Qian Nian Salt Well Heijing Ancient Town
Heijing Ancient Town
📍Detailed address:
Heijing Ancient Town is located in Lufeng County, the "Hometown of Dinosaurs" in Chuxiong Yi Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province
🕙Opening hours:
24 hours
💰Ticket price:
No ticket
🚗Transportation:
✅Railway: You can take the train from Kunming to Panzhihua at Kunming Railway Station in Kunming City, and get off at Heijing Station, (take the 6162 train to Panzhihua at 7:20 every morning, arrive at 10:16 in the morning; return at 19:05 in the afternoon by the 6161 train, arrive at Kunming at 21:55, the ticket is 22.5 yuan or take the K114 train at 8:57, the ticket is 28.5 yuan can reach). The station is 4 kilometers away from the town. After getting off the train, you can take a horse-drawn carriage or walk to Heijing Ancient Town. The horse-drawn carriage costs about two or three yuan per person. Because Heijing Railway Station is a small station, there are only ordinary passengers, and there are more stops along the way than the express, you need to be patient when taking the train, and when you arrive at Heijing, the parking time is short, and you need to get on and off quickly.
✅Highway: Heijing Ancient Town is 111 kilometers away from Lufeng County. Self-driving cars can go from Lufeng→Jiuzhuang→Guangtong→Tuoan→Heijing. The road from Guangtong to Heijing is narrow and has many bends, and the road conditions are very poor. You need to pay special attention to safety. It takes about 4 hours to arrive. There are buses to Chuxiong, Lufeng, and Guangtong. Self-driving tour: 1, Kunming-Lufeng-Yipinglang-Dajiuzhuang-Guangtong-Tuoan-Heijing, a total of 194 kilometers.
🌟Highlights:
1️⃣Heijing has a long history. From the unearthed stone, pottery, bronze, animal bones and other cultural relics, it can be proved that the ancestors of ethnic minorities lived on this ancient land as early as 3200 years ago in the late Neolithic Age. During the Qing Dynasty, Heijing's salt industry reached its peak, and salt tax accounted for 64% of Yunnan's salt tax. Before liberation, Heijing set up a field affairs office, but the "invasion" of sea salt caused the former rich salt capital to decline due to the loss of its pillar.
2️⃣There are many cultural relics and historic sites in Heijing, including the prehistoric Shiba Li Tian Neolithic cultural site, the Yuan Dynasty cliff on Wanchun Mountain, the ancient Salt City Bridge built in the Yuan Dynasty, the Ming and Qing city embankments, and the 788-meter-long Shunhe Bridge.
🌋Main attractions:
The ancient town gate, Wu Family Courtyard, Dalong Temple, ancient salt workshop, Zhutian Temple, Shangwu Family Courtyard, Dezheng Room, Jie Xiao Zongfang, sun-dried salt, Hei Niu Salt Well, Confucian Temple, Qixing Terrace and other attractions are in the town, Feilai Temple, Wangjiang Pavilion, Xiangshan Temple, Wanshou Mountain Monk Tomb Group, Sanyuan Palace, Tiansheng Monument, Zhenjue Zen Temple, Zhenwu Guan, Tingtao Pavilion and other attractions are on the mountain.
🥣Food:
Heijing used to have the "Eight Eight" banquet, now there is a unique Buddhist vegetarian banquet and the "Eight Bowls Four Dishes" home banquet; salt-braised chicken, gray tofu, barbecue, roast skin, thin bean powder cake, beef dry bar, pomegranate flower and other delicious dishes, indescribable.
🏠Accommodation:
There are more inns and family-style hotels in Heijing Ancient Town. The best accommodation here is the Wu Family Courtyard, which has standard rooms and ordinary rooms, with good facilities and full of ancient charm.
📌Small Tips:
1️⃣Heijing Ancient Town Festival Activities: Lunar New Year's Day, Taiping Meeting, Torch Festival, Dongjing Meeting and other 8 traditional festivals.
2️⃣The slope of Heijing Feilai Temple is high and steep, the elderly and the weak should be cautious, it is a great challenge for adventure lovers.
3️⃣Heijing Ancient Town is surrounded by mountains and rivers, and the sound of the Longjing River is rushing. If there are insomniacs, it is best to choose the side of the mountain for accommodation.
Heijing Ancient Town
Heijing Ancient Town A town that was thriving and declining due to salt has been closed for nearly two thousand years in the Longchuan River Valley of Lufeng County, Yunnan Province. It is rumored that the girl Azhao found the brine spring because of the "black Niuze Salt", and the ancestors began to pick up brine salt, and the black well salt industry reached its peak during the Ming and Qing Dynasties. The local pure hand workshop produced more than 5,000 tons of black salt per year, the first of nine ancient salt wells such as Yunlong Nuodeng, Dayao Shiyang, Jianchuan Mijing. The salt tax revenue was close to half of Yunnan's total tax burden, and it became the economic town of Yuzhong in the "rich and enemy provinces" at that time. With the development of the times, the large-scale industrial production method has lost the practical value of the original ancient legal salt process, and the town has also fallen due to salt, and has become a "lost salt capital". Today's black well, I can't feel the grand scenery of the "Yanxi", but a large number of houses, zongxuan, archways, and temples are still in the style and charm. Walking in the red sand and stone streets, the rough touch seems to be telling the world about the glory and prosperity of the past. The only thing that remains unchanged is the small river that goes around the city, and the trickle will always soothe the hearts of the passengers from south to north...
Heijing Ancient Town is located in the "dinosaur town" of Chuxiong Yi Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province, and has been a place of Gong salt since ancient times. It is surrounded by mountains and rivers, a small town that has been closed in the Longchuan River Valley for almost a century, and is one of the four ancient towns in Yunnan. Heijing still retains a relatively complete traditional urban pattern, with 21 cultural relics protection units, which are famous cultural relics in Lufeng County and even Chuxiong Prefecture. After thousands of years, the ancient town is still in style, with clear historical veins and distinctive characteristics. "Yancheng" has long lost its former glory, but left an antique Tang and Song style Fangxiang, quite Ming and Qing style houses, monuments, stone carvings, ancient towers, stone archaeological, ancient stage, as well as ancient temples, ancient salt wells, boiled salt stoves, etc. Especially the well-preserved Wujia compound in and outside the province, which is a typical of the Ming and Qing architecture, attracted many tourists at home and abroad.
A small town can be visited in about half an hour. Fortunately, it has not been overly commercialized, and some locals can still see the real life state. The houses in the town are in the form of a traditional Indian residence on a smaller scale.
The ancient town of Heijing still retains the original flavor of the ancient town, and also bought a bunch of well salts to go home, a place worth visiting. As a scenic spot, the prices here are not high, I recommend everyone to stay here for a few more days in a daze.
The ancient town of Heijing still retains the original flavor of the ancient town, and also bought a bunch of well salts to go home, a place worth visiting. As a scenic spot, the prices here are not high, I recommend everyone to stay here for a few more days in a daze.
Wujia Courtyard, Confucian Temple, Feilai Temple, Yanjing, beef, wontons are delicious
The original atmosphere is not too commercialized. The simple folk customs make this place look particularly quiet. It is recommended not to come here on holidays. The price of the inn is several times higher than usual. But for a foodie, the taste here is definitely the most primitive, salted chicken, beef pine, oil dry. The weathered stone houses tell of the long and vicissitudes of the place, and the wooden structures write the culture and humanistic atmosphere here. The cloth shoes with needle threads record the endless life here, the hundreds of bluestone steps around the beauty, the mountain climbers on the wall hide the beauty here, the turning stone milling around the ancient skills here.