My latest trip to Lingshan and Tachuan villages(1) Recently I have joined a Wechat Group, which is called Every Day Relaxing Outdoor Group. They almost hold trips to different places every week. As a result, now I think whenever I want to choose somewhere to go, I can just join them hit on the road. Last Sunday, I took a trip with them to Lingshan village and Tachuan, both locaed in the Yellow Mountain area. The weather was perfect last Sunday, and it still felt like a fine day in the fall, sunny and warm with that incredible blue sky. We visited the Lingshan Village first, which was a small typical village in the Yellow Mountain area with the Hui Style building. Though Lingshan isn't as famous as Hongcun or Xidi in the Yellow Mountain area, which often appeared in movies. There are some benefits with this village as well. First they don't charge you for your visiting, and the local villagers are not commercialized that much. When you passed by, they were busy with what they were doing, just a few houses sold some stuff locally in front of their doors. The common view in the coutryside nowadays in China is many houses are locked and empty, not well-maintained, as if they have been abandoned by the owners for a while. It was very quiet and peaceful there. Two buses brought us about 100 toursits there and I guess this broke the tranquility of the village. We had our lunch in the village and the restaurant by the road might have to hire all the young labors from the village to help, delivering the dishes. Ten people shared one table with 13 dishes! Those local dishes tasted really good, of course with bamboo shoots and tofu, which are too common on your dish table around this area. We visited its old clan temple, memorial archway, her old street, as well climbing up to a nearby hill to have a better view of the terrace, though in the early winter, not too much to see in the fields, it's still a golden view.