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Guilin Yangshuo West Street legend story

OHTN2017-11-05Aix XinLe

Yangshuo county tourism in China, there is a world-famous West Street.West Street is a side street, is one of the oldest streets in the county. A blue stone path, two rows of low brick wood houses, small tiles, white walls, sloping roof, houses on stilts, exudes a deep sense of ancient incense. In the past, the West in addition to several shops, residents are still peasants, in a "semi-rural, half shop, for the farming business may be" semi-state semi-agricultural business. The early 1970s, Yangshuo opening up Western tourists discovered the West, those who are physically and mentally exhausted upsets Westerners metropolitan hustle and fast-paced work, where to find the rest of the "harbor." At the same time, they are Gu Pu and elegant residential local and traditional culture, folk customs and showed a keen interest, have the unique experience of the West's written books on tour guide. In recent years, every year to the West sightseeing, leisure and overseas tourists over hundreds of thousands of people. They have a few days, ten and a half, there lived a year a few years, some simply in the West married, shop. West became a blend of Chinese and Western cultures "Foreigners Street" has become beyond the area of ​​the "global village", has become a large-scale "foreign language corner."

Guilin Yangshuo West Street legend story

Yangshuo West Street is the epitome of "Street culture" is to abandon Yangshuo local culture. Mr. Qin Zhen Yangshuo cultural studies for many years, has yielded fruitful results, wrote numerous articles published in the international media. The research results will be compiled and blessing it is part of the local culture of publishing. "Street Story" describes West character group portrait in the form of ordinary people's stories, Civic, small town charm, the reader insights Yangshuo West Street as well as culture and customs. "Yangshuo stone" section to interpret the distribution representative inscriptions all over the county as the starting point, some of the narrative of events, historical figures and customs on the history of Yangshuo, many of them to understand the history of a precious material Yangshuo.

Yangshuo West Street is the oldest street. Two row of low brick houses, a dark red stone road, is a typical traditional street Northern soil could not be more soil. When Sui Kaihuang ten years (AD 590) set Yangshuo County, the only county this is about two hundred meters, five meters wide streets, the streets in addition to several shops dealing in commodities, most of the residents are farmers. Thousand years, this street has maintained a "semi-rural, half shop, for the farming business may be" semi-state semi-agricultural business. This history of the state of West maintained a traditional style typical of the south of the town, who formed the West's open-minded city people and country people of simple dual personality. This character and style become a good foundation conditions for the development of the West today.

In the past, West Street and Yangshuo scenery, like, has been in "hiding in purdah did not know" state. The early seventies, Guilin, Yangshuo formally opened, many Western visitors to enjoy the scenery of the Li River in Yangshuo later, came to Yangshuo County, inadvertently walked into the West, only to find, in this Qishanxiushui, there is a so charming the street. These Westerners as the year Columbus discovered the New World like armor, and the novelty of a better impression of the West written on the travel guide book published in the West. In the 1980s, self-help travel into China, Western self-help tourists poured into the West. These upsets the downtown hustle and fast-paced mental and physical exhaustion of the West, where to find the rest of the harbor.

Yangshuo County is rich in resources, food crops to rice, the annual output of 13 million tons. Pomelo, kumquat, persimmon, chestnut and Yangshuo four specialty fruit, which fruit pomelo with its large color delicious sweet well-known at home and abroad, in 1997 the total output of 16,000 tons, in 1995 won the highest similar products in the China Agricultural Expo Award - Silver Award; in 1998 won the national rating pomelo "Gold Award" in 1996 by the Ministry of agriculture as "China pomelo town." County is rich in mineral resources, lead, zinc, barite, marble, limestone and other major minerals. Yangshuo human ingenuity, in recent years, development and production of a large number of tourism products, such as painting, painted fans, marble, talc crafts, as well as landscape bonsai, shirt, stone chapter, wood carving, antique clothing, antique pottery, hydrangeas, and other technology , best-selling domestic and international tourism market.

Green hills, odd holes, stone beautiful four landscape features, creating a paradise on earth this side of Yangshuo, a special gift from God, given to the wealthy and Silk Mountain Yangshuo. The county has peculiar peaks more than 20,000 seats, 17 rivers and streams, eight major scenic spots, more than 250 natural attractions and cultural landscape. So far, more than 150 countries of the world, more than 300 presidents, prime ministers, prime minister, minister until Yangshuo sightseeing visit. In fact, more foreigners than most people to understand Yangshuo, a Lonely Planet took them to the other side of the globe from Yangshuo, Yangshuo to the foreign tourists are a staff, they only put Guilin as a transit point for traffic, under the plane, the train, and arrived directly from Guilin to Yangshuo, and never stop.

Yangshuo honor

The world's most typical karst peaks landscape in Yangshuo;

Beautiful Li River, landscapes of Yangshuo essential site in the territory;

The only representative of Chinese landscape painting of the Chinese Embassy in the United Nations headquarters in suspension, is Yangshuo scenery of "yellow cloth reflection";

People's Bank of China issued in 1999 Yuan RMB Twenty background pattern, Xingping is Yangshuo scenery;

In 1960, Southeast Asia hit film "Liu Sanjie" in the picturesque scenery of Yangshuo shooting success;

In 2001, he won the first batch of outstanding tourist County, Guangxi;

In 2003, the director Zhang Yimou, the world's largest performance of real landscape "Impression?" And in Yangshuo successful, the project won the National Cultural Industry Model Base and the Third China's top ten performance event prize;

In 2004, the World Tourism Organization Positioning: Yangshuo - leisure destination;

Known as "China's global village" of Yangshuo West Street, Chinese and Western harmony, both full of local flavor, but also filled with a rich exotic. The unique charm of West Street, Yangshuo tourism has become a distinctive symbol, has become well-known trademarks in China tourism.

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