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Plan your Beijing village tour? Numerous villages are dotted in the suburbs...
The courtyard buildings are spread like a huge fan spreading to the east and west side along a north-south axis. The village running up the hillside is naturally divided into the Upper village and Lower Village by a curved wall 200-meter long and 20-meter high. Also 170-meter curve wall circles the village from the bottom of the populated hillside. Three north-south lanes connect the upper and lower villages, keeping the village from possible floods and robbery in the past.
Many visitors would choose the two curved walking routes ( one loop waking trail ) - one curve takes you to the village and the other brings you up on the top of the hillside south of the village where you may have a bird's-eye view of the village hugging other side of the valley.
Listed as one of China's famous historical villages, Cuandixia is a bright pearl of China's ancient building encompassing the profound northern China's architecture. You see plentiful Chinese elements of traditional architecture - Courtyard buildings, wall screens, arch gates with buildings scaling the hillside.
Below are a set of photos for you to feel this picturesque ancient village of Cuandixia.
The 200m along and 20m wide wall sections the village into the upper and the lower. Several layer of houses hug the hillside with impressive views.
Zoom in the stone village of Cuandixia and you see clearly the black tiles, stone walls and wooden framed houses.
The narrow stone paved path and ancient houses with revolutionary slogans on the wall.
An entrance to a courtyard, now used as a homestay to boost local accommodations and rual tourism.
Brick walls, red lanterns, yellow sweetcorn cobs.
Inside a courtyard houses, you will see the yellow sweetcorn cobs.
The highest house on the hillside.
Inside the courtyard with slabs paved ground and brick walls.
Many of the houses in the village have been turned into home stays.
An exquisite courtyard with a high north room.
A roof top view of the village
A glimpse of a room in a farmhouse turned guesthouse
Locally made shoes for babies known as tiger-headed shoes.
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