Little Town Story Series---Chikan Ancient Town

Author: Zhang Guoxiong
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Publish Date: 2004-04-01
Features: A Lingnan ancient town surrounded by rivers and dotted with willow trees swaying gracefully. The diverse openness of the verandas and the stern enclosure of the watchtowers form its dual personality. Under the impact of unique family culture and Western influences, it weaves a series of heart-stirring stories. Chikan is an ancient town in the overseas Chinese hometown of Kaiping, Guangdong, located at the western edge of the Pearl River Delta. I often stroll through the quiet villages around it, sitting at the street-side herbal tea shop of the ancient town, slowly sipping Lingshan-style herbal tea and tortoise grass jelly while observing the leisurely passersby on the streets. The vendors quietly waiting for customers, selling tofu triangles by the roadside, and the silver-haired grandmas bending over with wrinkled faces, along with the Western-style verandas and colorful mountain flowers, all tell of the ancient town's former prosperity in trade.