This is the ancient town with the most cobblestones I have ever seen - the hometown of Sun Quan
👉🏻At the beginning of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the famous scholar Yan Ziling visited Longmen and was amazed at the beautiful scenery here, and couldn't help but sigh: 'The mountains here are clear and the water is beautiful, better than Lv Liang Longmen.' In admiration, he gave this beautiful place a loud name - Longmen. Longmen Ancient Town
🏞️Tracing back the thousand-year history of the ancient town, the descendants of Sun Quan, the emperor of the Three Kingdoms Wu, with diligence and wisdom, inherited the spirit of their ancestors' pioneering and hard work, and turned Longmen into the 'Peach Blossom Garden' of the Sun family. With the protection of Longmen's mountains and rivers, the Sun family eventually developed into a large family in the south of the Yangtze River with more than 2,000 households and more than 7,000 people, now owning a well-preserved group of ancient buildings from the Ming and Qing Dynasties, which is a famous ancient village in the south of the Yangtze River🏘️
🏡Longmen Ancient Town is located at the foot of Longmen Mountain on the Fuchun River, about 16 kilometers away from Fuyang. It is one of the 'Ten Sceneries of Fuchun'. The ancient town is surrounded by mountains on all sides. More than 90% of the villagers in the ancient town are descendants of Sun Quan of the Eastern Wu of the Three Kingdoms, who have settled here for more than a thousand years. The people are simple and honest, and the whole town still retains a rare group of ancient buildings from the Ming and Qing Dynasties in the south of the Yangtze River.
🌿Longmen Ancient Town is a typical example of the ancient clan settlement pattern in our country. Over the past thousand years, with the flourishing of the Sun family, it has gradually formed a 'hall and house combination courtyard centered on the hall'. The family tree records that from Sun Quan in the Three Kingdoms period to the 28th year of the Republic of China (1939), the Sun family has proliferated to 65 generations. Over the centuries, through the construction of each generation of each room, from a large family settlement, it has formed today's ancient town.
——————♥Must-visit attractions in Longmen Ancient Town♥—————
✅Old Street Rural Feelings
This nearly three-mile-long, three-meter-wide market has always been prosperous, with most of the shops being front shops and back workshops, front shops and back residences. Longmen has always been based on farming. As the only place for commodity exchange, the old street adds a different style to the quiet and introverted ancient town.
🎈Attractions: Old Hall, Cheng'en Hall (Ministry of Works), Guandi Temple, Stone Staircase.
✅Riverside Homes
The Longmen Creek that runs through the village nourishes the thousand-year-old ancient town. The villagers build houses by the creek and live by the creek. The local customs are simple and honest, the neighbors are harmonious and friendly, and the hereditary farming and reading family traditions are passed down.
🎈Attractions: Qingxi Bridge, Sun Xiaomei's Former Residence, Wan'an Bridge, Farming and Reading Family, Powder Office Fragrant Archway.
✅Hundred Steps Traces
Measure the length of the hall with footsteps, a hundred steps; measure the length of the hall with time, a hundred years. A hundred years of history makes the footsteps in the hall walk staggeringly, retaining history is retaining our own roots.
🎈Attractions: Hundred Steps Hall, Xianzheng Hall, Baihua Hall, Zisun Hall.
✅Rural Scenery
Different from the water town scenery, different from the garden scenery, Longmen has its own unique rural style. Farmers, farming tools, and farmland compose a thick and melodious pastoral song.
🎈Attractions: Bai Shi Hall, Dragon Head Stone.
✅Mountain and Water Sounds
The beauty of Longmen is condensed between the green mountains and clear waters. The ancient town is backed by Longmen Mountain. The Longmen Creek, which originates from the Longmen Mountain waterfall, runs through the village with a gurgling sound, flows into the Shanxi Creek, and flows into the Fuchun River for twenty miles.
🎈Attractions: Grandma's Bridge, Ancient Camphor, Baihua Square, Longmen Creek.
✅Yimen Flowing Fragrance
The patterns on the Yimen archway are full and mottled, and the decorations are mottled, interpreting a vivid 'righteousness'. The rigid feudal family instructions are displayed close to life, giving birth to moving stories that have been passed down to this day.
🎈Attractions: Yimen Archway, Jishan Hall, Shide Hall, Houzhi Hall.
✅Yanchi Night Moon
The moon on the branch, reflected in it is still that round moon from a thousand years ago, like a large inkstone pool, indicating that reading is the greatest hope of the family. Scooping up a handful of clear spring, reflecting is a generation of scholars: by the inkstone pool, under the bright moon, the scholar in blue is still pacing.
🎈Attractions: Mingzhe Hall, Shanle Hall, Inkstone Pool.
✅Sun's Clan
The Sun family has been full of heroes since ancient times. Emperor Wu of Wu, Sun Quan, galloped across the battlefield, pacified the south of the Yangtze River, and strategized Taiwan, achieving a generation of hegemony.
🎈Attractions: Sun's Ancestral Hall, Mingqian Garden Stage and Square.
✅Deep Alley Secluded Residence
The long and deep alleys and quiet courtyards constitute the basic unit of Longmen. Hundreds of ancient buildings from the Ming and Qing Dynasties stand densely in the ancient town, connected by alleys paved with cobblestones, like a maze.
🎈Attractions: Qingxi Hall, Chunji Hall, Yuyin Hall.
✅Longmen Temple Fair
The first day of the ninth lunar month is the traditional temple fair of Longmen Ancient Town. It is said that this activity has been in existence since the Northern Song Dynasty, and it has been nearly a thousand years since it has been passed down to this day.
🌞Now every year during the New Year period, there will be a market in the parking lot at the entrance, with all kinds of internet celebrity snacks and products, very grounded.
🚗Traffic Overview: Longmen Ancient Town, Fuyang City, 45 kilometers from Hangzhou City, 16 kilometers from Fuyang City Center.
💰Tickets:
Adults: 60 yuan per person
Children's tickets: 35 yuan per person for heights between 1.2 meters and 1.5 meters, free for those under 1.2 meters, 35 yuan per person for those over 60 years old.
🕙Opening hours: 8:00-17:00
📝Attention tips:
⚠️The roads in the main scenic area are almost all paved with cobblestones, and the ground of the halls is also basically paved with cobblestones. The old houses in the ancient town are mostly built with cobblestones, so don't push the cart in. ♥Conscience reminder, the cart is really inconvenient, whether it's a baby stroller or a wheelchair, the person sitting on it will be bumped to death, in the end you can only hold the baby in your arms, and then push a cart that is about to fall apart all the way forward~
♥Here's a reminder three times: Don't push the cart❗ Don't push the cart ❗❗Don't push the cart❗❗❗
😂Be careful not to get lost, this is a mountain city ancient town where guerrilla warfare can be fought, the roads are very winding, here's a method for everyone, when you get lost, find the waterway, follow the water down, follow the water, you will definitely reach the visitor center at the entrance.
🚗Free parking lot, you can park anywhere on the side of the road as long as it does not affect traffic, I have parked on the side of the road several times.
Longmen Ancient Town parking is very convenient, there are many tourists in the scenic area, the scenery of Longmen Ancient Town is very beautiful, walking on the small bridge, looking at the flowing water under the bridge, the mood is really relaxed, next time I have a chance to go again.
I have been going to Longmen Ancient Town to see Sun Quan. After a few years of grinding, I finally arrived. To be honest, the impression is not bad. The overall feeling is still good. It is also good to complete one of my wishes. It is recommended.
Longmen Ancient Town Introduction: Hangzhou Longmen Ancient Town is located in Fuyang District, Hangzhou City, Zhejiang Province, 38 kilometers from the center of Hangzhou, located on the south bank of the beautiful Fuchun River, beautiful environment, obvious advantages in transportation location. Longmen Ancient Town is the hometown of the Three Kingdoms Dongwu Emperor Sun Quan. It has a long history and a deep cultural accumulation. It retains a strong clan atmosphere and unique folk customs. It has preserved the grand Ming and Qing ancient buildings in good condition. It is rare in China. The ancient buildings include halls, halls, houses, Guta, stone bridge, archway and so on. Longmen Ancient Town scenic area area of 2 square kilometers, the town has more than 7,000 people, of which more than 90% of the residents surnamed Sun, the largest settlement of Sun Quan descendants, such a gathering family is extremely rare. The ancient town north Yixi, Longmenxi and the Yongxi cross the ancient town in T-shaped, surrounded by peaks four, surrounded by green fields. The ancient town is a skeleton of the scattered streets with strong defensiveness, and the traditional houses built into a maze of traditional houses, halls, halls, ancient towers, ancient bridges, archways, temples and other exquisite houses, halls, halls, halls, etc. have high value. The ancient town is simple in folk customs and unique in customs, which reflects the typical landscape and pastoral ancient town of traditional Chinese clan inheritance system.
It took a little more than an hour to drive from Hangzhou Binjiang. It is a very original ancient town. Maybe when we went there, the weather was hot and there were not many people. The whole ancient town was very quiet and not noisy at all. I tasted the special rice wine and wine-brewed steamed buns in the ancient town. It tasted good. Buy some souvenirs.
Very good, went several times. This time I took my parents to go, because I booked the wrong date, the staff was very enthusiastic to help solve it.