Phoenix ancient town is located in Shaanxi of the foot of mountain austral Qin Ling to save company of department of southeast of county of water of oak of city of business the name of a river in Shaanxi and Henan provinces plain river middle reaches, be apart from 45 kilometers of county, 107 kilometers of Xi'an city. Actor of ancient town history is long, build at Tang Dynasty first, at the beginning of Qing Dynasty of flourishing Yuming end, be apart from already had today 1400 the history. Township has many meters 760 to save in good condition Ming Qinghui to send ancient building a street. On the old street that is not worth kilometre in this, still save complete Ming Qinggu to build more than 200 up to now (door) .
Gu Min resides phoenix street is Shaanxi what the province discovers at present is exclusive one place saves wholer quiet day at the beginning of last years of a dynasty or reign, the Republic of China year Gu Zhenjian builds community. It is northwest area dimensions the biggest, save the most complete Jiang Hanhui to send ancient building group, by the historian praise it is those who have charm of Qin Feng Hunan " Jiang Hangu presses down activation stone " .
Phoenix ancient street is killed from Tang Zhiqing all previous by battle, once " 3 destroy 3 build " , qing Shunzhi the beginning of the year, immigrant of and other places of the central Shaanxi plain of Henan, Hubei, Hunan, Anhui and businessman took a fancy to here the advantage with waterborne easy communication, the town is in business and settle in succession come down, face of the wide door that build a market, action guest receives business, dredge post road, shipping, form market town stage by stage, those who become join north and south advocate passageway, big confluence of wind of Hunan charm the Qin Dynasty.
Ancient street is shown " S " model trend, labyrinthian, on any account is strewn at random. Wide place is not worth a unit of length 5, narrow place do not be filled with 8 feet, the building that face a market all is 2 occasional structure of 3 building frame, a shop is in front, door of earthy lacquer board, backyard is abode or mill more, be a model before after inn curtilage. Shop bizygomatic breadth is not filled with a unit of length, amount to 339 meters length greatly however curtilage, from there is 2 inside extroversion, 3, 4 unit differ, provide apparent Changjiang Delta extremely civilian house style and northward siheyun style, every unit has " courtyard " , solved the difficult problem of daylighting and catchment ably. Gu Min resides frontispiece lofty, upturned eaves arched, carved beams and painted rafters, each all separate with firewall of Ma Tou type, of primitive simplicity is beautiful, practical, its built a style to maintain river Han Gumin completely to reside characteristic, behaved sterling Chu Wen to change artistic characteristic, saved long and masterly ancient building art, long and the culture of massiness is artistic, long and abundance aesthetic is artistic, have fundamental historical value and social value, she is condensing the crystallization of archaic people wisdom, inheritance is worn long history is civilized.
The churchyard that press down region still has more than 10 Gu Zhai such as ovarian stockaded village, Hu Jiazhai, Kang Jiazhai group; The cave such as 100 gods hole group; More than 10 temple such as temple of 2 man temple, aunt of the first month; Still have 10 thousand mus of ormosia groove guard of fir forest nature. Here gives birth to confluence folk-custom of wind of scene of state landscape, humanitarian landscape, history, countryside to wait for an element, make with all one's strength " famous city of Chinese history culture " travel brand.
There still is the traditional folk art such as Chinese attune, erhuang melody, flower-drum, a percussion instrument made of bamboo, dragon lantern here, the lantern show of inheritance chiliad performs a dragon lantern dance, make fun of the lion, boat that drive a car, run consuetudinary continuance wears the folk such as a bamboo stick used as a toy horse the tradition of ancient town, it is the right choice that recreational sightseeing, travel goes vacationing!
