Longxing Ancient Town is located in the southeast of Yubei District, Chongqing. It is 36 kilometers away from the central area of Chongqing. It is a famous historical and cultural town in Chongqing and one of the top 100 economic towns in Chongqing. Longxing Ancient Town in Yubei District, Chongqing is located on the Yulin River, a tributary of the Yangtze River. It is full of spiritual beauty and is known as a treasured place where ‘five horses return to their nests’. After 600 years of vicissitudes, the ancient town has inherited rich cultural relics and beautiful scenery: Buddhist temples, Taoist palaces, ancestral halls, large courtyards, old streets, city towers, stages, memorial arches, ancient stockades, stone bridges…; it has accumulated profound religious culture, imperial culture, clan culture, ancestral hall culture and folk culture. It has nurtured hundreds of cultural celebrities, academic elites, and important people in politics, military, industry and commerce. In recent years, the ancient town has become the shooting location for many film and television dramas. The transportation of Longxing Ancient Town is connected with the surrounding towns by highways in all directions. The town has complete water, electricity, gas, communication, catering, accommodation, markets, and water and land transportation facilities. It is one of the first batch of towns in Yubei District to meet the ‘three-standardization’ requirements. There are 12 large and small streets crisscrossing in the town. The road surface is spacious and clean. There are shady trees on both sides of the road. There are mass cultural and sports squares full of urban atmosphere, modern office buildings, commercial pedestrian streets, central large turntables and high pole street lamps, Longhu Water Park, and ecological parks. Modern towns are combined with ancient town’s old street residences, ancestral halls, temples and stockades, which have unique folk cultural atmosphere and remarkable human landscape characteristics. Longxing Ancient Town has a history of more than 600 years. It is rich in cultural heritage and has various forms of architectural landscapes. Talents have emerged in large numbers. There are more than 200 cultural celebrities of past generations. The ancient town has retained many traditional folk activities, such as Shengge, waist drum, and Sichuan opera sitting and singing. Local specialties include Longxing dried tofu and cured bacon. Longxing Town is built based on the terrain of high surrounding areas and low center combined with living suitability. The ancient buildings are stacked at different heights with appropriate layout and strict structure. The air in the town area is fresh and the scenery is beautiful. It has distinct Bayu characteristics of humanistic spirit and folk history, making the ancient town have high tourism and artistic appreciation value.
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Longxing Ancient Town is located in the southeast of Yubei District, Chongqing. It is 36 kilometers [...]
