The Ancient Architecture of China: Fengwa Ancient Village

✅ Fengwa Ancient Village Scenic Area is located in Fenghuang Town, Xinzhou District, Wuhan City, 65 kilometers away from the central urban area of Wuhan. It is a culturally distinctive national 4A-level scenic spot and has been featured in the CCTV program 'Beautiful China Countryside Tour'. The planned area of the scenic spot is 3325 acres, integrating ancient architecture display, folk experience, antique exchange, intangible cultural heritage inheritance, leisure vacation, national studies health preservation, specialty food, and interactive entertainment; it possesses the largest Ming and Qing ancient architectural complex and themed specialty museums in Central China. The scenic area has unique and irreplaceable resources in traditional culture, ancient architecture intangible cultural heritage, and entrepreneurial inspiration. The scenic area includes more than 20 Ming and Qing ancient buildings such as Xiangxi Tower, National Studies Hall, Ceramics Workshop, Guo's Mansion, Tao Rui Imperial Physician, Brewery, Theater, Four Gentlemen's Garden, Boya Pavilion, and Ziyun Pavilion. 🌟 Embracing traditional architectural art, inheriting the essence of Chinese culture. Fengwa Ancient Village is committed to building itself into a base for the inheritance, demonstration, and experience of traditional Chinese culture with its unique ancient architectural resources and folk experience features. ✳️ Jiulong Wall🗺️ ✨ Passing through the ancient village gatehouse, what comes into view is a stone wall, named 'Jiulong Wall' because it is carved with nine dragons🐉. Its main body consists of nine dragons, and the roof of the Wu Dian top has five ridges, with its design and decoration embodying the imperial and royal symbolism of the number nine-five. Guo's Mansion🏯 ✨ Guo's Mansion, with its 'blue bricks, small tiles, and horse-head walls🏯, corridors with hanging flower lattice windows,' is a unique style of Ming and Qing Hui-style architecture. The owner, Guo Qing, styled Shanfu, also known as Yipo, was a person from the Chenghua period of the Ming Dynasty, with unknown birth and death years, and is now a resident of Sanwu Village in Fenghuang Town. Xiangxi Tower🛕 ✨ Xiangxi Tower belongs to the 'courtyard' layout, which is one of the characteristics of residences in the south of the Yangtze River, with functions of lighting, ventilation, and heat dissipation. International Imagery Ceramics Village ✨ International Imagery Ceramics Village🏺, carrying on China's long history of ceramic culture, features the folk ceramics of Makou Kiln in the Hubei region. National Studies Hall ✨ The National Studies Hall is an old house from the late Ming and early Qing period, about 400 years old, originally built in Fujian and relocated here in its entirety for preservation. Theater🏤 ✨ The theater was originally a clan hall of a wealthy family from the early Qing Dynasty, with a history of over 300 years, originally built in Jingdezhen, Jiangxi. It has been carefully designed to preserve the overall framework and restore the old as it was. Four Gentlemen's Garden ✨ A person of virtue is a gentleman, and those with virtue are honored to stay in our Four Gentlemen's Garden. Tao Rui Imperial Physician Workshop🏥 ✨ The reenactment of an ancient medical hall, displaying counters, medicine cabinets, hoop chairs, drum stools, book cabinets, examination tables, screen furniture, and other historical items, with famous doctors on hand to take pulses and consult. Ancient Architecture Restoration Center ✨ Through the restoration and reproduction of ancient buildings, the scenic area scientifically summarizes these experiences, inheriting and promoting the decorative arts of Chinese ancient architecture, such as wood carving, stone carving, brick carving, glazed tiles, colored painting, murals, plastic decoration, inlay, stacking, etc., possessing extremely high artistic value. 📍Address: Fengwa Ancient Village, Fenghuang Town, Xinzhou District, Wuhan City ⏰Business Hours: 08:00-17:30 🎫Ticket Price: 40 RMB per person