Nanchang >> Likeng Village

Attraction Typ: Ancient City

Location: more than 200 km from city

Recommend: 4 Star

Likeng Village

Likeng is a village as beautiful as a painting and has already been listed in the "List of Provincial Key Historic Reservation Units" and is one of the 100 "National Folk Culture Villages".

Likeng (Chinese: 李坑; pinyin: Lǐ Kēng) is a village as beautiful as a painting and has already been listed in the "List of Provincial Key Historic Reservation Units" and is one of the 100 "National Folk Culture Villages".

Likeng Village is located in Tuochuan countryside which is 56 kilometers far from Wuyuan County. The village was set up at the end of the North Song Dynasty. At that time, all the villagers were fond of reading and advocated "learning Zhuzi (a famous Chinese philosopher) protocol, submitting to Zhuzi's instruction, holding Zhuzi's courtesy", so it is praised as the "origin of Li Xue (a Confucian school of idealist philosophy of the Song Dynasty)". Therefore, it gained its name of Likeng. For several centuries, the villagers of this remote village took the habit of studying and reading hard.

The ancient buildings there have white washed walls, black tiles, upturned eaves and propping angle, as well as exquisite "Three carving" technique, scientific and reasonable arrangement, warm in winter and cool in summer. They are emeralds of ecological culture, and exhibition gardens of architectural art.
The Likeng Village is built along with a brook. The brook is two to three meters wide, spanning at various points by makeshift bridges. Dogs are often seen lounging around o¬n the bridges, watching the tourists pass by.

The weather there is warm and wet. The best travel time id spring, especially April.