The origin of the name of Fenghuang ancient town

That's because the architectural pattern of the ancient town is built according to a flying phoenix. Whenever the lights are brightly lit at night, standing on the mountain to the east of the town overlooking, the netted street can outline a fire phoenix with wings spread, and its left wing is bright, which is the central street of the "S"-shaped old street. The old man in fenghuang town said that it was said that a phoenix once fell on the mountain south of Zhennan, hence the name Phoenix Mountain, hence the name fenghuang town.

People come and go in the old streets of fenghuang town, residents in the town do business and purchase, and tourists look around. It's very lively. Shops put all the goods on the street, and there are a wide variety of daily necessities and local specialties. In many old houses in Fenghuang Old Street, you can see the imprint left by history. Under the beam of an old house, we even saw a stone pier made of white marble, but its origin can't be verified.

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The winding streets of fenghuang town Old Street and the old houses of Ming and Qing Dynasties on both sides are the most prominent features here. In this ancient town of 1000 meters long, there are still more than 60 houses in the Ming and Qing dynasties. There is a stream covered with slate along the main street, and another stream perpendicular to it passes through the town, forming a cross-shaped water system. There are shops on both sides of the old street, and houses behind them.

In the early years of Shunzhi in Qing Dynasty, businessmen from Henan, Hubei and Sichuan took a fancy to the advantages of developed water transport here and came to fenghuang town to do business and settle down. During the reign of Guangxu in Qing Dynasty, the mule-horse road from Fenghuangkou to Xi 'an was built, and then it was transported to Hubei and other places by water. Most of the business trips are gathered in Fenghuangkou, which has formed a fixed market.

Baidu Encyclopedia _ Fenghuang Ancient Town