Facts about Zhongshan Ancient Town – Brief Introduction

Chongqing Zhongshan Ancient Town commonly known as San He Market, and it was also called Long Dong Market, which is one of Chongqing Yangtze River tour ten famous historic and cultural towns with a history of 853 years. It located in southern mountains of Jiangjin District of Chongqing Municipality, 12 kilometers away from the downtown with an hour a half drive. It faces rivers and back against mountains and connects with State-Level scenic spots of Simian Mountain. Zhongshan Ancient Town consists of three smaller streets, Long Dong Street, Huangzhong Field Street and Gaosheng Bridge. There are saved 82 inscription words dating back to South- Song Dynasty and groups of ancient tombs of Han Dynasty.

Zhongshan Ancient Town is a worthy place to go with its unique architecture, unsophisticated town people and profound culture.

Facts about Zhongshan Ancient Town – History Background

Chongqing Zhongshan Ancient Town inherits a long history of 857 years which according to the inscriptions of South – Song Dynasty (during the year of 1151). It has been a busy town with other names during Ming Dynasty and Qing Dynasty, and firstly called as San He Market combining with Dong Dong Markey, Old field and MaSangya Field in Qing Dynasty reign of Guangxu. After several times of adjusting of this old town, we called it Zhongshan Ancient Town to the public. Zhongshan Ancient Town affordable China tours has been a historic and cultural ancient town of Chongqing Municipality in 2002, and praised as China historic and cultural ancient town in 2005.

Facts about Zhongshan Ancient Town – Attraction

A Legendary History of Zhongshan Ancient Town

Zhongshan Ancient Town was a place belongs to Wuping area and called "Little Capital" (it means Zhongshan Ancient Town was as prosperous as Beijing City) during Tang – Song Dynasty. In 736, Wuping area was divided into two parts of Wuping Zhen and Nan'an Zhen (Zhen is an administration of China) and combined later calling Wuping field in 946. During Song Dynasty of year of 994, Wuping Field changed to Wuping Xian (Xian is another administration of China which has much more population and area).

In September 1646, Zhongshan Ancient Town was destroyed and people died a lot in a war. There is still a stele named "Ten Thousands people's Tomb" in Wuping Museum to memory this history China guide.

The Infrequent and Typical of "People Town" and "Hakka Dialect"

Hakka is one of Chinese minorities, the people owns special language called Hakka dialect. In an area of two square kilometers, there are lots of people from totally different clans. It is a strange and worthy to research place for Chinese scholars. Thus Hakka Dialect has been praised as "living fossil" by linguist.

Splendid Folk Cultural Art of Zhongshan Ancient Town

Zhongshan Ancient Town was praised as "Hanchu Opera Town" in ancient history. Hanchu Opera is a kind of Chinese opera originating in Hubei Province. This is a ancient local custom in Zhongshan Ancient Town.

History of the Chinese Revolution

Zhongshan Ancient Town popular China tour package is one of origins of Chinese revolution. There are some stories of Chinese Red Army (we call the communist troops as Red Army) and relics of Chinese revolution.