The Wan Nan version of the Thousand Mile River and Mountains painting, an ancient village floating in the clouds
Shitan Village in Shexian County, Anhui, is an ancient village with a history of over 800 years. It was the ancient thoroughfare for Huizhou merchants from Jingde and Shexian to Hangzhou via the Xin'an River; it is also the third batch of traditional Chinese villages.
【History】
During the Jianyan period of the Song Dynasty (1137), Wu Qi, the progenitor of Shitan, and his eldest son Wu Wei moved to Shitan Village
【Geographical Features】
Built embracing the Huayuan River and residing against Liuting Mountain, the village uses the natural river as its lifeline and the crisscrossing streets as its network. There are ancient ancestral halls, water mouths, temples, bridges, and wharfs in the village, especially the ⭐Xulun Hall⭐ built during the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty, which has 100 beams and is known as the 'Hall of a Hundred Beams'.
【Huangshan City's Top Photography Spots】
Shitan Village can see the sea of clouds on more than 200 days throughout the year. Especially from March to May each year, the rapeseed flowers, peach blossoms, pear blossoms, and sunflowers in Shitan bloom in succession, attracting countless tourists and photography enthusiasts to come and enjoy a feast of clouds and flowers.
【Xiatai Viewing Platform】
Photography enthusiasts can drive directly to the highest and best-viewed 【Xiatai Viewing Platform】.
The altitude here is about 500 meters.
Looking out, layers upon layers of mountains stretch to the horizon, and the cloud-top homes in the mountainside seem like a fairyland of 'unknown evenings'.
Green mountains and long rivers are interspersed with lush fields and homes with white walls and black tiles, with rising smoke curling up, dreamlike and illusory.
When the author visited in January, although it was not the most beautiful season in Shitan, she was still like a delicate and bright Jiangnan woman with a charming smile.
At sunset, nature, the omnipotent painter, sketches the most changeable and gorgeous colors, from the dazzling gold when first climbing the mountain, to the soft orange-red when the sun slowly 'kisses' the horizon, to the final splendid purple and light blue after completely falling below the horizon.
This dynamic, unique Wan Nan version of the Thousand Mile River and Mountains at dusk painting is simply mesmerizing.
🚘Address: Xiakeng Town, Shexian County, Anhui
🚵🏻♂️Navigation: "Shitan Village"
For photography only, 📣 navigate to "Xiatai Viewing Platform", both the viewing platform and the pavilion above are very photogenic.
🚶🏻Route: There is a one-hour walking route from the village to Xiatai;
For tourists without a car, there are local vehicles that can take you to the viewing platform for around 15 yuan.
⭐Surroundings: Xin'an River Landscape Gallery, Changxi Village, Yangchan Tulou, Yuliang Dam
Shitan Village, located in the south of Jixian County, a famous historical and cultural city in China, is located on the beautiful shore of Changyuan River, under the jurisdiction of Xiakeng Town, and is one of Huangshan's 100 best photography bases. Shitan Village is located in the mountains, located in the east of Xiakeng Town, in the north of Changxi Township, and has 7 natural villages, 20 village groups, the whole village farmers, with a population of 4,585 people, farmers' main income sources tea, silkworm mulberry, chrysanthemum and work out, and the per capita income in 2011 was more than 7722 yuan. There are 165 Party members in the village, and there are 7 Party branches under the total branch of the Party. Shitan Village has the outstanding advantage of rich tourism resources, which is the first place in the city's Baijia Photography Point.
Shitan Village is located in Jixian County, Huangshan City, southern Anhui Province. Although the place is not big, it is definitely a great place to watch rape blossoms. It is the best time to see the scenery from mid-March to early April every year.
I went to Guling, Jiangling, and I still didn't regret coming to Shitan Village. Shitan Village is also a terraced rape flower. It is characterized by a river surrounding the village, the water is green, rape flowers and peach blossoms constitute the spring beauty of Shitan Village.
Shitan Village is quiet and deep street format (18th Street), the poetic and picturesque village side water mouth landscape, elegant and bright architectural color, the Jiangnan scenery of the small bridge and flowing water family, the exquisite and gorgeous decoration style, all leave a deep impression. The more you go in from Shitan Village, the better the scenery, and the more wild it is. Between the village and the village is connected by a sheep intestine trail. When spring comes, rape flowers and pear flowers all over the mountains are in full bloom, and that is the real paradise! And due to the inconvenience of transportation, tourists are rare, it is a good place for photography and sketching.
Shitan, another rising photography, a good place to play in one. There is no ticket required, the traffic is not very convenient, Shexian Bus Station to Xiakeng Town by bus, the fare is 6 yuan, to Xiakeng and then to Shitan Village by bus, 2 yuan. If you drive by yourself, it will take about two and a half hours. We stayed in Shitan Sunflower Hotel. The owner and the landlady were very enthusiastic. They killed the local chickens for us at night. The roof of their house could take pictures. Shitan was still very big. It took at least two or three days to finish the whole tour, and it also required very good physical strength. We only took a short tour in the morning. If it's sunny, the scenery will be great. Note: Shitan is cold in the morning and evening, so take a thicker dress.