Autumn is a good time to travel. Guangdong has a large number of the most beautiful villages where you can see mountains, see water, and remember to live in homesickness. If you have completed most of the famous attractions, you may wish to follow Le Wanjun to find a new path and explore the long-lost memory of poetic dwelling in the countryside.

Guangdong countryside loves you. This travel note collects rich and detailed content such as scenic spots and local cuisine. It hopes to bring some valuable reference opinions to some fans who have the feelings of ancient villages in Guangdong. Let's take a look.

Schedule:

Day 1:
Guangzhou Hotel → Xiaozhou Village → Kaiping Diaolou → Zhuhai
Morning: Visit [Xiaozhou Village]
Afternoon: Go to Jiangmen to visit [Kaiping Diaolou]


The next day:
Zhuhai → Qiao Ancient Road → Zhongshan → Cuiheng New Village → Guangzhou → Huangpu Ancient Port → Home
Morning: Visit [Lovers Road] Lovers Road is a symbol of Zhuhai city.
Then visit the Qiao Ancient Road
Afternoon: Take a bus to Guangzhou and visit the Huangpu Ancient Port
End the happy journey!

Xiaozhou Village is the most ancient village found in the Urban area of Guangzhou with the characteristics of Lingnan water town. It has been listed as one of the first batch of historical and cultural protected areas in Guangzhou City and has been rated as an Ecological Demonstration Village in Guangdong Province. Walking into Xiaozhou Village is like walking into a folk museum.

The history of Xiaozhou Village can start from the end of the Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of the Ming Dynasty. The village still retains the life style of people with small bridges and flowing water in the Lingnan water town.

The century-old banyan trees that can be seen everywhere in the village are shaded and cover the sun. Residential buildings are built along the river, and residents live on their backs. People who like Xiaozhou will think that this is an ancient village with artistic flavor even in their bones.

After we got off the bus, the first attraction was Xiaozhou People's Auditorium. The tour guide introduced this as a place where the commune used to have collective meals.

More than 50 years later, the exterior wall of the auditorium still retains the characteristics of public buildings in the Soviet era. There is a bright red five-pointed star in the middle with the six characters "Xiaozhou People's Auditorium" written on it, and "Xinjiao Commune in the Suburb of Guangzhou" above the auditorium. With the changes of the times, things that have disappeared are re-revealed in front of our eyes.

Walking through the village, you can still see some oil paintings, slogans, and portraits of Mao Zedong from the Great Leap Forward and the period still on the walls. These are the most distinctive things of the times, which are very suitable for people like me who like nostalgia to stroll around.

The ancient charm of Lingnan in Xiaozhou Village

Xiaozhou Village was called "Yingzhou" in ancient times. It is said that it dates back to the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period. Because Xiaozhou Village won the championship in a dragon boat race, Liu Yan, the late ruler of the Southern Han Dynasty, was very happy and praised it.

Xiaozhou's ancient buildings, small bridges, ancient trees, ancient alleys, and ancient docks are all worth visiting one by one. Dengying Wharf, built in the late Song Dynasty and early Ming Dynasty, is one of the must-check attractions.

The dock is more than 500 years old, and the stone building the dock is still stable today. It is the best preserved dock in the village. There is a huge banyan village that lives forever. The elderly people in the village always like to sit under the shade of the trees and enjoy the shade.

In terms of gameplay, you can try to chat with these residents of Xiaozhou Village, learn about the history and past of Xiaozhou Village, and listen to the stories of different people.

The villagers of Xiaozhou Village used to mainly grow melons and fruits. The village is surrounded by water on all sides, with a river network and a large number of fruit trees. Xiaozhou Shixia longan, lychee, carambola and other Lingnan fruits are most famous.

In ancient times, it mainly relied on water transportation, so Dengying Wharf was Xiaozhou's main foreign trade center port.

Under drone aerial photography, the "10,000-acre orchard" on the edge of the Pearl River consists of Yingzhou Ecological Park and nearby fruit forests, totaling about 20000 acres. These green spaces are also called the "southern lung" of Guangzhou people.

If you continue to delve deeper, you will find many buildings with emotional ties between local residents 'clans, such as the Sihai Gong Temple built in the Qing Dynasty, the Yuemei Jian Gong Temple built in the Ming Dynasty, etc.

The largest Jian's ancestral temple in the village was built during the Qilong period of the Qing Dynasty. It is more than 500 years old. It is commonly known as "Jiagao Hall" by villagers. The top frame of the ancestral hall is carved with exquisite workmanship, with some patterns that imply auspicious signs such as "blooming flowers and wealth" and "everlasting descendants".

It used to be a place where ancestors were worshipped and clansmen held meetings. Now there are some table tennis tables inside for villagers to entertain and exercise.

In addition, there are many representative folk beliefs, including the Beidi Ancient Temple, Yuxu Palace, Tianhou Palace, and Jianfo Ancestral Temple.

Oyster Shell House is a unique building in Lingnan Water Town. Not many of it has been preserved in Guangzhou. It is an important historical material for studying Lingnan Water Town. Therefore, when visiting Xiaozhou Village, you must check in at the "Oyster Shell House" to experience the use of oyster shells as building materials. The special charm of building materials.

It is said that the oyster shell house is warm in winter and cool in summer. It is made of piled oyster shells. The oyster shells are combined side by side, and the oyster shells are built with yellow mud. Because they do not accumulate rain and are not afraid of insect erosion, they are very suitable for the local climate of Lingnan.

The Oyster Shell House has a history of at least five to six hundred years. Because the outer layer has been weathered for years, all the oyster shells have been exposed, showing a unique texture effect. From this, we can understand the wisdom of the ancient villagers of Xiaozhou.

There is also a Sima Mansion next to the oyster shells. You can also visit it along with it. It was built in the Qing Dynasty and there are still three "gun holes" for shooting on the walls. It is a residential house with defensive functions.

There are many stone bridges in Xiaozhou Village, Lingnan Water Town. The most famous one is the Hanmo Bridge, which was built in the Ming Dynasty. It is made of granite strips and rocks. Villagers often sit on the stone bridge railings. It is said that more than 20 people can sit at the same time.

The name of this bridge is interesting, Mama Bridge

There is a dessert shop next to the bridge. If you are tired from walking, you can sit together and have some snacks and rest.

In addition to ancient buildings, towering ancient trees are also a sight in the small continent: ancient banyan trees, autumn maple trees, kapok trees, camphor trees, ancient longan trees, etc. Looking at these thick tree bodies, it is estimated that the age is at least 200 years old.

Xiaozhou Village's unique water town environment and profound cultural heritage have attracted many young literary and artistic artists to seek their dreams and create art. It has become the first choice for artists in Lingnan and even across the country to seek creative inspiration, sketch and take photos.

If you want to stay away from the colorful life and find a leisurely place in the metropolis, you may wish to visit Xiaozhou Village and experience its unique history and Lingnan water town atmosphere.

Tickets: Free

Walking is the best way to travel

Traffic directions:
1. You can take BRT25 (Tianhe Sports Center towards Gangding) to the vast living area, turn to 35, 565, and 310 to get off at Yingzhou Ecological Park. The whole journey is estimated to take 40 minutes.
2. Take the subway and exit at the "University Town South Station", head to the bus stop 100 meters in the direction of Guangdong University of Technology, and get off at Yingzhou Ecological Park from No. 86.
3. There are also Panyu 310; Wende Road 35; Yide East 86; Suiyan Road 565, Foshan
4. Fruit: At the bottom of the South China Express viaduct outside the village, there are a variety of fruits freshly supplied. Remember to ask more prices. Sometimes the prices of front gear and rear gear are very different.

The most beautiful village in the world, Kaiping Diaolou

Early autumn is the right time to travel. There is no boredom and impatience in summer, nor is there any Xiao Heliang in late autumn. It is said that Su Dongpo, a famous man in the Song Dynasty, also liked to visit various places in early autumn. For the second stop of the Guangdong rural tour, we came to Kaiping, a famous hometown of overseas Chinese in China. The most distinctive thing in the area is the watchtowers of different styles.

Kaiping watchtowers and villages are highly praised by United Nations world heritage experts as "the most beautiful villages in the world". The existing 1833 watchtowers are harmoniously integrated with the surrounding countryside and villages, forming a unique pastoral scenery that integrates Chinese and Western cultures.

Diaolou is a witness to the active absorption of foreign culture by Chinese local culture. It is known as a monument to Chinese overseas Chinese culture and a "shocking architectural art corridor".

Kaiping Diaolou is the area with the largest number of watchtowers preserved in Lingnan and even in the country. After the restoration, the five major scenic spots that are open to tourists are Liyuan, Zili Village Wataolou Group, Majianglong Wataolou Group, Nanlou and Jinjiangli Wataolou Group.

You need to purchase tickets separately, or you can also buy a joint ticket to visit. However, we had limited time and only selected the most expensive park among all the watchtowers for a half-day tour.

Liyuan is a garden-style villa built by Xie Weili, an overseas Chinese living in the United States, at the beginning of the last century. Relying on the Grand View Garden depicted in "Dream of the Red Chamber", it integrates the charm of classical gardens with the contemporary and popular villa architectural features of Europe and America, presenting a unique architectural art. The beauty of art.

The Liyuan is a unique place in the culture of overseas Chinese in China. Among many watchtowers, the garden layout is known for. The overall layout of the Liyuan is divided into three areas: large garden, small garden and villa, but they are all self-contained and separated by artificial canals and walls., and connected by bridge pavilions and Tongtian corridors, it can be said that there is a garden in the garden, which is thought-provoking. (The picture shows the bronze statue of Xie Weili, the garden owner)

The artificial canal used to separate the garden and the villa, shaded by large trees on the embankment, has beautiful scenery, and is a good place to take photos.

The Wanxiang Pavilion, built in 1936, is a bridge pavilion built by Xie Weili, the garden owner, for his beloved wife. The pavilion is two-story high, spans north and south, has a glazed tile roof, stone rice walls, and both sides of the bridge are east-west.

Mr. Wu Daorong, a calligrapher in the late Qing Dynasty, wrote the book "Wanxiang Pavilion" for the pavilion, and wrote the word "Wan" so that it could be read both "Wan" and "Dawn": when the rising sun rises east, it is the Xiaoxiang Pavilion, and when the sun sets west, it is the Wanxiang Pavilion. The harmony of ideas and scenes is amazing.

Panli Tower combines the essence of Eastern and Western architecture. It is three and a half stories high. Its exterior has yellow walls and green tiles, and flying eaves and arched arches, which is unique to the ancient style of Chinese palaces. European and American windows and ancient Roman pillars are full of Western flavor and very artistic appreciation. value.

Diaolou also represents Lingnan local culture and Kaiping murals. These murals were painted by local folk traditional craftsmen.

The owner used painting to show his longing for life on the walls of the simple watchtower to express his hope for a better future and also represented his inspiration to future generations.

The murals are extremely exquisite and rich in colors. Behind each mural is a description of a famous folk story, which is full of a sense of the times.

In the living room on the first floor, this mural contains ancient poems. The meaning behind each mural is something about peace, blessings and blessings.

In addition to beautiful murals, wood carving art is also unique ~

The thing that attracts the most attention of tourists in the living room on the second floor is the treasure of the town and garden. The gold-painted wood carving "Fengshen List" is exquisite and the composition is unique. The upper layer is the photo platform of "The Great Seal of the Six Kingdoms", and the lower layer is the general platform of "Jiang Zi Ya Dian".

In Diaolou, local elements are the continuation of the imperial family's aura. There is an ancestral shrine and murals on the roof. The craftsmanship is exquisite and amazing.

The floor is also designed with patterns and patterns, which are exquisite and equally impressive.

Take you back to the old times and experience different Republican trends

Panli Building is where the garden owner Xie Weili and his wife live. There are four wives living in it, the odd wives are on the second floor and the even wives are on the third floor.

The life of the hostess of Limiyuan is also very modern. Interior decoration and household facilities are introduced from abroad. The bathroom also uses foreign flush toilets and American bathtubs.

The glazed tiles in the building were used by the Chinese royal family. Even a small window room can reveal luxury unseen in other famous gardens.

The display in the room is luxurious, with exquisite silver Western-style tableware and beautiful blue flowered windows.

There are master rooms on both sides of the living room in the layout. There are Western-style gold boxes, safes, spring mattresses, exquisite rattan mats, etc. at that time, and the furniture is very Western.

There is a kitchen on every floor of Panli Building, which is a major feature of Kaiping Building. There is a popular saying among locals,"There are many kitchens, many stoves, and many people." After careful observation, the kitchen facilities are extremely luxurious and modern, with hand-operated water pumps, copper kettles, pans for cooking steak, and even hanging cupboards.

Fireplace, foreign lanterns and famous porcelain, all of which reflect the hostess's romantic feelings of advocating Western life.

Representative of overseas Chinese culture, Kaiping Diaolou

Kaiping Carved Tower is a special type of Chinese vernacular architecture. The role of watchtowers is to prevent banditry, so it is designed as a multi-storey tower-style building that integrates defense, living, and Chinese and Western architectural arts.

I saw that the doors and windows in the watchtower were particularly large and the walls were thick. The tour guide said that the doors and windows were imported from Germany at that time. The windows and doors were made of thick steel plates. The building cement was also imported from Europe and the United States. It was very strong and highly defensive.

Kaiping Diaolou was first built in the late Ming Dynasty and took shape in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. There were more than 3,000 buildings in their heyday. According to different functions, they can be divided into public buildings, residential buildings, watchtowers, etc. Panlilou is the most exquisite representative of the residential building.

There are also watchtowers such as Letian Tower, Jionglu, and Minglu in the Liyuan Villa Group, but the architectural styles are not much different. Yupei Villa, located at the outermost edge of the villa area, is also worth visiting in detail.

Yupei Villa was built in 1936. It was built by the owner for his beloved wife Tan Yuying. The villa was named after the owner Xie Weili. The Yupei Villa Building is actually five-story high, but when viewed from the front, it looks like four-story. The four-story buildings are imitation of ancient Chinese style, Japanese bedroom style, Italian Tibetan style, and Roman Palace style.

Kaiping Diaolou is the most distinctive representative of overseas Chinese culture in Guangdong. It is diverse and combines Chinese and Western cultures, stretching for hundreds of miles and is spectacular. It solidifies history, art, and folk customs.

As the years pass, time passes, people gather and disperse, and everything grows, interpreting the stories of joys and sorrows from generation to generation.

The Qiao Ancient Road was once a window for Chinese people to open their eyes to the world

The most beautiful rural tour in Guangdong, Guangdong's post road culture, has rich historical connotations; revisiting the ancient post road in South Guangdong is also an indispensable part of experiencing Lingnan's characteristic culture.

Under drone aerial photography, the relics of the Qiao Ancient Road were hidden in the Wugui Mountains. It was one of the important passages of the Maritime Silk Road at that time and one of the only passages where people opened their eyes to see the world. It represented half of Xiangshan. Modern history.

In ancient times, Xiangshan included present Zhongshan City and Zhuhai, and Macau was also under the jurisdiction of Xiangshan County.

At that time, there were two roads to choose from Zhongshan to Macau. In the north, you would reach Macau by boat and waterway, and in the south, you would follow the Qiao Ancient Road to Macau.

The "Qi" of the "Qiao" Ancient Road refers to Shiqi, Xiangshan County, which is now the Shiqi Urban area of Zhongshan City, and "Ao" refers to Macau.

Wuyi and Xiangshan are famous overseas Chinese towns in Guangdong. Many of the first generation of Chinese workers who went overseas to work hard at that time traveled to Macau through the Qiao Ancient Road, and then took boats to Hong Kong or overseas.

They saw a new world along the Qiao Ancient Road, turned their heads to look at the pigtails behind their heads and the riddled Qing Dynasty, and began to think about the future of China.

In their mouth, the Qiao Ancient Road is called "the window through which Chinese people can see the world and represent half of the history of Xiangshan Mountain."

Qiao Ancient Road and Historical Celebrities

There are not many historical documents about the Qiao Ancient Road, but the records in Lin Zexu's diary are particularly precious. They even let future generations know the general trajectory of the Qiao Ancient Road.

In 1839, Macau was a disaster area for opium smuggling. In view of Macau's special status, Lin Zexu decided to blockade Macau, and together with Deng Tingzhen, the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, led his troops to Xiangshan County and went to Macau.

Lin Zexu arrived in Macau through Xiangshan Ancient Post Road on this trip. On September 3, 1839, Lin Zexu inspected Macau.

In his diary, Lin Zexu wrote: "On the 25th, it was sunny. Mao carved out the south gate... From Shigu to the smooth flood on the ridge, it spans ten miles... Another ten miles to Yongmo, where I ate in the Zheng Temple... Another ten miles ago, I lived in the Dusi Office..."

The "Pingjing Flood on the Ridge" in the diary is the ruins of Yunjing Temple.

Unfortunately, the ground building of Yunjing Temple was demolished in 1950. Today, on the site, only some broken walls hidden among the grass and trees, and blue bricks and broken tiles scattered on the ground are left. It reveals a simple and desolate beauty in silence.

The Qi 'ao Ancient Road Management Company has set up a new sign next to the site, which has written some speculative introductions about the construction of Yunjing Temple. Standing here and listening to the wind and rain of the forest, standing here feels like returning to the historical scene.

Another famous person associated with the Qiao Ancient Road was Zheng Guanying. He donated money at that time to build the "Ten Useless Motto" written by Lin Zexu after his tour of Macau into the inscription "Xu Zhenjun Motto" and place it near Yunjing Temple.

Walking down the Qiao Ancient Road, Yunjing Temple is Zheng Guanying's hometown, Yongmo Village.

Zheng Guanying was an outstanding enlightening thinker in modern times and wrote the masterpiece "Dangerous Words in a Prosperous Era".

Some people once said that the earth-shaking and shocking work "The Times of Prosperity" would only appear in Xiangshan, Guangdong, in the old days, the first place to open its eyes to the world.

The Qiao Ancient Road is an important channel connecting Chinese and Western civilizations in modern China. Sun Yat-sen, the great revolutionary pioneer, was born in Cuiheng Village not far from the ancient road. In his youth, Sun Yat-sen often followed his father and brother to travel between Zhongshan and Macau through the Qiao Ancient Road.

On May 27, 1912, Sun Yat-sen returned to his hometown from Macau via the Qi 'ao Ancient Road.

Exploring the secret of playing the Qiao Ancient Road

The Qiao Ancient Road was formed in the middle of the Ming Dynasty. In the early years of the Qing Dynasty, it was already a major post road for officials and businessmen. It was not until 1936, when the entire modern highway from Shiqi to Macau was opened to traffic, that gradually subsided.

After revitalizing rural tourism in Guangdong, after renovation, the Qiao Ancient Road has now become a paradise for mountain climbers in Zhuhai and Zhongshan areas.

There is a free parking lot at the Qi 'ao Ancient Road Station. You can park the car and walk up the mountain for a self-driving tour. The whole journey of the Qi' ao Ancient Road is 70 kilometers. According to your physical fitness and within your ability, you can choose to only walk a short way like me. Experience it.
In the front section of the ancient road, the road surface has been renovated and leveled, and the road signs along the way are clear, making it very suitable for junior hikers.

If you continue to deepen, you will become more and more primitive, and what remains is the ancient road paved with ancient stones.

Mount Wugui is south of the Tropic of Cancer. The weather is warm and humid all year round. In the dense mountains and forests, there are many beautiful scenery that people will never forget to leave, like the colorful flowers on both sides of the ancient road.

Along the ancient mountain road, you will go up and down to the viewing platform. You will see the green ancient trees and overlook the rolling mountains. The breeze will come slowly and make it extremely refreshing.

Standing here, you can see the pile of powder brick and green tiled buildings at the foot of the mountain. The tour guide said that these are the villa areas with the highest prices in Zhongshan now.

Across mountains and ridges, the greatest charm of the Qiao Ancient Road lies in the anecdotes of celebrities related to the ancient road. It is the changes brought about by their ideological innovation after they opened their eyes to the world. It is also under the radiation of this culture that Zhongshan and even southern Guangdong have become China's earliest transition to modern civilization. Even today, many years later, this place is still at the forefront of China's integration with world civilization.

Sun Yat-sen former residence Memorial Hall

The Qiao Ancient Road is an important channel connecting Chinese and Western civilizations in modern China. Famous figures in modern Chinese history were born on both sides of the ancient road. These ancient villages are also cultural treasures on the ancient post roads in South Guangdong and an indispensable part of Lingnan culture.

Following the anecdotes of celebrities on the Qiao Ancient Road, after lunch in Yamen, we came to Cuiheng Village, Sun Yat-sen's hometown.

Cuiheng Village, looking at traditional folk houses in Lingnan

Cuiheng Village was built during the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty. Due to the green mountains and forests nearby, the gurgling water in the pits, the beautiful scenery, and the homophonic pronunciation of "Cai" and "Cui" and "Keng" and "Heng" in the local dialect, which also means that everything is prosperous, it was renamed Cuiheng in the early years of Daoguang in the Qing Dynasty.

Cuiheng Village is rich in historical and cultural resources, and there are 68 existing traditional houses, reflecting the characteristics and styles of traditional houses in Lingnan during the Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China.

In terms of types, there are rich families, poor families, medium-sized farmers, families of relatives of overseas Chinese, traditional Chinese medicine shops, grocery stores, barber shops, watchtowers, bamboo weaving workshops, woodware workshops, etc.

It three-dimensionally reproduces the living conditions of Sun Yat-sen from all walks of life in Cuiheng Village, allowing us to understand the historical environment of this great man's early growth and appreciate some of the folk customs of the Pearl River Delta.

The streets in the village are paved with stone slabs, showing a "well"-shaped plan, crisscrossing and extending in all directions. Hexing Street, Zhongheng Street and Zhongxing Street are the most important streets in the village and are antique.

There are many gray carvings, wood carvings and murals on the gate walls of Cuiheng Village, which are lifelike and very simple.

Although Cuiheng Village is small, everywhere you look up and step into are historic monuments and famous former residences. A crack can be seen on the stone plaque at the village gate. It is said that it exploded when Sun Yat-sen and Lu Haodong were trial-producing bombs in 1892.

The gate of "Rui connects Changgeng". It is one of the four original village gates in Cuiheng Village. The locals call it the gate. There are five wooden pillars inside the gate, and there are gray sculptures with patterns such as sun and flowers on the top of the gate.

Zhenyi Hall. Also known as the Yang's Chaoyi Dafu Temple, it was built in the Qing Dynasty and has a three-bay building layout. It is a representative building for the residences of wealthy families in the Qing Dynasty.

There are also many friends in Cuiheng Village who have known Sun Yat-sen since childhood, such as Lu Haodong, Yang Yin, Yang Minru and Yang Heling, who eventually became important partners in his revolutionary career. Today, their former residences are all preserved in Cuiheng Village as they are.

House designed by celebrities

There are many houses where celebrities have lived, but houses designed and built by celebrities themselves are rare.

Sun Yat-sen's former residence is a two-story building that combines Chinese and Western architecture. Its external structure and decoration are in Western classical architectural style, while its internal structure and furnishings belong to the traditional form of local folk houses, using traditional Chinese furniture. It faces east, which is different from the direction of sitting west to east in Cuiheng Village; there are many doors, windows and passages.

The main building was built by Sun Yat-sen's brother Sun Mei who remitted money from Honolulu in 1892, and was designed and built by Sun Yat-sen himself.

The exterior of the main building is in Western classical architectural style, while the interior structure and furnishings belong to the traditional form of local folk houses.

There is a sour tree on the left side of the front yard. It is said that Sun Yat-sen brought it back from Honolulu in the ninth year of Guangxu of the Qing Dynasty (1883) and planted it himself. After 1931, the tree was blown down by a typhoon and grew into this shape.

The backyard has a kitchen, bathroom, toilet and utility room, which was built by Sun Mei when she returned to her hometown around 1913.

There is a copper sculpture of "Root" in front of his former residence. In his childhood, Sun Yat-sen often listened to Feng Guanshuang telling the story of Hong Xiuquan and the Taiping Rebellion in front of his house. Sun Yat-sen later recalled that his idea of equal land rights first sprouted at this time.

Cuiheng Village Farming Culture Exhibition

Cuiheng Village has a beautiful natural environment, simple folk customs, clean and tidy village appearance, and maintains a large area of pastoral scenery and seascape wetlands. After coming out of Sun Yat-sen's former residence, we passed through an underground tunnel and came to "Longtian".

Longtian is a piece of cultivated land outside Cuiheng Village, of which two acres of land were rented and cultivated by Sun Yat-sen's parents. According to data, Sun Yat-sen was like an ordinary farm child in his childhood. He often followed his eldest sister Sun Miaoxi to cut firewood and cut grass. When he was older, he followed his father to go to the field to transplant seedlings and weed.

Because his family was poor and could not afford to buy cattle, Sun Yat-sen had to raise cattle for others for a few months every year in exchange for the cow owner's agreement to use the cattle to help his family plow the fields.

Sun Yat-sen later told Soong Ching Ling many times that from then on, he had thought that "the lives of Chinese farmers should not be so difficult." His idea of equal land rights also sprouted at this time.

The farming culture display is divided into rice farming areas, traditional crops areas, and "modern agricultural display areas" that introduce modern agricultural methods such as the unique agricultural ecology of the Pearl River Delta, livestock and poultry breeding areas, and soilless cultivation, so as to facilitate tourists to understand the Pearl River Delta. Agricultural culture.

Display of intangible cultural heritage projects in Zhongshan City

Intangible cultural heritage is an intangible and living cultural heritage passed down from generation to generation by mankind through word of mouth and heart. It is a nation's ancient life memory and living cultural gene, embodying the wisdom and spirit of a nation.

In Zhongshan, a land of outstanding people, there is rich intangible cultural heritage. On the wall of Cuiheng Village, there is an intangible cultural heritage display area of Zhongshan City. The exhibition hall is divided into four parts: song, dance, food and art.

Through pictures, words, videos, objects, and simulated scenes, Zhongshan's local traditional music, dance, skills, drama, folk customs, entertainment and acrobatics are displayed. Zhongshan City is included in the national, provincial and municipal intangible cultural heritage list.

Drunken Dragon Dance is a unique totem dance in Zhongshan. It originated in the Song Dynasty and flourished in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. It is popular in Changzhou Village, West Zhongshan District and spread in Macau. It is a national-level intangible cultural heritage.

The Xiaolan Chrysanthemum Festival flourished in Jiaqing of the Qing Dynasty (1814). It was agreed by the Xiaolan gentry to hold a chrysanthemum festival every year in the year of Jiaxu. Xiaolan Chrysanthemum Collection is a collection of chrysanthemums enjoying, chanting, and tasting chrysanthemums. It has rich cultural connotations and was announced by the State Council as one of the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage lists.

Next to Cuiheng Village, there is also the Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall to visit. It contains some objects that Sun Yat-sen once lived and used. The air conditioning inside is adequate and very cool.

Tips: The Memorial Hall of Sun Yat-sen's Former Residence is free. At the entrance, you can redeem tickets with your ID card.

Huangpu Ancient Port is a historical witness to the culture of Nanyue Water Post Road

Tour the most beautiful rural and ancient towns in Guangdong. After climbing the Qiao Ancient Road, an important node of the "Maritime Silk Road" in the morning, I returned to Guangzhou in the afternoon to go deep into the Huangpu Ancient Village and Port to visit the origin of the ancient Maritime Silk Road.

Huangpu Ancient Port is an important historical carrier for China in the process of trade globalization and a historical witness to the culture of Nanyue Water Post Road. It is also a unique spatial carrier for the coexistence of Guangdong villages and ancient coastal towns. At the same time, the ancient village is also a popular place for citizens to play and relax. It is fun and delicious without cost, and has high cultural tourism value.

Huangpu Ancient Port was formed during the Song Dynasty and has a history of thousands of years. It is a representative of marine culture. Since the Qing government promulgated the one-port trade policy in 1757, it became the only open port in the country at that time. Foreign merchant ships were only allowed to dock at the Huangpu Ancient Port to handle unloading, customs clearance and return procedures. The Huangpu Ancient Port was known as the "place where sea ships gathered."

According to records, the merchant ship "Gothenburg" arrived here three times, establishing China's status as the origin point of the "Maritime Silk Road". During its heyday, more than 5,000 overseas merchant ships docked on the shore. The area from the thirteen voyages to Huangpu Ancient Village is full of sails on the river and shuttled back and forth, which is very spectacular.

Under aerial photography, we can see that the current Huangpu Ancient Port is adjacent to Xingang East Road in the north, facing Luntou across Huangpu Chung in the south, facing the East Ring Expressway in the west, and facing Changzhou and Shajing in the east across the Pearl River.

Gugang Ancient Village is full of precious historical relics

As the starting point of the Maritime Silk Road, Huangpu Ancient Port Ancient Village has preserved a large number of precious historical relics and cultural relics, showing tourists unique Lingnan characteristic buildings.

According to the "Annals of Place Names of Guangzhou City", Huangpu Village was once a beach along the Pearl River, also called Fengpu and Huangzhou. It was settled into a village during the Northern Song Dynasty.

There is still Fengpumen ruins near the north gate of Huangpu Village, which are currently sealed with glass for tourists to visit.

Fengpu Archway, one of which is the original "Fengpu" stone plaque. On both sides of the archway are the village walls and gatehouses of that time. The gatehouse is a building with a width of 9.2 meters and a depth of 7.2 meters. The walls are made of lime sand, oyster shells and yellow mud.

Huangpu Ancient Village was rated as "Traditional Chinese Village" in 2013. There is still a "Seaside Street" next to the dock, witnessing the prosperity of Guangzhou's "Maritime Silk Road". At that time, the Dongyue Seaside was specially designed to serve the traveling trade crowd, reflecting the characteristics of the past Lingnan water transportation town.

Along the water-friendly embankment into the village, the first thing you can see is an archway engraved with the words "Legacy of Ancient Harbor". The two pairs on the left and right are engraved with the words: Cloud ships from all over the world are near Fengpu, and business travel from five continents meet in China.

Next to it is the "First Pass of the Guangdong Sea" Memorial Hall, which uses pictures, models and videos to show people the glory of Guangzhou in the history of the Maritime Silk Road.

An antique wooden boat is also moored in the port. The flowers next to it are also beautiful.

At the end of the dock, there is a stone plaque engraved with the six red letters of "Huangpu Ancient Port Ruins".

In the Huangpu Ancient Port Ancient Village Scenic Area, the larger attractions include the Beidi Temple, which was built during the Northern Song Dynasty. There is a stele in the temple of the rebuilt Beidi Temple, which records important written materials such as "Huangpu Tax Gate Four Officials".

Exploring the historical and cultural imprints in ancient villages

Huangpu Village is a famous hometown of overseas Chinese in Guangzhou. This place has the largest number of people going abroad and the earliest time. Among them, the great-aunt's house in Dunyong Street is an important witness to the hometown of overseas Chinese; the great-aunt's house, built in the Qing Dynasty, represents the "social trend" of self-grooming women in the Pearl River Delta at that time. At that time, women liked to go to Nanyang to work as nannies (maids). When they got old, they returned to their hometowns and built big houses to support the elderly. They were financially independent, but they did not marry for their lives because they missed the marriage age and did not have a suitable partner, so they never married for their lives. Through the stories behind these buildings, we can understand the history of self-grooming women.

Today's Huangpu Village retains Guangfu cuisine and traditional craftsmanship. Must-tasted delicacies include smooth fish skin, ginger milk and boat porridge. This is the most distinctive local cuisine. At that time, after foreigners entered Hong Kong, the first food they could taste was to buy porridge from Gugang, because at that time, merchants rowed over with small boats to sell it, so they called boat porridge. If you look at the ingredients inside, it is actually pig miscellaneous porridge with fried dough sticks.