During a tour of Hubei Province, central China, in 2013, President Xi Jinping said ancient villages should be better protected, and restoration should be an integral part of rural development. more>>
The village, located in deep mountains and unknown to many for approximately 1000 years, is attracting an increasingly number of tourists, especially painters, photographers, and architects. more>>
Nearly 8,000 people swarmed into Xucun village, in Shanxi’s Heshun county, during the third Heshun International Art Festival starting on August 2. more>>
The literary master Nikolai Gogol once said that when the songs and legends keep silent, the architecture still talking. The traditional ancient villages are just like a group of “talking” buildings.
The ancient architecture in the traditional villages is not only buildings, but also the embodiment of people’s lives and the changes of society; moreover, they are histories of hundreds of years. The perseveration of ancient villages is the preservation of cultural heritages.
