Wandering through China’s ancient villages in spring time
Wire desk byline Sourced from Xinhua, Dawn, Arab News, Anadolu and Minute Mirror. Translated and abridged by the GSRRA Desk.
Listed as World Cultural Heritage Sites, Xidi and Hongcun are two renowned villages in east China’s Anhui Province. Featuring unique white walls, black tiles, flying eaves and upturned corners, the ancient Hui-style architectures of Ming and Qing dynasties (1368-1911) are widely found here.
Together with surrounding mountains and rivers, the Hui-style architecture embodying the ancient Chinese philosophy of coexisting with nature withstands the test of time and makes it to modern times.
Follow Xinhua correspondent Liu Qiong to explore the beauty of Xidi and Hongcun villages.
Reference Link:- https://english.news.cn/20250322/7f20d55cb967440ebdaf73c23190b74b/c.html
Zamir Ahmed Awan is the founder and Chair of the Global Silk Route Research Alliance, a think tank in Islamabad. He studied engineering at Shanghai University in the 1980s, and years later he went back to China as Pakistan's science counsellor in Beijing, from 2010 until 2016, working on science and higher education cooperation between the two countries.…
