For the ancient town, China's long history, long cultural origins, the ancient town became a beautiful piece of the sea, the ancient town of quiet, elegant architecture, small bridges, pavilions, some of the scenery of the ancient town is always people have reluctant to give up and deep memories, so that people forget to leave the time.
This is all, or to start from a temple, this place is known to people, but also because of this temple, then, we next, take a look at this Zhenru Ancient Town has what fun it!
Zhenru Ancient Town AttractionsZhenru Temple
Zhenru Temple, formerly known as the "Wanshou Temple", the Shanghai people used to call it "big temple". It is rumored to have been built in the Yuan Dynasty and has a history of more than 800 years.
In fact, the history of Putuo District, there were many temples, but the vast majority of them have been destroyed, the surviving temples, to Zhenru Temple for the earliest, the most profound impact.
Many people do not know, Zhenru Temple is also one of the four famous temples in Shanghai (the remaining three temples are: Jing'an, Longhua, Jade Buddha), although not as famous as the other temples, but there are a large number of good men and women, and for a hundred years the incense continues to flow.
With the general temple yellow walls and golden tiles different, the real temple did not have a heavy gold body, go is the white walls and black tiles elegant wind, everywhere reveals the ancient and simple wind, which is really not common in Shanghai.
The temple outside the traffic, the temple is a quiet, Buddhist sound, beyond the world, a quiet and peaceful scene, is a rare side of the city of Shanghai pure land.
Inside the monks can also be seen from time to time to do field chanting Buddhist scriptures, more to the temple added a solemn.
When you are in a restless mood, come to Zhenrui Temple to walk and sit, chant and pray for blessings, the world's tired and disturbed mind, suddenly have a moment of peace.
The whole Zhenrui Temple is not big, an hour or so will be able to stroll through. But the temple step by step, the layout of the layout, the Buddhist solemnity is very strong, suitable for slowly wandering.
Zhenru Square Pagoda, the Hall of Perfect Enlightenment, the Hall of Earthly Treasures, the Hall of Tibetan Buddhist Scriptures, the Bell and Drum Towers, the East and West Halls, and the Monk's Room ...... Each hall and Buddhist temple reveals a sense of historical gravity.
As soon as you enter from the inner courtyard, you can see the treasure of Zhenru Temple - the Yuan Dynasty Great Hall. It is one of the best-preserved wooden temples of the Yuan Dynasty in the south of the Yangtze River, and the earliest surviving wooden structure in Shanghai.
Contemporary masters of architecture North Liang (Sicheng), South Liu (Dunzhen) and Chinese and foreign architectural experts have come to visit, inspection, investigation, research, in the history of architecture and Buddhism have a high research and historical value, have to admire the wisdom of the ancients and craftsmanship.
The hall in front of the courtyard is full of lotus and cypress, in the middle of summer, the lotus bloom beautiful, a full of life.
There are also two huge ginkgo trees in the courtyard, which share the same lifespan as the temple and have survived the vicissitudes of life for more than 800 years, but are still flourishing.
One of the trees withered during the Cultural Revolution, but miraculously came back to life in '92, which was a sensation, and nowadays, many people make a wish under the tree, praying for peace and joy.
To truly appreciate the beauty of the ancient ginkgo, you may want to wait until the fall, full of golden ginkgo trees in full bloom, covered in the temple between the temple, that is a rare beauty.
The northernmost part of the temple is the world-famous Zhenru Pagoda. From a distance, towering in the sky, lofty and solemn.
The Zhenru Pagoda is a four-sided square tower, 53 meters high, with nine outer floors and ten inner floors, plus eleven floors in the underground palace***. Inside the underground palace is enshrined the only allegedly real body relic of Sakyamuni Buddha in Shanghai.
You used to be able to climb to the top of the pagoda to get a view of the Putuo scenery, but it is now closed for the protection of cultural relics.
Bronze bells hang from the eaves of each floor of the pagoda, tinkling in the breeze and calming the mood.
There are two small lotus ponds in front of the stupa, which reads "Do not put turtles", and this is the first time I've seen such a warning, and inside the ponds are colorful lotus flowers in full bloom, and from time to time there are dragonflies flying by, as if returning to a small time.
Many people come to Zhenru Temple must do one thing, is to turn the cylinder, which is a rare in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and other areas of the cylinder, just below the pagoda, a **** 108, around the tower week.
Imagine yourself as a devout believer in Cangyangjiazuo's writing, spinning the scripture cylinder while praying with devotion, and your mind is baptized.
Besides these majestic and exquisite buildings, the temple is filled with Buddhist beauty that requires you to take a closer look.
For example, there are wall carvings everywhere
Every time you take a step, you'll come across lotus-patterned floor tiles
Stainless and lotus-patterned, every step brings a lotus
A 200-meter-long gallery of wooden calligraphic and painting monuments
inside which stand various kinds of stone monuments
along with a lot of contemporary Zen calligraphy and paintings
is a special feature of Zen Ru Temple, which has a long history of being a Buddhist temple. Zhenru Temple is also a major feature of the temple
The green trees and koi carp
There is also a river in the temple, which runs alongside the temple, and you can spend a leisurely afternoon sitting by the promenade with the coziness of the small bridges and the relaxing summer winds that sing.
When you come to Zhenrui Temple, you can't miss the fasting lunch inside, which is served from 11:00 noon. The wooden door, labeled "Dining Entrance," is on the first basement floor, so it's easy to find.
The place where you eat is called "Ruyi Zhai", clean and bright, not a trace of fumes, to eat people are also very conscious of "stop talking", orderly queue.
The vegetarian diet costs 10 dollars a piece, with vegetables, rice and soup. Inside there are four or five kinds of vegetarian dishes, celery lily leaf, four seasonal beans, fried pumpkin, tofu ...... The flavor is surprisingly good, found bacteria can not help but disc.
There is also free porridge served inside. Because not hungry, our photographer little brother did not buy food, I did not expect Ruyi Zhai's grandmother was concerned about the little brother shouted over, enthusiastically helped to serve a bowl full of congee, so people are very touched.
The first and fifteenth will also serve noodles, a simple bowl of vegetarian noodles, but eat a different flavor. Therefore, many people will come to Zhenru Temple to have a fasting meal and experience the daily life of an ascetic monk.
Knocking on the head, burning incense, turning the scriptures, blowing the wind, making a wish, eating a meal, satisfied ~ leaving the temple, returning to the hustle and bustle of the world, in exchange for inner peace and tranquility, this trip to Zhenrui Temple is really worth it.
Address: No. 399, Lanxi Road, Shanghai
Transportation: Metro Line 11, Zhenru Station
Opening Hours: Daily 5:30-16:00, Incense Season: 5:00-16:00<
Zhenru Ancient Town, but Shanghai's only ancient town in the Central Ring Road, not far from the Zhenru Temple, the entrance of the pagoda and the foot of the bullet-chin road, telling people the history of Zhenru and the vicissitudes of change, but also witnessed the development of Zhenru area
Street surfaces, corridors and pillars, stores, roofs, and green stone roads ..... Still retains a lot of architectural features of the ancient town and Lanxi Street, is the original ancient town of an old street Nowadays, the ancient town also hides a lot of Netflix stores worth you to go one by one to pull the weeds and hit the card
Zhenru Park
Zhenru Park, a green and thick small park on the side of the Dadu River Road, is located in Shanghai, Shanghai, PuTuo District, Dadu River Road No. 1894 It is a ten-minute walk from Zhenru Temple.
The park is full of green trees and blossoming flowers, and the breeze brings the coolness of summer, which is indeed a good place to ride the breeze.
The chorus team practices, walks children and dances in the square ...... The surrounding residents always come to the park without fail and live a colorful life.
There are also several meowers in the park, eating and sleeping. Outside the fence in the lake, you can still see the big white geese swimming around happily. In the southeastern corner of the park, you can see the True Buddha Pagoda from afar.
To say that Zhenru Park is the most beautiful time, it must be the winter months, when the garden full of plum blossoms, the fragrance of the flowers refreshing the nose, but it is very beautiful, worth a look.
Zhenru Ancient Town FoodZhenru Mutton Pavilion
Century-old aroma in the ancient town
Address: No. 1 Temple Street (northwest corner of the intersection of Temple Street and Beishi Road)
Zhenru Town used to have three great treasures: Zhenru Mutton, Bean Products and Dobu. These are the "treasures" that the old Shanghai people talked about. Among them, Zhenru Mutton is the most famous.
In the old town of Zhenru, there is such a Zhenru Mutton Restaurant, inherited more than 200 years of history of mutton processing technology, has also been listed as Shanghai Intangible Cultural Heritage. Shanghai people who want to eat mutton, almost the first will think of their home.
A bowl of braised lamb noodles can capture the stomachs of foodies, and the lamb and lamb soup noodles are served separately in very generous portions. The fresh lamb is cut into small pieces with the skin and bones and tied with silk grass, which makes your mouth water with the aroma as soon as it is served.
Mutton museum with the architectural style of the old town echoed the ancient door, wooden window grill tables and chairs ...... Inside eat a meal of mutton old feeling.
Old Shengxing
Every day is everyone
Address: 300 Lanxi Road
When it comes to the old Shengxing soup dumplings museum, Shanghai people are absolutely no stranger to the doorstep of the family may have one.
Every meal time, it's full of everyone, everyone, everyone, and the price is relatively civilian, so you can eat till you drop for 20 bucks.
Shanghai people like to eat pan-fried, that is well-known, and the old Shengxing pan-fried can be described as a masterpiece, 6 yuan / 4, thin skin and thick filling, there is a lot of soup inside, eat carefully hot mouth.
Summer and then a bowl of topping cold noodles or cold wontons, the taste is really a whine ~
Shanghai national specialty food mall
Can be found in the hometown of the local specialties
Address: No. 231, Lanxi Road
Shanghai's specialties can be found in almost all of them here, and not only foreign tourists, Shanghai grandparents and aunts. tourists, Shanghai's grandparents and aunts come here to line up is also the norm.
The point is, not only is there a wide variety of specialties here, but the prices are also very cheap. Next door, Yipin Yongfeng, which has also been open for many years, looks a lot like Shanghai's national specialty food mall at first glance, but it sells a lot of everyday food.
Fujian Wuyishan hairy bamboo shoots, really found the fungus stunned, the size of half a man high, only 3.8 yuan / catty, have to come to a man to move home.
Du Sanzhen
Century-old flavor from Suzhou
Address: No. 282, Lanxi Road
Du Sanzhen is also a century-old store, said to be the brand of Suzhou, specializing in brine, is said to have been founded in the Guangxu period. It's on the same level as Ala Shanghai Bright Village Deli.
Inside the brine dishes are very fancy, San Zhen head meat, sauce pork knuckle, five spice rabbit leg, go oil meat, sauce ear ...... In the summer to buy some brine bad goods under the wine, also has a different flavor.
Particularly recommended to go oil meat, let the aunt to help you slice, go back and taro with steamed, coy.
True as the ancient town, here is like a history of the Tibetan book, a lot of stories, beautiful enough, very fascinating, people do not want to close this book, if you also want to come here, might as well refer to the editor's advice, come to these attractions to see, but also to taste the food how it!