A: can not write Zhouzhuang
In the days returned from Jiangnan, I wrote a lot of articles about Jiangnan, but single did not write Zhouzhuang. My friend asked: why not write Zhouzhuang? The first thing I'd like to say is that I don't know what to say.
Yes, in more than a month to go to Jiangnan, I visited many places, returned to write some articles published one after another. But write more, write smoothly is Wuxi Taihu Lake. Because in more than a month's time, I have been living in Taihu Lake on a cliff in the restaurant, every morning when I get up, I have to stand for a long time on the balcony looking at the smoky Taihu Lake; every night to walk along the Taihu Lake, see the faint light brilliant as a star in the distance, feel a gust of the evening wind, hear the lake water clattering, robin barking, frogs sound pleasant to the ear, let a person is not idle! The idea of writing is naturally like a spring of water. Before going to sleep at night, and then walk the feelings of a pen in the diary, return to Xinjiang on the precipitation of some days, repair and change, an article, two articles smoothly out; but for only went to Zhouzhuang once, and is hastily browsing, which makes me how to find the feeling of writing. The world-famous poetic Zhouzhuang, everyone said that the return of the tour there is good, hobby of photography to shoot a lot of pictures posted in newspapers and web pages, attracting admiration; is a writer and poet, returned to write a lot of poetry published, not in vain to go back, won a lot of readers for the fascination.
Far from it, said the famous essayist Wang Jianbing it, he wrote "out of print Zhouzhuang" can be described as lead washed out, the mood seems light but thick, jumping in the simplicity of a classical song, poetic, aftermath of the sound of the people of Zhouzhuang carved and printed on the monument, which makes it easy to come to Zhouzhuang literati dare not move the pen. More than ten years ago, the famous writer Zhao Li Ju set of "Zhouzhuang water rhyme", can be said to Zhouzhuang "water" written out, because Zhouzhuang's article originally lies in a "water" word, to "water" word The word "water" has been written in a good way, and poets and scholars seem to be afraid to do articles on the word "water" again.
My favorite writer, Chi Zijian, is very smart. She wrote "Zhouzhuang Encountering Idiots" in 2006, which cleverly avoided the word "water" and created a historical atmosphere by herself, with jumping ink and writing and freshness in the air, so that people could walk into Zhouzhuang in the poetic language, and suddenly hear the sound of the oars from the Zhouzhuang Water Rhythm of 900 years ago, and suddenly hear the sound of the oars from the Sanmao Teahouse. Suddenly heard the sound of oars in Zhouzhuang water rhyme 900 years ago, suddenly heard the shouting and cursing in the alley in Sanmao teahouse, suddenly immersed in the depths of history, and suddenly back to the reality of life in front of you, so that people in the scenario of blending in a burst of sadness stifled the vicissitudes of the history of life. I've seen many people write about Shen Wansan, who has a close relationship with Zhouzhuang, but like Chi Zijian, he easily and ethereally puts the depths of a historical figure and a historical story, and writes vividly and vividly about it, which is rarely seen.
Therefore, I thought, I am an amateur literary author, how dare I put pen to paper to write Zhouzhuang? In addition, I stayed in Zhouzhuang in a hurry for two and a half hours, and it was a hot summer day, tourists, "Allah" sound endless. If I remember correctly, Wang Jianbing went to Zhouzhuang before and after more than ten times before penned the "out of print Zhouzhuang"; Zhao Li Ju set life in Shanghai, before and after three times before penned Zhouzhuang. Chi Zijian is in the Arctic village of Heilongjiang in the ice and snow grew up, the difference between the south and the north of the water rhyme is really big, and is a writer like Xiaohong, in Zhouzhuang to stay for some time, naturally, the pen is not extraordinary.
So I think, Zhouzhuang is not written, is that these talented writers many times in-depth life there to experience, mobilized their own knowledge and talent in various aspects, especially there produced a long feeling of water, natural flow out.
Imagine, Zhouzhuang can write? When you take the bus into the Zhouzhuang, you will produce the kind of riding a flat boat, borrow a bright moon, shaking into the Zhouzhuang feeling? Without that feeling, can you find the poetry of Tang and Song poems? When you step into the Zhouzhuang, in the modernization of the cement road leisurely degree step, see is a wear all kinds of sunglasses, holding all kinds of light umbrellas of a pile of crowded people, you can find the distant Zhouzhuang that kind of quiet and leisurely feeling?
No, certainly not, at least I can not find. I touched the Zhouzhuang is a stream of people, is the endless cacophony of noise, is you to and from the hustle and bustle of the spectators. They rush to come, and rush to go, the sound of the four sides of the five lakes left in the Zhouzhuang water rhyme, but also a body body soreness of the smell of sweat left in the narrow lanes and low houses, wantonly diffuse,嫋嫋升腾. This is the first time that I've ever seen a person with a high degree of confidence in the world, and I'm not sure I've ever seen a person with a high degree of confidence in the world.
So, I can't write about it. I can't write it out, I'm looking through a few books that I bought back in Zhouzhuang to write a booklet about Zhouzhuang, but I've read a lot of them, and I'm not impressed by the ones that I've left behind. Not that they write bad, a color of Zhouzhuang water rhyme, Zhouzhuang rain, Zhouzhuang, Zhouzhuang moon, Zhouzhuang history, looking at the tedious, it all seems to be very far away from me, and the style of rhetoric and ink is almost the same, the lack of character of the mood and the color of the idea.
I am tired of it. But when I stay alone melon, especially rainy rainy days or snowy winter, read the pillow of the Tang and Song, I really miss Zhouzhuang, miss the glistening water of Zhouzhuang, miss Chen Yifei's pale mottled double bridges, miss the Yinzihang shimmering water lanes leisurely swinging in a flat boat, think that in the world nowadays to find to the Tang and Song in the rhyme, I'm afraid that it is not Zhouzhuang! I'm afraid that Zhouzhuang is the only place where you can find the remaining charm of the Tang and Song poems.
However, due to my remote location, it is difficult for me to travel to Zhouzhuang again and again to find any feeling of writing, so I look at the paintings. I brought back a few paintings from Zhouzhuang.
I bought them in a small painting and calligraphy store. The author is a graduate of the Anhui Academy of Fine Arts, a thirty-year-old female painter, medium height, extraordinary temperament, skin color beautiful like jade, crystal clear glasses behind the lens, a pair of eyes like a clear river in late autumn, flashing with the light of the spirit, in the simple elegance of the clear and enthusiastic. Her works have won many awards in the country. I chose from left to right, and finally selected a few paintings written in carbon pen. Several paintings of Zhouzhuang after a late autumn scene, clear and light and elegant, although not see the thick green, but also do not see the slightest sense of depression. Always feel that the tide of tourists have receded, no longer daytime noise, no longer crowded shoulder to shoulder, there are quiet bridges and rivers quietly bathed in the halo of the moonlit night, there is a group of cold crows as if awakened by the sound of what swept the sky to fly up in the moonlit night circling with the chirping, but also like a silent rhythm, covered the simple and quiet Zhouzhuang. The company's website is available for purchase at $20,000 per month, and it will be available for purchase at $50,000 per month. The night of the boat, in the crescent moon like stone arch bridge, quietly waiting for something; a fast boat like from far away, a flat boat and to sail to the distance, the bow of the boat on the standing a scholar, back with a bucket hat, looking at the distance, the boat after a boatman supported by a bamboo, reluctantly looking at a fan still did not open the window of the home. There is also a picture of Zhouzhuang in winter, gray roofs covered with white fluffy snow, four or five trees withered branches and leaves, from the courtyard wall behind the house stubbornly out of the strong branches. Snow, quietly covered everything, even the steps under the eaves of the house is a layer of white fluffy ......
I know, this is the artist painting dream Zhouzhuang, but also the Jiangnan in the Tang and Song poems. She put the Jiangnan in Tang poetry and Song lyrics, with the paintbrush faintly released open.
I like these paintings very much. In the days when you can't write about Zhouzhuang text, I simply will be a friend to send a few exquisite photographic images from the wall, these paintings are carefully framed, set in the frame, hanging, relative to each other at night and day, full of elegance, everything at home also seems to be immersed in a quiet dream of the south of the Yangtze River, immersed in a school of rain and smoke, Tang poetry and Song dynasty rhymes of the delicate. I then clearly know that the real Zhouzhuang is not written with a pen, the real Zhouzhuang can only be in a dream, in the ancient rhythms of Tang poetry and Song lyrics; and now Zhouzhuang, I can only look at it from afar, but do not want to get close to it again, if I really want to get close to it, I'm still willing to go to the small painting and calligraphy store, buy a few paintings back to save, miss, open the paintings to look at, look at it and feel the surroundings of the sound of gently swaying oars and boats. The sound of gently swaying oars, with a bay of clear water quietly flowing through my heart ......
March 6, 2011 night grass,
January 2, 2012 and then changed
Second: I want to be in Zhouzhuang
Yang Guanghu
Single person plus *** silk tour guide Tang Wan Er received a "private customized", an elderly Japanese man to come to Zhouzhuang, 5:00 pm.
Summer water town of Zhouzhuang, infinite beauty, poetry, especially at night, shining, after watching the "Four Seasons Zhouzhuang", you can also swing boat on the water, see the fireflies, listen to the Kunqu Opera, or listen to the guqin, searching for a soulmate, tea, tea, the breeze, people are intoxicated.
Tang Wan Er, a foodie, has already thought of dinner for her guests. Zhouzhuang famous "Wansan family feast", there are Wansan hooves, three flavors of dumplings, steamed Mandarin fish, steamed eel tube, Brunswick perch soup, ginger snails, stuffed meat oil buns, hundred leaves wrapped in meat, stewed dried tofu, warmed cooked lotus root and other specialties, selection of materials exquisite and elaborate, color, flavor and shape are all very good. But considering that it was an old man, Tang Wan Er felt that she should focus on vegetarianism and get a few subtle ones.
Received the Japanese old man, although seventy years old, but very spiritual. He introduced himself as Zhao Zhouzhuang. Tang Wan Er listened to it and thought it was so interesting.
The meal will not eat, I am not hungry. The old man said, I just want to drink a "granny tea", see them doing needlework, shoe soles, embroidered shoes, while the Zhang parents, Li family short, talking about their hearts, to find the feeling of Zhouzhuang and nostalgia.
Nowadays, not compared to the past, we are busy doing business, who still have time to chat? To drink tea into the teahouse. Fast-talking Tang Wan Er skimmed her lips.
Then don't drink, I'm tired. The old man said helplessly.
I am still hungry! Tang Wan Er said in her heart, but her mouth said, Sir, what are the arrangements for tomorrow?
You help me to find a person tomorrow, Zhouzhuang's, called Zhao Dashan. The old man said eagerly.
You are not here to travel? Tang Wan Er words to exit, hurriedly changed, well well, I help you find! Anyway, people guests shelled out enough silver.
Then okay. The old man is going to rest.
Tang Waner alone out of the door, walked down the street, Zhouzhuang in the night under the shelter of the dark curtain, flowing, as if back to the era of Shen Wansan, history and reality, vaguely, dislocated from each other. All said, to Zhouzhuang main experience a slow life, themselves as a tour guide all day wind and fire, how did not find the beauty of their own side?
Forget it, this miss diet, also do not eat. Tang Waner comforted herself, tomorrow still have to find someone? Thanks to oneself is Zhouzhuang people.
Early in the morning, Tang Wan Er went to the police station to inquire, and knew that Zhouzhuang does have such a person called Zhao Dashan, but do not know where to live now. According to the address on the account book, this old house has been rented, and when she asked the neighbors next to her, she learned that the old man has long been living in a nursing home in the town.
Tang Waner went to the town nursing home again to inquire, people in, can not move, lying in bed all day, has lost memory.
The Japanese old man at the inn is still waiting for her. Tang Wan Er rushed to meet the guests, guests in the room pacing back and forth, once heard, people in the nursing home, do not care about eating, and she rushed to the nursing home.
The old man named Zhao Dashan, lying motionless on his bed, did not seem to notice their arrival.
The Japanese guests had tears in their eyes, but held them back.
The Japanese old man told the tour guide Tang Wan Er, his Chinese name is Zhao Zhouzhuang, Japanese name Watanabe, has been seventy-three years old, in 1945 Japan's defeat in the war, the evacuation from China, leaving behind a large number of orphaned children, himself is one of them. He was three years old at the time, his real parents were nowhere to be found, and it was his adoptive father, Zhao Dashan, who brought him to Zhouzhuang from an adoption agency in the northeast. His adoptive father was wounded in the leg during the war and had to leave the army to return to his hometown, Zhouzhuang.
The old man lying here is his adoptive father, Zhao Dashan, who is 90 years old.
Japan is the motherland, China is the hometown; Japan is no longer good, there is no Zhouzhuang without him. His adoptive father is his biological parents. 1972 after the official establishment of diplomatic relations between China and Japan, he was found by his biological parents in 1973, returned to Japan, although very busy, but all the time in mind Zhouzhuang and his adoptive father Zhao Dashan. Every year he would send money to his adoptive father, but it was returned. This time with the Japanese orphans of the "Japan-China Friendship Society Thanksgiving Group" came to China, in order to meet with his adoptive father, thanks to his adoptive father, thanks to China.
It is all because of the war that the Chinese and Japanese people have suffered so much! Zhao Zhouzhuang said painfully, he stood straight, lowered his head and bowed y.
The old man in the bed has lost his memory. Nursing home staff said.
History cannot be forgotten. Zhao Zhouzhuang said his adoptive father never married for the sake of my life, and had to suffer from the other eyes of onlookers and incomprehension, I grew up being scolded by children as: "Japanese brats!" But my father never treated me like a Chinese child. The first time I saw this, it was a very good thing that I was able to get a good deal of money.
The old man, lying down, did not seem to hear anything.
Time stood still. Everything in front of me is more real and vivid than the past history lesson, Tang Waner felt that the facts can not be erased, there are things that can be dissolved with the passage of time, but some are brighter with the sharpening of time, and there is a greater need for mutual respect and mutual understanding.
Get up, Mr. Watanabe. Tang Wan Er said, less than 2 hours before the plane leaves.
I'm going to stay in Zhouzhuang a little longer. Zhao Zhouzhuang said, I'm still going to Quanfu Temple to pray!
I'm going too! For the love I'm waiting for minute by minute, the happy days, and the peace of the common people all over the world! Tang Wan Er said sharply, her face turning a little red.
July 19, 2015 night rush in Nanshan
Three: Dream Zhouzhuang
One
From Shanghai station to Zhouzhuang, seventy kilometers, an hour and a half journey. It was eleven o'clock in the morning when we arrived at Zhouzhuang town. Getting off the bus, I pulled my suitcase, ready to find a hotel to stay first, and then go to the scenic area the next day. At this time, a middle-aged man came over, handed me a business card, said his family has a leisure resort, the location is just in the famous attractions in Zhouzhuang Shen Hall directly across the back door, the device is first-class. And he can help us buy discounted tickets. Seeing me sizing him up skeptically, he took out another newspaper from his pocket, pointed to the advertisement column and said, "Look, it's this resort. If you go, I'll take care of the free transportation!"
I said to my wife and son, "Just get in his car!" My son looked out the car window at the ancient buildings and stretches of small bridges and flowing water, and said excitedly, "Zhouzhuang is probably the most fun place on this tour." I smiled and said, "All landscapes are discovered one at a time, and so is Zhouzhuang, which was unintentionally discovered by the famous painter Chen Yifei. At that time, he introduced Zhouzhuang to his foreign friends through his paintings. Every foreign friend who came here was shocked. Zhouzhuang thus went out of the country and became known to the world. Now, Zhouzhuang has become part of the world's cultural heritage."
Ten minutes later, the cart turned into a small farmhouse-like resort. The owner and staff were having lunch. The waiter guided us up to the second floor and looked at the rooms. The facilities weren't great, but they were reasonably clean. I then nodded and told my wife to go down and pay the deposit. The waiter came back up and asked if we wanted to buy a tourist package ticket with a 30% discount, saying that they would send us into the scenic area. I then ordered three sets of tickets.
When I first came in, I saw the food they were eating, the color combination was not good, and I guess the taste was not very authentic. According to my experience, in order to eat the local specialties and delicious, you must not eat in hotels and resorts. I took my wife and son and wandered out of the resort, wandering around inside the alley. Finally found a restaurant with a rather chic decoration. My wife said, "This is the one!" "Why?" I asked. "It's air-conditioned! In this hot weather, even the best dishes are hard to swallow without air conditioning." My wife said with a straight face.
After we sat down, the boss's wife came over and made a pot of hot tea. Then, brought the menu. I didn't look at it and said, "We're here on a trip and there are only three of us. Just recommend me a few dishes that are the best in your store, or that you think best represent the specialties of this place." The boss's wife smiled and said, "That would be the Wan San Hoof, Steamed Mandarin Fish, and Ulva Perch Soup. All are a few of the most prestigious dishes here!" "Alright, let's serve these dishes! Also, bring over two local cold beers that you don't think are too hard to drink."
The dishes were indeed not bad, and his wife and son ate them to their hearts' content. The steamed Mandarin fish and the Ulva perch soup were both relatively light and flavorful. It's the Wan San Hoof that's a bit greasy, and the flavor of Dongpo Elbow is a bit similar, and the cultural elements it contains are also similar. Both are famous because of the favorites of two celebrities, Shen Wansan, a business wunderkind, and Su Dongpo, a cultural celebrity.
Two
After dinner, back to the resort. The waiter handed us three tickets and sent a man to take us out the back door and turn into a small alley. There was an old man sitting there. After checking the tickets, he told us that this was the back door of Shen Wansan of Shen Hall. If you go out from this alley and turn right, you will find the front door of Shen Hall.
We walked to the front gate, which was already overflowing with water. There was also a constant stream of tour groups outside, led by their guides. We had to slowly squeeze in with the crowd. Shen Hall was built by Shen Wansan descendant Shen Benren in the Qing Dynasty Qianlong seven years in 1742 on the basis of the expansion of the original house. Seven into five doorways, size of more than one hundred houses, distributed in one hundred meters long on both sides of the central axis, covers an area of more than two thousand square feet. Shen Hall, composed of three parts. The front part is the water wall door, the river port, for the family docking boats, washing clothes; the center is the wall door building, tea hall, the main hall, for the transportation of guests, for weddings and funerals and deliberations; the back part is the main hall building, small hall building, the back of the hall house, for the life of the living place. The whole hall is a typical architectural pattern of "front hall and back hall". Between the front and back of the house by the street building and aisle pavilion line. Forming a huge horse-riding building. The main hall is "Songmao Hall", which covers an area of 170 square meters. Towards the main hall of the brick carving doorway, is the most majestic of the five doorway, up to six meters high, in the middle of the plaque "accumulation of thick flow of light", surrounded by "red plums to meet the spring" bas-relief carving, the carving of the characters, beasts and pavilions, theatre stories, etc., vivid, very vivid, with the Suzhou net lion garden in the brick carving door comparable. After a large and small hall building, architectural style is very different from the main hall, after repairing the Shen Hall, was listed as a key cultural relics protection units in Jiangsu Province.
The hall at the entrance is the living room where the Shen family meets guests, with an eight-imperial table and two wooden tai shi chairs. There is a couplet on the wall: "Ancient building alone survives the essence of Zhenfeng, guests come from afar to add glory to the Zeguo." I went to the left head of the eunuch chair and sat down, my son saw, rushed to the right head of the eunuch chair and sat down. So, the wife in the hands of the camera clicked, took this shot. In the second room on the wall, entitled "Shen Wansan's story" large sculpture, depicting the legendary life of Shen Wansan.
Shen Wansan, a native of the late Yuan and early Ming dynasties, was a genius in business. Since he was a child, he aspired to earn a lot of money to honor his ancestors, but he did not have the capital. However, he was very smart and was favored by his father. So, he often pestered his father for money to do business. His father said, "When you get married, I will give you the capital. He was looking forward to having a family every day. Finally, the bride received into the door. After the ceremony, he got his father promised dozens of taels of silver business capital before entering the bridal chamber. Early the next morning, he said to the bride: "I'm going out to business today, probably a few years before I come back, you must be at home to serve your in-laws." The bride cried on the spot.
He took advantage of the political chaos and the shortage of soldiers at that time. He bought large quantities of grain, cloth, salt, medicine and other supplies, and waited until prices soared, then threw them away and made a lot of money. Later on, he used the money he earned to unclog the joints and rescued an imprisoned hometown. After that old villager was released from prison, he was so grateful that he gave his only beautiful daughter to Shen Wansan. Due to the long torture in the prison, he died in a short time. In this way, a large amount of property was inherited by him. He used the money to build a large number of sea ships, hired a large number of bodyguards and sailors, loaded them with supplies, and did overseas trade. At that time, overseas trade was a profitable business. Soon, he was rich beyond his wildest dreams.
Throughout the dynasties, the status of merchants was very low, and officials could deprive rich merchants of their property and freedom at any time. After getting rich, for the benefit of his children and grandchildren, and for the future social status of his family, he started to invest politically in some warlords with more potential. The first one he approached was the great warlord Zhang Shicheng, donating a lot of money and materials, and erecting a large monument of merit for him. Later, when he went out, he met Zhu Yuanzhang, the leader of the peasant revolt, who was taking refuge there. He saw that Zhu Yuanzhang's power was expanding day by day and soon surpassed Zhang Shicheng. He began to support Zhu Yuanzhang unconditionally again. He donated money and goods to provide Zhu Yuanzhang with logistic and material support. When Zhu Yuanzhang built Nanjing City, Shen Wansan even took out half of the construction cost. After Zhu Yuanzhang unified the world, he realized that he only controlled the army and politics, while his good buddy Shen Wansan controlled the economic lifeline of the country. Even when he, the emperor, wanted to do something, he had to go and ask for his help. This was something Zhu Yuanzhang did not want to see, and considered it extremely harmful to the stability of the country. So, he found an excuse to kill Shen Wansan and confiscated most of his properties.
"Shen Wansan's tragedy is the tragedy of many rich people. When rich people have money, they are eager to get themselves a corresponding social status by pulling in politicians, while politicians are afraid that the rich will use the money in their hands to sway the political situation. That's why there is something about the top ten richest people in Russia, six arrested at once. In our China, where the Middle Way is revered and politicians play for balance, it is even more taboo for the rich to do so. However, it's just not so obvious that we do it, we 'fatten them up and then kill them'. Throughout China's history, at every critical moment, it was always a case of slaughtering fat cows and fighting tigers. The treasury is instantly filled, and the situation is instantly transparent and stable." I said this.
Son laughed and said, "Oh, I know. A successful businessman cannot go too far with politics, or he will make no money. Nor can he go too close, or else he will get himself y involved."
Three
After wandering through Shen Hall, we wandered through Zhang Hall. Zhang Hall was built by the descendants of Xu Kui, the younger brother of Xu Da, the founding father of the Ming Dynasty, during the Zhengde period of the Ming Dynasty. In the early years of the Qing Dynasty, it was sold to a merchant surnamed Zhang and renamed Yuyan House. After more than five hundred years of vicissitudes, the Zhang Hall still has the same grandeur. Walking through the doorway along the street, there is a patio in front of you, full of greenery. On both sides are low-rise compartments with calabash windows on the upper and lower floors. In the long years of damage to the brick doorway, solid stone pillars, fine carvings, it is still not difficult to see the former style of Zhang Hall. The hall is spacious and bright, - hold the thick columns of the court is a rare wooden drum pier, which is a clear sign of the Ming Dynasty architecture. The hall is decorated with Ming-style mahogany furniture, lights and colors, welcome guests. The walls are hung with calligraphy and paintings, and a pair of couplets are especially eye-catching, the first one is "the sedan chair advances from the door", and the second one is "the boat passes from the house".
When I first saw the couplet, I didn't understand what it meant. When I was in the fourth courtyard, I saw a river running through the center. There were also stone steps for carrying goods and a pier for docking cargo ships along the river in the courtyard. It took me a moment to realize. I had heard that the river had an elegant name, "Art Jing". Since it was connected to the South Lake, the water was clean. In the middle section of the river, there is a ten-foot-square pool where the boats meet and turn around. It is surrounded by granite barges. On the barge is the back window of the house near the river, and there is a row of open windows, and in front of the windows, there is the Wuwang leaning, which is also called the beauty leaning, and it is a kind of wood-ribbed pulling rod. Under the window of the barge between the Ruyi shape of the cable boat on the stone, tied to a leafy boat, a "boat from the home over" scene. "Beautiful, beautiful. It's so grand, so grand." The wife marveled.
There is a garden in the innermost part of Zhang Hall, with high walls, swaying bamboos and fragrant moonflowers. There was also a rockery of the Taihu Lake, standing tall. The highest point of the Taihu Lake stone looks like a spread wings flying Jade Swallow. Here, we finally understand the origin of the Jade Swallow Building.
From the side door of the back garden out of the Zhang Hall, walking in the alley about two meters wide. There were a few private houses with side doors opening onto the alley, filled with snacks and souvenirs. There was also a middle-aged man sitting on the ground who was weaving some animals with palm leaves taken from the mountains in a lifelike fashion. I paid three dollars for three tender cucumbers in the small door store, and the shopkeeper took the initiative to wash them and hand them to us. I took a bite and it was crunchy and sweet. It was very pleasant.
It was back to the main alley in front of the main entrance to Zhang Hall. Both sides are densely packed with small wooden buildings, and all kinds of stores are open in these small wooden buildings. We wandered from store to store, my wife and son buying a lot of small souvenirs and a few small toys for my youngest son who stayed at home. I wandered through a lot of calligraphy and painting stores, in a used bookstore, I found a dozen or so period red books, the boss handed me a few, I casually flipped through them and put them aside. But on the bottom floor I found a very worn, damaged pages, and each page of the page in the seam of the pen writing reading notes in the ruby book. The owner offered two hundred dollars, I gave him a hundred and took it.
Wandering across the street to the other main alley, there are many people there to rent a boat, water tour Zhouzhuang, one hundred and twenty dollars to rent a boat. We also bought boat tickets and boarded the boat. The boss who rocked the boat saw us sitting steadily and began to row, and the boat slowly moved forward in the river. Sitting on the boat, looking at the wooden buildings on both sides of the river, the green trees, the flowers, the tourists, and the stone bridges that we kept crossing, was another kind of scenery. My wife interrupted the boat captain who was giving us a tour of the scenery along the way and asked, "Can you sing? Just local folk songs." The boat captain said, "Sure, but you have to tip me twenty dollars." We agreed and he sang. The accent of Wudi was just too thick for us to understand. So, it was time to concentrate on taking pictures of the scenery along the coast with the camera in our hands.
Four
The boat docked at another pier, and once we were ashore, the skipper wobbled and sculled our way back the way we came. We crossed a stone bridge and then another hutong before entering the main street of the scenic area. Many of the houses on both sides of the street were newly renovated antique buildings, much more atmospheric and grand. The stores on both sides are also much more spacious and bright. We slowly strolled along the stores on both sides. I saw a lot, but I didn't really buy anything. In a store selling food, I saw the owner of the store was using a wooden tool to pull and whiten the rice candy he had boiled. Back in the day, when I was farming in my hometown, I did this kind of thing. So, at my wife's instigation, I washed my hands, replaced the shopkeeper and helped him pull the rice candy for a while.
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"Four Seasons Zhouzhuang" large-scale original ecological water town live performance is China's first presentation of the original culture of the south of the water town live performance, with the unique water town performance method, reproduces "China's first water town" Zhouzhuang's cultural qualities and charming charm. The show is divided into three chapters: "Zhouzhuang in Water", "Zhouzhuang in Four Seasons" and "Zhouzhuang in Folklore". "Zhouzhuang in Water" is organized in three chapters, namely "Fishing Songs", "Fishing Woman" and "Fishing Lanterns", which are closely related to "fishing". Through these three chapters, which are closely related to "fishing", it constitutes a water town scene of "Shell River Fishing Song".
"Water Rhythm Zhouzhuang" through the "fishing culture" to express the flavor of water, to show the long history of Zhouzhuang and its ecological side; to Zhouzhuang's spring, summer, autumn and winter to show the "Eight Scenes of Zhouzhuang", to stage and scenarios, and to show the "Eight Scenes of Zhouzhuang". "Zhouzhuang Eight Scenic Spots", combining and mirroring stage and scenario performances to show the beauty of Zhouzhuang's water town; "Folklore Zhouzhuang" is based on the traditional folk culture of Zhouzhuang, focusing on the performance and display of the folklore of Zhouzhuang's ancient water town, humanities, style and culture. At the beginning of the show, there were disorienting lights, hazy fog, melodious and pleasant fishing songs, boats, and lotus flowers. The show immediately brought us into a stunning poetic life. This is a nearly all-real scene, huge, nearly three hundred people in the lineup, beautiful dream-like images, so that the audience applause, applause, endless.
"Four Seasons of Zhouzhuang" shows the beautiful scenery of Zhouzhuang in spring, summer, autumn and winter, the girl-like innocence in spring, the love-like romance in summer, the hot harvest scene in autumn, and the snowy feeling in winter. You can't help but be mesmerized by it. Among them, the "Four Seasons Zhouzhuang" in the spring scene of the "town of rainy alley" dance performance is even more picturesque, compared with the Spring Festival Gala, no less.
"Folklore Zhouzhuang" is filled with a strong water town folk customs, "Welcome the God of Fortune", "playing field wealth" and other water town customs, with real picking baskets, playing Lianjia, swinging the lake boat and other folklore display, expressed the people pray for a good harvest, happiness and well-being of the good wishes. The "Water Town Wedding" interprets the traditional wedding ceremony of Zhouzhuang Ancient Town in which the bride is married in a fast boat, and the interaction between the audience and the actors pushes the whole performance to ***.
At about nine o'clock in the evening, the show was over. We were excitedly reminiscing about the show we had just seen while walking slowly back along the long street. On the way, my son and his mother each bought a certain black bowler hat and put it on, immediately cool, I rushed to shoot down with a camera. When we were having a snack, the restaurant owner asked, "Did you see the show?" He proudly said, "It was great, wasn't it? Most of the actors and actresses are local people. The show cost over 13 million dollars in rehearsals and props alone. Even the UN officials said 'OK' when they saw it, it was beautiful."
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