ChengKan is located on the south foot of HuangShan Mountain scenic area, which belongs to the list of World Natural and Cultural Heritage Site.  

ChengKan Village was built according to the theory of Eight Diagrams, the east is Qian (Heaven), the west in Kun (Earth), the south is Li (Fire) and the north is Kan (Water).    Besides, there are also eight mountains surrounded this village, ad they also form the natural structure of eight diagrams. The human eight diagrams and natural eight diagrams are integrative and show the big wonder of Chinese ancient villages.

Initially established in the period of late East Han Dynasty and ancient called LongXi (龙溪, Dragon Stream). This village has a history over 1800 years. In late Tang Dynasty, Qiu Yin and brothers of Luo Family has moved to this area, currently it has a population of more than 2700. ChengKan village is one of the best preserved ancient villages of China.

Oh yes, we have hired a local tour guide to walk with us this time. This man approached us as soon as we get off the car, said tourist can easily get lost in the 8 diagrams village without any guide.   Without thinking much, my brother hired him, not because of the reason we may get lost without him, but more on the reason we wanted to know the history of the village. Also, to give him a job opportunity. After all, he only charged us RMB 30, why not?    

and the other side looks like this…In fact, the tour guide said since it looks like the word of fortune（福）, it can bring good luck to the people who touch it.    For this reason, my brother and I touched it many times. Too bad the other 3 had walked too fast that I couldn’t make them to touch the fortune rock as well.    

After passing by the fortune rock, there got another 2 animal statues we need to pass through. The tour guide said man should touch the right hand side one, and woman should touch the left hand side one, for the reason I had forgotten.  

The kids made a lot of wild hypothesis about those little fishes living in the pond. Since I could only spare half an ear on them, I couldn’t remember what their comment are.

Probably because of the sound that Vincent & William had made, these 2 kids came out from the door and watched them playing. They are very steady kids, not like the kids we used to see in city.

The greatest highlight of this village is its splendid show of ancient architectural complex featured of HuiZhou style. The architecture characterizing the different styles has pavilion, platform, tower, bridge, well, memorial and stages.

But this family-run toufu shop was opened, the business was very good too…Since all of the tables in his small kitchen was occupied, we could take away the foods.

Apparently, ChengKan hairy-toufu is very famous. The tour guide brought us to visit some old buildings. From here, the tour guide had shown his value by telling the history of each building.  There are more than 100 ancient building sites established in Ming and Qing Dynasties. Today, it has more than 200 residential buildings of Qing Dynasty and more than 30 residential buildings of Ming Dynasty. Each of them possess various and unique architectural styles.   

Then, we arrived at the Luo Dongshu Memorial Temple. This is a family memorial hall that the descendants built in memory of their 3rd generation ancestor who was Luo Dongsu. This memorial hall is one of the two cultural relic sites in the village that is under the national protection.  Luo Dongshu was a famous scholar and a resolute recluse in the period of late Song and early Yuan Dynasty. He has high morality and refused to be the official of Yuan government. Luo Dongshu made a great contribution to Luo family. Hence, the descendants respected him as Confucius.   

The tour guide bid farewell to us after he walked us out from the village. Again, our lady driver gave us an unbelievable look when she finally saw us. She asked me : there really is so much to see inside huh? I nodded my head vigorously.