1. Zhouzhuang

A relic of the Tang Dynasty, surrounded by Song water, misty rain in the south of the Yangtze River, and jasper Zhouzhuang. Zhouzhuang, nurtured by thousands of years of vicissitudes of history and rich Wudi culture, has become a treasure of oriental culture with its elegant water town style, unique cultural landscape, and simple folk customs. As an outstanding representative of China's excellent traditional culture, Zhouzhuang has become the cradle of Wudi culture and a model of Jiangnan water town. It was included in the World Cultural Heritage Preparatory List by UNESCO, and won the Dubai International Award for the Best Example of Improving the Living Environment, the United Nations Asia-Pacific World Cultural Heritage Protection Outstanding Achievement Award, the U.S. Government Award, the World's Most Charming Water Town, and China's First Top Ten It has won honors such as the famous historical and cultural town, the China Environmental Award, the National Sanitary Town, and the National Town with Beautiful Environment. Relying on the unique tourism resources of the ancient water towns, we adhere to the guiding ideology of "protection and development simultaneously" and vigorously develop the tourism industry. Relying on the ancient water towns, we continue to explore cultural connotations, improve the construction of scenic spots, enrich tourism content, and strengthen publicity and promotion. After more than ten years of efforts, we have successfully created the tourism culture brand of "China's No. 1 Water Town" and created a new industry for tourism in ancient water towns in the south of the Yangtze River. For the first time, it has become the first batch of AAAAA-level tourist attractions in the country, and won the honors of "Top 50 Most Popular Places for Foreigners" and an advanced group in the national tourism system, as well as a well-known tourism brand in China. In recent years, it has been continuously committed to the excavation, promotion and inheritance of excellent traditional culture, actively explored cultural tourism, and made every effort to create "Folk Zhouzhuang, Life Zhouzhuang, and Cultural Zhouzhuang". It is increasingly becoming a window to showcase Chinese culture to the world, and has also been favored by both China and foreign countries. Favored by tourists, it attracts more than 2.5 million tourists every year for sightseeing, leisure and vacation, and the tourism revenue of the whole society reaches 800 million yuan. At the same time, efforts have been made to attract investment, and supporting projects suitable for modern leisure and experience tourism such as Fuguiyuan, Jiangnan Renjia and Qianlongsheng City have been successively launched and improved to expand the scale of tourism and expand the tourism plate, making Zhouzhuang tourism gradually transform into leisure and vacation tourism. develop. After ten years of protection and ten years of development, Zhouzhuang has entered a ten-year period of improvement, and the concept of building an "International Zhouzhuang" has been put forward. It uses the classic Jiangnan water town culture to display the excellent Chinese civilization, and uses the integration of cultures as the starting point to promote Zhouzhuang internationally. Through the integration of resources, we will launch high-quality routes and projects suitable for modern experiential tourism, increase investment in improving tourism supporting facilities and improve international reception capabilities, and strive to build Zhouzhuang into an international leisure and vacation base.

Zhouzhuang Town Attractions

Night tour of Zhouzhuang. Zhouzhuang, whose history was recorded in 1086, is located in Kunshan City, Suzhou City, Jiangsu Province. The town is called Zeguo and is surrounded by water. Boats are required to travel within a short distance. The whole town is lined with streets along the river, connected by bridges and streets, with deep houses and courtyards, double ridges and high eaves, river corridors, arcades crossing the streets, bamboo and stone railings, and water pavilions next to the river. It is simple and quiet, and is a typical small bridge and flowing house in the south of the Yangtze River. The relics of the Tang Dynasty, the Song River, the misty rain in the south of the Yangtze River, and the jasper in Zhouzhuang. Zhouzhuang, nurtured by thousands of years of vicissitudes of history and rich Wudi culture, has become a treasure of oriental culture with its elegant water town style, unique cultural landscape, and simple folk customs. As an outstanding representative of China's excellent traditional culture, Zhouzhuang has become the cradle of Wudi culture and a model of Jiangnan water town. It was included in the World Cultural Heritage Preparatory List by UNESCO, and won the Dubai International Award for the Best Example of Improving the Living Environment, the United Nations Asia-Pacific World Cultural Heritage Protection Outstanding Achievement Award, the U.S. Government Award, the World's Most Charming Water Town, and China's First Top Ten It has won honors such as the famous historical and cultural town, the China Environmental Award, the national sanitary town, and the national town with beautiful environment. Folk Collection Museum: Misty Jiangnan, jade in Zhouzhuang, relics of the Tang Dynasty, and the Song River. Looking back to ancient times, the Liangzhu culture was deposited in Taishidian; among the people living in Liushui, Zhenfengli nurtured the water town customs... The Tianxiaode Folk Collection Museum is located in Chenghuangdai, Zhouzhuang Town, facing west to east. It is a typical building of the middle and late Ming Dynasty. . The museum has a collection of more than 200,000 items from various dynasties since the Stone Age, divided into two categories: daily life, production and labor tools of the past dynasties, and supplies of officials and officials scattered and lost in the past dynasties, including eight categories: woodware, pottery, porcelain, jade, Copper and tin utensils, stone utensils, purple sand, bone and horn products. Among them, furniture from the Ming and Qing dynasties, porcelain and jade from past dynasties accounted for the largest proportions, and money spent on copperware was particularly precious. The collection truly reflects the folk customs and Wu culture and history in the area surrounding the ancient town (the junction of three counties).

Yixitang Museum Yixitang Museum is a museum jointly established by Henan Yixitang Cultural Investment Co., Ltd. and Changzhou Changda Architectural Decoration Engineering Co., Ltd. with the care and assistance of the Zhouzhuang Town Government and Zhouzhuang "Jiangnan Family" Private Museum of Ancient Ceramics. It was built in 2004 with a construction area of ??1,560 square meters. Porcelain is an invention of our ancestors. Archaeological data show that the Chinese have been producing pottery for more than 10,000 years. Porcelain has been produced for at least three thousand years. This museum displays the entire process from the creation and firing of primitive pottery with the theme of the Yellow River, Yangtze River and other river basins to modern porcelain in the history of mankind in my country. ***Six ceramic exhibition halls with themes from prehistory to the Shang Dynasty, the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the Han Dynasty, the Sui and Tang Dynasties, the Song and Yuan Dynasties, and the Ming and Qing Dynasties were set up. Since the collection of exhibits is mainly in northern my country, the exhibits focus on the northern kiln system. Strange buildings walking through walls, invisible men, floating in the air, shape-shifting people, Lilliput, escaping from the mouth of a giant snake, etc. You can only see and feel it in science fiction novels or movies, fairy tales and your dreams. In the hallucination hall of "Strange Building", you can not only see but also experience and realize these incredible hallucinations.

2. Wuzhen

Wuzhen’s ancient names were Wudun and Wushu. The "dun" of Wudun, Wang Yuzhou said in "Erxi Bian", "Wuzhen was called Wudun in ancient times, because its ground veins and tombs rise higher than the four open areas..." The explanation is clear enough. But why is it called "Wu"? There are many ways to say this. One theory is that "the kings of Yue competed for the throne on Changhai Sea and were entrusted here, so they became the Wuyu clan, so it was called Wudun"; another theory is that "it was named Wu because of General Wu, the god of the land"; the other theory is that "the ancient ruins of Wutuo in Wuyou, Qingyou "Zhao Ming Qing Suo", so it has the names of Wu and Qing. Predecessors have raised objections to this number, thinking that it may be undocumented, attached, or lack historical common sense. Lu Xuebo refuted it in detail when he compiled "Wuqing Town Chronicles". At the same time, he put forward a more reasonable statement. This statement was put forward by Xiang Xian in "Wu Qing Documents" in the 27th year of Emperor Kangxi of the Qing Dynasty (1688): "The names of Wu Dun and Qing Dun have always been far away... Since the founding of the mountains and rivers in Dadu, why have they had their own names? All the truths have been passed down from generation to generation, such as "Qilu Qingwei" and "Chengjiang Jingru Lian", which are similar to the meaning of Wuqing. " Wuzhen Wuzhen is an alluvial plain with rivers and swamps filled with silt soil. Therefore, the ground veins are raised higher than the four plains. It is dark and fertile, hence the name Wudun. In fact, such place names are not uncommon locally. There is a village called Hongdun 9 kilometers away from Wuzhen. Its town annals say: "Hongdun is in the west of the town. The ground veins rise and the soil is red, so the village is named after it." There is also a village next to it named Zidun, because there are many Because of the purple stone soil. The naming of Hongdun and Zidun provides realistic evidence for the vivid portrayal of the name of Wudun. During the Spring and Autumn Period, Wuzhen was the border between Wu and Yue. The State of Wu stationed troops here to defend against the State of Yue, hence the name "Wuzhen". (Li Le said in "Wuqing Town Chronicles": "The town belongs to Wu in Zhou Dynasty, and the Wu garrison was named garrison in Yue." "Wuzhen was called Wudun in ancient times. Later, because King Qian Liu of Wu and Yue garrisoned here, it was called Wuchu. Today, Wuzhen was called Wudun. Named Wuzhen." But he apparently confused the "Wuyue" of King Qian Liu with the "Wuyue" of the Spring and Autumn Period. In the official administrative title, there is no historical fact that Wuzhen was called "Wuzhen" after the Tang Dynasty. And Qian The northern boundary of King Liu's Wuyue Kingdom reached as far as Changshu, and Wuzhen was relatively inland, so this theory is obviously unreasonable. In the Qin Dynasty, Wuzhen belonged to Kuaiji County, with Chexi (now Shihe) as its boundary and Wudun in the west, which belonged to Wucheng. County, Qingdun is in the east, which belongs to Youquan County, and the situation of dividing and governing Wuzhen began. As for the origin of the "green" in Qingdun, Wang Yuzhou said in "Erxi Bian" that "it was feared that it was bordering Wu, so it was distinguished from Qingdun." " In the Tang Dynasty, Wuzhen was under the jurisdiction of Suzhou Prefecture. The title "Wuzhen" appeared for the first time in "The Temple Stele of Suo Jingming King" (written and written by Zhu Hong and sealed by Wu Ye) in the 13th year of Xiantong in the Tang Dynasty (872). There was no evidence before this. Another stele from the period, the "Guangfujiao Temple Stele", has the title of "Wuqing Town". The history of Wuzhen being called a "town" may have started from this time. (1078), it has been recorded that it was divided into Wudun Town and Qingdun Town. Later, it was renamed Wuzhen and Qingzhen to avoid Guangzong. (When Guangzong ascended the throne in the Southern Song Dynasty, his name was a strange character, with "Xiang" added next to the vertical center. , pronounced "Dun", so the word "Dun" cannot be used in the world. From then on, Wudun was called Wuzhen.) In May 1950, Wu and Qing towns were merged and called Wuzhen, which belongs to Tongxiang County. Jiaxing, until today.

History and culture: Thousands of years of history and culture; simple and beautiful waterside scenery; unique delicacies; colorful folk festivals; profound cultural heritage and everlasting lifestyle make Wuzhen a living fossil of ancient oriental civilization. The inheritance of wisdom is accompanied by the fragrance of books, showing a charming historical picture here. This is an innate beauty. Legend has it that the son of Emperor Wu of Liang in the Southern Dynasties was named Xiao Tong, and he was Prince Zhaoming. When Xiao Tong was just born, his right hand was tightly clenched and could not be straightened. Even the empress of the East Palace and the maids could not open it. Emperor Wu of Liang was very worried about this. A minister said: "Why doesn't the emperor publish a list to recruit famous doctors for diagnosis and treatment?" Emperor Wu of Liang thought it was reasonable, so he published a list to recruit talents: whoever can break the prince's hand, the prince will worship him as his teacher. When Shen Yue saw the list, he unveiled it and went to have a try. He took the prince's hand and gently broke it apart. Emperor Wu of Liang was very happy and granted Shenyu the title of teacher to the prince, specializing in teaching the prince how to read. Shen Yue is from Wuzhen. The tomb of his ancestors is near Shijingtang in Hexi, Wuzhen. Shen Yue always returned to his hometown to sweep his tomb every Qingming Festival and asked to guard the tomb for several months. Emperor Wu of Liang was afraid that his son would neglect his studies, so he ordered Prince Zhaoming to follow Shen Yue to Wuzhen to study. To this end, a library was built in Wuzhen. When Xiao Tong came to Wuzhen, he saw the red peaches and green willows, the singing of birds and the fragrance of flowers, and the attractive scenery, so he played and played all day long. Shen Yue was rigorous in his studies. When he saw that the prince was not studying seriously, he told him a story: "One winter, I went back to Wuzhen to celebrate the New Year. My sedan chair passed a temple in Qingzhen and was blocked by a group of people in front of the temple. I ordered the sedan chair to stop and inquire. It turned out that a little beggar in his early teens had frozen to death in the temple. The onlookers said that the little beggar's parents died early and he was helpless. He begged on the streets during the day and stayed in the temple at night. In addition to buying food, the rest was used to buy books and read at night under the glazed lamp of the Buddhist temple. However, a northwest wind took away his young life when I entered the temple and saw that this little beggar was alone. He has a thin face but clear features. He is lying on his back in a pile of straw, his body is frozen, and he is holding a book in his left hand. He is determined to learn and will not forget to read until his death..." After Shen Yue said this, Prince Zhaoming was moved to tears. From then on, Prince Zhaoming studied hard and eventually became a famous writer. Later, Shen Yue moved his ancestral tomb to the capital and donated his mansion in Wuzhen as Bailian Temple. Xiao Tong built the temple as a temple, which later became Miyin Temple. During the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, Quan Tingxun, a Tongzhi resident in Wuzhen, built a stone square in front of the Bailian Temple, titled "Heritage of the Six Dynasties". Shen Shimao, a local resident, wrote "Prince Liang Zhaoming and Shen Shangshu's Reading Place". This stone square is located in the Xizha Scenic Area of ??Wuzhen and is well preserved to this day. Local and nearby people often bring their children to pay homage to it, educating their children to aspire to study and become heroes.

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Wuzhen, a typical water town in the south of the Yangtze River, has completely preserved the style and pattern of the original water town in the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China. The river forms a street, connected by street bridges, houses are built along the river, and the water town is integrated. It organizes architectural elements with unique Jiangnan charm such as water pavilions, bridges, stone alleys, and Mao Dun's former residence, which embodies the "harmony as beauty" in classical Chinese residences. The humanistic thought, with its overall beauty of the harmonious coexistence of the natural environment and the humanistic environment, presents the spatial charm of the ancient water town in the south of the Yangtze River. 1. Overall pattern The river network overlaps with the main road in Wuzhen, with bridges forming a road and flowing water for boats, creating a form of both road and water. This water network system connects the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal, Taihu Lake, and ponds and wells in Wuzhen, ideally solving water problems such as farming, drinking, drainage, viewing, and transportation. In the layout of Wuzhen, because it historically spanned two provinces (Zhejiang, Jiangsu), three prefectures (Jiaxing, Huzhou, Suzhou), and seven counties (Wucheng, Gui'an, Chongde, Tongxiang, Xiushui, Wujiang, Zhenze ), coupled with the accumulation and precipitation of Wuyue culture, the concept is obviously influenced by traditional Chinese Confucian culture and canal commercial culture. Confucian culture often rejects the Feng Shui theory that is popular in construction, so it is rare to see slanted doors and left-right doors often set up due to Feng Shui, screen walls and screen walls erected to avoid anger, or "Taishan Stone Gandang" placed along the road. "It's not like a town, but a variety of residential buildings with clear multi-axes and orderly layout. 2. Water Pavilion is like many water towns in the south of the Yangtze River. Streets and houses are built along streams and rivers. As the saying goes, "Everyone's house rests on the river." What makes Wuzhen unique is that some of the houses along the river extend to the river, with wooden bottoms. The piles or stone pillars are driven into the river bed, and the beams and wooden boards are put on them. It is called "Water Pavilion", which is a unique style of Wuzhen. The water pavilion is a real "river pillow" with windows on three sides, from which you can see the city and river scenery.

Mao Dun once described the water pavilion in his hometown in "The Great Earth, Mountains and Rivers": "...there is a river outside the back door of a house. Standing at the back door (that is the door of the water pavilion), you can use a bucket to fetch water, and you can listen to dreams when you wake up at midnight. The sound of the oar floated by..." Legend has it that the water pavilion was built illegally by a clever tofu farmer. However, with the passage of time, much of the history has disappeared, and only this collection of practicality and practicality of life has The architectural form that integrates enjoyment has been preserved and continued because of people's love. In a sense, the water pavilion is the aura of Wuzhen, although it is not luxurious and cannot compare with high-rise buildings. With the water pavilion, the people of Wuzhen are closer to the water; with the water pavilion, the style of Wuzhen is more charming; with the water pavilion, the temperament of Wuzhen is more elegant; with the water pavilion, Wuzhen's history has been added. Very euphemistic. The Water Pavilion is unique to Wuzhen and is the charm of Wuzhen. 3. Small bridges and flowing water Bridges are an indispensable factor in the ancient towns of Jiangnan water towns. It is said that there were more than 120 bridges at the most in Wuzhen's history. It is truly "a bridge with a hundred steps", and there are more than 30 existing bridges. Among them, there are Tongji Bridge and Renji Bridge in the west gate; Yingjia Bridge, Taiping Bridge, Renshou Bridge, Yongan Bridge and Fengyuan Bridge in the middle city and east gate; Fuxing Bridge and Fulan Bridge in the south gate; and ladders in the north gate. Yunqiao and Liji Bridge. These bridges were first built in the Southern Song Dynasty, and most of them were built or rebuilt in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Some bridges are even inscribed with bridge couplets, such as Tongji Bridge: "Amidst the cold trees and smoke, you can see the old land of Wuxu in the Six Dynasties; outside the sunset sail, is Wuxing far away? "Mountain." (facing south) "Tongyunmen opens to the west and surrounds the Zhejiang River; people from Tiqiao look to Yanjing three thousand miles north." (facing north) has a strong historical and cultural atmosphere. 4. Stone alleys Walking into Wuzhen, walking on the narrow streets paved with bluestones, you will feel a sense of intimacy when you see all kinds of houses on both sides and the villagers who still live in the houses. Natural feeling. As a historical town, Wuzhen, both the entire town and Guanqian Street, embodies the overall beauty of the harmonious coexistence of the humanistic environment and the natural environment. Entering this ancient town full of agricultural cultural atmosphere, strolling along the stone streets that stretch for more than a mile, you can listen to the echo of your footsteps on another alley. There are "stone banks" along the small streets along the water, and some of them may be decorated. For example, I have seen a vase carved with three halberds inserted in it, which means "leveling up to three levels". Used to tie up boats.

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Although Wuzhen has gone through more than 2,000 years of vicissitudes, it still completely preserves the original style and layout of the ancient water town, including beams, columns, doors, and windows. The wood carvings and stone carvings on it are exquisitely crafted. Local residents still live in these old houses. The whole town is made up of streets connected by bridges and streets, with houses built along the river, deep houses and courtyards, with double ridges and high eaves, river port corridors, arcades across the streets, bamboo and stone railings, and water pavilions next to the river. It is antique and integrated into the water town, presenting a simple, bright and clean style. The tranquility is typical of Jiangnan's "small bridges, flowing water, and people's houses." The stone paths, old wooden houses, and the smell of clear lake water all seem to remind you of a kind of sentiment and atmosphere. Wuzhen is an ancient water town. There are scenic spots such as Xiuzhen Temple, Prince Zhaoming's Reading Center, Tang Dynasty ancient ginkgo, Zhuanchuan Bay, Shuangqiao and other attractions. Xizha Old Street is one of the best-preserved Ming and Qing architectural complexes in my country. Wuzhen is also the hometown of Mao Dun, a giant of modern Chinese literature. Mao Dun's former residence in the town is Mao Dun's birthplace and is now a national key cultural relic protection unit. The Lizhi Academy on the east side was Mao Dun's juvenile reading center and is now the Mao Dun Memorial Hall.

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