousand-year-old town, known as the ancient salt capital. It is a town with a salty flavor, born because of salt, prospered because of salt, and declined because of salt. ◾️ Ningchang Ancient Town has a history of salt production for more than 4000 years. "During the Yu and Xia periods, the Wuguo prospered due to the salt industry," and Ningchang Ancient Town in Wuxi County became one of the top ten early salt production sites in China. It is the birthplace and cradle of ancient human civilization in the Three Gorges area, known as the world's "ancient salt capital" and the "ancestor" of the world's handicraft workshops. ◾️ Ningchang Ancient Town is located on one side of the Daning River. People built houses along the narrow area, forming a long street of 7 li, commonly known as "Seven Li Half Street." Most of the buildings in the town are bamboo and wood structures, with an ancient charm. Most of them are built along the river, supported by slanted wooden piles, and these suspended houses are called stilted buildings. The Daning River passes under the stilted buildings, dividing the ancient town into two. There are three suspension bridges on the river, connecting the ancient town with the road on the opposite side. ◾️ The salt production of Ningchang Ancient Town once accounted for 20% of Sichuan's salt production. During the Kangxi to Qianlong periods of the Qing Dynasty, Ningchang Town had 336 salt furnaces, reaching its peak period. At its peak, Ningchang Town accommodated 20,000 people. The salt boiling pots operated day and night, and the salt transport boats occupied the river, presenting a prosperous scene. Nowadays, Ningchang Ancient Town has less than a dozen households, and the prosperity has faded, leaving it desolate and bleak. Wandering through the ancient town, you can travel through a thousand years of time and feel the faded glory. ◾️ Travel Tips: Opening hours: Open all year round Ticket information: Free Transportation information: It is recommended to drive by yourself and navigate directly to Ningchang Ancient Town. Accommodation: Currently, there is no accommodation (including hotels, homestays, and guesthouses) in Ningchang Ancient Town. It is recommended to stay in Wuxi County. Small suggestion: It is best to bring drinking water when visiting the ancient town, as there are no supermarkets or small shops in the ancient town.

Numerous deep trails connect the households of the ancient town in series, and the rock mass is full of traces of mottled years; the walls are filled with vicissitudes of past events, and the past breeze becomes a past and memories. Sit and watch the Ning Factory today, and think about the endless glory of the year. What kind of tragic and desolation is this. However, today's Ningchang people are in this tragic, creating a new history and writing new legends. This small town is deeply rooted in the deep mountain gorge on the back of the river. The quaint old house is built with mountains and waters. It is full of poetry and paintings. The slings built on the river seem dangerous and in fact strong. Surrounded by the mist of the morning, the Houxi River passes through the slings downstairs, and it is quite a wonderful place in the south of the Yangtze River.

The mountains are surrounded by quaint houses, and the sun shines through the quiet and elegant Ning factory. Day after day, year after year, the ancient town has been harmoniously integrated with the surrounding environment and has become an indispensable component of this land. Today's salt springs continue to flow out of salt water as usual. However, the old buddy who used to be here now has no idea where he is, leaving a memory of his past. Pedestrians crossing the river, running through the cable bridge across the river, to the quiet ancient town and winding streets. With the goods collected from afar, return to the beautiful home with full load.

It is hard to imagine how a historic town with a long history may be as dazzling as it is, but so low-key and restrained, which is the charm of this romantic town. Whenever you come here, you can return to your home and quietly enjoy the time away from you. Adhering to the name of the millennium salt capital, it is like a hidden paradise. When you mention Ning Factory, you have to say the salt industry here. People's impressions, the salt industry is in the Ning factory, like the bells in the Hanshan Temple, the Egret in the Cisse Mountain, is the feeling of the Wuba people lingering from the urine. This small town with a history of four thousand years of salt has the reputation of "the ancient salt of Wuxian, the ancient salt capital". Some people say that this is the earliest salt capital in the world, the originator of the hand workshop, the literati said that this is regardless of the present day. The thick nostalgia. Located in the Shandong section of the bus, the ancient town of Ningchang, which is bordered by the three provinces of Shaanxi and Hubei, is an early salt-making land in the history of China and the birthplace of the Ba-Chu culture. The slowly flowing rivers of the Houxi River are filled with the ancient towns passing by. The ancient buildings in the town are mostly stone-wood structures, and several blue-stone paths that turn around and turn each other in series. This is a big town in the north of Wuxi County. It is not far from the county. It is somewhat sorrowful to say that in order to avoid the world, it is not necessarily found here to find historical traces. However, compared to the bustling city, it is already elegant and elegant. Going here is not a problem anyway, but the car is in the mountains, accompanied by water, but it is still very exciting and period