Chexi, Yichang

Chexi, adjacent to the Three Gorges, is located in Tucheng Township, south of the Yangtze River in Yichang. It is named for its numerous waterwheel. Along the way, there are eight scenic spots: Shixian Valley, Bachu homeland Park, farmhouse Museum, Lamei gorge, pagoda Valley, tianlongyun grottoes, wind tunnel and Wangyou Valley, covering a total area of 20 square kilometers. 　　

Chexi folk custom scenic spot in Three Gorges is a scenic spot with the theme of "hometown in dream" and the characteristics of rural scenery and Tujia folk culture. It integrates participation, interest, science popularization and knowledge. It has a variety of tourism functions, such as folk customs, adventure hunting, science popularization education, leisure and summer vacation, agricultural sightseeing and so on. It is composed of Shixian Valley, Bachu hometown Park, farmhouse Museum, Lamei gorge, waterwheel Museum, former site of people's commune, tianlongyun grottoes, Qishi Museum, wind tunnel and Wangyou valley. The thousand year old osmanthus trees in Xiakou are fragrant, and the thousand mu plum sea in the valley is gorgeous. When you come to Meitai, you will feel more charming and poetic. The Dragon peak of tianlongyun Grottoes zigzags through the clouds, and the dragon head turns around to protect the cave gate. Looking back, there are rock walls all around, and there are thousands of trees in the rock. The cave is divided into two layers, with "Lotus" on the top and "little water curtain" on the bottom. There are deep pools in the upper cave. The narrow one is the basin, and the wide one is the pool. Xiadong waterfall water curtain, there are qixianqin cave, coral group, gold basin wash hands and other scenery.

Shixian Valley (natural landscape): it is named after the "Shixian Temple" beside it. Shixian Valley, known as "pocket Canyon", has obvious karst landform features and rich geological tourism resources. At present, Shuiying waterfall has been developed, and its biggest feature is spring waterfall. Farmhouse Museum (cultural landscape): in the form of "home" and with "agriculture" as the theme, it is the first farmhouse Museum in China to reflect Tujia culture. It is the first museum in the province to reflect the daily life and farming plots in rural areas. Wangyou Valley is located at the westernmost end of Chexi gorge. There is an underground spring flowing from Taigong cave in the valley. It is gurgling all the year round. People stand at the entrance of the cave. It is hot outside and cool inside in summer, cold outside and warm inside in winter. At the end of the valley, the Pearl Waterfall splashes jade. In rainy season, the waterfall falls from the top of the peak, fluttering with the wind, just like pearls.

Lamei Gorge (natural landscape): there are more than 3000 mu of Lamei, more than 100 kinds of pteridophytes, Taxus chinensis, Phoebe, camphor and other primitive rare tree species and Chinese herbal medicine plants preserved in the gorge. Farmhouse performance farmhouse performance (cultural landscape): Here you can listen to the lingering love songs of Tujia; sonorous and powerful songs; delicate and soft dishes. Niangniang spring (natural landscape): Niangniang spring is gourd shaped. Its water quality is pure and pure. It is steaming in winter, hands, feet and ears are clean. In summer, it is icy, shaving bones and cool skin. Pagoda Valley (natural landscape): pagoda Valley is connected with the south foot of foyou mountain to the north of Chexi. It is named because there is a tall and straight peak at the west end of the valley, which looks like a pagoda. The cliffs in Baota valley are sunken inward, U-shaped, east-west, parallel to Chexi river.

The Three Gorges waterwheel museum is the first museum in China to dynamically display the evolution history of waterwheel with the theme of waterwheel

Chexi, Yichang

Yichang Chexi folk custom tourist area is the South Gate of the Three Gorges huangniuyan eco-tourism scenic spot. It is a scenic spot with the theme of "dream home" and the characteristics of pastoral scenery and Tujia folk culture. The folk customs of Bachu in the scenic area are ancient and honest, and the pastoral scenery is fresh and natural. Its characteristics can be summarized by "one two three four", that is, one theme orientation (hometown in dream), two natural wonders (plant wonders and geological wonders), three cultural characteristics (folk song and dance appreciation, farming and farming show, ancient workshop performance), and four tourism characteristics (folk custom tour, leisure experience tour, science and Technology Tour) General investigation tour, adventure tour). There are four kinds of tourism characteristics (folk custom tour, leisure experience tour, science research tour and adventure tour).

Basic introduction

Chexi, adjacent to the Three Gorges, is located in Tucheng Township, south of the Yangtze River in Yichang. It is named for its numerous waterwheel. Along the way, there are eight scenic spots: Shixian Valley, Bachu homeland Park, farmhouse Museum, Lamei gorge, pagoda Valley, Tianlong quku, wind tunnel and Wangyou Valley, covering a total area of 20 square kilometers. Chexi has beautiful mountains and waters, and simple folk customs. There are many landscapes such as Xiongfeng, Yishi, Qidong, waterfall, Qingquan, etc. ancient workshops and Tuwa dwellings complement each other. Natural landscape and human resources are in perfect harmony. Eight special tours have been launched. They are agricultural farming exhibition, ancient workshop performance, Tujia song and dance appreciation, bonfire picnic party, Lamei gorge plant scientific research, natural forest bath, giant Karst Cave Adventure, and tracing the source of forgetting worry valley. In the meantime, I feel as if I am in the fairyland of the Three Gorges. Chexi has a unique and beautiful natural landscape. In the 3 km long micro Canyon, there are still remains of the Quaternary glacial period. It is a rare ancient Chimonanthus praecox community in the world, with an area of more than 3000 mu. It is known as the "Three Gorges plant wonder". Tianlongyun Grottoes is a fine natural landscape of Chexi, especially the lotus petals formed naturally in the lotus cave, which can be called "one of the best in the Three Gorges". Chexi has rich historical and cultural accumulation, which is the running in area of Ba culture and Chu culture. In order to show the Tujia customs in the past and restore the scenic area of Bachu native garden, the first Farm Museum in the Three Gorges area was launched, which houses paper mills, mills, wine shops, pottery shops, water tankers, agricultural production and living utensils. You can see the whole process of "bamboo turns into paper, mud turns into pottery, and corn turns into wine". You can also try your hand to experience the beauty of labor. Endless local flavor moistens your heart like a clear spring, knocks on your heart, and makes you cross time and space to return to the ancient times.

History and culture

Chexi, with rich historical and cultural accumulation, is the running in area of Ba culture and Chu culture. In order to show the Tujia customs in the past, it restored the scenic spot of Bachu homeland Park, and launched the first Farm Museum in the Three Gorges area, with paper mill, mill, wine shop, pottery workshop, water wheel, agricultural production and living utensils. You can see the whole process of "bamboo turns into paper, mud turns into pottery, and corn turns into wine". You can also try your hand and feel the beauty of labor.

Chexi, 18 kilometers west of Yichang City, is located between Zhongbao island in the Three Gorges and the birthplace of Ba people. It is a typical collision zone of Ba culture and Chu culture. The scattered folk culture shows that its folk culture is unique. It has both the ruggedness of Ba people and the connotation of Chu people. However, it is a pity that its thick and simple culture is just like chexijun The elegant cave waterfall has been caged by Chexi gorge for countless centuries. Chexi scenic spot has beautiful mountains and waters, and has the beauty of seclusion like a paradise. The magnificent peaks, different antiquities, strange caves, waterfalls, clear springs and other landscapes can be seen everywhere. The ruins of ancient temples, ancient paper-making workshops and the Tuwa dwellings of Bachu complement each other, and the strange stone gardens and human resources blend well. In the vast space of 18.64 square kilometers, we can carry out forest bath (natural oxygen bar, conditioning body and mind, self-cultivation), mineral spring bath (flow clean, wind dispelling and dehumidification, skin toning and fitness), Ecological Agriculture Park sightseeing, sleeping Fairy Cave and Shixian Cave Adventure, forget worry Valley exploration, plum blossom appreciation in Lamei gorge, Bachu native garden participating in folk customs performance and other unique multi-level tourism activities . Make people in the meantime, get back to nature, leisurely enjoyment. Tianhu and Che Xi leisure scenic spots, which are the essence of heaven and earth, copycat the sun and the moon, are wild plum and scallion, peacock opens, small bridges flow, clear springs Ding Dong, agricultural houses embellish, waterwheel, and so on, a good water village Shanzhai landscape painting. Here, there are green mountains, green water, strange caves, secluded Gorges and flying springs. Han Shixian Valley, Bachu homeland garden, Lamei gorge, pagoda Valley, tianlongyun cave, wind tunnel, and forget worry valley.

Main attractions

Farmhouse Museum

Chexi culture is the aggregation of Bachu culture, which has a long history. At the height of the millennium, a "Farm Museum" was built here to concentrate the mountain like and water like style of Bachu, excavate, organize, protect and develop Chexi culture. It is people's mission and responsibility to retain a period of time and freeze a period of history. The ancestors of Chexi have lived and multiplied for thousands of years, leaving a rich cultural heritage for their grandchildren. With a unique and novel proposition, the "Farm Museum" presents the history of production and life of Chexi ancestors and the splendid Chexi culture in a complete and original way. It reproduces the pictures of the past and gives you the most appropriate and real sense of vision. The "Farm Museum" was built in accordance with the style of the early Chexi settlement. It consists of hall, bedroom, guest room, kitchen, farm tool room, gunpowder workshop, textile workshop, mill, press workshop, iron stove workshop and other exhibition halls. It respectively displays the farming and daily necessities of Chexi ancestors. The theme of human's lyricism is always the local sentiment. The production and life plots of Chexi ancestors collected by the "Farm Museum" are the classic concentration of the profound Bachu culture. It's a trend and expectation to go back to my hometown in my dream and experience the strong flavor of the countryside. On this earth, only Chexi and waterwheel have the most affinity. Water wheel babbling is always the theme of human lyricism. Modern people live in such a contradictory state of mind: they enjoy the wealth and convenience brought by modernization, and they often look back on the past and feel dejected for those things that are doomed or have gone away.

Lamei Gorge

The canyon is still protected

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