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Phoenix Town, located in the Xiangxi Tujia and Miao Autonomous State of Hunan Province in the middle of China, was once called "one of the most beautiful small towns of China" by New Zealand writer Rewi Alley. The "Phoenix Ancient Town" was built during Kangxi reign of Qing Dynasty. This piece of "Xiangxi Pearl" is so "small" that there is only one decent east-west street.

Shaoxing, a city located at Zhejiang province, eastern China, the hometown of quite a lot well-known literati in modern history, has kept its traditional architectures and lift style properly.