Ningbo Minghe Ancient Town丨A low-key thousand-year-old ancient town.

🌿Minghe is a thousand-year-old town named after the ancient characters. It is located in the south of Guanhaiwei Town, Cixi City, Ningbo City, Zhejiang Province. It has been the birthplace of Chinese traditional medicine since the Ming and Qing Dynasties. There is a saying that "Chinese medicine talents gather in Zhejiang, Zhejiang has Cixi, and Cixi recommends Minghe Field first", so it is called the "First Town of Chinese Medicine". 🌱Minghe Ancient Town is one of the three ancient salt fields in Zhejiang Province and the oldest market town in Cixi City, Ningbo. Minghe Ancient Town is built on the mountain and formed into a town because of the river. There is a temple beside the town, and fishermen and farmers live by the river. Minghe is known for its beautiful scenery that rivals that of Suzhou. 📍Address: No. 999, Yuhuang Road, Guanhaiwei Town, Cixi City ⏰Opening hours: All day 🎫Tickets: Free🆓 🚗Transportation: There is a parking lot🅿️, 💰10, navigate to the west gate of Minghe Ancient Town 🗺️ Recommended tour routes: Archway➡️Jinxian Zen Temple➡️Baiyang Lake➡️Lakeside Plaza➡️Medical Materials Museum➡️Twenty-four Zoumalou➡️Silver Bank➡️Xiaowufang➡️Middle Street➡️Penggong Temple➡️Traditional Chinese Medicine Hall➡️Parking lot 📷Recommended check-in: ✅Jinxian Zen Temple: A thousand-year-old temple, one of the 480 temples in the Southern Dynasties. The gate faces Baiyang Lake, with incense lingering around. The deep bell sounds with a thousand-year-old copper rust, ethereal and melodious. ✅Baiyang Lake: The soul of Minghe Ancient Town, there are seven stone towers on the lake. The lake is sparkling on sunny days and the mist is lingering on rainy days. It seems like entering the ink painting scroll of Jiangnan misty rain. ✅Twenty-four Zoumalou: The most famous building on Shangjie Street, a unique architectural form among southern dwellings, similar to the Siheyuan in the north. It was built by the Ye family, a giant Chinese medicine merchant, in the 14th year of Jiaqing in the Qing Dynasty. It has 7 rooms, 2 lanes, and 2 floors, with a total of 24 rooms. There are corridors around the building, so you can ride horses unimpeded. ✅Horse head wall: mostly three-fold and four-fold, and there are also five-horse gable walls ✅Xiaowufang: Now it is a health and leisure center integrating tea ceremony, incense ceremony, art, and Chinese studies ✅Jiangnan Water Charm: Pink walls and black tiles, small bridges and flowing water, bluestone ancient roads, stone arch bridges, each of which is a witness to thousands of years of history 🎈Traditional snacks: Features: 🥟Handmade rice cake dumplings, handmade rice cakes, green sesame rice cakes, oil-fried dumplings, sweet rice wine, and fermented chicken. Others: plum blossom cake, Liangnong cake, shredded radish cake, kudzu root cake, bean candy, malt sugar, stinky tofu, sesame cake, etc., as well as some local specialties such as dried bamboo shoots and pickles.