Wuyuan: The Ancient Village In China That Brings Back Feelings of Nostalgia for One's Own Hometown

If the ancient architecture constitutes the physical history of the village, the customs and cultural forms that have been handed down from generation to generation and continue to be preserved by the local inhabitants are the living history. From the very beginning, the development of Wuyuan's rural tourism focused on discovering and preserving the village's living cultural forms, including Nuo dance, Anhui Opera, dragon tail ink stone, three Hui carvings, the Taige dance performance, paste tofu and the village's unique kind of paper lantern.

If the ancient architecture constitutes the physical history of the village, the customs and cultural forms that have been handed down from generation to generation and continue to be preserved by the local inhabitants are the living history. From the very beginning, the development of Wuyuan's rural tourism focused on discovering and preserving the village's living cultural forms, including Nuo dance, Anhui Opera, dragon tail ink stone, three Hui carvings, the Taige dance performance, paste tofu and the village's unique kind of paper lantern.

Everyone somewhere in their heart retains a feeling of nostalgia and of preserving a memory of their hometown. Wuyuan's tourism officials - the keepers responsible for the rural culture that they have inherited - strive to retain the heritage and memory of the ancient village, while transforming Wuyuan into the hometown that anyone can visit and fulfill that lost sense of nostalgia and memory of one's own hometown.

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