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Hongcun Village is about 11 km from the county town of Yixian County.
The whole village was originally laid out in the shape of an ox. The
west end of the village, called Leigang Hill, resembles an ox head
and that is where two huge trees stand like ox horns. At the front
and rear of the village are four bridges that span a Jiyin stream
and resemble four legs of the ox. The several hundred well-arranged
houses form the body of the ox, and the 1,000-meter-long Jiyin stream
that meanders through the village is regarded as its intestines. A
crescent pond in the village is the ox's fourth stomach, and a larger
South Lake is its reticulum, the second stomach. The villagers of
Hongcun long ago designed this marvelous landscape.
On November 30, 2000, Xidi and Hongcun were chosen to be placed on
the List of World Cultural Heritage sites by UNESCO. |
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