Jiuzhou Ancient Town: A 600-year-old "dreamy little Jiangnan".

✨Jiuzhou Ancient Town in Anshun, Guizhou, is located in the southeast of Xixiu District, Anshun City, Guizhou Province. It is 37 kilometers away from Anshun City and 75 kilometers away from Guiyang, the provincial capital. It is a historical and cultural town with harmonious development of multiple ethnic groups and a national AAAA tourist attraction. 🎊 "Jiuzhou, originally named Anshunzhou, was established in the 11th year of Yuanzheng (1351 AD) and has a history of more than 600 years. It used to be the seat of Anshunzhou. During the Chenghua period of the Ming Dynasty, the seat was moved to today's Anshun City, and this place became the old city of Anshun, hence the name 'Jiuzhou'. In the long history of Guizhou, Jiuzhou Ancient Town once held a high position and was the economic and political center of Qianzhong in ancient times." Han Yixi, a staff member of the Jiuzhou Town Tourism Development Service Center in Xixiu District, introduced, "Although Jiuzhou Ancient Town is located in the hinterland of Qianzhong, it still retains a large number of ancient buildings in the style of Jianghuai in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. This is due to the Tunbao culture formed by the garrison here in the Ming Dynasty. Today, the residents of the ancient town still retain the customs and habits of the Jianghuai area in terms of diet, clothing, and entertainment. It can be said that every brick and tile of the ancient town is deeply imprinted with Tunbao culture." 🌟 Although this ancient town is located in the hinterland of Qianzhong, it still retains a large number of ancient buildings in the style of Jiangnan in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Clothing, diet, folk beliefs, entertainment methods, etc., all maintain the customs of the Jiangnan area 600 years ago. Entering Jiuzhou Ancient Town, the heavy historical and cultural atmosphere is overwhelming, as if the multiple traverses of time and space make people instantly return to Jiangnan 600 years ago from the Yungui Plateau. This is because the Tunbao culture formed by the garrison here in the Ming Dynasty, a large number of soldiers, merchants and their families migrated from the Jiangnan area to this place, which is equivalent to moving the lifestyle of Jiangnan at that time to the Yungui Plateau as a whole, and miraculously preserved to this day. 💫 The historical pattern of the streets and alleys of Jiuzhou Ancient Town is well preserved. More than 20 ancient streets and alleys such as East, West, South and North Streets, Zhongjia Lane, Qidao Kan, Dayamen Lane, etc. crisscross. Traditional residential buildings such as Wanshou Palace, Qingyuan Palace, and Chenghuang Temple are distributed on both sides of the streets and alleys. The wooden houses, stacked stone courtyard walls, and lush plants that can be seen everywhere on the street together constitute the antique architectural style of Jiuzhou. 🌸 Jiuzhou Ancient Town is not overly commercialized and is very quiet, so quiet that it is even very suitable for solo travel. 🔥