Do you need to book Xidi in advance?

The booking rule, in detail

Reservation

Required in advance

Foreign passport

A foreign passport works as the real-name ID.

Official channel

https://www.chinaxidi.com.cn/

How a foreign visitor actually books it

A separate ticket from Hongcun — buy it at Xidi's own gate with your passport, or in the same 徽黄游 mini-program. The official Xidi scenic-area site even has English/Korean/Japanese versions, but the actual booking flow is the Chinese mini-program, so plan on the manual window with a passport. Real-name ticket; carry your passport for the gate.

What else to know

officialBookingUrl is chinaxidi.com.cn, the official Xidi operator site (黟县徽黄西递旅游开发有限公司, part of the 徽黄 group). Important: Xidi is NOT included in your Hongcun ticket — it's its own ~¥104 ticket, also valid roughly three days with multiple entries. Xidi is the older, more lived-in village: intact Ming-Qing residences, the stone memorial archway (胡文光牌坊) and ancestral halls, and noticeably fewer tour buses than Hongcun. There's also a paid evening light/performance show in season. Pair the two villages over a day or two rather than trying to rush both in a morning.

If the official channel does not work

The two reliable fallbacks are your hotel front desk, which books these through domestic apps every day, and the on-site manual window where one still exists. What does not work is buying from someone who approaches you or from a marketplace listing: entry is real-name, so a ticket registered to another person’s ID will not admit you. The mechanics are in buying tickets the official way and booking without WeChat.