Southern Anhui Travel Guide

✅ Southern Anhui 5-Day Travel Guide (High Cost-Performance · High Photo Rate · High Relaxation) ✅ Real On-Site Experience | Local Guide Tips | Suitable for Students, Couples & Seniors, ✅ Full Positive Energy Throughout | Say No to “Tiring Check-ins,” Focus on One Thing: Slow Down, Return Beautifully 🌿 “Stop crowding Hongcun! Southern Anhui hides 5 ‘Ink Wash Breathing Zones,’ where you can enjoy for 600 RMB per person and not want to return to Shanghai… The 4th stop can’t even be found by navigation!” 📍【One-Sentence Must-Visit Bombshell】 There’s no 996 KPI here, only catwalks on bluestone slabs, red chili peppers drying on racks, and white walls with black tiles suddenly appearing in mountain valleys… Southern Anhui isn’t just a scenic spot; it’s the ‘mountain and water relaxant’ deep in the bones of Chinese people. 🎒【Must-Read Before Departure · 3 Life-Saving Tips】 ✔️ ✅ Transportation Blind Spot: Don’t buy the “Huangshan North → Hongcun” direct bus! It detours 2 hours! ✅ Correct Operation: Take the high-speed train to “Jixi North” → taxi 25 minutes directly to Longchuan/Fuling (saves money, time, and is on the way!) ✔️✅ Accommodation Pro Tip: Stay outside Hongcun Scenic Area! Recommend “Tachuan” or “Lucun” homestays (💰150-280 RMB/night, window views of terraced fields + free morning mist drone footage rights📸) ✔️ ✅ Food Misconception Warning: Don’t just eat Mao tofu! The real soul of Southern Anhui lies in — cured meat and dried bamboo shoot pot, stone ear mushroom scrambled eggs, Wucheng tea tofu, Peach Blossom Pool fermented rice balls (plus 3 local secret unmarked restaurants📍 at the end of the article) 🗓【5 Days 4 Nights · Immersive Southern Anhui Breathing Plan】 ✨Day 1｜Ink Wash Awakening · Tachuan × Lucun ▫️Morning: Tachuan Autumn Colors (⚠️ Now is the perfect time for golden maple leaves! Fewer people and more magical than November) ▫️Afternoon: Lucun Wood Carving Building (Ticket ¥50, but ask the guide auntie to tell you “The Life of Huizhou Women,” tears come faster than the camera💦) ▫️Overnight: Tachuan “Yunqi Mountain Lodge” homestay｜Rooftop terrace for tea and stargazing⭐ ✨Day 2｜Ancient Architecture Masterpiece · Hongcun × Nanhu ▫️6:00 AM for the best shots! Nanhu morning mist + painting bridge reflection = straight-out-of-phone photos (⚠️ Don’t believe “crowds after 7” — locals pack up by 6:15!) ▫️Three must-do things: ① Count 108 bat wood carvings in Chengzhi Hall (symbolizing “fortune”) ② Find “Grandma’s Rice Cake” in the alley beside Wang Clan Ancestral Hall (¥3/piece, hot and soft) ③ Take a poetic photo at the coffee window on the second floor of Nanhu Academy, “Reading Poetry in Huizhou” vibe📖 ▫️Overnight: Hongcun “Shier Inn”｜Owner gives a handwritten “Southern Anhui Secret Code Map”🗺️ (includes coordinates of 3 unknown viewing platforms!) ✨ Day 3｜Wild Fun Bombshell · Chengkan × Lingshan ▫️Chengkan: China’s oldest Bagua village! ✅ Real experience → Follow villagers to enter through the “Life Gate” and exit the “Rest Gate,” touch the “Swallow Wing Hall” threshold (for stable studies/career like a loyal dog🐶) ▫️Lingshan: Free! Free! Free! (Important, said three times❗) Millennium terraced fields + Lingshan River + rapeseed flower sea (April-May) or golden rice waves (September-October), drone shots are cinematic! ▫️Dinner: Chengkan “Old House Restaurant”｜Must order “Knife Board Fragrant Stewed Bamboo Shoots” + “Lingshan Spring Water Tofu” (Owner says: “This water was drunk by Li Bai.”) ✨ Day 4｜Secret Realm Deification · Chaji × Peach Blossom Pool ▫️Chaji: A Tang Dynasty ancient village 10 times quieter than Hongcun! ✅ Hidden spot → Trail behind Erjia Ancestral Hall → Overlooking the whole village’s white walls and black tiles + winding creek, like a spilled ink wash painting🎨 ▫️Peach Blossom Pool: Not the popular pier from “Li Bai about to set sail”! ✅ Go to the “Wancun” section: bluestone beach + reed marsh + lone boat, shoot a movie-like “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon” bamboo forest scene🎋 ▫️Overnight: Peach Blossom Pool “Qinglian Residence”｜Name from Li Bai’s pseudonym, room hangs a handwritten replica of “To Wang Lun” poem📜 ✨ Day 5｜Healing Return · Jing County Xuan Paper Workshop Experience ▫️No museums! Head straight to “Cao’s Xuan Paper Workshop” (not a scenic spot, reservation required📞) ▫️Make a sheet of paper by hand! The master says: “Xuan paper lasts 1050 years, the words you write can outlive your grandchildren’s grandchildren.” ▫️Take home your exclusive Xuan paper + ink cake gift box (¥98, half the price of scenic spots!) ▫️Before leaving, buy a pack of “Tingxi Lanxiang” green tea at Jing County high-speed rail station — Southern Anhui’s last gentleness, brewing it is like the whole mountain unfolding🌿 🎁【End-of-Article Fan Treat】 ✅ 5 unmarked food spots with locations + phone numbers (even Gaode Map can’t find them!) ✅ Hongcun/Chaji/Tachuan 3 places 【Best Photo Time Table】⏰ (accurate to the minute!) ✅ Southern Anhui Dialect Crash Course: “Hao di hen” = awesome, “Ke na?” = where to go?, “Mo de shi” = no problem~ “Who do you most want to bring to Southern Anhui? 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Parents? 👩‍❤️‍💋‍👨 Lover? 🧓 Grandparents? Or — just yourself, alone, putting your heart back into the mountains and waters?