Huangling, Wuyuan County

The village of Huangling has existed since the Ming dynasty. Huangling was part of Huizhou, Anhui and its culture was typical of the Hui culture that peaked in the 17th to the 19th centuries. In the early 1990s, photographers began to take interest in the picturesque scenes in Huangling, and tourists started to arrive. In 2008, the Wuyuan County Rural Development Co. started a project with Jiangwan town to develop Huangling as a tourist resort. In 2009, the company came to an agreement with the villagers to take control of the old village on the mountain. The vacated old buildings in the ancient village were renovated, and other old buildings from other places were relocated to Huangling to help preserve them. Of the 128 old buildings in Huangling, 20 were relocated from elsewhere. This model of tourism development to revitalize the village has been described as the "Huangling model". In 2023, Huangling was one of four villages in China named by the United Nations World Tourism Organization as Best Tourism Villages. ==Local interest==

A feature of the village is its terraces of rapeseed and visitors come in March and April to watch the flowers in bloom. Other flowering plants have been added to the terraces to extend the flowering season all year round. Another feature is the practice of shaiqiu or autumn crop drying where crops including chilies, pumpkins and chrysanthemum flower are dried in large bamboo baskets on the window sills and roofs. Due to its remote location, many of its old buildings in Hui-style architecture with distinctive white walls and black roof tiles dating from the Ming and Qing dynasties have survived intact. ==References==