What is there to do around Xitang?
Xitang and Wuzhen are similar, both are very distinctive ancient towns in the south of the Yangtze River.
The difference is that Wuzhen is more commercialized and Xitang has more of the original Jiangnan town atmosphere. I personally recommend Xitang. So for the route, you can first go to Hangzhou (mainly West Lake), then go to Hangzhou Jiubao Passenger Transport Center and take a bus to Xitang. The latest bus is at 18:15. You can also choose to take the high-speed rail, but it is more troublesome to transfer. , not recommended
The main things to note when going to Xitang are:
1. After arriving, find a hotel by the river to stay. It costs about 150 a day. The environment is very good. It is very comfortable to drink tea on the chair
2. For dinner, go to the restaurant called "Another Spring", which is very good
3. The steamed pork, wontons and green beans on the roadside are all delicious. It’s delicious
4. Don’t forget to go out and hang out at night. The night view of Xitang is more beautiful. Don’t go to the bar with your children, but the bar there is very unique
5. Second I went to eat "The Best Noodles in the World" this morning. There are many restaurants there with this name. I want to go to the one with the blue sign. It is the oldest and has the best taste.
6, for reference only, best wishes Have a great time! ! !
There is another way to save money: go to Hangzhou first, and join the group "Hangzhou to Xitang One-Day Tour" the next morning without returning. The cost is 90 yuan including fare + Xitang ticket + tour guide + free pick-up in Hangzhou city.
The cost if you go by yourself:
1. Fare from Hangzhou Jiubao Passenger Transport Center to Xitang: 38 or 42.
2. Ticket to Xitang: 100 Yuan
3. Also, the cost from Hangzhou hotel to Hangzhou Station + the cost from Xitang Station to the scenic spot
Banban’s supplement: Introduction to Xitang’s interesting attractions
Shi Pi Nong
Shipi Nong is 68 meters long and paved with 216 stone slabs only three centimeters thick. It is the passage between Wang Jiazun Wen Hall and Zhong Fu Hall. According to research, under the stone road in the lane is a sewer that prevents water from accumulating in the lane on rainy days. The thin stone slabs serve as the surface of the sewer, so it is called Shipi Lane. Its widest point is 1.1 meters and its narrowest point is only 0.8 meters. If two fat people meet in the alley, they may not be able to pass easily even if they rub the wall against their bellies. There is a narrow sky above, so Shipi Alley has the name "Xitang" The saying "a thread of sky".
The longest lane: Sixian Temple Lane located on Beizha Street, with a total length of 236 meters.
The narrowest alley: Wild Cat Alley, located next to Huanxiu Bridge, is up to 30 centimeters long and is a gap between two houses.
The widest alley: The big alley along Li's House on the North Street of Hong Kong, which can accommodate 5.5 people abreast.
The shortest lane: the house lane located in Yuqingtang where the Ming and Qing Wood Sculpture Museum is located, with a total length of only 3 meters.
Misty Rain Corridor
Some of the sheds are close to the river, some are in the middle, and some have long orange backrests on one side of the river for people to rest. There are "one falling into the water", "two falling into the water", and there are also roofs that form corridors and sheds across the street. It can be said to be a unique landscape in the ancient town.
Stay at Tongcun Inn, Yiyitang, Xuyuan Antique Inn, Yanyu Renjia, Yao Zhai, Yanyu Inn, etc.
Gourmet Mommy’s Kitchen, Ting Kee Restaurant, Xiangtang Restaurant, etc.
There is a wonton shop next to Xiantian (near Shuangzi Bridge); between Laifeng Bridge and Yongning Bridge, there is a small shop specializing in tofu pudding, which also sells mung bean vermicelli, which is sour and delicious. Unique; the "Three Flavors Stinky Tofu" near Shuangzi Bridge has a unique flavor, crispy on the outside and tender on the inside. Others such as beef soup and fermented glutinous rice dumplings are very good. Workshop, haystack house, Caiyuntang travel notebook, etc.
West Garden
The former site of Xitang Xiyuan is located in Jijia Alley, West Street. It was a separate property of the Zhu family in the Ming Dynasty and was later transferred to the Sun family. There are trees, flowers, plants, rockeries, pavilions and ponds in the garden, and the scenery is beautiful. There is a "Tingtaoxuan" teahouse on the rockery on the east side. It is named because there is a white bark pine on the rockery, several feet high, and the wind makes a sound.
In the winter of 1920, the poet Liu Yazi came to Xitang, lived in Xiyuan, and took a photo in Xiyuan with fellow members of the Nanshe Society in Xitang, titled "The Second Picture of the Elegant Gathering in Xiyuan".
In March 1990, a park with a total area of 16.6 acres was built in Xishan, Zhenzhen. In commemoration of Liu Yazi’s visit to Xiyuan, it was named “Xiyuan”. There is a small bridge and flowing water at the entrance, a stone lion foyer, and the garden is surrounded by brick lattice verandahs, waterside pavilions, curved bridges, rockeries, pavilions, and artificial waterfalls.
Several inns built next to this scenic spot are also named after this, such as: Xiyuan Yaju, Xiyuan Inn, Xiyuan Inn, etc.
Huguosuiliangwang Temple
Commonly known as the "Seven Laoye Temple", it is the birthday of the master on the 37th day of the fourth lunar month every year. A temple fair is going to be held in Xitang. Everyone carries the Seven Masters and Seven Madams out of the temple gate. Starting at 11 o'clock in the evening, they each parade according to the scheduled route. Flags are flying all the way, gongs and drums are shaking, and firecrackers are blasting in many places in the town. They all set up tents for the seventh master and his wife to rest in the tent and receive offerings. They did not return to the temple until the afternoon of the next day. And he started to perform a big play in the temple, which lasted for three days. In the Qilaoye Temple, there are many sachets shaped like leaves, called autumn leaves, because autumn symbolizes harvest. This is also the best time to come to Xitang to experience life.
Wuniang Theme Park
There is a true love story circulating in Xitang. In the late Qing Dynasty, Miss Wu, a landowner from the Yang family in Tangdong Village, fell in love with Xu Atian, a long-term worker. His brother objected and was persecuted to death. Later, her love story was compiled into a field song, which has been sung here for more than a hundred years. The Duwa Pavilion was a piece of tile that Xu Atian specially burned to express his unique love for the five girls when he was a kiln worker. . There is a bell hanging in the pavilion, with the scene of the two of them meeting here and the words "love at first sight" engraved on it.
Tiange is a rural folk song handed down from Xitang folk. It is still sung in the adjacent areas of Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai. It is a precious local musical cultural heritage in China. It is particularly worth mentioning that the musical "Five Girls" adapted from Xitang Tiange won the Wenhua Award at the 7th China International Arts Festival. And in 1954, it was adapted into the Yue opera "Five Girls" by the late Yue opera creator Gu Xidong. Among them, "Five Daughters Worshiping Birthday" and "Han Palace Grudge" are the most famous. "Five Girls Pay Birthday Wishes" was also made into a movie, which had a wide impact.
Ming and Qing Wood Sculpture Museum
Located in the north of Shaoxiang Street, the museum displays more than 250 wood carvings of residential buildings in the Jiangnan region represented by Xitang since the Ming and Qing Dynasties. There are beams, sparrows, lattice windows, etc. The carving techniques are rich and colorful, and the ground carving, floor carving, leak carving, openwork carving and other unique craftsmanship are displayed, focusing on the unique soft and gorgeous style of Jiangnan folk residential wood carving.
Ni's House
It is located in the south of Hong Kong. The Ni family is a scholarly family in the town. It's called "Chengqing Hall". Xitang Town has a profound cultural heritage and rich anti-corruption cultural resources. On this basis, we should make full use of these resources to combine the promotion of excellent anti-corruption culture with the party's excellent anti-corruption tradition to build an anti-corruption cultural education base. At present, after integrating and enriching the integrity education materials, the newly renovated "Ni Tianzeng Ancestral Residence" and 10 units including Hangzhou Yuqian Temple, Ningbo Qingfeng Garden, and Jiaxing Nanhu Revolutionary Memorial Hall have been named as the first batch of "Zhejiang Province Integrity Cultural Education Bases".
The Holy Church
The Holy Church was first built in the third year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty (1575) to worship Pang Shangpeng. In the seventh year of Kangxi's reign in the Qing Dynasty, it was renamed Jingjue'an. It was rebuilt twice in the thirteenth and fiftieth years of Kangxi's reign and was dedicated to Emperor Guan, commonly known as the Holy Temple. Guan Yu is a martial sage, and together with Confucius, a sage of literature, he is a teacher for all generations and is called the Holy Hall.
When the incense in the church is at its strongest, many pilgrims cannot squeeze into the church and can only worship by placing candles on the ground outside the church. During the Spring Festival, this street becomes more lively when the temple fair is held in the temple. The queue of incense burners lines up from the temple to the Hong Kong port. There will also be temporary food stalls set up on the streets, and various paintings are sold in the main hall of the church. There is a proverb among the local people: go to the temple fair, look at the paintings, and eat siomai. Every year on the fifth day of the first lunar month, businessmen in the town must go to the church to burn incense and worship, and exchange ingots made from pumpkin paste at home for those in the church, which symbolizes a year of abundant wealth. China Wine Culture Museum
The ancient town of Xitang has been a wine town in history. "Drinking good wine and reciting good poetry" have always been the two major pursuits of many literati in ancient times. In the early years of the Ming Dynasty, the great poet Gao Qi was passing by Xitang by boat and stopped to ask about the restaurant. In the Qing Dynasty, the town's famous wine "Plum Blossom Three Whites" smelled for hundreds of miles. In the early years of the Republic of China, Liu Yazi drank in the town drunk many times. Xitang's wine culture can be said to be in sync with the ancient town and as famous as the ancient town.
Mr. Liu Ximing, a wine-making family in the west, took a fancy to Xitang, a wine town. He displayed the wine culture objects he had collected for generations here, and opened a new "Chinese Wine Culture" on the basis of the original rice wine exhibition hall. museum".
Folk Tile Exhibition Hall
Tile is a kind of architectural decoration accessory made of simple materials. Because it is not easy to preserve and has a long history, it has certain historical value. The museum has more than 300 varieties in six categories: lace drippings, chopstick cages, walking chickens, brick carvings, ancient bricks, and pottery figurines. Among them are traditional tiles full of good wishes; there are temple tiles with religious colors, and some that express a certain destiny. Political graphic tiles from historical periods.
Root Carving Museum
Xitang is a geomantic treasure, suitable for recuperation and inspiration for artists. Mr. Zhang Zheng, a root art sculptor, was born in Hangzhou, Shucheng, Anhui Province. He was born in 1958. In 1999, he moved to Xitang through the introduction of talents. Master Zhang Zheng's works are based on seven parts natural and three parts artificial. More than 500 large-scale works have been included in the "Guinness Book of World Records". Master Zhang Zheng was listed in the Who's Who in the world for his outstanding craftsmanship and spirit of not being afraid of difficulties, and was known as the "Son of the East".