Ancient Town of Phoenix is praised as the most beautiful town in China.The phoenix (feng huang in Chinese) is a mythological creature that is a symbol of the sun.There is mountain looks like a flying phoenix at southest of the town.So Phoenix Town (Feng Huang Cheng) has it's called.Phoenix Town is a small city in the western part of Central China Hunan Province.
A chinese poet named Shen chongwen has discribe Ancient Town:"If search a map maded one hundred years ago,you will find a pot named "zhenggan" on a very remote corner of QianBei, in east sichuan, xiangxi,as with other small point there.But in fact it is a city lives 35000 population"
this is mystery Ancient Town of Phoenix.
Ancient Town of Phoenix as built in 1704,it keeping most of the original after 300 years.Now east and north gate are both preserved.Theare are bluestone street,wooden stilted building,Chaoyang Palace,city museum,Yang's ancestral temple,Shen congwen's former residence,XiongXiLing's former residence and so on.
