When searching for “Ya'an, Sichuan”, I happened to see a special episode of CCTV's International Geographic Forum on “Ya'an, the Rain Capital”, and learned about a poetic and interesting ancient town. There are a lot of ancient towns in China with their own characteristics, but it is rare to find one that still maintains its original flavor like Wangyu Ancient Town.
Surrounded by green mountains and green water, the ancient colorful village looks fresh and beautiful, strolling in it, as if shuttling in time and space, the flavor of the ancient village jumped in front of us. Almost no pedestrians on the street, in a quiet sound, as if I could see when the old tea-horse road to and fro merchants and horse gangs, they are dusty, but also excited, walking a long time the road finally have a resting place.
Wang fish old street houses have a gap in the floor, some of the door There are also steps, steps and street surface with holes, forming a drainage system. Ya'an ancient name “sky leakage”, the local rainfall is more, more homes with a four-head type, also known as “four water to the pool” type, the four eaves are connected to the eaves, when it rains pedestrians walk from the eaves without getting wet. From the old street towards the hill, you can see some people's homes on the hillside, compared to the old street, the scale of the compound is grand, and there are a large number of beautiful wood and stone carvings.
Stone on the old street for a long and narrow alley, about 200 meters long, green stone paved longitudinally, the road surface has been polished by the footprints of the years smooth and shiny. On both sides of the wooden structure of green tiled houses and footstools, exquisite corrugations, window panes and carvings on the columns and cornerstones revealed! The prosperity of the past. Once the money changers, pawnshops, drugstores, tea stores and theater with the passage of time, disappeared the noisy shadow. And the dingzhi abduction nest clearly left on the old tea-horse road, like the backpacker's confused eyes, as if to hear the sound of the dingzhi abduction knocking on the stone.
Location📍: Wangyu Ancient Town, Wangyu Township, Yucheng District, Ya'an City, Sichuan Province, China
🎫Tickets: 0 yuan, parking is free (this is a bridge corner, parking to park inside the street committee inside)
🌟About Wangyu Village
It was a posting station of the tea-horse exchange market on the ancient Yandao ancient route of the Southern Silk Road in ancient times, and a rather large-scale commercial market town was formed at the end of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, which became a centralized trading point for the real estate resources in the nearby mountainous areas. Although the location of Wangyu Village was chosen because of the stagecoach route, it also reflects the traditional Chinese concept of feng shui, i.e., “Pillow on the mountain, surrounded by water and facing the screen”.
How to play the game:
1️⃣Newly opened “Xingyun Cao She” bookstore, a cup of coffee, you can stay quietly for a whole day.
2️⃣There is a dyeing workshop on the old street, named “Suiyi Dyeing Workshop”, the house is full of her own design, printing and dyeing fabrics, making various styles of printing and dyeing clothes, giving people a unique impression.
3️⃣Dyeing Workshop across the street there is also a special Guma Café, the owner is very talkative, chatting and drinking tea, very cozy.
🏠About eating and living:
The residents of the ancient town live a leisurely and peaceful life, and there are several restaurants and farmhouses in the town, which are in good condition, and some tourists come to visit.
🚗 About transportation.
1️⃣By car: take a country bus on Youyi Road in Yucheng District (outside the archive school) directly to Wangyu Ancient Town
2️⃣Driving: start via Ya Zhao Road, pass Zhou Gong Hot Spring, and arrive at the bank of Zhou Gong River, an upstream tributary of Qingyi River.