The ancient city of Phoenix The beautiful small town in western Hunan， surrounded by mountains ，is a very important point that connects hunan and guizhou together ， in addition to the Tuo River, houses on stilts and gentle Hmong girl, and now has become the land of the young artists who encounter love. The name of the town Legend says that when the super birds is 500 years old , it will collect wood to burn itself . Then it could bring back to life , then become abnormal beautiful and never die . This bird is the king of the bird of china-phoenix.Phoenix Town is named after the bird.The reasons why she is so Appealingone of the national historical and cultural cities was hailed as the most beautiful town of China by Louis Vewi a famous New Zealand writer .has beautiful scenery , long history many historical places.Attractions of PhoenixIts the mother river of this ancient town. Choose to take a boat covered with black matting and tour along the river and go sightseeing the Miao wooden house projecting over the water along either side of the bank , hearing the boatmans folk songs, you will feel yourself keeping far away from the mortal life.Hongqiao Art BuildingIt lies above the Tuo River and makes up a folk picture of the ancient towns marketplace. Hongqiao is an ancient building with a history of more than six hundred yearsGo up to the second floor, overlooking the whole beauty of phoenix town , savoring a cup of tea, you will fell completely relaxed and pleasureThe Southern Great WallIts a mililtary historical remains in Ming&Qing Dynesty. it had witnessed the ethnic disputes and peace for hundreds of years.The wall is three hundred and eighty-two miles long, and the main part is across the ancient phoenix town and mostly built along the mountain ridge.The Southern Great Wall is part of China Great Wall and also should be listed as the world cultural heritageMiao VillageMiao Valley, beautiful natural scenery, folk customs and rich, is a beautiful natural picture, Nuo culture remains a number of sites, The Valley, because the gods have preserved the natural landscape and ancient Miao been recognized by experts in China as “Miao living fossil.“ Here, visitors can enjoy the mystery of western Hunan, and feel some variety of native ethnic folk culture, you can also enjoy a delicious meal Miao pure food. The Museum of Ancient TownThe museum is another humanities landscape in this ancient town.Here,it displays a toaristocratic family-Chenbaozhen familys history cultural heritage, belongings, photos of the passed, pictures, material, books, documents, etc which were donated by Chenbaozhens descendants. Museum also displays more than 500 kinds of rock specimens and paleontology fossils millions of years ago.The former residence of SHENCONGWENlined in the zhongying street in the south part of the fenghuang old town, the residence is a typical spacious ancient courtyard with special tectonic style of ming and qing dynasty. walk into the yard, you can find that there is a small patio in the center of the courtyard. which is built with red rock. around the patio , there are about 10 rooms which are small but decorated by special carved wooden windows .its very beautiful.People about Phoenix 1. New Zealand famous writersocial activist 新西兰著名作家 社会活动家 he said in his book: the most beautiful town in china2.a very famous author, archaeologist and historian in china. one of the most famousworks: The border town ,makes the small town famous to the world and it attracts many people to find this simple palace.3. Famous painter huangyongyu may be you dont know his name maybe you never heard this name but he is the image of the nation spokesman like liuxiang just in the different field.He give a lot of help to improve phoenixs travel and donated a lot of money to the bridge, to pride his contribution to the hometown the government give him a place to build a buildingThere are 18 nationalities in the ancient city of Phoenix and many unique customs are retained to now. With 300,000 people, Phoenix is a multi-ethnic County with Miao, Han, Tujia, and so onFestivals Jump Flower festival In the Jump Flower festival,the miao people dress themselves and get together to celebrate the festival.The men play their own instruments and the women dance with the music.The young and the old also get out of the village to celebrate the fruitful year.The song festival is vital to the miao nationality.During the song festival,the miao people sing their own songs to honor the heros who fought for their happiness.All the people will get together and sing with each other.The songs remind everyone out of forgetting how difficult it is to get the happu life.The song festival Food and local productChestnut 板栗 Honey pomelo 金香柚Kiwi fruit 猕猴桃Ginger sugger 姜糖Miao ribbon(苗族花带Tujia brocade (土家织锦）Perhaps, a bl