Longhu Ancient Village

In the ancient rhyme, think about the ancient taste, and warm people's hearts in the fireworks. For the next journey, why not go to the ancient city of Chaozhou. Walk through the world's first open and close stone bridge - Guangji Bridge. Enjoy the "eighteen shuttle boats and twenty-four states" scenery. Pass through the majestic Guangji Gate City Tower. Come to the Nanyang Arcade Street where 22 Ming and Qing archways stand in sequence to find delicious food. Maybe you can also encounter lively folk parade activities. - 🚶 2-day and 1-night itinerary Day 1: Chaoshan Station ➠ Pai Fang Street Kaiyuan Temple ➠ Guangji Bridge Demolition Bridge, Light Show ➠ Night Tour Pai Fang Street ➠ Tea House Tea Listening to Drama Day 2: Guangji Bridge Closed Bridge ➠ Longhu Ancient Village ➠ Return trip - 📸 Chaozhou attractions 🔸Pai Fang Street: On the Nanyang Arcade Street that stretches for hundreds of meters, 22 Ming and Qing archways stand in sequence. Residents sit leisurely in front of their own shops, chatting while sipping tea, and doing small business. 🔸Guangji Bridge: During the Song and Ming dynasties, Chaozhou was not only an important salt and porcelain capital in Lingnan, but also a cultural mansion, known as the seaside Zou Lu! The Guangji Bridge, one of the four ancient bridges in China that was built across the Han River in the Southern Song Dynasty, is a witness of that era! 🔸Longhu Ancient Village: One of the ten most beautiful ancient villages in Guangdong, a thousand-year-old ancient village on the Han River, still retains the old three-street six-lane layout 🔸Kaiyuan Temple: One of the four ancient Kaiyuan temples in China, gathering the architectural art of the Song, Yuan, Ming, and Qing dynasties - 🥢 About food Not only the authentic Chaoshan taste of raw pickles, hand-beaten beef balls, sugar onion pancakes, duck mother twists, fermented bean curd fried wings, sesame sauce rice rolls... but also Ins style 💯 only for the word "Chaozhou" Kick peach coffee, Le Song Tang Kung Fu milk tea with duck shit fragrance... In Chaozhou, you can always satisfy the taste buds with food. - 🚅 About transportation Take the high-speed train to Chaoshan Station, come out and take a 30-minute car to the ancient city; If you drive by yourself, it is recommended to find a place to park in the city first, there are fewer parking spaces in the ancient city, and it will be more congested

Chaozhou Longhu Ancient Village was established during the Southern Song Dynasty, and there are more than 100 existing ancient buildings that reflect the different architectural styles of the Song, Yuan, Ming, and Qing dynasties. It also encompasses the essence of typical folk architectural crafts of Chaozhou, such as stone carving, wood carving, porcelain inlay, color painting, and shell lime sculpture, and is known as the 'Exhibition of Chaozhou Ancient Architecture'. Longhu Village has produced 53 scholars and eminent figures from the imperial examinations over the generations. There are also many inscriptions, calligraphy, and steles from famous people. Inside the village, there are more than 100 ancestral halls, mansions of officials, and residences of wealthy merchants and gentry, many of which are five or even ten courtyards deep. The streets and alleys are well-ordered, and the mottled old houses are still inhabited by their descendants. The buildings exude a strong sense of history and vicissitudes, which is also a living fossil of Chaozhou's local culture.

Longhu Ancient Village is located at the southwest corner of the intersection of Hudie Road and Longguan Road in Chao'an District, Chaozhou City. The village is strip-shaped, stretching from north to south, covering an area of about 1.5 square kilometers. It was founded during the Song Dynasty and has a history of about a thousand years. Longhu Ancient Village is renowned both domestically and internationally for its reputation as a 'model of Teochew dwelling, home to a thousand ancestral halls, and a legacy of scholarly culture for generations.' Today, it still preserves the landscape of three streets and six alleys that reflect its former prosperity. The village's architecture is a collection of Chaozhou's decorative arts, including stone carving, wood carving, shell carving, porcelain inlay, color painting, and plaster sculpture, showcasing architectural styles from the Song, Yuan, Ming, Qing dynasties, and the Republic of China. In modern times, it has also absorbed Western architectural art, making it a treasure trove of Chaozhou architectural art. In November 2012, Longhu Ancient Village was selected as one of the top ten most beautiful ancient villages in Guangdong.

Today, I'm here to share with you my adventure in Longhu Ancient Village. 🌟✈️ At first, I was full of anticipation for this trip, but it was full of twists and challenges. The parking lot was set up a kilometer away, and a lady mislead me that it was only a hundred meters away, which made me feel a bit overwhelmed. 😱🚗 However, when I stepped into the village gate, everything became interesting. On both sides were dense shops of all colors, selling snacks and specialties as tempting as Chaozhou ancient city. Although I was a bit disappointed at first, I then found a small alley full of red lanterns, so I decided to follow my feelings and go in. 😉🍔 In the alley, I saw rows of ancient houses, a bit like Jiaji Alley in Chaozhou ancient city, but more spacious and open, the direction of the alley also has some curvature, as if it reminded me of the memory of Wuyuan Xiaolikeng. Although there is no lively small bridge and flowing water, they all have similar beauty. 🏰📸 Fang Bo's house and the scholar's house are the essence of the ancient village. Although these old houses are dilapidated and uninhabited, the lanterns in front of the door are shaking, but the outlines of the murals are still clearly visible, firmly showing the traces of history. Time is ruthless, but the traces it leaves still make people respect. 🎭⏳ I deeply love ancient buildings, because they are the carriers of history, as if connected with the past. Walking out of the alley, there are towering ancient trees and clear lake water in front of me, the bridge stands tall, and the girls in ethnic costumes on the bridge add a touch of vitality and beauty. Just like the traditional concept of unity of heaven and man, here integrates the rural scenery, bringing me peace and joy. 🌳🌾🌌 Back to the main street and heading south, the shops gradually disappear, allowing me to see the ancestral halls of several prominent families. Among them, the Xu family ancestral hall is the most magnificent, which also reminds me of the descendants of Xu Fuma in Chaozhou city and the Xu family in Longhu have a lot of family origins. This sense of history is really moving! 🏯🌸 When I walked to the south gate, I was greeted by the magnificent Tianhou Palace, the banyan tree covered the sky, and the incense of Mazu was still prosperous. 🌿🙏🔆 In a snack shop full of cooking awards, I tasted a plate of gold medal fried noodles, which actually added sesame and white sugar, the taste is unique and surprising. Then, I also tasted the tender red peach cake, potato cake and vegetable dumplings. What's different is that the boss lady fried it with oil, which makes it more delicious, and with duck shit fragrant tea, it's unforgettable. My taste buds were simply healed! 🍜🍡🌶️ There are many cafes on the main street here, but for me, the most atmospheric one is not far south of the Xu family ancestral hall. Because there are no other shops, it shows a more refined taste. Old house, low square table, small bamboo chair, this is the most comfortable place to drink a cup of special fruit coffee. It's really worth the trip! ☕️🍏 Finally, I bought two red clay cup mats in the style of red peach cakes in a shop selling ceramic bowls and cups, and the trip was successfully concluded. I left Longhu Ancient Village with joy and harvest, and made up my mind to set foot on this beautiful place again. 🥰🎁👣 If you also like ancient buildings and traditional culture, then a trip to Longhu Ancient Village will definitely not disappoint you! Whether it's the charm of history or the attraction of nature, it will refresh you. So, take some time and take a walk! 💖✨

Authentic thousand-year-old village~ Numerous ancestral halls, deep courtyards, a concentration of historical culture. 'Chaozhou Cuò, the palace rises', refers to the rich colors and grandeur of the mansions here. The door plaques and side wall paintings of each courtyard, although the colors are no longer bright, but the flowers, insects, birds, beasts, and human stories are still vivid. Occasionally passing by an open courtyard, you can see the carefully tended flowers and plants in the patio, and the Chaoshan people who are burning wood to make porridge, listening to opera and drinking tea inside. It's really a fine painting of Chaoshan people's life! Here history and the present, desolation and prosperity collide and intertwine! Selected as one of the top ten most beautiful villages in Guangdong!

Longhu Ancient Village is one of the ten most beautiful ancient villages in Guangdong, located next to the embankment road in Longhu Town, Chaoan District, Chaozhou City, Guangdong Province, on the bank of the middle and lower reaches of the Han River. The area is about 1.5 square kilometers, founded in the Song Dynasty, surrounded by the village in the Ming Dynasty, prosperous in the Qing Dynasty, witnessing the historical changes from the agricultural era to the commercial era in the Chaoshan area. The "Three Streets and Six Lanes" in Longhu Ancient Village are densely packed with ancient houses and ancestral halls, and the building group is distributed in a belt. There are more than 100 clan ancestral halls, famous official residences and merchant rich men's mansions in the village, among which the more famous ones are "Fang Bo's House", "Jinshi's House", "Tan Hua Mansion", "Embroidered Clothes House", "Xu Clan Ancestral Hall", "Longhu Academy", "Tianhou Palace" and so on. These ancient buildings have gathered the essence of Chaozhou folk crafts such as wood carving, stone carving, shell carving, porcelain inlay, painting, and shell ash sculpture. The facade decoration of each residence is heavy, and the door lintel, door plaque, couplet, side wall are mostly painted with folk color paintings; the door frame, column beam, column base, railing, steps, etc. are all carved with stone, and they like to use stone drums, auspicious beasts, lions, etc. It can be called a "Mansion Culture Museum", which reflects the different architectural styles of the Song, Yuan, Ming, and Qing historical periods.

Longhu Ancient Village, known as one of the ten most beautiful ancient villages in Guangdong Province, along the alleys of Qingshipu, the quaint old houses are left behind by the ancestors of the Song Dynasty thousands of years ago. The silk of the tens of thousands of old banyan trees that swayed gently with the breeze, coiled up the countless Longhu ancient villages.

A bend of Hanjiang River, passionately surrounded by a thousand years of ancient villages, this is the most familiar Longhu ancient village in Chaozhou people, in the memory of Chaozhou people, this is a small city with a strong book flavor, strolling in the long blue stone Alleys, twists and turns, inadvertently turned, is a story of a thousand years, the antique old house, left behind the millennial Song Dynasty ancestors of the past, the silky scorpion of the thousands of old banyan trees gently swaying with the breeze There are countless past events in Longhu Ancient Village.

When you walk to an old street or an ancient city that you have never heard of, the involuntary encounter makes you seem to be involved in the torrent of history. Those who seem to have nothing to do with you, at this moment, appear to you with such a natural and intimate appearance. In the comparison of the two historical sites of Longhu Guzhai and Yulin Ancient Port, the most worth mentioning is the issue of protection and development. Most of the architectural sites in Longhu Guzhai are well preserved, and many of the prominent prefectures and ancestral halls at that time have an introduction card for tourists. Some of the buildings in the Longhu ancient village have now become ordinary houses, and the layout still maintains the form of the village.