[2025 Yongtai Attraction] Travel Guide for Songkou Ancient Town (Updated Apr)

Hey everyone, don't miss this itinerary when you come to Fuzhou! Explore the canyon scenery of Yongtai Cloud Top, experience the historical charm of Songkou Ancient Town, and embark on a cultural journey through Rongshui Yao. Top it off with a relaxing and rejuvenating hot spring experience, and you're guaranteed an unforgettable trip! -------------------- 🚗Suggested Route: Day 1: Songkou Town -> Rongshui Yao First, visit the quaint Songkou Town and immerse yourself in its rich history and culture. In the afternoon, head to Rongshui Yao, stroll along the water's edge, and enjoy the tranquility and harmony of nature. Day 2: Yongtai Cloud Top -> Cloud Top Tianchi Lake On the second day, delve into Yongtai Cloud Top and embark on a canyon adventure, pushing your limits. Ascend to Cloud Top Tianchi Lake in the evening to witness the breathtaking sunset and experience the grandeur and mystery of nature. Afterward, indulge in a rejuvenating hot spring experience to soothe your adventurous spirit and enjoy the nourishing and relaxing effects of the hot springs. -------------------- Recommended Attractions: 🌟 Yongtai Cloud Top: During spring, summer, and autumn, the terraced flower fields here offer a feast for the eyes, and the alpine meadows resemble green slopes, giving you a sense of peace and tranquility. 💧 Cloud Top Tianchi Lake: Here, you can witness the picturesque scenery of green mountains and clear waters against the backdrop of blue skies and white clouds, creating a unique and charming ambiance. It's a perfect spot for taking memorable photos. -------------------- Must-See Travel Tips: 🛫The airport is far from the city center, so it is recommended to book an airport transfer or car rental service in advance. 📸Sanfang Qixiang and Shangxiahang are both incredibly beautiful places to take photos, so don't miss them! 🎎Immerse yourself in local customs and experience Fuzhou's tea culture and hot springs. 🌧️Fuzhou experiences frequent rainfall, so remember to bring an umbrella ☔ just in case. 🍜Be sure to try Fuzhou's local snacks, such as fish balls and Rouyan (meat-filled wonton wrappers). -------------------- That's all for the Fuzhou trip! Don't forget to like + collect and share with your friends. Let's explore more of Fuzhou's beauty together next time! 🎉

Great weekend destinations, autumn delicacies, scenery, and hot springs.🏞️ Within an hour's drive from downtown Fuzhou, there lies a county known for its 'three abundances' - plenty of mountains, fruits, and hot springs. This is Yongtai of Fuzhou, a treasure garden hidden behind the scenes. ⛰️ The farmhouses stand on cliffs, facing the sea of clouds. With modular box architecture, they resemble spaceships from another world. The large floor-to-ceiling windows allow you to push the door open to see the green mountains, listen to the wind in the rice fields, and sleep amidst the fragrance of rice and clouds. 💃 Experience the traditional costumes of the She ethnic group and the ethnic customs within the farmhouse. 🍴 Taste the regional delicacies that vary with the seasons, with the most representative being the smoked duck with camellia oil, where the rich duck meat meets the strong aroma of tea oil. 🚗 A half-hour drive will take you to attractions such as Yunhu Valley, Tong'an Aijing Zhuang, and Baiji Gou. Wander around the ancient town that has stood for a thousand years and experience the intangible cultural heritage crafts. Attraction Guide: Qingyun Mountain Cloud Eye Gallery At this popular internet-famous spot, experience the cliff glass walkway with a vertical drop of 126m, and admire the magnificent landscape of Qingyun Mountain. You can also experience the glass drifting with nine twists and eighteen turns, soak in hot springs, and enjoy a light show when night falls, having fun from day to night! ⏰ Open from 9:00-21:00 (entry stops at 20:00) 🎫 Single item tickets after discount range from 80-120 yuan, with children's tickets around 50 yuan. Songkou Ancient Town Ancient houses, ancestral halls, old streets, and the old way of life make this place seem as if it's flowing with time sealed for a thousand years. In the corners of the ancient town, artisans of persimmon dyeing techniques protect cultural heritage, and here you can experience the intangible cultural heritage firsthand. Visit the ancient town's intangible cultural heritage snack shop at noon, taste Yongtai's special snacks like scallion pancakes, egg swallows, thread noodles, Jiuchong Gao, and enjoy a slow life on holidays! ⏰ Open all year round 🎫 Free admission Aijing Zhuang The name 'Aijing' means 'love for one's wife', and it is a countryside love story that has been passed down for a hundred years. Between the riverbank and the forest, in a huge manor, with swallowtail ridges, firewalls, ancient doors and windows, and 'creaking' stairs... it's ancient yet full of the breath of life. ⏰ Open all year round 🎫 Free admission .

📍Location: Songkou Ancient Town, Yongtai County, Fuzhou City, Fujian Province 🎟️Tickets: Completely free🆓 ⏰Opening hours: Welcome you 24/7 🚗Transportation: It takes about 1 hour by car from the center of Fuzhou. There is a paid parking lot🅿️ 【🏞️Attractions Highlights】 1️⃣Folk Museum: There are a wealth of farming tools and other cultural relics on display. It was once the site of a pharmaceutical company, taking you through time and space. 2️⃣ Crane-shaped Road: A unique road design that incorporates the concepts of the Five Elements and Eight Diagrams. Looking down from a high vantage point, you will find that this complex of buildings resembles a crane ready to fly. 3️⃣ Ancient ferry crossing: The gatehouse and columns are well preserved, and boats can still dock next to the stone steps. Imagine that the ferry boats once carried countless travelers across the Dachang River. 4️⃣ Dexinglou: There are snack shops lined up on both sides, and there are stalls selling traditional ficus pumila fruit. This jelly-like delicacy 🍮 is unique, don’t forget to try it! 😎 【🎭Customs Experience】: Lantern Festival Parade, Wuxian Temple Fair, Lin Gong Tour, experience the local traditional customs. 🌟Nearby exploration: [Aijingzhuang] The name of this manor means "loved wife". It is located between the river and the mountains, and is the owner's declaration of love to his wife. The antique doors and windows, the creaking stairs... every place is filled with a strong breath of life. 【🍽️Food Guide】: Egg bird's nest, scallion pancake, nine-layer cake, dried plum, and sukiyaki cake, let your taste buds take a journey! Come to Songkou Ancient Town and start your treasure hunt! 🎉👣🏰 ​

"Travel Guide" Songkou Ancient Town is an open scenic area with no admission fee! It's not overly commercialized, and the small shops along the street are mostly run by local residents, giving it a very authentic atmosphere. When visiting the ancient town, you must try the scrambled egg swallow dish, then head to a teahouse for a cup of plum green tea, and take a look at the town's introductory publications. ✅Transportation🚗: Just set your destination to "Yongtai County Songkou Ancient Town". ✅Attractions: "A Corner of the Ancient Town" ⛩ 👉Folk Museum Converted from an old pharmaceutical company, it houses farming tools and household items from the past, many of which are nostalgic. 👉Crane-shaped Road Songkou's famous internet-famous spot, built during the Song Dynasty, with a peculiar and winding path. From above, it looks like a crane ready to take flight. The entrance study is the "crane's beak", the winding path is the "crane's neck", and the cobblestones used for the walls symbolize the rice eaten by the crane, signifying prosperity for every household. The road leading to the Longkou ancestral house is inspired by the crane's symbolism of longevity and auspiciousness. The entrance is winding like a crane's neck, and the cobblestones are like grains of rice, wishing for the prosperity of the area. 👉Ancient Ferry "The bridal sedan chair crossing the ferry only charges four pieces of festive money", the ferry boats at the ferry cross back and forth, taking generations of people across the Zhangxi River ✅"Food Recommendations": Egg swallow, Jiuchong Gao, Li Gan, Scallion Pancake, Mouse-shaped Gao... 👉Egg Swallow: A must-have dish for Songkou banquets, made of eggs and flour, symbolizing happiness, longevity, and health (Recommended - "Zheng Ji Egg Swallow" is quite famous locally and is one of the important food checkpoints in the ancient town.) 👉Jiuchong Gao: Rice is ground into a pulp, poured layer by layer, and steamed, symbolizing climbing higher year by year 👉Scallion Pancake and Li Gan: It seems that every household is selling them, worth a try This weekend, invite them for a leisurely stroll through Songkou Ancient Town

A millennium-old town, the charming Songkou. Songkou Ancient Town is located in the southwestern part of Yongtai County, Fuzhou City, Fujian Province, with beautiful mountains and clear waters, and a simple and profound atmosphere. It is 82 kilometers away from Fuzhou City, and it takes more than an hour's drive. The transportation is convenient. Songkou Ancient Town covers an area of 257 square kilometers, with a population of 32,000. On both sides of the main street of the ancient town, shops stand in great numbers, and the street is bustling with people coming and going. There are many snacks on the street, such as egg swallows, nine-layer cakes, pickled vegetable pancakes, and red mushroom chicken soup, all of which are very delicious! Songkou Ancient Town formed a market during the Song Dynasty and has been established as a town since the Yuan Dynasty, with a history of a thousand years. The ancient town is a gathering place of culture, with many ancient residences, and is a famous historical and cultural town in China. Strolling along the main street of the ancient town, you will see: the Time-Space Post Office, the old site of the Songkou People's Court, the Songkou Supply and Marketing Cooperative, the umbrella shop, the cloth shop, the grocery store, the watch shop, the bamboo weaving shop, etc. Leisurely walking to the ancient pier, watching the Zhangxi River flow slowly, the ancient village smoke curling up, the eyes full of lush greenery, a beautiful pastoral life painting unfolds before your eyes, touching your heart. Looking back, an ancient building 'Dexing Building' stands at the ancient pier, which is a wooden structure. Its design is very unique, built along the slope, with flying eaves and corners, especially imposing! Admiring the superb carpentry skills of the ancients! Would you like to experience Songkou Ancient Town?

Appendix Eight of the Twelve National Treasures of Yongtai, Songkou Ancient Town, Longkou Ancestral House This house is one of the most famous tourist attractions in Songkou Ancient Town, a provincial cultural relics protection unit, the largest ancient house in Songkou. The most famous thing in the house is the crane-shaped road. It is said that it was built by the old Zheng family during the Southern Song Dynasty, and was helped by Zhang Shengjun, the master of the Lushan School of the Five Thunder Sect, but it was actually built during the Kangxi and Jiaqing periods. The introduction of the Zheng family is very few, just the local landlords in Songkou. Zhang Cixi, a man from Songkou, Yongtai, during the reign of Emperor Zhaozong at the end of the Tang Dynasty, was born as a poor cowherd boy. He learned witchcraft from his uncle Jiang, a god. It is said that he had a fairy fate and ate half a peach. He practiced Taoism in Fanghu Rock, Yongtai, and ascended in Jinsha, Minqing. Later, he joined the Lushan School established by Xu Jingyang at the bottom of the Minjiang River, mainly for demon suppression, plague elimination, rain request, and wealth seeking. It is said that he was smoked into a black face in a fight with the Five Pass Ghosts, and was sealed as the Master of the Five Thunder Sect on July by the Jade Emperor after a fight with Lei Gong. Because there are ten million believers in Taiwan, it is listed as a cultural protection in Fujian and Taiwan.

👉Tour route: Songkou Ancient Town-Spring Light Village (about 40 minutes drive between the two places - ⛳Yongtai County Songkou Ancient Town Nowadays, most ancient towns are too commercialized Songkou is a simple but full of life place It has a history of thousands of years, peaceful and simple in the dust Backed by green mountains, surrounded by green water, the old house is newly built but still green bricks and black tiles - 🥳Tour tips: ✨The main road of Songkou is a straight street, one side leads to the ancient ferry through the commercial street, and the other side leads to the ancient house; if you encounter a favorite alley, just go in, and you can feel the charm of the ancient town to the greatest extent by walking into the local life ✨You can try the local farmers' own egg swallows, candied fruit, plum wine, onion pancakes, etc. ✨Attractions: Crane-shaped Road, Ancient Ferry, Dexing Building, Folk Museum - ⛳Yongtai County Spring Light Village Yongtai version of "Yunshui Ballad" A dozen ancient banyan trees on the side of the ancient pier overlap Reflected in the ripples of the green water It seems to be in a ink painting Camping on the shore, making a pot of tea, and finding the long-lost relaxation There are cruise ships at the pier, you can take a boat to visit the mountains and rivers, and it looks good to take pictures at will 🥳It is a place suitable for relaxing or parent-child travel during the Spring Festival - 🏮Why not take advantage of the Spring Festival holiday and come to Yongtai to experience the slow time of living by the water

Fuzhou Treasure Ancient Town 📸 Small-scale 0-yuan check-in 🚘 Self-driving tour recommendation 📍Address: Songkou Ancient Town, Yongtai County, Fuzhou City, Fujian Province 🎫Tickets: 🆓Free ⏰Opening hours: All day 🚘Transportation: About 1 hour from Fuzhou city, there is a paid parking lot🅿️ 【🏞️Attractions Recommendation】: 1️⃣Folk Museum: It displays many agricultural items from that time, and its predecessor was a pharmaceutical company. 2️⃣ Crane-shaped Road: This is a unique road of the Five Elements and Eight Diagrams, which is unique in the world. From a high vantage point, the architectural pattern of this area looks like a crane spreading its wings and ready to fly. 3️⃣ Ancient Ferry: The gatehouse and columns are well preserved, and boats can be moored beside the stone steps. The ferry boats come and go, carrying generation after generation of people across the Dachang River. 4️⃣ Dexing Building: There are many snack shops on both sides of the building. 🫒 There is also a stall selling the only inherited Xili fruit, which tastes like jelly🍮. You can try it. After all, it is exclusive😎 【💃🏻Customs and Folkways】: Lantern Festival Parade, Wuxian Temple Fair, Lin Gong Outing 🔆Nearby attractions: [Aijingzhuang] The name of the village "Aijing" means "loved wife". Between the river and the mountains, there is a huge village fortress. It was built at great expense by the owner at that time in order to thank his wife and publicly swear that he loved her. Old doors and windows, creaky stairs...old yet full of life. 【🍜Food recommendations】: 🥚Egg bird's nest, 🫓Scallion pancake, Jiuchong cake, dried plum, Shuqu cake...

The ancient town of Qikou is the only historical and cultural town in Fuzhou.