Zhangyan Ancient Town is located in Qibao, Shanghai and has a long history. It is a rare ancient town in Shanghai and has become a unique tourist attraction in Shanghai. What’s fun here and where to go on a day trip.
1. Bell Tower
Qibao Bell Tower, located in Bell Tower Square, is the landmark building of Qibao Ancient Town. One of the legendary Seven Treasures, the 354 Bell, is hidden here. The Bell Bell is a true cultural relic. Cast in the seventh year of Yongle in the Ming Dynasty, it has a history of more than 600 years. It is 1.9 meters high, 1 meter in diameter, 9 centimeters thick and weighs one ton. In Buddhism, ringing the bell has the meaning of clearing away worries, increasing wisdom, and maintaining peace. Every New Year's Eve, the bell rings four times to pray for the people of Qibao.
Address: Chonglou Plaza, Qingnian Road, Minhang District
Opening hours: 9:00-18:00
2. Cotton Weaving Workshop
Gu Qibao belonged to Songjiang Prefecture and prospered due to the development of the cotton textile industry. It was once the main distribution center for "clothes and quilts from all over the world". Qibao Cotton Weaving Mill is a cultural and historical exhibition hall of cotton weaving technology. With the theme of "Humanistic Feelings, Clothes and Quilts World", the exhibition hall shows the development history of Qibao Cotton Industry from four aspects: trend (development), people (protagonist), objects (products), and language (culture) from a new perspective , fully demonstrated the planting technology and textile processing of the cotton industry, and focused on the introduction of Qibao's characteristic cotton fabric - Furong (ie "Qibao Sword"). "Qibao Cotton Weaving Workshop" combines historical documents and vividly reproduces the glorious history of cotton cloth and quilts in Songjun County through physical objects, images, pictures, texts, etc., and records the immortal grand occasion of Qibao cotton weaving industry in ancient times.
Address: No. 43, North Street, Minhang District
Opening hours: 9:00-18:00
3. Shanghai Qibao Art Museum
Shanghai Qibao Art Museum, also known as Qibao Calligraphy Art Museum, was completed in October 2009 in the downtown area of ??Qibao Ancient Town. The museum collects the most representative and influential "Shanghai School" calligraphy works since the founding of the People's Republic of China, as well as some calligraphy works by some authors of the "Hometown of Chinese Calligraphy - Qibao". Currently, this calligraphy hall with an exhibition line of more than 200 meters displays most of the outstanding works from the "Shanghai Calligraphy Jinjing Exhibition".
Address: No. 44 Fuqiang Street, Minhang District
Opening hours: 9:00-18:00
From 010 to 1010, Fu Qiang in the Qing Dynasty There was a pawnshop on the street, so Fuqiang Street, formerly known as Pawnshop Street, was quite large and became an important place for Song Jun's financial activities. He is famous for pawning twelve pairs of purple and gold lions belonging to a wealthy businessman in Zhejiang. It was destroyed by Japanese artillery fire during the Anti-Japanese War, and the ruins are commonly known as pawn shops. Currently, a traditional pawn shop simulation scenic area has been built at the original site of the pawn shop, covering an area of ??about 100 square meters. It contains imitation classical pawn cabinets, running water cards, account books and other items. Qibao Pawn Shop simulates the business activities of ancient pawnbrokers and is intended to showcase the commercial and cultural customs of ancient Qibao. In fact, it is a similar operation of dispensing old items for consignment or sale.
Address: No. 64 Fuqiang Street, Minhang District
Opening hours: 9:00-17:00
4. Qibao Old Pawn Shop
Zhang Chongren, a Qibao native, was born on September 25, 1907 in Xujiahui, Shanghai. He is one of the founders of modern Chinese sculpture art. He collaborated with the Belgian cartoonist Hergé to compile "The Blue Lotus", which caused a sensation in Europe. After returning to China, many outstanding works of art attracted attention at home and abroad. His outstanding achievements made him an outstanding painter and a world-class sculpture master. In memory of the teacher, a memorial hall was built. The museum has four exhibition areas: Preface Hall, Famous in Europe, Studio Spring and Autumn Period, and Famous Sculptor, displaying Zhang Chongren's sculptures, paintings, objects and related books and newspapers, as well as Zhang Chongren's life and artistic achievements.
Address: No. 75, Northwest Street, Minhang District
Opening hours: 9:00-16:00
5. Zhang Chongren Memorial Hall
Qibao Shadow Puppet Art Museum is a comprehensive art museum integrating the exhibition, production, performance, research and collection of Qibao shadow puppets.
Patent leather shadow puppetry is mainly painted, so it looks beautiful, exaggerated, vivid, and highly decorative
6. Qibao Shadow Puppet Art Museum
Cricket Cottage, connected by the front garden It is composed of the main fighting platform of the back hall, which was built in the A Ming and Qing Dynasties and has a history of more than 100 years. There are cricket pots, bamboo tubes, crickets tearing grass and cricket specimens of different sizes on display in the thatched cottage. The front hall is mainly responsible for the cultural display function, including introducing the historical origins, development process, related figures and other cultural information of the entertainment activity of cricket fighting; in the back hall, old objects such as cricket cans and cricket boxes are displayed, and the tactile sense is added And visual electronic touch screens and video playback equipment allow visitors to vividly understand the culture of cricket fighting.
Address: No. 37, Fuqiang Street, Minhang District
Opening hours: 9:00-18:00