Sixi Yancun (思溪延村) is a pair of adjacent villages — Sixi and Yancun — that have merged into a single tourist site while retaining considerably more of an inhabited, working-village character than Likeng. The maze of alleys between the old buildings actually requires navigation rather than funneling you along a designated tourist route, and the residential mix of old merchant houses alongside ordinary modern living spaces gives the place an authenticity that the more polished villages lack.
The buildings in Sixi include several exceptionally well-preserved merchant houses with original woodwork interiors. The village was built primarily during the Qing dynasty on the wealth generated by families trading in timber and tea. The scale and quality of the woodcarving in some houses reflects considerable eighteenth-century prosperity.