Pianyan Ancient Town is located between the two remaining veins on the southwest side of Huaying Mountains. It is in hilly areas, showing a trend of high in the northeast and low in the southwest. The average altitude is 520 meters, and the maximum altitude is 942.9 meters. In the Qing Dynasty, it belonged to Lili Liujia of Jiangbei Hall. In the 24th year of Qianlong, a market was established here and later developed into a town. Because there is a tilted and towering rock wall in the north of the town, which is suspended and steep, it is named Pianyan Town. Pianyan is an ancient town on the old road from old Chongqing to Huaying. In the past, merchants gathered here, business was prosperous, and it was famous in Sichuan, Shaanxi, Hubei and Guangdong. Although several hundred years have passed, its streets, buildings, folk customs and market conditions still retain the primitive and elegant features of the past. The ancient town is built by mountains and rivers. Standing outside the town, one can see rows of wooden houses and brick houses distributed along the mountain, overlapping and well-arranged. At the entrance of the ancient town, there is a small bridge made of long bluestone spanning across the water. The streets are also paved with bluestone, about 400 meters long along the Heishuitan River. The shops on both sides of the street are lined up one after another. Most of the shop buildings are of wood and bamboo structure. Some use long wooden boards spliced together as walls, or use bamboo fences pasted with plaster powder as walls. Some small buildings built facing the street have the ground floor space mostly set as shop fronts. The upper residential buildings are stilted buildings, suspended and built on pillars. This not only saves street pavement but also achieves the design effect of ‘giving three feet of land and occupying one more share of the sky’. The specific business hours and operating status are subject to the opening situation on that day.
Pianyan Ancient Town
Pianyan Ancient Town is located between the two remaining veins on the southwest side of Huaying Mou[...]
