Hongcun
Village in Anhui, People's Republic of China / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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For the village in Shandong, see Hongcun (Shandong).
Hongcun (Chinese: 宏村; pinyin: Hóngcūn; lit. 'Hong village') is a village in Hongcun Town, Yi County, Huangshan City[1][2] in the historical Huizhou region of southern Anhui Province, China, near the southwest slope of Mount Huangshan.
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Coordinates: 30°00′12″N 117°59′26″E | |
Country | People's Republic of China |
Province | Anhui |
Prefecture-level city | Huangshan City |
County | Yi County |
Town | Hongcun Town |
Official name | Ancient Villages in Southern Anhui – Xidi and Hongcun |
Type | Cultural |
Criteria | iii, iv, v |
Designated | 2000 |
Reference no. | 1002 |
Region | Asia |
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Together with Xidi, the village became a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2000, because of its exceptional preservation of the architecture and city plan of a rural village in feudal China.[3][4] Scenes from the film Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon were filmed on location in Hongcun.