Millennium Ancient Villages in yangqiao Ancient Town

There is an ancient and mysterious ancient town (ancient street) outside the south gate of Changzhou City, Jiangsu Province. It's called yangqiao Old Street (Ancient Town). Yangqiao Ancient Town is located in Huang Zhen, Wujin District (belonging to Caoqiao Town in early years). This is a thousand-year-old village and a 600-year-old ancient market. From the early Ming Dynasty to the Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China, yangqiao has become an important economic and cultural port for the prosperity of water towns in the south of the Yangtze River and a good place for sightseeing and business. Yangqiao is located in the Yangtze River Delta, at the junction of Changzhou, Wuxi and Yixing, less than three kilometers away from west taihu lake and three kilometers away from the expressway along the Yangtze River. The ancient Xili River, East Taihu Lake and west taihu lake successively passed through the village. Therefore, it has a profound ancient cultural heritage and many historical sites and cultural relics. According to legend, in the fourth year of Jian 'an, a great thinker, philosopher and educator Zhu was born in China. One of his descendants, Zhu Mao, is knowledgeable. Influenced by Huizhou merchants at that time, he embarked on the road of doing business. He travels from one place to another. On one occasion, he passed by Taiping Temple, yangqiao, and thought it was a treasure trove of geomantic omen, so he settled and developed here. Later, surnamed tang from Changzhou, Xu, Jiang, Liu and Hua from Suzhou successively came here to develop the foreign bridge.

Yangqiao was very prosperous and developed at that time. In order to facilitate the north-south traffic of the market, the Yangqiao people at that time cut down a big poplar tree and built an poplar bridge, so it was called "yangqiao", and later the whole market was also called "yangqiao". From the Ming Dynasty to the Qing Dynasty, yangqiao has been the settlement of descendants such as Zhu, Tang, Xu, Liu, Jiang and Hua. Because yangqiao is far away from the official road, it is less affected by social unrest, and its surname is well-run and its economy is developing rapidly. Many businessmen gathered in yangqiao, which was very lively. The cultural development brought by the economy is also unprecedented. It left a valuable cultural heritage for Yangqiao. The whole thing can be explained by a jingle:

Millennium Market (Song Dynasty to Ming Dynasty-Republic of China)

Two counties and two villages on both sides (Wuyi and yangqiao townships * * * build south yangqiao).

Three rivers (Yangqiaogang, Zhujiabang and Tujiabang) surrounded by water street on three sides.

Four streets and four lanes (east, west, north and south lanes, similar to the city gate)

Five major temples (Honglian Temple, wanfu temple, Baoding Temple, Taiping Temple, Mao 'an Temple)

Six ancient bridges (South yangqiao, Zhuang Ji Bridge, East Hongqiao, West Hongqiao, Taiping Bridge, Tung Chao Wu, and Yu Jia Bridge, which is controlled by Yu Xia, with 28 small bridges flowing in the village).

Seven painters (Xu Borong, Xu, Liu Wenhai, Zhu Boyou, Hua Tianxiang, Xu Xida)

Eight famous dishes (braised pork, greasy tigress, crucian carp, dragon and phoenix, celery, yangqiao dumplings, leek cakes and mushrooms).

Nine ancient buildings (Baisuizhuang, Muzhai Courtyard, Hongjia Courtyard, Ganglou, Guanwangge, Nanyang Building, Baihutang, yangqiao Theater and Dingjiatang).

Ten traditional arts (tune thirty-six lines, tune stubborn cows, tune dragon lanterns, tune big heads, dance carriages, bend fireballs, fly kites, walk on stilts, race lanterns and beat waist drums).

In addition, there are thousands of acres of aquatic products and fishing areas.

Seventeen traditional folk stories

Crimes committed by the Japanese invaders

Twenty revolutionary struggles in Taige of the New Fourth Army

It is precisely because there are so many outstanding historical and cultural relics in Yangqiao that people pay more and more attention to it. Today, with the rapid development of society and high-rise buildings, modern people can't help but feel a surprise when they see such an ancient and vicissitudes building on Yangqiao. Thus, the slogan of protecting the old streets of yangqiao also sounded.