Tuesday, April 2, 2013

Most Leisurely Life in Chongqing - Zhongshan Ancient Town



Slow life is a kind of attitude towards life, is a kind of healthy mentally, is a kind of positive striving and is the high confidence to life. Slowness is the base of fast, only accustom to the slow life, have chance to be able to quickly find the position and do not lose self. Slow down, to enjoy the beautiful things missed in the quick rhythm.

About 7:00am, friends picked me up to the Zhongshan Ancient Town 122 kilometers away from Chongqing. Zhongshan ancient town originally famous as the Sanhechang or Longdongchang, sits in the southern mountainous terrain in Jiangjin District, is one of the Chongqing Ten History and Culture Famous Towns, the top tourism destination of Chongqing. Located at the end of the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau, ancient town was built depend on mountain and close to river, and all architectures were built close to river, connected by three short streets, including the Longdong Street, Huangzhongba Street and the Gaoshengqiao Street.
Sichun is always known by people owing to its slow life rhythm, especially the Chengdu. But at Jiangjin District, the degree of leisure for various original residents is not half bad! In the compact city life, we mostly are ignorant. The too noisy city lets people try to escape from it if live long time in it. For tours in such quiet and elegant ancient town, what we need to do just are wandering, sitting, talking, lying in the bamboo chair to close eyes to enjoy the slow life with a bottle of stall tea. It is very easy!


The business street depend on the terrain of mountain of ancient town is more than 1,000 meters in the lengthway, and the architectures cross the street in Fengyuchang almost shape the closed architecture which is a shelter from the weather. Its design fully considers the weather characteristics in east area of Sichuan Province. Everyone here reveals the original taste and flavor of the Bayu families.

The entrance of Zhognshan Ancient Town is gathering the sand and bricks, maybe some people plan to build courtyard. Under the continuous construction, ancient town is losing its original ecological environment and life style. The similar ancient towns with unique human landscapes once attract the photographers, painters and the camera crews of movies and series TV, the local original features will be changed in different degrees when the civilized steps on this land. When this land is destroyed badly, they left it. Such vicious cycle bottom goes, we must lose many fields with strong Chinese traditional folk characteristics. I wish when such lands absorbing the modern civilization, they still keeps their characteristic, because that is what it worth.

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