Three Gorges Household

( sanxiarenjia.com )

Updated: 2012-02-07

It is located in a region of mountains and streams where the scenery has the beauty of landscape paintings.

It is located in a region of mountains and streams where the scenery has the beauty of landscape paintings.

The Three-Gorges Tribe scenic spot consists mainly of the Village on the Water, the Brook-Side Village, the Mountain-Top Village. The area has been officially designated as a "Protected Center of the Popular Culture and Art of the Three Gorges.”

The Three-Gorges Tribe is located on Xiling Gorge in the city of Yichang, between the Three-Gorges Dam and the Gezhouba Dam, in a region of mountains and streams where the scenery has the beauty of landscape paintings. Young women dance and sing as old sailboats moor placidly below stilt houses hidden in the bamboo grove. Maidens wash clothes by the brook side with their whirling batons, fishermen cast their nets in the misty distance… Entering the region feels like coming from afar into a dreamland garden.

1. The Village on the Water

At the juncture between the Longjin Brook and Yangtze River locates the Village on the Water, where the scenery, with the green mountains covered by mist against the blue water, is like a beautiful landscape painting. The people here, from generation to generation, live off the mountains and waters, and stretch their ancient culture of fishing life.

2. The Brook-Side Village

Brook-Side Village is surrounded by mountains full of greenness. (photo from nipic.com)

Located by a stream and against mountains, the Brook-Side Village is surrounded by mountains full of greenness, with half on the land into the water. You will feel like slandering in the fairyland with the fine rain breezing.

3. The Mountain-Top Village

The suspension building on the top of the mountain is called by the modern architect as "building with railing style”. Due to the steep terrene along the three gorges area, buildings here, with Banana trees planted around, are mostly built by the mountains with wood materials. Its name come after the fact that pillar and wall needs to be established when facing the almost vertical ridges, and its unique lies in its low front and high behind, passage on the side and the balcony in the behind.

It reflects the spirit of optimistic, fun and love of life of the people living in the gorges area. On the suspension building with windy passage and looking around, picturesque scenery will bring you with great pleasant feelings.