Atlas of China
Huangyao Ancient Town 黄姚古镇Huángyáo Gǔzhèn
5A scenic area · Hezhou, Guangxi
About Huangyao Ancient Town
A market town ringed by karst hills in Zhaoping County, founded in the Song dynasty, built up in the late Ming and at its most prosperous under the Qing Qianlong emperor, and named after its two main clans, the Huangs and the Yaos. More than 300 Ming and Qing houses of grey brick and dark tile line its flagstone lanes, with ancestral halls, temples, an old opera stage, wells, small bridges with pavilions over the stream, and old banyan trees, and the town has served as a set for many films and TV dramas. In 1945 the Communist Party's Guangxi provincial working committee moved its offices here, and the buildings around Baozhu Temple are now a memorial museum.
How to get to Huangyao Ancient Town
About 40 km west of Hezhou city by road. The memorial museum is closed on Mondays except public holidays.
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