Fengjing Town was founded in the Song Dynasty, built in the Yuan Dynasty, is a civilized ancient town with a history of more than 1,500 years, spanning the boundaries of Wu and Yue. Fengjing town is a typical Jiangnan water town, around the water network all over the area of the river, known as "three steps two bridges, a look at the ten ports," said the town more than a small dike, shaped like a lotus leaf; the territory of the shade of the forest, huts, clear streams, and planted all over the lotus, elegant and beautiful, so it is also known as the "Qingfengjing ", "Maple Creek", also known as "Hibiscus Town".
Entering the stone pagoda of "Fengjing" with three rooms and four columns, walking along the city river and the forked river that surrounds the old town, penetrating into the stone workshop of "Dongjie", walking along the old street along the river with green brick and stone slabs one after another, crossing a stone bridge one after another, a piece of ancient building clusters along the five-mile-long river, the old town is also called "Fengjing". The ancient buildings are spread out along the five-mile-long river street. Every morning, the river bridge side of the teahouse on the tea fragrance, four townships of the fishing boats through the waterfront of the river, stone river port, focusing on the long river in front of the corridor shed rows into the fish market, the river water ripples, as the ballad sings "January snail February clams, peach blossoms in March, snappers fat ......".
Over the stone pagoda into the production of the street, along the river, a long row of curved stretches of black porch shed, black tile roof, black brick pavement, a red lantern in the corridor under the eaves of the high hanging, the so-called ancient lanes through the secluded. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, this street had one rice shop after another, and there were wind and rain porches in front of every house, but in recent times, most of them have been withered, and now the porches are rebuilt; usually, young people go to work, and the old grannies make a platform under the porch on the bank of the river, slaughtering fish and panning rice, washing vegetables and raining clothes; the old houses on the street, though not big in size, are long and narrow, and you can see that they are deep in the courtyards; the river streets of Fengjing are all with one side of the family pillowed by the river, and one side of the family faced by the river; on the opposite side of the river are the old houses on Heping Street, which are pillowed by the river. On the opposite side of the river is the old house on Heping Street, the east end of a flying beams and paintings, Chinese drama began to take shape, to the Song and Jin dynasties formally formed the drama of this stone base and warped corners of the ancient stage, the stage is a kind of outdoor stage dedicated to performances in ancient times. In the middle of the Tang Dynasty, a form of literature and art. At that time, the theater performance place collectively known as the theater, Tang poetry and "music shed", "song stage", "stage", "terrace In the Tang Dynasty, the names of "Le Peng", "Song Terrace", "Stage" and "Terrace" were recorded; in the Song Dynasty, the name evolved into "Hook Ranch" and "Invitation Hut", and the stage of "Hook Ranch" had a fixed roof. In the Yuan Dynasty, Chinese opera reached its heyday, and the name "stage" also appeared formally. Fengjing ancient theater built in the city temple square, one side of the street, one side of the river, every time the play, from the waterway boat people can sit on the boat to watch the play. In the Qing Dynasty, there were temple fairs in the North and South City God Temple. Renewal of Fengjing Xiaozhi", "to the period of the ladies and gentlemen pour room to see, within a hundred miles of the people who came by wind, oars and boats gathered, the river plug can not be." This shows the grandeur of the festival. At that time, traders, Beijing opera troupe, circus, etc. gathered in Fengjing, the ancient stage is very lively on and off the stage. Now the ancient stage is rebuilt, after the reconstruction of the ancient stage width of 64 meters, depth of 44 meters, the stage area of 28 square meters, hermetic roof, flying eaves and corners, ancient meaning. The opposite side of the stage, a row of old houses near the river, is the morning society teahouse, visitors can pick the window seat to sit down and rest, one side of the tea, one side of the opera, but also the window view, leisurely, not happy! Legend has it that the beauty of the porch shed can watch the performance across the river by leaning on the bank.
Treading through the Zodiac stone, in the promenade east of Chenghuangmiao bridge, there is a conspicuous Western-style red facade, which is the East District Fire Council site, the only surviving complete modern fire fighting organizations in Shanghai, in front of the river docked a red fireboat, is the last one of the Shanghai water fireboat. Heping Street, the former housing management compound is being rebuilt "three hundred garden", stone masonry gate, three courtyard, is a collection of three exhibits hundred kinds of folk supplies collection of museums, has been built to set up the official opening of the Basket Museum, the Basket Museum is located in the middle of the row of buildings, the front of the courtyard, a huge replica of the ancient Yuanbao blue, placed in the courtyard side of the center! A huge replica of the ancient Yuanbao blue, placed in the center of the courtyard side, became the symbol of the Basket Museum. The museum collected a variety of baskets in the Jiangnan water village farmers, there are a hundred pieces of various uses, different shapes and forms of baskets in kind, a comprehensive reflection of the basket and the people's lives through the ages is closely related to the situation: the birth of the cradle to sleep, reading a book basket, set up in the family's hamper, as well as daily use of rice baskets, food baskets, graves and ancestors with the incense basket, do birthday with the life of the basket, the needle and thread basket used by the women and the steaming of the things in the baking baskets, smoke baskets and so on! The list goes on and on. "Bamboo baskets are carried at dawn, and children buy spring vegetables." Bai Juyi's poem vividly depicts how baskets have been integrated into the lives of Jiangnan families. From the folk song reflecting the landscape of Fengjing, "There are many rivers and bridges, many alleys, and many, many blue heads", we can see how much baskets have become a part of people's lives in the south of the Yangtze River. There is also a place on Heping Street that has preserved historical relics from the second half of the 19th century, which is worth seeing.
North Street is the most complete preservation of the old commercial street style street. Through the streets of stone blocks, walking on the flat boardwalk, a glance, the narrow street on both sides of the two-story buildings, in which, looking up at the sky, you can only see a narrow line of sky, a wooden lattice window reveals the original color of the wood. Buildings on the side of the street are all flat structure, can not see the characteristics and scale of each building, and from the back door of the city river look, the house are branching out of the river, or heavy eaves stacked tiles, or soaring riding tower, or hook rail pavilion, or the bottom of the water near the Terrace, the layers of stone steps leading to the river port, or leaning on the Zhu Pavilion, the small windows, composed of a multi-colored scenery of the waterfront residential, and occasionally there are small and large Jiangnan cruise ships traveling through which, the people scene! The sun is setting, it is really China's water town, the Venice of the East.
North Street ancient stores and workshops concentrated, handicrafts have always been developed. As early as the Song Dynasty, there are iron, wood, bamboo, agricultural tools and daily commodities handmade. Textile technology into, spinning and weaving prevalent in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Fengjing is located in the national production and trade center of the cotton textile industry, "the cloth, day by day to tens of thousands of". According to history: "Hundreds of cloth companies in the former Ming Dynasty, all in Songjiang, Fengjing, Zhujing Leye, and dyeing, kicking workshop, merchants and businessmen all from it." At that time, there were more than 200 cloth houses in Fengjing town. During the Qing Dynasty, there were many layouts in the town, and Jiangnan Weavers also set up organizations and workshops in Fengjing to produce and purchase cotton textiles. Fengjing cloth was marketed nationwide. Fengjing, together with Shengze and Nanxun, became the most famous ancient towns in Jiangnan at that time. In the late Qing Dynasty, the rice bran industry replaced the declining cloth industry, making Fengjing industrial and commercial prosperity again. In modern times, Fengjing thin rice and Fengjing pigs became well-known brands of agricultural and sideline industries, and since the 1930s, Fengjing has become an important producer of yellow wine in China. Yellow wine, together with the three specialties that have been sold for more than a hundred years, namely Fengjing Dinghou, Guihua Zongyuan Cake and Tianxiang Tofu, are nowadays known as the "Four Treasures of Fengjing". In modern times, most of the ancient workshops have fallen into disrepair, and the best preserved one is No. 375 Shi Taishan Pharmacy (medicine store). In order to show the ancient handicraft production conditions, now the handicraft workshops concentrated in the North Street planning for the handmade workshop in accordance with the ancient form, configuration of production equipment, training of relevant personnel, when the visitors to show the ancient weaving, iron, pharmaceuticals and the manufacture of bamboo and wood utensils and other handicrafts production techniques. Visitors can also be hands-on experience. In these workshops, you can pick and buy original, earthy handicrafts. Of course, you can also try to make your own small bamboo tubes, shovels, hoes, cloth shoes, and earthen cloth turbans ......
The ancient town of Fengjing is surrounded by a network of water, and most of the people build their houses along the river. It is very convenient to shop on the river with boats coming and going. The town area of the river, numerous bridges, known as the "three steps two bridges, a look at the ten harbor" said. By the end of the Qing Dynasty, there were 52 bridges in the town, and now more than ten bridges are still preserved. The oldest one is the Zhihe Bridge next to the South Main Street, which was built in the Yuan Dynasty, and it is simple and strong, with mosses growing in the stone cracks of the bridge, and there are stone steps under the bridge at the two ends of the bridge and the water jetty. Looking from the bridge, both sides of the green trees, green bushes, ancient houses and river ports, before the rainbow bridge lying down, after the stone bridge across, everywhere small bridges and flowing homes. Shen Rongcheng wrote in "Fengxi Bamboo Branch Lyrics" that "the swing set is next to the Rainbow Bridge, and the festival of the Qingming Festival is full of beautiful scenery". Walked to the rainbow bridge, the city river into a d-shaped vertical, to the three sides of the river look, a look at the three bridges, three look at the nine bridges. According to the introduction, here will be built a nine bridge pavilion, so that tourists can enjoy the bridge township style. Hongqiao opposite Friendship Street, along the river on both sides of the residential complex is the original late Qing style. "Zhouzhuang Twin Bridges are famous for their beauty, and Fengjing Three Bridges have unrivaled views." The upcoming restoration and reconstruction of the Fengjing Three Bridges attraction will become a landscape of the Fengjing Ancient Town Tour.
Fengjing has a well-developed culture and is the birthplace of the famous Jinshan peasant paintings. Fengjing people love life, blue printed cloth, furniture carving, stove mural painting, lanterns, paper cutting, embroidery, weaving and other folk art has a long history. The rich folk culture and art have given birth to Jinshan peasant paintings. Jinshan farmers, mainly Fengjing farmer painters, have created a rich local flavor and unique artistic style of Jinshan farmer paintings, which have had a wide impact at home and abroad. The amount of painting museums in the town of famous painters also have many ancestral homes. Cheng Shifa's ancestral home on Heping Street has been restored and opened. North Street, Ding Cong cartoon showroom in the two-story Chinese and Western-style building, an ancient ginkgo in front of the building, a clump of big ba. The museum displays the life of Ding Cong and more than a hundred cartoons, humorous drawings often make people stop and linger. The Jinshan Farmer Painting Exhibition Center in Shengtang Lane of South Main Street is located in the study building of Cai Yitai, a scholar in the Qing Dynasty, which is as elegant as possible, and a set of pictures reveals a rich local flavor. Farmers' paintings, together with Ding Cong's cartoons, Cheng Shifa's Chinese paintings and Gu Shuiru's Go, which have considerable influence at home and abroad, are concentrated in Fengjing, a rare regional cultural phenomenon in China.
On the opposite side of the town government along the Xijie River, there is a 600-meter-long ancient mansion, with a floor area of 12,000 square meters. Ancient theater to the west, located in the Peace Street 92, the former site of the Qing Post Office, gray walls and black tiles, solid structure, both sides of the door frame are stone pillars, high above the doorway, "Post and Telecommunications Bureau," a few words in plain sight, which is not much of the Shanghai area, the site of the old post office of the Qing Dynasty. Due to the developed culture and economic prosperity, Fengjing is one of the few ancient towns in Jiangnan with a full range of Taoism, Buddhism, Catholicism and Christianity. As early as the first year of Liang Tianjian in the Southern Dynasty (502 years), Fengjing south fence has built a Taoist temple, Ming and Qing dynasties, Buddhism is prevalent, streets, alleys, miles, neighborhoods all over the temple, the whole town **** there are 3 monasteries and temples. At the end of the Qing Dynasty, Catholicism and Christianity also began to be introduced to the indispensable part of the resources of Fenghua. Going to the Sex Jue Zen Temple, Shi Wang Temple, Yu Family Ancestral Hall and other humanistic landscapes, you can find the historical relics of the ancient north-south partition of Fengjing Town, half of the Wu land and half of the Yue border.
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Fengjing Ancient Town Scenic Area Ticket Prices Adjustment www.shfj.cn From January 1, 2006 onwards, the Fengjing Ancient Town Scenic Area Tickets to the integration of the following specific provisions: First, Fengjing Ancient Town Scenic Area The price of joint ticket is 46 yuan/person. Attractions include the East Fire Council; Cheng Shifa's ancestral home; Peasant Painting Family Exhibition Hall; the old site of the People's Commune? Mao Zedong statue hall? Air Defense Shelter; Three Hundred Garden? Hundred Baskets Hall? Hundred lamp museum? Hundred rows of museum; Ding Cong cartoon exhibition hall; Shi Wang Temple; Zhu Xuefan life exhibition hall; Ding hoof handmade workshop. Second, Fengjing Ancient Town boat trip 50 yuan / (6 people), time is half an hour. According to the relevant documents and considering the characteristics of special groups, free of charge for retirees and active military personnel with certificates; half-price for the disabled and the elderly (over 70 years old senior citizen preferential treatment card). IV. The standard of children's exemption and travel group discounts are stipulated separately. V. April 28, 2006, the new scenic spot opened farmers painting ecological leisure park to implement the ticket price of 20 yuan / person. June 12, 2006