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Jiangcun Village 江村Jiāngcūn
4A scenic area · National heritage site · Xuancheng, Anhui
- Time needed
- 2–3 hours
- Days to budget
- Half a day
- City
- Xuancheng
- Region
- Anhui
- Type
- Heritage
- Listed as
- 4A scenic area, National heritage site
About Jiangcun Village
Jiangcun is a village of the Jiang clan in Baidi town, Jingde County, founded in the Sui–Tang period and at its height in the Qing, and listed as a national historic and cultural village in 2005. Its surviving Ming and Qing buildings include the Jiang ancestral hall, a filial-piety shrine, the Father-and-Son Jinshi memorial archway, several family halls and an old street, as well as the former homes of the mathematician Jiang Zehan and of Jiang Dongxiu, the wife of the scholar Hu Shi.
How to get to Jiangcun Village
In Baidi town, about 20 km south-west of Jingde county town by road.
Nearby
- Huangshan (Yellow Mountain) 黄山 20 km
Granite spires, wind-bent pines and a sea of clouds straight out of an ink painting - Hongcun Village 宏村 50 km
A merchant village planned in the shape of an ox, mirrored in its own pond - Xidi 西递村 50 km
A quieter UNESCO twin of Hongcun: flagstone lanes, merchant houses and a Ming archway
Also within 20 km: Shangzhuang Village 上庄 (10 km), East Huangshan Resort (Huangshan Tea Farm) 东黄山度假区 (10 km), Jingde Confucian Temple 旌德文庙 (20 km), Zhuwang Village 朱旺村 (20 km).
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