There are so many good places in Hunan.
Far more than famous cities such as Changsha, Shaoyang and Zhuzhou,
South of Hunan,
There is a low-key and elegant place.
 
There is an ancient book describing "The mountains and forests are deep, the bamboos are luxuriant, the water is beautiful, and the rocks are unique. There is no other place like it."
 
△The movie "White Snake: Origin" and the real Jiuyi Mountain. Picture by Douban Movies & Network
 
Now there is a movie that re-exhibits the splendor of its thousand-year-old city——
The lanterns are on, the traffic is busy, and the eight streets are full of light and prosperity.
 
△Movie "White Snake: Origin". Picture by Douban Movie
 
The supermodel's cousin's home is here.
 
△My eldest cousin is in Yongzhou. Picture by Weibo "Liu Wen"
 
There are mountains, water and ancient towns here.
The first scene of "Eight Scenic Spots of Xiaoxiang", "Night Rain in Xiaoxiang", is here.
 
"Xiaoxiang Night Rain". Picture by network
 
There are female books in Yao Village here.
Since ancient times, only women can read,
It isthe only text in the world that exists specifically for women.
 
△Nvshu. Picture by article "Affinity Tourism"
 
During the Three Kingdoms period, Zhang Fei fought against Lingling and Guan Yu lost Jingzhou.
It all happened here.
 
△Shanggantang Village.
 
Here, is Hunan Yongzhou ,
A small town in Hunan that is not very famous but has a lot of history.
 
△Yongzhou Lengshuitan.
Life in Yongzhou is comfortable and leisurely.
In the spring that just passed,
When everyone rushes to Wuyuan and Luoping,
Rapeseed flowers in nearby villages,
The mountains and plains are quietly opening up,
With the spring rain, it spread all over the southern countryside of Hunan.
 
△Spring in Yongzhou. Picture by Xiaohongshu “262724454”&Internet
 
Yongzhou in summer,
It doesn't seem to have any special features.
The water waves are quiet, the cool breeze blows,
There are not many people coming here.
But it is this kind of tranquility that has become a private place for leisure for Hunan people .
 
When the autumn wind blows,
People always love to run to the north,
Watch those generous golden autumn days.
 
Some people say that autumn cannot be seen in the south.
In fact it is not,
You can also see those coveted golden ginkgo leaves in Yongzhou.
Walking in the streets of the old city,
Small shops, residential buildings, quilts drying on balconies, soft voices.
 
When winter arrives,
The trees on the mountain will grow overnight,
Covered with white winter snow,
The stretching mountains are endless, like a northeastern mountain forest in the south.
Yongzhou has beautiful scenery all year round.
 
Picture by network
 
Yongzhou,
It is a small city recorded in history.
 
△Shanggantang Village.
 
2019,
More than 30 domestic experts and scholars gathered at the Xiaoshui River in the ancient city of Lingling.
The "Xiaoxiang Night Rain" scenic spot is determined, is located at the confluence of the two Xiaoxiang rivers .
 
"East longitude 111 degrees 36 minutes 10.20 seconds, north latitude 26 degrees 15 minutes 37.10 seconds",
From now on,
This is no longer an ordinary geographical coordinate,
It is the scenic spot of "Xiaoxiang Night Rain", the first scene of "Eight Scenic Spots of Xiaoxiang".
 
△Picture by Internet
 
Many celebrities have come out of Yongzhou,
There are also many famous people who have left their footprints here.
During the Three Kingdoms period, Zhang Fei fought against Lingling and Guan Yu lost Jingzhou.
It all happened here.
(Guan Yu’s loss of Jingzhou does not refer to Jingzhou, Hubei Province.
It was the three counties of Jingzhou at that time: Changsha, Lingling, and Guiyang. )
 
The veteran Huang Gai who was beaten by Zhou Yu,
He is from Lingling,
Lingling is now Lingling District of Yongzhou City.
 
△Lingling Tower.
 
In that autumn of 805 AD,
There was also a man named Liu Zongyuan who came here in a carriage.
He wrote "Eight Notes of Yongzhou" which was praised and praised by later generations.
△Three-point stone.
 
Maybe you have read a lot about Yongzhou Ancient Town. poetry Words and historical stories,
After all, it’s hard to imagine what it looks like,
and you,
You might as well come to Yongzhou.
△The picture below shows Yuxi.
 
The ancient city of Yongzhou,
It is the soul of Yongzhou,
It is also one of the birthplaces of Chinese landscape poetry.
 
The supermodel’s eldest cousin once personally went to Yongzhou ,
People who have been there say it is "the least commercialized place".
Retaining the antique charm,
Her personality is also the same as that of her eldest cousin,
Delicate, graceful, and with a hint of restraint like a southern girl.
 
△The above picture is by the Internet
 
For more than two thousand years,
I don’t know how many people came here,
They walked on the blue brick floor over and over again,
Looking back on the prosperity of that year in my mind,
For poetry, for dreams, and for Yongzhou.
 
This place in Hunan,
Many people find it very mysterious,
But what they don't know is,
In the deep mountains of Yongzhou, Hunan,
There are even more mysterious things that, from ancient times to the present, only women can understand.
 
△Goulan Yao Village.
 
There is a Goulan Yao Village in Yongzhou.
The population is mainly Yao people.
In those countless days,
The people in Yao Village live together with the mountains and rivers of Yongzhou.
 
△Gou Lan Yao Village .
 
Because we are in the deep mountains,
The land is sparsely populated and the land is sparsely populated;
More than 300 characteristic residential buildings from the Ming and Qing dynasties have been preserved intact.
 
Yao Village is surrounded by mountains.
The fields are full of rapeseed flowers,
The working tools piled nearby by the tribesmen,
Stretching residential houses,
The communal atmosphere of ethnic minorities is evident everywhere.
 
△Goulan Yao Village.
 
Every holiday and folk day,
There are people walking in here,
The Yao people will warmly welcome you.
Let them participate in a particularly "wild" custom, the "Mud Washing Festival."
△Mud Washing Festival.
 
At this time, careful people will find that
There are many women in Goulan Yao Village.
A married woman here does not stay with her husband’s family;
You will be quarantined before dating.
If a woman is childless after marriage,
can't be with her husband,
They can only stay at their parents' home with their female companions.
 
There is a saying here,
"Don't tell lies in front of your sisters, and don't tell the truth in front of your husband."
The feelings between women,
In Yongzhou, it can be described as "bigger than the sky".
 
△A woman from the Yao ethnic group.
Therefore, this place was born——
Since ancient times, only women can read,
The only writing in the world that exists specifically for women,
Nu Shu.
 
Nushu is not a form of writing,
It is an identification text composed of four strokes: dot, vertical, oblique and arc.
Local women call her "Long-footed Man".
 
Nushu is very rich in content.
Marriage, labor, activities, social interaction, entertainment, faith, morality...
Everything can be written in female script,
The folding fans and cloth handkerchiefs that I carry with me are even on the wall.
All It is their "literary work".
 
△Nüshu. Picture by article "Jiang Yong Release"
 
"When people die and books are burned" is also unique to women's books.
After the death of the owner,
Nvshu are often burned or buried as burial objects.
Only a few are kept as souvenirs.
Very few remain,
Each Nüshu work can be circulated no more than two or three generations at most.
 
△Jiangyong Women’s Bookstore. Picture by network
Before,
Nüshu is only known to people in Jiangyong County, Yongzhou.
2005,
Nüshu is included in the Guinness Book of World Records as "the most gender-specific text in the world".
year 2006,
Jiangyong Nushu custom was included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage lists.
 
Disciple of He Jinghua, the representative inheritor of the national intangible cultural heritage "Jiang Yong Nu Shu": Li Ailian. Picture by Network
Every village in Yongzhou has its own characteristics.
Shang Gantang Village,
It is the most famous existence in Yongzhou.
 
 
A quaint folk house with picturesque scenery outside the window.
There are mountains and rivers on the side, and the days passed become poems.
I’m probably talking about Shanggantang Village.
This is one of the oldest thousand-year-old villages in Hunan .
 
△Shanggantang Village. Picture by Weibo "Sangye Classmate"
 
During the Ming and Qing Dynasties,
Shanggantang Village is where merchants passed by.
Even though many years have passed,
The traces of wine shops and teahouses still remain.
 
△Shanggantang Village. The next picture is by Weibo "Sangye Classmate"
 
A place that still performs its most original functions today,
It was a commercial street that was created during its heyday.
Every market day,
A large number of villagers came here to exchange and trade.
 
There are several families here that have lived for more than a thousand years.
There is a kind of characteristic house in the village.
The tribesmen built their own gate towers, and the architectural composition is very complex.
There is a saying of "nine gatehouses and ten halls".
 
Picture by network
 
In ancient times,
According to the structure and exquisiteness of each gatehouse, the villagers
To tell whether the family has achieved high school fame or has a prominent family background.
 
now,
The gate tower is still there, but the prosperity has passed.
Only the name of the village and the tribesmen who still live there remain unchanged.
 
Picture by network
 
Hunan,
It’s a delicious province.
Every city has its own signature cuisine.
 
Picture by network
 
Yongzhou is most famous for
It’s the “Yongzhou Blood Duck” .
Every time fellow villagers get together,
Yongzhou blood duck is indispensable.
Almost never absent,
If this dish is missing,
It seems that this gathering is incomplete,
Everyone always feels that something is missing.
 
△Yongzhou blood duck. Picture by article "Seeing words is like meeting"
 
Yongzhou blood ducks are made in different ways in various counties and districts.
There are ones with green beans, eggplants, and bitter gourds.
But the general methods are similar.
To make it delicious, the trick is to add ginger and chili.
 
But the most important thing is,
Mix duck blood and rice vinegar.
When the duck is about to be cooked, pour the blood on it,
Continue to stir-fry,
The blood duck is steaming hot and fragrant after it comes out of the pot.
The blood has not yet solidified, which is the best quality.
 
Every household in Yongzhou can cook salted duck.
Dried salted duck,
Cook it in a pressure cooker.
Stir-fried with sour chili pepper, it is a delicious dish for Yongzhou people to go with wine.
 
△Yongzhou salted duck. Picture by "Happy Yongzhou on the Tip of the Tongue"
As a big fan province,
What Yongzhou people love most is the braised rice noodles mixed with them.
In addition to the rice flavor, rice noodles
There is no other taste.
Therefore, the taste of braised noodles depends entirely on the brine.
 
△Picture by Internet
In a soup pot stewing pork bones or beef,
Throwing bags of various spices and Chinese herbal medicines,
Cook for more than two hours.
It is considered a qualified brine.
Refreshing and translucent rice noodles,
Served with beef or eggs braised in the original soup,
Mouth full of fragrant fragrance,
No wonder Yongzhou people can’t stop doing it.
 
△Picture by Internet
 
bacon,
It is one of the most important dishes in Hunan people's homes.
Marinate the meat to add flavor and then air-dry it.
After a winter of smoke and fire,
You can contract bacon for a whole year for a family.
 
△Bacon. Picture by "Happy Yongzhou on the Tip of the Tongue"
 
There is "Eighteen Brews" in Yongzhou.
Buy tofu dumplings and stuff them with fillings at home.
Put some in dry steaming or hot pot,
After one sip, the taste is very solid.
 
Picture by "Happy Yongzhou on the Tip of the Tongue"
 
In the past, Yongzhou people would prepare eighteen kinds of food during the Chinese New Year.
Nowadays, although most families do not cook all 18 kinds,
For festivals or celebrations,
It is still the most familiar heavy dish.
 
Picture by "Happy Yongzhou on the Tip of the Tongue"
 
See here,
Has Yongzhou changed your impression of Hunan?
The upcoming May Day,
Why not take a trip to this mysterious Hunan town?
Experience another charm of Hunan.

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