Tongdao Dong Nationality Autonoumous County

Tongdao Dong Nationality Autonoumous County is an important gateway in southwest hu'nan. History of the Dong Nationality villages here goes back to ancienttimes. The local residents still keep pure and simple customs nowadays. This is abeautiful and marvelous land that possesses striking, picturesque landscapes, the place that most represents the Dong folkway is the Huangdu Dong Nationality Cultural Village, ten kilometers from the Tongdao county town. It is a scenic spot showing the constructions,culture and ways of life full of characteristics of the Dong Nationality.

Fengyu Bridge, alias of it is Puxiu Bridge, was first built in the year of Yichou of the Jiaqing reign of Qing Dynasty. It is a two-arched stone bridge with a wooden covered corridor on the bridge floor. On the corridor, there are three pagodas with therr halls in them. The first hall is the clan hall to Jiang Liang and Jiang Mei, the earliest ancestors of Dong Nationality. The second hall is Guansheng Hall and the third is Wenchang Hall. The carving of Four Dragongs Guarding Treasure implies that the mountains all around will protect the stockaded village.

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