Nanxiang one-day tour of the best route for the Nanxiang Ancient Town - Nanxiang Old Street - Drum and Bell Towers - Three Bridges Convergence - Brick Pagoda.
Nanxiang Town is located in Nanxiang Old Street, with the historical style of the early Ming and late Qing Dynasties, with pink walls and tiles, different layers of houses and stores, small bridges and ancient colors. Nanxiang town is one of the four major historical towns in Shanghai, and was once known as the small Nanxiang Sai Su City in history.
In Nanxiang Ancient Town the old street is lined with clean snack stores, there are Nanxiang Gongguan, Changxinglou Jimeilou, Tayunlou, Rihua Xuan, Xifuxing, and so on, all kinds of inheritance of a hundred years of the old store, people arrive in Nanxiang Town, will be shocked by its ancient colors and aromas.
Nanxiang Town is the northwestern gateway of Shanghai, centered at 121°32′ east longitude and 31°29′ north latitude, located in the southeast of Jiading City, adjacent to Malu Town in the north, Jiangqiao Town in the south and Anting Town in the west. The town is close to Shanghai's outer ring road, 12 minutes' drive from Hongqiao International Airport and 18 kilometers from Shanghai People's Square, with a town area of 33.27 square kilometers.
Nanxiang Culture
As of 2013, among the community cultural and sports teams in Nanxiang Town are bamboo bands, cotillion teams, fashion teams, waist drumming teams, rice-planting teams, folk bands, chorus teams, the 18 Methods of Practicing Kung Fu, fitness exercises, Mulan Quan, and joint exercises. Rural cultural facilities are mainly senior citizen activity rooms and villagers' cultural activity centers. Each activity place has a chess and cards room, reading room, indoor and outdoor fitness place, rehabilitation center for the disabled, psychological treatment room (whispering room), medical room, book reading room, multimedia classroom and other specific activities such as venues (rooms) and so on.
The types of mass cultural and sports teams in the villages involve the waist drum team, the soft power team, the rice-planting team, the radio gymnastics team, the middle-aged and old-aged cultural and sports teams, the chess team, the health gymnastics team, the tug-of-war team, the old-aged morning exercise team, the old-aged chess club, the rowing team, the old-aged newspaper team, the hand-flip drill team, the Mulan fan, the old-aged line-dance team, the old-aged chopstick dance team, the opera team, the chorus team, the tai chi, and the practice of the eighteen methods of kungfu, etc. The village cultural and sports teams have been working in the villages for a number of years.
In 2013, at the awarding ceremony of the Group Star Award of the 10th China Arts Festival held in Weihai City, Shandong Province, the three works of dance "Xiaolongmaster", female vocal group "Ancient Town Style", musical skit "Love Xiaolongbao" and Hundred Flowers Chorus selected by Nanxiang stood out from the rest, and won the highest award of the Government of Chinese Mass Literary and Artistic Arts, namely "The highest award of the Government of Chinese Mass Literary and Artistic Arts". The highest government award for literature and art, the "Group Star Award".
Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia-Nanxiang