Datong ancient town

·Datong ancient town is located on the Bank of Chishui River. It's very original. It's very quiet with ancient houses and Qingshiban road.

·Built in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, it is composed of ancient streets, ancient docks, ancient wells, ancient street houses, ancient dwellings, ancient temples, ancient guildhalls and ancient steles.

·The ancient town has not yet been fully developed. All the residents live in the town. There are local tailor shops, barber shops and clinics on the streets.

Datong ancient town

Datong ancient town is located on the Bank of Chishui River in Chishui City, Zunyi City, Guizhou Province. In the border area of Sichuan and Guizhou Province in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties, all kinds of local products, raw and cooked medicinal materials from the dry road are delivered here. Wood and bamboo rafts are an important town in the northeast of the river.

18 kilometers away from bing'an ancient town, ancient streets, ancient docks and ancient wells are decaying docks after the past prosperity.

Introduction

Datong ancient town is located in the west of Chishui City, with convenient land and water transportation. It can reach Chongqing, Wuhan and Shanghai by entering the Yangtze River through Chishui River. Since ancient times, the prosperous business city, the war, the rich farming culture, the honest temperament of the villagers, the guild halls built by businessmen from all over the world, the luxury houses, the ancestral temples, and a set of sacrificial buildings have formed a harmonious and beautiful natural and humanistic ecological environment with mountains, water, and forests, reflecting the historical features of the era of self-sufficient small-scale peasant economy.

Landscape features

The existing buildings in Datong ancient town were built in the late Ming Dynasty and the early Qing Dynasty It is composed of ancient streets, ancient docks, ancient wells, ancient street houses, ancient dwellings, ancient temples, ancient guildhalls, ancient steles, and ancient memorial archways. Most of them are built close to the mountains. The front hall, main hall, back hall, Diaojiaolou, cave and other buildings are well arranged, with carved beams and painted buildings. The ancient tombs, ancient steles, and ancient memorial archways are well structured, complete in painting, carving, calligraphy, and rich in historical and cultural heritage, and are known by Westerners For "history written in stone". The houses in the ancient town take the street as the building's longitudinal axis and transverse axis, which are connected closely and arranged in a row. The building materials are made of wood, fir bark, small green tile, danxiashi, Nanzhu and other natural and human processed materials. The formal beauty of ancient town's architectural art is composed of shape, texture, color and irregular symmetry. There are traditional buildings in the golden section, the scale of body, the exaggeration of perspective, the coordination and complementary sequence combination of color, such as openness, rhythm and interpenetration It can give full play to the expressiveness and comprehensive ability of ancient architectural art.

Vicissitudes of ancient town

Datong is a wharf that has experienced the prosperity of the past and has declined. This distinctive ancient town is the peak of its prosperity 70 years ago. Under the town halfway up the mountain, the red stone wharf along the river was very large. At that time, merchant ships full of goods were often moored on the wharf. Most of these ships transported cloth and gauze from the lower reaches, as well as foreign and Guangdong groceries needed by Sichuan and Guizhou, and all kinds of local products and raw and cooked medicinal materials from the dry road in the border areas of Sichuan and Guizhou. When bamboo rafts float down the river, half of the river is covered with bamboos. From the scale of the wharf, we can imagine the prosperity of Datong town at that time. The town gradually became a docking point for salt merchants, freighters to supplement supply and repair sails. Because of this, Datong is most famous for its blacksmith shop. Small iron tools such as nails and iron tips used on old ships have become the main industrial products of Datong. At its peak, there were 60 or 70 iron making shops in a small town with less than 300 families, and the business was booming. The old people said that there were few quiet days in Datong at that time. The clanging sound of iron and the whirring sound of bellows accompanied with the coming and going of ships to celebrate the joy, and the excitement came out.

Now everything is in the past. Dry roads have been built, goods have been diverted, and the stone steps of the wharf left behind are in disorder. Now there are no merchant ships moored. Only mother and children playing in the river covered by the setting sun can the spacious wharf not be lonely.

The blacksmith shop also declined with the development of merchant ships. Today, there is still one close to the road. The bellows are no longer pulled by people. The iron man is sweating with his bare arms. The beating is no longer just a small iron tool used on the ship. Only in the sound of jingling, there is still the bustle of the old people. It can still turn over the prosperity of the ancient town.

Both the old market and the ancient town have experienced prosperity. Today, it seems that it is far away from the people of the ancient town. The old people sitting at the threshold reading books are as calm as the naughty children playing on the street. The original historical style attracts people to pursue, experience and feel the long gone life style. Blue brick, arch, stone street, different dynasties in this interpretation of different stories. Nowadays, the fashion shops and home appliance stores of urban residents are also open in the ancient town, not many of them, but they also convey the flavor of the real society. The high-heeled shoes of girls in the ancient town also curl across the bluestone steps. In Chishui, you can see the waterfall, Danxia, Alsophila spinulosa and bamboo sea, and then walk through the ancient town streets. No matter what, you can read the magic of nature and the profound history.

Practical information

Best travel season

April to October

Suggested days

Half a day

social customs and habits

There are more than 1000 festivals of ethnic minorities in Guizhou, with rich and colorful festival activities. There are singing, dancing, playing Lusheng, beating bronze drum, bullfighting, horse racing, sparrow fighting, wrestling, dragon boat racing, playing dragon lantern, acting and so on. The main national festivals include April 8 of Miao and Buyi, June 6 Song Festival of Buyi, Torch Festival of Yi, Duan festival of Shui and Pangu King Festival of Yao.

Accommodation and transportation

Datong ancient town is located on the Bank of Datong River from Chishui City to Sidonggou scenic spot. The highway passes 100 meters above the ancient town, and the urban passenger station is accessible. In the ancient town, there are clean and chic Inns on the upper and lower piers and in the ancient town.

Address: Datong Town, Chishui City, Zunyi City, Guizhou Province

Longitude: 105.68176

Latitude: 28.507628

Tour time: 1-2 hours

Traffic information: take the bus "Chishui Datong" at Chishui passenger station (tourist station).

Ticket information: Free

Opening hours: all day