Erlang ancient town

Erlang ancient town

Erlang ancient town is located in the south edge of Sichuan Basin, Southeast of Gulin, on the Bank of Chishui River. It is one of the 100 famous towns in China. The ferry of the 2nd and 4th Red Army ferry and the former site of the Red Army's kaicang Fenyan were in Erlang town. It is 55 kilometers away from Gulin County, across the river from Xishui County and Renhuai City of Guizhou Province, and just a mountain away from Maotai liquor, a national liquor. It is the south gate for Sichuan to go out to sea.

Basic information

Erlang ancient town is located in the valley at the east end of Gulin county. It is one of the 100 famous towns in China. It is an important ferry for the Red Army to cross Chishui four times during the Long March, and the address of the Red Army's "opening warehouse and distributing salt" is here. It is also the birthplace of national famous liquor Lang Liquor production, where Lang distillery is located. The ancient town is built by mountains and rivers, from the South Bank of Chishui River up the steep slope to guanjing. The street is 1500 meters long and 4 meters wide. It is characterized by long gorge, steep slope and many stairs. The houses are built with wooden walls, tile houses and mud walls. There is one main street and three small fork alleys. Before liberation, ren'an salt road was transferred here, with more than 1000 residents. There are six salt brands, namely dehualong, deqianyu, dexiangsheng, dexiangyu, Tianyi and Fengsheng, from which salt is shipped in more than ten counties of Sichuan and Guizhou. There are more than 100 teahouses, wine shops, department stores, mountain goods shops and cigarette shops in the streets, thousands of porters and backers, and merchants from Yunnan, Guizhou, Chongqing, Hunan, Hubei and Jiangsu provinces gather here. The market is prosperous, the trade is developed and the economy is active, It is known as "little Chongqing". After liberation, due to the change of traffic conditions, salt road was changed and depressed. But the old appearance of the street still exists and is well preserved.

Meijiu River Scenic Spot

Meijiu River scenic spot is located on the North Bank of Chishui River. The lowest altitude is 325m, the highest altitude is 1370m, which belongs to subtropical monsoon climate. The annual average temperature is 15.5 ° C, the average precipitation is 760mm, the rainfall is abundant, the temperature is suitable, the winter is warm and the summer is cool, and the frost free period is long. Erlang Meijiu has beautiful mountains and lush vegetation, which can be called "small Three Gorges". It is a combination of strange, dangerous, steep, steep and beautiful. The ancient salt road from Sichuan to Guizhou is also well preserved, and the tourism resources are very rich.

Moyan stone carving in Meijiu River

"Meijiu River" is named after Chishui River and its famous National Liquor Maotai liquor and Chinese famous liquor Lang Liquor. It is the largest Moyan stone carved Chinese characters in the world, with an area of about 1600 square meters. Each character is engraved on the wugongyan cliff on the north bank about 3km upstream of Chishui River in Erlang town. In 1999, it was included in "Guinness of the big world". Standing on the road on the north bank and looking up, "Meijiu River" is inlaid on the steep cliff 300 meters high like a knife cut, with its majestic momentum.

The world's longest stone dragon complex

It is located on the South Bank of Chishui River beside Maoxi highway, corresponding to the "Meijiu River" in wugongyan. There are four stone dragons, each 192 meters long, 768 meters in total. They are not only highway guardrails, but also stone carving art. With exquisite workmanship and vivid images, they can be called the best Dragon carving in Southwest China. They were recorded in "Guinness of the world" in 1999.

International drifting and rock climbing base

The ten mile long beach of Meijiu river is a precipitous concentration of the 64 dangerous beaches on Chishui River. It starts from leopard beach, flows through xinglongtan, wangxiangtai, shaxianyan, wugongyan, duangongshi, shawantan, gongtan, and ends at erlangtan. The total length of the beach is more than 8000 meters. The current is turbulent and the water potential changes endlessly. There are cliffs on both sides of the bank, kilometers of broken banks, many caves, dense trees on the rocks, clouds and fog, sunny and rainy days, and unpredictable. It is designated as an international rock climbing and cave by the State General Administration of sports Cave exploration and drifting base, can be called the most dangerous beach drifting in the province. In November 2006, more than 20 professional and amateur rafting teams from home and abroad participated in the "national natural waters Gulin Chishui River rafting competition" sponsored by the State General Administration of sports.

Tianbao cave and Dibao Cave Scenic Spots

Langjiu

Lang Liquor is brewed from high-quality red grain. It is well brewed. It has the saying of "pregnant in October, once childbirth". That is to say, the cellar material, turning material and boiling material are repeated three times, each time for three months, and then the original liquor is baked. After being roasted, the original liquor is transported to the cave for storage for three years. After being aged, it is then blended into Lang Liquor. Lang Liquor cellar is unique and rare in the world. It is a natural karst cave. The cave is warm in winter and cool in summer. The humidity and temperature are just right. The balance of temperature and humidity all the year round accelerates the aroma generation and alcoholization of liquor. It not only makes the liquor mellow and sweet, but also increases more microorganisms to minimize the harmful substances. After three years of cellaring, Lang Liquor is famous at home and abroad for its unique style of "outstanding sauce flavor, mellow and clean, elegant and delicate, long aftertaste and fragrance in empty cup". It is known as two "pearls" on Chishui River together with Maotai, a national liquor.

Tiandi cave

Located at the foot of Wulaofeng in Erlang Town, it is a natural karst cave. The total length of the two caves and their branches is nearly 1.5km, and the total area is nearly 20000 square meters. The two caves overlap each other, and the tail is connected. The straight-line distance is only more than 40 meters. The cave is warm in winter and cool in summer, and the temperature difference is small. The stalagmites, stone mountains, stone flowers and stone milk are in various shapes. The channels are circuitous, just like a big labyrinth.

The pioneering work of wine storage in natural karst cave is unique in the history of wine making. Tens of thousands of huge wine storage pottery altars are densely arranged in the cave, with dark glaze. Over the years, they are accompanied by the new wine that is being "aged". Looking around, the huge and magnificent wine storehouse lineup looks like the terracotta warriors, which is spectacular and amazing. On August 6, 1996, the cave, with its grand scale and magnificent terracotta warriors and horses, became the world's largest natural wine storehouse and was included in the Guinness collection. He Kaisi, a famous writer, wrote in the inscription of "China Lang Jiu Bei" that the wine stored in the Baodong cave of Lang Jiu is more unique than that stored in the Baodong cave. Deep in the white clouds, green mountains, treasures of heaven and earth, harmony with people. The wine gas moistens the cliff, the sauce fragrance brews the new alcohol. The formation of urn and altar is like the terracotta warriors and horses of the Qin emperor, and the marvelous spectacle of the world, when do you want to have a fairy capital. Only when you enter these two unparalleled natural wine depots, can you realize the poetic and picturesque meaning of "baodongke comes to the wind to send you drunk, and the people who hold the cup go to the road to leave fragrance".

There are antique archways outside Tianbao cave and Dibao cave. Visitors can see the whole picture of Erlang Sleeping Buddha, Erlang distillery and Xishui town in Guizhou.

Ancient town scenic spot

Erlang ancient town

Erlang ancient town is located in the northwest of Erlang town. It is about 1500 meters in length and 4 meters in width from the South Bank of Chishui River to guanjing. It is characterized by long narrow stairs and steep slopes. There is one main street and three small forked lanes. The Qingshi street, which was paved when the town was built for hundreds of years, has been eroded by long-term wind and rain, worn by people and animals, and now becomes more and more smooth and dignified. On both sides of the green tile courtyard wooden house, contains a lot of historical changes, the rise and fall of the world, visitors in the meantime, there is a sense of return to history. Before liberation, due to the transshipment of goods in the salt channel, there were six salt brands, namely deqianyu, dehualong, dexiangsheng, dexiangyu, Tianyi and Fengsheng, from which the table salt of dozens of counties in Sichuan and Guizhou were shipped. Businessmen from Yunnan, Guizhou, Chongqing, Hunan, Hubei, Jiangsu and other provinces gather here. With frequent passenger exchanges, prosperous market, developed trade and active economy, they are known as "little Chongqing". After liberation, due to the change of traffic conditions and the rise of Langjiu, the market town was transferred to huangjingba, which made the business of the ancient town depressed, but the street appearance still survived. In 1934, the Red Army stationed here during the Long March, and opened a warehouse to distribute salt to relieve the people, which has a high historical and cultural value.

Red Army ferry

The Red Army ferry is located at the xiachangkou of Erlang ancient town, which echoes Erlang temple in Xishui County, Guizhou Province. The gorge is long, the peak is high, the river is turbulent, and the terrain is dangerous. It is a place where the two armies must fight against each other. During the long march of the Red Army in 1935, the famous Erlang Beishui battle was carried out here twice, which wrote a magical chapter in the history of Chinese war. In order to commemorate the victory of the Red Army's four crossing Chishui, a memorial Pavilion and monument of the Red Army's Long March are built at the ferry, as well as the symbol of the provincial key cultural relics protection unit "erlangtan ferry" of the Red Army's four crossing Chishui.

Red Army cave

Located in the North Bank of wugongyan small Three Gorges, the cave is more than 20 meters high and covers an area of 20000 square meters. The stalactite in the cave is a natural underground park, with a landscape called "qianqiubang". During the long march of the Red Army, the wounded could not continue the long march with the large team. The local people arranged the Red Army wounded to be treated in the cave, so it was called the Red Army cave.

Address: Langjiu street, Erlang Town, Gulin County, Luzhou City

Longitude: 106.1719770094

Latitude: 28.145124435

Ticket information: market price: 2.0 yuan