Futian Blessed Land Fujian Chapter 9 - Ningde Huotong Ancient Town Tour (Ningde Chapter 1)

Huotong Ancient Town under the jurisdiction of Ningde City, Fujian Province is a Qian-nian ancient town. It is located in the northwest of Jiaocheng District, Ningde, 47 kilometers away from Ningde City. Huotong Creek, one of the eight major water systems in the province, runs from northwest to southeast. Running through the entire territory, it has been an important transportation channel for timber and moso bamboo in Pingnan and Zhouning counties since ancient times.

? Huotong Ancient Town has a street of ancient buildings from the Ming and Qing Dynasties. It was built around the 13th year of Jiajing in the Ming Dynasty (1534) and is 1,700 meters long. It is now a well-preserved ancient building. There are 64 houses. In the area of ??Huotong Old Street, there are many big blue brick houses. The big houses with four, six or eight couplets are built next to each other, but they are only connected by a wall and a gatehouse. Inside the gatehouse are people with the same surname. people. If there is a natural disaster, the tribesmen will take care of each other. If there is a bandit attack, the gatehouse will turn into a castle once the gate is closed. The local residents of Huotong will build a castle like this and the structure of the tribe to live together is called a certain house. In Huotong, the larger ones include Huangcuoli, Yancuoli, Chencuoli, etc.

At noon, the town’s snacks, taro buns and vermicelli noodles, attract a lot of tourists. The vermicelli noodles are made from sweet potato powder and soaked with pig intestines, small intestines, and Luohan meat. Wait, it tastes light.

After lunch, I saw someone taking a boat tour of Shili Gallery on Huotong Creek outside the town.

In 2014, Huotong Ancient Town was selected as the most influential town in China and the most beautiful village in China. Huotong Lower Street also preserves the Helin Palace, one of the four famous Taoist palaces in the country.

Within Huotong there are Zhitishan National Forest Park, as well as the national key Buddhist temple Huayan Temple in Zhitishan, a national 3A tourist attraction. Legend has it that during the Zhou Dynasty, there was a real Huotong who lived in Huolin Cave. The territory is famous for its good vegetation, national forest parks, canyon waterfalls and numerous botanical gardens, as well as provincial-level cultural relics and ancient water channels.

Speaking of Huotong, Huotong Line Lion must be mentioned. As the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage, Huotong Line Lion is loved by people for its unique artistic expression. The wonderful performance won bursts of applause from the audience. Under the traction of the string, the line lion can not only show sitting, standing, squatting, waking up, stretching, climbing and other different forms, but also can continuously search for the ball through the collective control of the veteran artists. , chasing the ball, getting the ball and other difficult movements of the lion playing with the ball are not a problem. All these have established the status of Huotong's thread lion in Chinese folk culture, including: the reputation of China's unique skills, the large thread lion weighs more than 40 kilograms, and the small thread lion also weighs more than 20 kilograms. In 2006, this heritage The State Council approved its inclusion in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage lists.

The cultural and historical institution of Huotong Town has excavated the culture of Huotong Line Lions. As of 2008, six related local cultural and historical books have been compiled and published, and on the basis of protecting the traditional February 2nd Lantern Festival, the Huo Tong's five new agriculture promotion conference attracts foreign customers.

In 2013, Huotong Town created a new initiative to visit ancient streets and watch fine line lions. In 2014, the National Development and Reform Commission assigned the construction of national cultural and natural heritage protection facilities in Fujian Province, among which Huotong Town in Ningde City The line lion hall construction project received subsidy investment.