Five ancient canal towns that I have to visit in my life.
Wuzhen
Wuzhen, located in Tongxiang City, Jiaxing City, Zhejiang Province, is known as "the last pillow water family in China", with a civilization history of more than 7,000 years and a town history of 1300 years. Being in Wuzhen has the illusion of being in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Brick-and-wood buildings in the Ming and Qing Dynasties are row upon row, as if a casual turn would touch a talented person in the south of the Yangtze River, and the air here is full of poetry. This is a place close to past lives, close enough to travel through time and space and talk with past lives. Although it's noisy here, you can find inner peace. As Mr. Mu Xin said, "You can only love one person in your life."
nanxun town
Nanxun Town is located at the junction of Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces, on the ancient Qiantang Road, a tributary of the Grand Canal in Nanxun District, Huzhou City. Ming and Qing Dynasties was a famous silk town in the south of the Yangtze River. Nanxun Town is different from the hustle and bustle of other ancient towns. It gives people inner peace with the unique rhyme of Jiangnan. Like a humiliated beauty. If you come, you can stay or not. And your heart, in this quiet room, is a little more gentle. There is no joy of love at first sight in simple peace, but it has been deeply rooted in my heart for a long time.
Dumu ancient town
Located in the west of Suzhou ancient city, located in Taihu Lake basin, it has the reputation of "the first town in Wuzhong". Mudu ancient town has a history of more than 2500 years. Suzhou, which travels to and from the canal city all the year round, is the most memorable place. People and scenery have unique meanings, such as Kunqu Opera, which is even more refreshing. Mudu, on the other hand, had some mysterious feelings when he collected Suzhou Water Rhyme, which may be due to Shi's seemingly indifferent warmth towards the prince of Wu. Or the mind of Tang Yin's beautiful women. Being in Mudu softens the original desolate heart with the seeds of love.
Zhangjiawan ancient town
Zhangjiawan ancient town, located in Tongzhou, Beijing, has a long history and is known as "the first pier of the Grand Canal". There are countless old things from the canal. Only one thing is connected with the national blood of the feudal dynasty. This is also the difference between Beijing ancient town and Jiangnan ancient town. Jiangnan ancient town feels warm and soft, and Huangcheng ancient town has royal bearing. Here, Xu Da, the general of the Ming Dynasty, defeated the Yuan Army; The materials used to build the city here are related to the Forbidden City. But I like Zhangjiawan because of that extraordinary woman-Xiao Taihou. The 2500-year-old canal flows through countless dynasties, and countless women became attached to the canal in these dynasties, among which Xiao Taihou was the most successful. One thousand years later, today's Zhangjiawan ancient town, Xiao Taihou River still flows eastward quietly. In the afterglow of the sunset, time seems to stay in the heyday of the Liao Dynasty, and Xiao Taihou is telling the past and the current situation across the river.
Yangliuqing Ancient Town
Compared with Jiangnan, the ancient towns in the north are always less agile and exquisite. The ancient buildings in the south will be corroded by rain and moss after two rainy seasons, and the mossy buildings always give people infinite reverie. It's hard to imagine the ancient towns in the north, with new buildings, carved flowers and stone roads, but these new ones can't erase the traces of the old days. This old trace is the woodblock New Year pictures that began in the Chongzhen period of the Ming Dynasty. There are many workshops for New Year pictures, large and small, in Yangliuqing ancient town. One of them is the ninth generation inheritor and is painting. In the painting workshop, a fat doll holds a New Year picture of a big fish, which makes people feel back to the past instantly. Here, they found the realistic situation and psychological support of "leaving half a life and returning teenagers".