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	Yuliang Ancient Dam at foot of Mt. Huangshan
	Yuliang Dam, located at the suburb of Shexian County, is a unique well-preserved overflow stone dam in China. It was built by laying well fitted granite stones to tame the river. Yuliang dam is the oldest and largest-scale river dam in ancient times with more than 600 years. The dam span across Longjinshan Hill on the south and the commercial street of Yuliang ancient town in the north. The old street of Yuliang ancient town is well preserved, characterized by the typical Huizhou-style architecture, where you can have stroll, the hundred of shops selling local products and snacks from residential households along the lane. During Ming and Qing dynasties, the locals took advantage of river transportation with the outside world, such as Hangzhou and Yangtze delta region. They traded their local timbers, or logs and other local products, such as tea, dried bamboo shoots for industrial products, such as cloth, nails, salt and other daily materials from the outside of the world. People built the dam so as to raise the water level in order to transport the cargo to the up-reaches of the river as there was no any highway at lcoal for more 1000 years. Larger boats from Hangzhou came at below part the dam, the cargo was downloaded and delivered by shoulder to the upper level of the dam and got uploaded to a smaller boat so as to be transported to remote up-reach region of river. The hustle and mustle trade evolved at the dam for hundreds of year, which witnessed the great changes of local economic developemt. Now the Yuliang Dam has become a must program for overseas tourists to tour over Huangshan areas.
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