Hidden Villages: Peach Blossom Sources

Longing for the Peach Blossom Source depicted in Master Tu’s brushstrokes after a busy workday.

Smoke curls upwards, between mountains and rivers, we simply enjoy ourselves, watching clouds roll and dissipate, clouds rise and fall.

Below are some places closest to the Peach Blossom Source, let’s choose one to set off for.

01. Peach Blossom Island

Peach Blossom Island is also known as Kan Tong Village, Zana Tong, located in the center of the first bay of the Nu River, a semi-peninsula of plains on three sides, Kan Tong is a small village of Nu people.

Kan Tong means ‘place of long bamboo’, the village surrounding scenery is beautiful, and many peach trees are planted in the village, every spring, pink peach blossoms bloom, pervading the entire small island, so people call Zana Tong Village Peach Blossom Island, ‘’.

Farmyard season or holidays, people come here to sing and dance, Kan Tong Village is called ‘gorges peach blossom source’, a harmonious and beautiful mountain and water pastoral scenery.

02. Ba Me Village

Ba Me Village is a settlement of Zhuang people, ‘Ba Me’ is the transliteration of Zhuang language, meaning ‘mouth of a cave in the forest’, as if Master Tu’s reality.

It is necessary to take a small boat to pass through a 1 kilometer long cave to enter Ba Me Village. You can see scenes of isolation from the world and family and pets in here.

Yunmeng surrounding mountains, full of spring water, vying for colorful flowers, Ba Me uses her unique scenery to draw a dreamscape that people yearn for.

03. Yubeng Village

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Yubeng Village is located under the foot of the goddess peak of Snow Mountain, Yubeng Village is divided into Upper Yubeng (altitude 3150 meters) and Lower Yubeng (altitude 3050 meters), the two villages are about one kilometer apart, Upper Yubeng can access the ice lake and Smiling Farmer base camp, Lower Yubeng can access the God Waterfall and God Lake. Besides, it is also the only place for Snow Mountain’s trans mountain tour.

In the morning, the sunrise reflects the golden sun and colorful prayer flags in the water, very beautiful, and feels like a peach blossom source far away from the world.

04. Pu'er Black Village

‘Pu’er’ means ‘pool of fish and shrimp’ in Yi language, and is known as ‘rare in the world, unique in China’ karst mountain water pastoral scenery.

Here, because of ‘Three Lives Three Worlds Ten Rings’, and popular variety show ‘Dad Goes to the Country’, it has gained fame.

Green mountains and verdant peaks, presenting a quiet and elegant beauty, the water is clear, reflecting the sky, blue sky and white clouds, one mountain and one water and one village, even the great masters can't paint such beautiful scenery.

05. Bixi Village

Because Feng Xiaogang directed the movie ‘Farewell My Concubine’ here, many people know about Mengzi and this Bixi Village in recent years.

Bixi Village is a small village at the foot of a mountain, facing the lake, with beautiful scenery. In 1900, a Frenchman built a railway station here, and it was named ‘Pu’er’.

The station has been abandoned, and the legendary history has faded away, but Bixi is still beautiful.

06. White Ha Pagoda Village

In the morning, the sunshine shines on every corner of White Ha Pagoda Village, the green grass reflects dazzling light, and the cows in the village look very quiet and relaxed.

Standing here, it feels like a flowing stream washing away some inner turmoil, and it feels like a harmonious place.

Standing on the slope, watching the smoke rise from the village from time to time, time has left its mark here, but it can’t take away the beautiful sentiment here.......

07. Ginkgo Village

In autumn, come here to walk, see the trees full of golden leaves, listen to the golden sand rustling under your feet.

The village smoke curls upwards, in an orderly pattern, almost every household's yard has a silver birch tree, and most of them are lush and leafy, with smoke and clouds covering the village, creating a perfect landscape with the village’s unique wooden houses and stone walls.

Silver birch trees spread their branches, shading a courtyard, the dark brown branches nourish the golden leaves, revealing the characteristic of farmers’ scenery.

08. Zagai Village

It is called ‘Little Switzerland in China’, not only has snow mountains and grasslands, but also far away from the world’s villages with beautiful scenery.

After coming to Zagai, even if the snow mountain and grassland are so beautiful, no one will forget this village’s stunning scenery.

Quiet, detached, pure... all these words are its colors.

09. Qingzhigui Town

The houses in the village are mostly red topped and white walls, with yellow rapeseed flowers and green barley fields, reflecting each other, and with the village’s blue-green background mountains, creating a beautiful scenery.

Yellow rapeseed flowers and distant mountains and near water, the village houses and scenery are beautiful. A series of distinctive and charming scenery makes countless people fascinated.

Different colored crops and grass are like ribbons, one by one, spread in front of and behind houses, with wind and rhythm, full of charm.