For the beauty of different people to see the beauty of the heart has a different state of mind, and my love for the ancient town of the hobby is like someone else's love of the sea or the mountains and rivers, such beauty always attracts us to these places have a different yearning, and I want to introduce you to the place today is the Tongli ancient town.
Tongli Ancient Town Introduction
Tongli Town, one of the six ancient towns of Jiangnan, with the old name of "rich soil", the beginning of the Tang Dynasty was changed to "copper", the Song Dynasty will be the old name of the split word for the "Tongli". "Tongli". It was built in the Song Dynasty and has a history of more than 1,000 years as of 2015, and is an ancient town of water town culture in China.
Tongli covers an area of 33 hectares and is surrounded by five lakes, connected by 49 bridges, and a network of rivers dividing the town into seven islands. In 1982, it became the earliest and the only ancient town in Jiangsu Province to have its entire town as a cultural relics protection unit, and in 1995, it was listed as one of the first batch of famous historical and cultural towns in Jiangsu Province. 1998, the ancient water town and the Retreat Garden were included in the preparatory list of the World Cultural Heritage.
Beauty of Tongli Ancient Town
Famous Scenic Spots: "One Garden" (Retreating Thought Garden), "Two Halls" (Jiayin Hall and Chongbentang), "Three Bridges "(Taiping Bridge, Jili Bridge and Changqing Bridge)
Mellow water town, the old days of Jiangnan", said this beautiful and simple town - Tongli. Here, every house on the water, every house through the boat, with a "small bridge in the water township, people all pillow river, willow bridge through the water city, the river port into the lake field" of the landscape, and therefore known as the "Oriental small Venice" reputation. It is said that Tongli has three more, more water, more bridges, more literati. Among them, the most noteworthy, the most famous private garden here - Retreat Garden, is the only world cultural heritage of the ancient town of Jiangnan, the whole small courtyard simple and simple, quiet and elegant, but there is a kind of ease in the peace of mind. Tongli Ancient Town is not big, you can watch the sunshine and mist of the ancient town in the early morning, you can watch the pink evening sunshine spreading across the sky from the shore, and you can enjoy the silence and comfort of the ancient town at night, and find the poetic meaning that belongs to you.
Travel Tips
1, about the ticket: 100 yuan (valid for 2 days), night tour of Tongli (only including the Retreat Garden) 50 yuan
2, opening hours: day tour 7:30 ~ 17:30, night tour 18:30 ~ 21:30
3, the scene representative works: "Bao's Father and Son
4, local specialties: Scholar's hooves, shrimp in the cake, three silk spring rolls, eel paste in sesame oil, honey cake with 100 fruits, Zibao cake, green dumplings, Min cake, lard rice cake, chicken rice head, Large meat steamed buns, wine cake, malt cake, small smoked fish
5, transportation:
①Suzhou Railway Station, Suzhou South Bus Station and Suzhou Wu County Bus Station have direct shuttle buses to Tongli, the other in the Suzhou Tourism Distribution Center has direct buses to Tongli (including tickets)
②Although there is a direct from Shanghai to Tongli, but the shuttle buses are not intensive time, if you are from Shanghai, the more recommended from Shanghai-Suzhou (with tickets)
②Shanghai to Tongli has direct, but not intensive time, if from Shanghai. Recommended from Shanghai-Suzhou (high-speed train) and then directly in the Suzhou Railway Station travel distribution center to buy bus tickets to Tongli