Then, there is another place here that you may not know. When this can't stop many people from visiting here, this is Tiexiang Temple Water Street. Next, let's see what's interesting here!
Introduction of buildings beside temples and waterside buildings
Tiexiang Temple Water Street in the south of the city is located in Dayuan, a high-tech zone. In the old society, there were many temples in Chengdu, with Buddhist temples all over the city, and Tiexiang Temple was one of them.
Tiexiang Temple is located on the right side of the main entrance of Shuijie. At that time, the local people dug up an iron statue of Siddhartha Gautama and built a temple for worship, hence the name "Iron Statue Temple", which has a history of nearly 500 years. The street outside the door is noisy, and the breeze inside the door is slow. An orange wall separates the red dust.
Water Street is built according to Iron Statue Temple and Xiaojiahe River. Although it is a new place, both old Chengdu and new tourists feel that it looks like Chengdu in the 1970s and 1980s.
Qing zhuan Dai wa Xia yin Liu Xiao Qiao shui renjia
Go along the street sign of Tiexiang Temple Water Street, and you will see the archway of Water Street. Even in the hot summer, the traffic on the road is busy. As soon as it enters the water street, the lush green trees on both sides drop the temperature by more than half, and the noise on the road is isolated.
Blue brick houses are built by water, and the window leaves are often half covered by water, and the sound of running water enters from the window. Red lanterns hung under the eaves, and I seemed to see the beautiful scene of walking the streets at night. It also makes people forget that they are actually in the city.
A bridge here is a story. Goldman Sachs Bridge, Ximian Bridge, Sima Bridge, Wanfu Bridge ... These names, which are full of historical allusions in Sichuan, are presented one by one in Shuijie.
Every afternoon, you can see many people walking together, sitting in the pavilion of Tiexiang Temple Water Street, chatting, playing chess, having a cup of tea and enjoying a pleasant afternoon.
Stone paths, stone bridges and trees are idle people who are in a daze, resting or chatting. Time seems to be getting slower and slower here.
On the north side of Shuijie, the towering Huilan Tower. Drawing lessons from the appearance of Qionglai Huilan Tower and taking its meaning of "backwater to An Lan" is also one of the signs of water street.
Shop recommendation 1
Babacha in old Chengdu
Chen Jin tea shop
There is a saying in Chengdu: there are few blue sky overhead, but there are many teahouses in front of you. In the old Chengdu, there were old teahouses everywhere. Among them, the most suitable one is Ba Tea from Chen Jin Tea Shop.
The tea shop is in the center of Shuijie, which is divided into an inner court and an outer court. The inner courtyard is a row of lattice huts facing the river; The outer court is surrounded by bamboo tea chairs through an old stage.
Bamboo tables and chairs are scattered under the towering camphor trees, no matter sunrise or sunset. As long as you sit on the bamboo chair in the shade of this tree, listen to the crunch, drink a bowl of tea and shake the cattail leaf fan in your hand, you can be paralyzed in Chengdu all day.
Here you can also experience the special service of Chengdu: ear-picking. Occasionally, you can see several vendors carrying bamboo baskets, which contain some crisp plums, dried peanuts and fried melon seeds in the season. It takes a lot of effort to buy a pack of tea and arrange a dragon gate array.
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Where is the "poetic dwelling"
Qing an ya Ji
The "Elegant Series" is intriguing just by listening to its name. Being light and safe means getting rid of troubles and making people's body and mind in a light and accessible state; Elegant collection is a great pleasure for ancient literati to write poems, compositions and taste tea. There is a bamboo forest next to it, and the lighting signs are like a wisp of light smoke, which attracts people into the store in an understatement.
This aesthetic space is full of _-silent Zen time and space, just like Holderlin's "poetic dwelling". It is safe to live in the light; Life, into the light and elegant collection.
Here you can read in the "dust removal study" on the first floor; In the exhibition hall, you can meet the calligraphy exhibition of contemporary literati painters; You can also go to the vegetarian restaurant on the second floor and have a simple and exquisite vegetarian meal; Or go to the third floor to practice yoga and relax.
On the patio stage on the first floor, violin performances and drama performances will be held irregularly.
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Classical and elegant bookstore tea house
Yingshi ancestral hall
In the Tang Dynasty, there was a place called "Scattered Flower House" in Chengdu, which was a gathering place for literati. Li Bai has a poem saying: "Rizhao Jincheng Building, the morning flowers are scattered." It was destroyed in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. The shopkeeper yearned for the elegance of the scattered flowers building, so he opened this bookstore in the name of "scattered flowers", which means to spread the flowers of culture.
The poet Liu Shahe wrote the name of the store, and Ma Zhi wrote couplets: the satellites are scattered, and the bookstore is always fragrant.
There may be no bookstore in Chengdu that has such a close connection with the city as Sanhua Academy. On the bookshelf on the first floor, there are books and specialties with the richest local culture in Chengdu, which are used as carriers to promote the scenery, folk customs, history and humanities in Chengdu.
Let the feelings of crossing the ancient and modern times once again extend the cultural context of old Chengdu.
Outdoor and the second floor are places where you can read and drink tea. There are many kinds of tea in Sanhua Academy, no matter the shade, you can almost find your favorite. Sitting by the river drinking a cup of tea and reading a book is simply an unspeakable pleasure.
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Tea house capable of washing soul
merry
Huanyue is a tea art aesthetic space created by the famous designer and artist Mr. Wang Hai. "Huan" is washing, clearing the heart and calming the nerves; "Moon" is a metaphor for human nature. The moonlight is bright and makes people clear. Meditate on tea and return to the essence of tea. The original intention of joy is: the process of washing the soul, just as tea brings us.
Being happy is like walking into a museum. Besides tasting tea, you can also appreciate the beauty of tea sets. The silver pot in Yinchuan Hall, Japan, iron pot in Xiquan Hall, and Li Xiaobai, a non-genetic person in Dali, Yunnan, are all handmade with exquisite craftsmanship.
Perhaps, you can drink tea everywhere, but only when you are happy can you taste the good tea fried by the non-legacy masters and feel the perfect combination of tea and utensils. "Go to Huanyue for tea!" Perhaps many problems can be solved in quiet tea.
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Keep quiet here.
Waku
In the metropolis with high-rise buildings, fish ponds, streams and stone mills have gradually become distant homesickness. And tiles, also gradually disappear from daily life. Therefore, strolling on the stone road in Shuijie, it is easy to be recalled by the unique tile decoration of Waku.
Teacher Li, the winner of the contradictory literature prize, once described it as "a quiet place where time is tied, a place where people can count their old lives and take a step back."
The wooden window is tilted, the clay figurine on a table is laughing, and the tiles on the wall and the bricks on the ground are telling the story of time bit by bit. Waku, a place to drink tea. Waku is not only a place for drinking tea, but also provides authentic Sichuan cuisine.
Have a cup of green tea and relax for half a day. After lunch, sit outdoors or by the window and enjoy the afternoon, and experience the happiness of "drinking good tea when you have good tea" as Mr. Lu Xun said.
The comfort of Chengdu people is in a "slow" place, and Tiexiang Temple Water Street gives people a place to relive the slow life of old Chengdu. Here, you don't have to rush around, you don't have to look around, you just have to slow down a little bit and then slow down, encouraging you to travel. You deserve more.