Jiangtou Ancient Village

In front of the village is a beautiful river like Jude—ribbon encirling the village. The village faces some beautiful hills, such as brush—rest hill, brush—holder hill, the emperor’s chop hill ,ect. Between the hills and the river are the vast fields.

There is a variety of buildings, including residential house, water well, ancestral temple, alley, gate, bridge, tomb and so on. The residential houses survived are in a large scale. Those anti—fire walls, the wood carvings, the old court yards, the narrow pebble’s lanes…all of these will take you back to those old times, The “Ailian”(which means lotus—loving ) ancestral temple is the village’s important building and also their public house. There were once six rows of house but only three rows survived, they are the big gate, Clan—rejuvenating gate and Wen Yuan Tower The last two are the main buildings of the temple. They were the place for the home schools and also for the ritual ceremonies.

Many valuable and rare historical relics are well preserved here, such as ancient coins, inscription forest, ancient instruments, longevity beds and so on. Relics here contribute greatly to explore the culture of the Ming and Qing dynasties.

So far tourism is not developed at all in the village, no hotels nor restaurants having been built. .