The most primitive ancient city - Shiping

Shiping Ancient City should be considered the least ancient-feeling ancient city. Apart from the quaint main gate and the Confucian Temple Academy that you have to search for, everything else lives in the present. Inside the ancient city, there is no deliberate antiquing; barbershops, small shops, vegetable markets, and pavilions where elderly people play chess, men and women chat in the middle of the road, and young parents watch their children play in the corridors—all reflect the daily life of the indigenous residents. But even so, the Confucian Temple complex, which has come from 700 years ago with a scholarly atmosphere, bridges history and modernity with its unique sense of gravity, allowing the cultural heritage to be passed down in this way...