Zhouzhuang Town is a pre-selected world cultural heritage site and the first batch of national 5A-level tourist attractions. It is located in the southeast of Suzhou, at the junction of Kunshan, Wujiang and Shanghai.
Zhouzhuang Town is surrounded by water, because the river Cheng Zhen, depending on the water into a street, taking the street as the city. There are 14 ancient stone bridges built in Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties in the well-shaped river channel. There are more than 800 aborigines living by the pillow river, and more than 60% of the houses still retain the architectural characteristics of the Ming and Qing Dynasties.
Zhouzhuang, with a long history, is a typical water town in the south of the Yangtze River with a unique cultural landscape, which is the treasure of China water town culture and Wu local culture. There are Shen Wansan's former residence, Fuan Bridge, Shuangqiao and other ancient bridges with their own characteristics 14.
Zhuang is located 33 kilometers southwest of Kunshan and 38 kilometers southeast of Suzhou. Zhouzhuang is about 90 kilometers away from Shanghai Hongqiao International Airport and more than 50 kilometers away from Shanghai Pudong International Airport and Hangzhou Xiaoshan International Airport/KLOC-0.
As a small town in Zeguo, surrounded by water, you have to travel by boat. Zhou Zhen, which is connected by Qiaojie, is a typical Jiangnan with small bridges and flowing water.
Most residents in Zhou Zhen live by the river. Wusong River and Loujiang River cross east and west. The larger lakes are Dianshan Lake, Yangcheng Lake, Hucheng Lake and Puppet Lake.
Baixianhu wharf
Zhouzhuang Town was originally called Zhenfengli, and it was called "Shaking City" from the Spring and Autumn Period to the Han Dynasty. According to legend, Wu Wang was born very young, and John Bojun was named here. Zhang, a writer in the Western Jin Dynasty, Liu Yuxi and Lu Guimeng, poets in the Tang Dynasty, all lived in Zhouzhuang. During the Yuan You period of the Northern Song Dynasty (1086), Di Gong Lang believed in Buddhism and donated 200 mu (13 hectares) of land to Quanfu Temple as temple property. People felt its kindness and named this land "Zhouzhuang". /kloc-in 0/27, King XX moved here with Song Gaozong Dunan, and the population gradually became dense.
Zhuang Yuan Dynasty belonged to Changzhou County, Suzhou Prefecture. In the middle of Yuan Dynasty, Shen You, the legendary father of Shen Wansan, the richest man in the south of the Yangtze River, moved from Nanxun, Huzhou to Dongzhai Village, east of Zhouzhuang (and moved to Yinzibang at the end of Yuan Dynasty). He gradually became rich from business, making Zhenfeng prosperous, and formed an old market town centered on Fuan Bridge on the north and south sides. In the Ming Dynasty, the town expanded westward, reaching Fuhong Bridge in Hougang Street and Puqing Bridge in Zhong Shi Street, and moved to Hougang Street. In the middle of Ming Dynasty, it belonged to Huating County, Songjiang Prefecture.
When the Qing Dynasty returned to Changzhou County, the residents became denser, Zhaxi gradually became rows of shops, and the commercial center moved from Hougang Street to Zhong Shi Street. At this time, it has become an important town in the south of the Yangtze River, but it is still called Zhenfengli. It was not until the early years of Kangxi that it was officially renamed Zhouzhuang Town. In the third year of Yongzheng in Qing Dynasty (1725), Zhouzhuang Town was divided into Yuan County, and about four fifths of it belonged to Yuan County (now Wuxian County). One fifth belongs to Wujiang County (now Wujiang City). In the twenty-sixth year of Qianlong (176 1), the governor of Jiangsu, Chen Wengong, moved the inspection department originally stationed in Jiaozhi Town of Wuxian County to Zhouzhuang, covering Hucheng Lake, Huangtiandang Lake, Dushu Lake, Yinshan Lake and Baixian Lake, covering almost half the county. Zhou's rapid development from a small town to a commercial center has much to do with the prosperity of Shen Wansan, the richest man in the south of the Yangtze River. The Baixian River (Dongjiang River) in Shen Wansan, which is connected to the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal in the west, and the Liuhe River in the northeast have turned Zhouzhuang into a distribution center and trading center for grain, silk and various handicraft products, which has promoted the rapid development of Zhouzhuang handicraft industry and commerce. The most prominent products are silk, embroidery, bamboo products, foot stoves, alcohol and so on. After 1952, Zhouzhuang Town was under the jurisdiction of Kunshan County (now Kunshan City).
Chen Yifei Oil Painting-Shuangqiao
1984 In the spring, 38-year-old painter Chen Yifei came to Zhouzhuang by boat and saw Shuangqiao. He felt as if he were a boy again. So, I created an oil painting "Memories of My Hometown" with Shuangqiao as the background. Later, this painting and 37 of his works were exhibited in Hammer Gallery named after armand hammer, the chairman of American Western Oil Company.
This painting caused a great sensation at that time. Later, armand hammer bought the collection at a high price. In the same year 10, Mr. Hammer gave this painting to Deng Xiaoping when he visited China. Through the propaganda of the news media, Zhouzhuang Town became famous. Chen Yifei's paintings brought the unknown double bridge to the world. The key is not the key, but the key, because it opens the door of friendship between Zhouzhuang and international exchanges.
Before 1980s, because the town was far away from the county seat, its economy was dominated by agriculture and its industrial economy was relatively weak. 198 1 year, the total output value of township industries is only over 5 million yuan. With the in-depth development of reform and opening up, coupled with the continuous improvement of traffic conditions such as the opening of Jishuigang Bridge, the economy of various industries has developed steadily, among which tourism has developed more rapidly. With the rapid rise of tourism in Zhouzhuang, we should actively adjust the agricultural structure, vigorously develop planting and aquaculture, and increase the supply of agricultural and sideline products to meet the needs of market changes.
Tiny bridge,flowing brook,hamlet homes
At the end of Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of Ming Dynasty, Shen Wansan became the richest man in Jiangnan. He hired a famous chef to cook all kinds of delicacies, which was called "Three Thousand Family Banquets". Its banquet is fresh and delicate, with exquisite materials and excellent color, fragrance, taste and shape. The specialties are: Wanti, Sanwei Tangyuan, steamed mandarin fish, steamed eel tube, water shield and perch soup, ginger snail, stuffed meat oil bag, braised tofu, cooked lotus root and so on. To taste the "Three Thousand Family Banquets", you can go to Shenting Restaurant. Located next to Fuan Bridge and Shen Guild Hall. It still retains the style of Ming and Qing dynasties, elegant and chic, and is a restaurant with local style.
There are four seasons of aquatic products in Zhuangzhen, the most famous of which is "Three Treasures of Crane": perch, white clam and whitebait. Zhou also produces eel, which is a well-known rural proverb. In addition, there are turtles and shrimps. Pickled amaranth and green ball are the specialties of Jiangnan, and they are also very popular with tourists. Cooked food includes sesame seed cake, peanut cake, walnut cake, salt and pepper cake and green cake. There are also pickles and other tea dishes. There are traditional specialties such as Wansan, Sanweiyuan, cooked lotus root, water shield soup, white silk fish and white clam soup. Three hooves is a necessary dish for Shen Wansan, a wealthy family in the south of the Yangtze River, to entertain distinguished guests. "If there is a banquet at home, there must be a clear hoofbeat". After hundreds of years of circulation, it has become the main course of Zhouzhuang people's New Year holidays and wedding banquets, which means reunion and is also an excellent dish for entertaining guests.
Zhuangshenting
Water shield, a pampered aquatic crop, is warm and suitable for growing in Hong Kong and Han with pure and calm water quality. Water shield has red stems and green stems. Generally, it is planted before and after Qingming, or before and after Bailu. Plants will be picked after two months of growth. Leaves floating on the water, oval, tender, with colloidal transparent substance on the back. Boiling soup with tender leaves and stems of water shield is delicious and nutritious. Hans Zhang, a writer in the Western Jin Dynasty, said that he was far away in Luoyang, still missing this delicious food in his hometown day and night, and even didn't want to be an official. People store water shield in bottles or jars and can taste it all year round.
Sanweiyuan, commonly known as soup gluten, takes water gluten as the skin, and the stuffing is made of chicken breast, fresh shrimp, pork leg, onion, ginger, yellow wine and other seasonings. Cook in chicken soup, thin skin and tender stuffing. Crystal clear, set snacks, dishes, fresh soup as a basin. In Jiangnan, Sanweiyuan is a very popular dish, and every family can cook it. Every year in June of the lunar calendar, when new wheat comes on stage, the sun-dried wheat should be crushed and sieved with a fine sieve. Snow-white flour is stored separately. Only the bran is added with proper amount of salt and water and stirred into a paste. After an hour or two, rinse with clean water. The washed dough is sticky, that is, gluten, which can be made into three flavors of round skin and wrapped into various meat stuffing.
Wantingqu
Three high
Zou's ancestors started Gongmao Tea House as early as the early Ming Dynasty. On holidays, Shen Wansan, its neighbor, will order a large number of cakes for friends and relatives, and later it will be called "Three Thousand Cakes". Zou's Tea House not only produces traditional Wansan cake and Quanfugong cake, but also produces more than 20 kinds of cakes such as sesame cake, peanut cake, walnut cake, jade belt cake, mint cake, salt and pepper cake, pine nut cake, fragrant baked cake, thousand-layer cake and step-by-step cake according to seasonal changes to meet the tastes of different customers.
Zhouzhuang tourist map
Over the past nine hundred years, the Zhuang people have developed many high-level traditional crafts. Zhouzhuang Bamboo Weaving and Zhuanglu are representative works. Zhou's teapot is also unique. In other places, teapots are mostly made of ceramics, while Zhou's teapots are made of stone. On the wall of the teapot, the relief is vivid and rich in image. As the representative of Jiangnan water town, Suzhou embroidery, pearls and other Jiangnan specialties can be seen everywhere here.
Zhouwenhua Street is very lively and can be said to be a gathering place of traditional culture. On both sides of the street, culture is full of shops, including teahouses, pharmacies, blacksmiths, cotton mills, bamboo weaving factories, flour mills, carpenters and calligraphers. ...
When you come to Zhouzhuang, you can also take the special boats "No.3" and "Zhouzhuang" which integrate experience, leisure and sightseeing, and surround the upper reaches of Zhenshui. It is one of the best choices for tourism in ancient water towns. It is 22.6 meters long and 5.5 meters wide, with luxurious decoration, air conditioning, tea room, silk and bamboo, etc. The original No.3 ship was named after the treasure ship "Three Thousand" of Shen Wansan, the richest man in the south of the Yangtze River at the end of Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of Ming Dynasty. Zhuang Hao carefully selected the original boat. On June 6, 20001year, the informal meeting of APEC trade ministers was successfully held in the famous Zhouzhuang Aquatic Products Conference Hall "Zhouzhuang Ship". Imitating the elegance of "Zhouzhuang Boat", a special cruise ship "Zhouzhuang" is set up for tourists to enjoy the beautiful scenery of the first water town in China along the waterway.
There are hundreds of cruise ships in Zhouzhuang, all of which are used by tourists in the water lane. Walk along the river, and you will meet a cruise ship sailing in the river. Tourists relax on the sparkling water by boat, see the scenery of the ancient town and listen to the singing of the boatman Wu Ge. In the evening, board a cruise ship at the river pier opposite the Shenting, enjoy the sound of bamboo silk in the south of the Yangtze River from the Fuan Bridge Building, and listen to the jingle of Suzhou pingtan from the windows of people along the river. The cruise ship winds through many arch bridges in bridge opening, and countless colored lights are embedded in the bridge opening, reflecting the reflection of thousands of ancient bridges on the river. Lights, ancient bridges, ship shadows. This is the charm and charm of the ancient town at night.
Shenting
Scenic spots in Zhou include: temples, Shenting Hall, Shuangqiao, Fuan Bridge, Quanfu Temple, Mysterious Building and other scenic spots. Zhang Ting, formerly known as Yishuntang, was built in the Ming Dynasty. In the early Qing Dynasty, Zhang moved to Yuyantang, commonly known as Zhang Ting. There are more than 70 rooms in front and back of the main hall, with an area of 1.800 square meters. Beside the hall, the Jinghe River passes through the house. As the saying goes, "the bridge enters from the front door and the boat passes through the house." Zhang Ting, as the official residence of Yin, has experienced more than 500 years of vicissitudes, but its style remains the same. Calligraphy and painting are hung on the wall. The first couplet of the couplet is "the sedan chair advances from the door", and the second couplet is "the boat passes in front of the house". This couplet aptly describes the architectural features of this hall. Shenting was built by Shen Benren, a descendant of Shen Wansan, in 1742, the seventh year of Qing Qianlong. There are seven or five gatehouses with more than 100 houses, which are distributed on both sides of the 100-meter-long central axis and cover an area of more than 2,000 square meters. Shen Guild Hall consists of three parts. In front is the water wall door, which is the river port where family members dock ships and wash clothes; It is a middle-wall gatehouse, tea hall and main hall, which is used to pick up and drop off guests, handle weddings and funerals and discuss matters; That is, the back lobby building, the small lobby building, the back lobby, the place where people live, the place where they live. The whole hall is a typical "front hall and back hall" architectural pattern. The front room and the back room are connected by a street building and an aisle pavilion. Form a huge building. The main hall is Songmao Hall, covering an area of 1.70 square meters. The brick gatehouse in the main hall is the most magnificent of the five gatehouses, with a height of 6 meters. The plaque in the middle is "thick and flowing" and is surrounded by the relief of "red plum is spring". People, animals, pavilions, operas, stories, etc. Lifelike, it can be compared with the brick gatehouse of Suzhou Net Lion Garden. There are large and small halls in the back, and the architectural style is quite different from that of the main hall. The restored Shen Temple is listed as a key cultural relic protection unit in Jiangsu Province.
Four Seasons Zhouzhuang is the perfection and refinement of Dream Zhouzhuang, a literary evening at the opening ceremony of the 12th China Zhouzhuang International Tourism Festival, and it is also the first live performance in China. Four Seasons Zhouzhuang takes water culture as the background, features local folk customs and takes international fashion as the element, showing Zhouzhuang's excellent traditional culture and rich folk customs. The repackaged Four Seasons Zhouzhuang will be performed for 60 minutes. It is divided into three chapters: Yunshui Zhouzhuang, Four Seasons Zhouzhuang and Folk Zhouzhuang. Using the open panoramic stage, combined with various artistic means, the living conditions of the people in Zhouzhuang water town, as well as the cultural characteristics and charming charm of Zhouzhuang are truly and vividly reproduced. There are about 200 performers, including professional actors, as well as a large number of local farmers, fishermen and citizens from the front line of life. The whole performance will be full of life and market atmosphere, which is an organic supplement and promotion of the ancient town's material culture. Every day, it will be performed on the water dance stage of Jiangnan people as a permanent tourism project.
Shenting
Zhou's clippers are strange. Before the competition, skilled craftsmen put up a flower shed on the boat, which is called "Flower Fast". The flower shed is divided into shed, cabin shed and shed, with silk curtains on the shed. Gorgeous decoration, colorful. Hang colored lights and flags on the shed. There are tassels floating in the hut. In the cabin, sitting in a percussion band. The tall shed provides shade for hands. The spare mast, big paddle and small paddle of each ship are placed on the left and right sides of the hull. Next to the paddle, the springboard is placed on the outside, sticking out of the water. Each boat is equipped with 15 or 16 strong rowers. Wearing tight sweaters and embroidered sandals.
At the beginning of the competition, Zhou Zhoubi, Inch Bibi and Dragon and Tiger paddlers performed their respective duties, jumping out, pulling up, holding the slot and tacit cooperation. He stood proudly on the diving board, jerked it and stretched himself. Pull stamps whenever there is criticism. Try to push and pull. The flagpole stands at the bow, aiming at the flagpole, adjusting the direction and commanding freely. In the sonorous sound of gongs and drums, the participating clippers seemed to fly out of the string and won the first place.
Swing scissors
Zhuang people have a long history of drinking tea. They have always had the custom of "grandma tea", "talking about tea", "happy tea", "spring tea" and "full moon tea", which is called "tea ceremony" in Jiangnan water town.
Zhuang's "grandma tea" is quite famous in Jiangnan water town. Speaking of Zhouzhuang, we didn't really go to Zhouzhuang until we had grandma's tea. In Zhouzhuang, anyone who has eaten grandma's tea will taste the taste of the ancient water town. In Zhouzhuang, whether in the town or in the countryside, you can often see men, women and children sitting around a seat, cups of green tea and plates of refreshments, talking and laughing while eating, which is called "granny tea".
Zhuang people have a long history of eating granny tea. Nowadays, people in deep houses still cherish the exquisite blue-and-white porcelain-covered tea bowls, exquisite teacups, elegant and quaint teapots and brightly glazed tea trays in the Song Dynasty. In the Yuan Dynasty, Chen Qubing's ancestors moved from Zhejiang to Zhouzhuang, where they hammered ovens and made copper and tin teapots for a living. Today, the town still retains the Huiban Teahouse built in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, in which Greeny opened in the early Qing Dynasty and Chengyitai opened in the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty. Hui Tea House buys primary tea from the producing area. In order to meet the needs of tea drinkers, it is screened, dried, perfumed and sold in color, with good color and fragrance.
Apocha
The girl's dress is elegant and exquisite: she wears a red scarf on her head and folds her back in half. Two black braids with Red Velvet ropes on both sides are exposed. They are wearing big chests and short jackets with small flower heads, decorated with flowered cloth and small pipa buttons, and tied with small pleated aprons of Shilin blue cloth around their waists. The waist bag board (commonly known as waist board) is embroidered with various exquisite patterns, and the blue head is also decorated with red and green tassels. Under the skirt, I am wearing a pair of blue trousers and embroidered piping shoes. The whole dress presents a kind of beauty.
Middle-aged women wear large-breasted coats made of pulp stone forest blue cloth, light lake-colored piping pipa buttons, blue pleated aprons at the waist, small aprons of the same color (commonly known as official skirts), and plain cloth shoes on their feet. Their headdresses are also different from those of girls. Towels used in Baotou are plain, some are wrapped in blue cloth, and a colored rope bun (commonly known as hair handle) is combed on the head. A silver lotus plate is inserted vertically in the bun, and a silver hairpin is placed horizontally. The decoration is simple and generous, showing an elegant beauty.
Women's clothes for the elderly are generally dark, with black net towels on the hair handles and mostly black cloth skirts, giving people a simple and solemn aesthetic feeling.
Zhuang is close to Shanghai and Suzhou. Visitors can come the same day, leave the same day, or spend the night. The local accommodation facilities are quite complete.
Accommodation in ancient towns is generally family hotels, and there are many similar types of inns. Generally, rooms with windows facing small bridges and flowing water, as well as rooms with retro decoration, are more expensive.
If you choose to stay in the new area, you can go through the relevant formalities at the centralized ticket office in the scenic spot and keep the ticket stub so that you can visit Zhouzhuang again the next day.
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