The ancient town at the foot of Mount Emei where you can see the Golden Summit is Luomu!
Recently, I saw photos of Luomu Ancient Town on social media, and was attracted by the old houses and alleys. Four of us just decided to go, grabbed our bags, and set off.
It took two hours by car to reach this small town at the foot of Mount Emei.
Luomu Town was previously known as Qinglongchang, established during the Tang Dynasty, and it is said to have existed during the Shang and Zhou dynasties, truly a place with a long history.
The ancient town has eight main streets and seven alleys, mostly inhabited by indigenous people who have lived here for generations, happily continuing their traditional way of life.
Walking through the town is like traveling back to the eighties or nineties. Those traditional snacks such as pea cakes, rice-made cold cakes, tofu pudding, and so on, are all childhood favorites, and the prices are so cheap that you really think you've gone back in time. A pea cake for one yuan, a bowl of cold cake for three yuan, and ten dumplings for eight yuan, with the meat filling almost bursting through the skin. We had lunch at the Eyeglasses Restaurant, stir-fried pork liver with wood ear mushrooms for 15 yuan, tofu pudding for 5 yuan, along with steamed pork intestines with rice flour and vegetables, etc., all for less than 50 yuan. The person in charge of paying for the meal, Sister Ke, was too embarrassed to take the money, insisting on treating us.
The old buildings in the ancient town are covered with quotations from Chairman Mao; I don't know if they were left over from the past or added later, I didn't go to inquire or verify.
On the main street, there is a dilapidated two-story building from the Republic of China era—a brothel. Looking up at the railing called 'Beauty's Lean', I imagined the prosperity of the town back in the day. At night, the songs of the brothel women leaning on the railings must have traveled far.
Wan Chai Street is one of my favorite alleys, with clean-swept bluestone paths. Every household plants some small flowers and places them outside their doors.
Impatiens, which girls might have used to paint their nails when they were young—I've done this before.
On Wan Chai Street, I saw trees with beautiful white flowers, which I couldn't name until I asked the locals and learned they were hibiscus flowers, a name I had known for a long time but finally matched up.
Following the Linjiang River, you can see the Golden Summit. The locals say that in winter, the town presents another scene, with the snow-covered Mount Emei also looking very beautiful.
I thought: Maybe I'll come again in winter, not to climb the mountain, but to stay in the ancient town at the foot of the mountain, to idle away, watch the snowy mountains and scenery, and enjoy the traditional food, which would be nice.
Luomu Ancient Town, also known as Qinglong Field, was built in the first year of Wude in Tang Gaozu (AD 618). Originally a county with Emei and Busan Ping level, it belongs to the jurisdiction of Gujiazhou. Song Gande withdrew the county to change the town in four years (AD 966), and merged into Emei County, which is one of the five famous Emei towns in the Song Dynasty. Luomu Ancient Town has a long history, although the county was officially built in the Tang Dynasty, but the county jurisdiction as early as Shangzhou, there were people living. Because it is located under the second mountain, and the development of the second mountain is earlier than the current Emei Mountain (Daqi Mountain), so many famous people in history have been active in the Luomu area as early as the Shang and Zhou Period.
Under Mount Emei, a Buddhist holy place, there is a thousand-year-old town-Luomu Ancient Town. This ancient town that has not been overdeveloped and maintains a lot of original ecology. It is only about 8 kilometers away from Baoguo Temple in Mount Emei, and it is free to open. It is definitely a place where you go to the lower reaches of Mount Emei worth punching. The ancient town of Luomu is also known as Qinglong Field. The ancient town has not been renovated on a large scale, and the ancient charm still exists. The original style of the ancient houses is displayed here, and these houses are still living. Along the streets paved with green stone, there are ancient wooden houses on both sides, carving dragons and painting phoenixes. The door is a wooden door with no paint on the slot board, and has wooden grids. Each room is slender and has a long ramp, with small rooms on both sides of the inside, with small patios, full of moss. This year, Luomu Ancient Town, Emeishan City, has been upgraded and built. The quaint traditional houses in western Sichuan, the quiet tea-horse ancient road blue stone alley, and the charming historical and cultural wall paintings have been strolled in Luomu Ancient Town and walked along the quaint street under the colored oil paper umbrella. Can feel the strong atmosphere of the ancient town, poetic and painting, it is refreshing.
The picturesque city of Leshan, because of the temperature and climate in the south, has formed a free-flowing painting of the ancient town from water everywhere. Luomu Ancient Town is displayed in such a way in front of tourists.
At the foot of Mount Emei, and the ancient town with fireworks.
There is an ancient town of Luomu at the foot of Mount Emei. The commercial atmosphere is not serious, the folk customs are simple, and it is worth a visit!
There's a lot of primitive ancient stuff left. That's great.
Luomu Ancient Town, our locals are used to being Qinglong Field, from small to large, have been N times, never care about this is also a place with a story. The town is not big, built in the first year of Tang Gaozu Wude (AD 618), the Shang and Zhou period has been inhabited, here is the first stop of the ancient tea-horse road from the plain to the mountain during the Ming and Qing Dynasties, so far maintained many traditional crafts and flavor snacks. The Erqi Mountain adjacent to it is the main birthplace of the "7th Dongtian of Taoism" in Mount Emei, and it also leaves many Taoist relics. You can't live up to the summer and spring without going far away. The town has not been contaminated with too much commercialization, and the ancient style still exists. Most of the old people live here, there is a "river" in front of the door, a mountain behind the house, half a mu of melon and beans, and a few trees bloom in spring. The old houses on both sides have precipitated history, carved doors, wooden griddle windows, moss in front of the steps, and green vines on the walls, exuding the faint smell of rotten wood. Today not "catch the scene", it is a little quiet, the blacksmith shop on the side is playing iron, the ear echoed the hawker just let you hear but not noisy sound... here, change or change, the town has been like this for thousands of years.