China Jiangnan six ancient towns, Shuige Wuzhen tourist attractions.
After the story of amorous feelings came, I never left Shuige Wuzhen-Shuige Wuzhen Jinzhen River (12 pieces) Wuzhen is an ancient town with a long history of more than 6,000 years. When you enter Wuzhen, white walls, tiles, small bridges and flowing water come to you with the breath of China ink painting, and carved beams, painted buildings, stone alleys and old houses come into view, witnessing the vicissitudes of history. The East-West Gate is the most frequently visited area for tourists. In the East Gate, the Wupeng boats in Hanoi, the eastern city, go back and forth from time to time, the blue calico floats in the wind, and the elderly pawnbrokers tell the story of Wuzhen. Although Xizha lacks some flavor of life, the night view of Xishi River will make people fascinated every night, or just eat an authentic water village dish in the hotel, and then send a postcard to the old post office, so as not to visit Wuzhen in vain.
Wuzhen, located in Tongxiang, Jiaxing City, Zhejiang Province, is located in the "Golden Triangle" of Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai, in the hinterland of Hangjiahu Plain, 80 kilometers away from Hangzhou and Suzhou and 106 kilometers away from Shanghai. Wuzhen, with a long history of more than 6,000 years, is one of the 20 golden week forecast scenic spots in China and one of the six ancient towns in the south of the Yangtze River. Wuzhen, which belongs to Tongxiang City and is located on the southeast coast, has a typical subtropical monsoon climate. Winter is warm and humid, with four distinct seasons, abundant rain and abundant sunshine. It has the climatic characteristics of wet spring, hot summer, dry autumn and cold winter. Wuwu Town belongs to the water system of Taihu Lake basin, with criss-crossing rivers, and the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal passes by the town. It is a typical ancient town in the south of China, and is known as the land of plenty and the house of silk. The cross-shaped inland river system divides the whole town into four blocks in the southeast and northwest, which are called "East Gate, South Gate, West Gate and North Gate" by local people, among which the open West Gate and East Gate are tourist attractions, and almost all the indigenous residents have moved out of their ancestral homes.
Walking into Wuzhen, walking on the narrow street paved with bluestone slabs, and seeing all kinds of houses on both sides and villagers still living in houses, people will have a kind of cordial and natural feeling. Wuzhen, like many water towns in the south of the Yangtze River, has streets and houses built along streams and rivers, which is the so-called "people do their best to pillow the river". What is different is that some of the houses along the river extend to the river surface, and the bottom is hit in the river bed with wooden stakes or columns, and the beams are put on the shelves and the boards are put on, which is called "Shuige", which is a unique feature of Wuzhen. Wuzhen dialect, a Wu dialect, belongs to the Su-Hu-Jia small piece of Taihu Lake in Wu dialect. Wuzhen culture belongs to Wuyue culture.
Wuzhen is located in the water town in the south of the Yangtze River, and its people belong to Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces. The dialects of local residents in Wuzhen area can communicate with Shanghai dialect and Suzhou dialect without barriers. In 1991, it was rated as a famous historical and cultural city in Zhejiang Province, and in 1999, it began the project of ancient town protection and tourism development. On November 19th, 2014, Wuzhen became the permanent meeting place of world internet conference.
Tourist attraction
1. Dongzha Scenic Spot: In 2001, Dongzha Scenic Spot of Wuzhen Protection and Development Project was officially opened to the public. The first phase of the scenic spot covers an area of about 0.46 square kilometers and the protected building area is nearly 60,000 square meters. It is a famous ancient town tourist attraction in China. The tour of the scenic spot is 2 kilometers, consisting of Dongzha Old Street, Guanqian Street, Riverside Water Pavilion and Gallery shed. After the project is completed, Dongzha Scenic Spot covers an area of about 1.98 square kilometers and has more than ten scenic spots.
2. Xizha Scenic Area: Xizha is located in Wuzhen West Street, adjacent to the ancient Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, and has direct access to Jiangsu, Suzhou and Tongxiang. The traffic is very convenient. Unlike Dongzha, which takes tourism as its theme, Xizha focuses on business tourism and leisure vacation. Xizha Scenic Area covers an area of 4.92 square kilometers, with more than 9,000 meters of criss-crossing rivers and 72 ancient bridges. The density of rivers and the number of stone bridges are the highest in the country. There are 250,000 square meters of exquisite Ming and Qing buildings in the scenic area, and the length of Xizha Old Street across the east and west of the scenic area is 1.8 kilometers, and the waterfront pavilion on both sides of the river stretches for more than 1.8 kilometers. The northern area of the scenic spot is more than 50,000 square meters of natural wetlands.
3. Jiangnan Hundred Beds Museum: It is the first museum in China that specializes in collecting and exhibiting Jiangnan ancient beds. It is located at No.210, East Street, Wuzhen, also known as Zhaojiating, with an area of more than 1,200 square meters, and contains dozens of Ming, Qing and modern Jiangnan ancient beds. The first exhibition hall in the museum displays: Ming horseshoe foot large tubular frame bed, etc., which adopts wooden frame structure and emphasizes the line image of furniture shape; In the second exhibition hall, there is a bed made of boxwood, which is 217 cm long, 366 cm deep and 292 cm high. There are three stacks in front and back. It took three years to carve this bed, and it took more than a thousand workers, so it has its name.
4. Jiangsu-Zhejiang Branch Office: known as Zhejiang Branch Office, it is a unique government agency in Wuzhen history. He is in charge of patrolling salt and catching thieves, and also manages local word litigation, commonly known as Erfu Yamen. It lasted more than 370 years from its establishment in Jiajing period of Ming Dynasty to its revocation in the early Republic of China.
5. Jiangnan Folk Museum: The museum displays the folk customs of Wuzhen from the late Qing Dynasty to the Republic of China, such as birthday celebration etiquette, marriage and childbearing customs and the season of the year. Wax figures create a drama of weddings and funerals. The clothing and customs hall displays the folk dress customs in Jiangnan more than a hundred years ago by different means, such as physical objects, wax figures and photos.
6. Jiangnan Woodcarving Exhibition Hall: This was originally the mansion of the Xu family in Dongzha, also known as Baihua Hall, which is famous for its exquisite woodcarving. In the main room, a wealth of exquisite devices of ancient China woodcarving are displayed. The wood carvings in the Wood Carving Museum are rich in materials, including folk legends such as "Eight Immortals Crossing the Sea" and "Guo Ziyi's Birthday", life scenes such as "fishing", "cricket fighting" and "beating gongs and drums", as well as traditional patterns such as "Dragon and Phoenix are auspicious", "Squirrel eats grapes" and "Mei Lan Zhu Ju", which depict the folk customs with local characteristics in the south of the Yangtze River.
7. Yu Liuliang Coin Museum: Yu Liuliang, a native of Wuzhen, is a well-known coin collector, and has written more than ten academic monographs, such as Spending Money in China, Appreciation and Collection of China, Coins, Random Notes on Coins, Essentials of Coin Science, and Coins in World Circulation. After 40 years of painstaking collection, he has nearly 26,000 kinds of coins from more than 230 countries and regions in the world, including metal currency, paper money, spending money, etc. The materials are 15 kinds of gold, silver, copper, iron, tin, aluminum, lead, antimony, pottery, nickel, paper, bamboo, bone, glass and plastic, from Xia and Shang dynasties to modern times.
8. Wenchang Pavilion: There is a pavilion on the riverside in front of Lizhi College, named Wenchang Pavilion. Between the academy and the pavilion, there is only a wide Guanqian Street. In the old days, when scholars went to Wenchang Pavilion, they usually came by boat accompanied by servants. The boat is moored by your river port, and the scholars go upstairs, while the servants sit and wait on the benches on both sides of the aisle.
9, fix the truth view: in Wuzhen Zhongshi. In the first year of Xianping in the Northern Song Dynasty (998), Taoist Zhang Dongming was here in build house, where he learned the truth and created a "view of repairing the truth". The concept of repairing truth, Suzhou Mysterious Temple and Puyuan Xiang Yun Guan are also called the three Taoist temples in the south of the Yangtze River, and their status is extremely lofty. There is a huge abacus hanging above the main entrance of the mountain gate of Xiuzhen Temple, and the book below is a pair of couplets: people have thousands of calculations, and the sky is a calculation, which is very alarming.
10. Mao Dun's former residence: It is the only national key cultural relics protection unit in China in Jiaxing. It is located at No.17 Guanqian Street on the east side of the river in Wuzhen, with four bays and two entrances. It is a wooden building with floors and faces south, with a total area of about 450 square meters. The former residence is divided into two units, East and West, which was purchased by Mao Dun's great-grandfather twice. The former residence includes bedroom, study, dining room and other buildings, and its furniture and layout are still the same as when Mao Dun first lived.
11. Ancient stage: It is an affiliated building of Taoist temple. It was built in the 14th year of Qing Qianlong (1749), and it was damaged as often as the view of fixing the truth. However, it has been maintained to this day since the renovation in 1919. The stage is a hill-resting roof. The platform has two floors, the bottom of which is surrounded by masonry, and there are side doors and front doors in and out. The side door leads to the river port, and there is a small ladder at the back of the ground floor leading to the balcony, or you can go down from the river port to the boat through the flap door.
12. Huiyuan Pawnshop: Between Yingjiaqiao and Nanhuaqiao, the facade of five bays, upstairs and downstairs, 1.8-meter-high counter. Huiyuan Dang was founded by Xu Huanzao (Mingxiang), the ninth grandson of Xu Dong, during the Daoguang period.
