Picturesque towns of Anhui, China

Anhui ancient villages (Dongguan South) including West First and Hongcun located in District Y, Huangshan City, Anhui Province south. The district was established in the Qin Dynasty, but it was not until the Northern Song newly built villages with a total area of ​​13ha.

West De dubbed the "village of Dao Yuan Ming". West First four sides are bordered by mountains. Blue water in the village, luxuriant vegetation, white walls, black tiles. The old houses here were built or constructed adjacent to each other or separated independently. The house has skylights, surrounded by four walls surrounded, on indoor air under the skylights, around the wall without windows, if any, is very small and at high altitudes.


Legend has it that the ancestor of this village is Ho Thi Thuy, son of Zhao Tong Street, fled and then dispersed around the country to live here then they changed to Ho. West De villages built under the guidance of teachers of geography. Thon shape of a boat, 700m long, 300m wide. The layout of the village implied "drift downstream to the West will be the gods help foot business, which will benefit college age sands."

- Hongcun buffalo-shaped, man-made water systems and unique gardens, dubbed the "village in the pictures". Village life was built in 1131 with over 800 years of the Southern Song Dynasty history, formerly called "Hoang village", later because abstinence taboo "Hoang Calendar" exchange of new Qianlong as "Raging".

Looking from above, the village looks like a buffalo lying in a land of mountains and water. Lei Gang is the first mountain ox, two trees are two buffalo horns, old houses sort order is its foothills buffalo, semicircular embankment between the village of buffalo stomach. Long wide canal running through the dike, running around the house to carry water streams into the house like cattle intestines. Four bridge over the stream is 4 buffalo's hoof.


Currently, the village has about 137 houses Hengfeng neck from Emperor Minh - Thanh been preserved relatively complete, each house has a different style.