It is built according to the situation on the mountain. The buildings in the whole village are stacked on top of each other, with stone houses, stone courtyards, stone bridges, stone village walls and stone roads, showing the typical architectural style of ancient villages in Taihang Mountains.
It is Yingtan Village, hidden in the mountains of Xindu District, Xingtai City, Hebei Province, with a history of more than 600 years.
Yingtan Village is the best-preserved stone village found in Hebei so far. It is known as "the first ancient stone village in Jiangbei". There are 67 well-preserved Ming and Qing courtyards and 36 large and small stone arch bridges. An important historical relic of local customs and customs, it was selected into the first batch of Chinese traditional villages in 2012.
Every year, the village attracts many schools and art studios to come here to practice sketching.
According to statistics, in 2021, Yingtan Village will receive more than 50,000 tourists, and the village's collective tourism income will be 850,000 yuan, which will drive the villagers to increase their income and become rich through the establishment of farmhouses, fruit planting, hand-knitting, and sales of specialty commodities, so that the villagers can eat "Travel meal".
(Zhang Pengxiang and Gao Xiaobo)
Responsible editor: [Luo Pan]