1、Introduction of the Phoenix Ancient Town（凤凰古城简介）：The Phoenix Ancient Town is located in Xiangxi Tujia the second floor is the art gallery of Huang yongyu.(7)Chongde Hall（崇德堂）：It is a typical southern courtyard built by Pei shoulu,a businessman from Fengcheng,jiangxi province in 1884.The pheonix rose
2、 at the beginning of Qing Dynesty and become the capital of the great west Hunan.The Moving-in of the military and political leaders not only bring officials,but also vendors,peons,scholars,artificers,etc.Pei shoulu became the richest man in Phoenix town,he set up his own business entity “Pei Sanxin
3、g”and built this ancient courtyard.From this building,you will know how glorious his family was and how prosperous the phoenix town was.(8)The Eastern Gate Tower（东门城楼）：Located at east of the town and nearby Tuo River,formerly known as “Shenghen Gate”,the Eastern Tower is one of the four gates of pho
4、enix ancient town.It was built in Kangxi fifty years (1715),Qing Dynesty.The lower part of the tower were built with amaranthine sandstone and the upper part with ancient bricks. The Gates is 3.5 m wide,four meters high, showing a semicircle arch. Two gates were both covered with iron sheets and nai
5、led with rounded-headed nails to make it firm and strong. The wall was built with red sand stone in the same size and is about 0.8m thick, both sides of the lower part were with stone stripes and crushed stones in the middle layer. On the top of the intermediate filler was instead of lime, pebbles,
6、loess blended into the crushed, about 0.33 meters thick. The gate tower is 11 meters high,and there are eight loopholes at the door.All the designs and decorations are exquisite and spectacular, (9)The Museum of Ancient Town（古城博物馆）：The museum is another humanities landscape in this ancient town.Here
7、,it displays a toaristocratic family-Chenbaozhen familys history cultural heritage, belongings, photos of the passed, pictures, material, books, documents, etc.which were donated by Chenbaozhens descendants. Museum also displays more than 500 kinds of rock specimens and paleontology fossils millions
8、 of years ago.Through stereo sand table combining Chinese and English two languages,the modern technology such as electricity, light, sounds, etc.are used to fully display the geological landforms of phoenix national geological parks and the evolution of earth and rock layer evolution, biological ev
9、olution etc.sightseeing spots nearby(附近的景点)：(1)The Southern Great Wall（南长城）：Its also knows as “Miaojiang Wanli Wall” and a mililtary historical remains in Ming&Qing Dynesty.it had witnessed the ethnic disputes and peace for hundreds of years.The wall is three hundred and eighty-two miles long,starti
10、ng from Tingziguan and sreches to the north Magpie Camp, and the main part is across the ancient phoenix town.The wall is 3 meters high,2 meters wide at the bottom and 1 meter wide at the top, and mostly built along the mountain ridge.On the way,there are more than 800 platform, fort, residential to
11、wers,etc.for station troops and defense purpose.The Southern Great Wall is part of China Great Wall and also should be listed as the world cultural heritage.(2)Miao Village（苗寨）：It will take 40 minutes from the southern gate of phoenix town to Shanjiang town.Passing the Miao Singing stage, walk for a
12、bout 500 meters and you will arrive the Miao Village.The most famous scenic spots are Miaoren cave,waterfalls,U-shape valley,heavenly bridge, the plank road built along the face of the cliff,etc.Zaogang Miaotse is another important spots in Miao village,you will enjoy both natural scenery and folk c
13、ustoms.(3) The Huangsiqiao Ancient Castle(黄寺桥古城)：It is 25km away from the county which preserve the integrity and with a history of 1300 years.It could be traced back to Tang Dinesty. Huangsiqiao was bulit up in bluestones and even huge blue rocks were used to built the circumvallation, some rocks a
14、re even as heavy as 1000kilograms.There are three gates in three directions: east, west and north.In 1983, its been ranked as the provincial key cultural relics protection site.(4) Qiliang Cave（奇梁洞）：It is only 6km away from the ancient city of Phoenix.It is a typical karst cave with thousands of omn
15、iform stalagmites. The length of the cave is about 6000meters and consists of five main sightseeing area:the Ancient Battlefield, the Gallery,the Heaven, the Dragon Kings palace and the Yin-Yang River.Here you can not only see odds rocks and stones,but also waterfalls,which making a magnificent panorama.
