Pale nine peaks in the northern foothills, vast Dianshan Lake, there is a block of 47 square kilometers into a fan-shaped town, set in the lake and mountains. Some people compare her to Shanghai's Venice, some people compare her to Dianshan Lake, a pearl, and now this bright pearl in the golden belt of 318 National Highway under the auspices of the radiation more eye-catching luster. This is the famous thousand-year-old town of Zhujiajiao, which was named one of the first four cultural towns by the Shanghai Municipal Government in 1991.
Zhujiajiao is located in Jiang, Zhejiang, Shanghai, two provinces and one city transportation hub, the geographic location is very superior, east of Hongqiao International Airport, north of Kunshan, south of Jiaxing, west of Pingwang, Dianshan Lake downstream, the golden waterway Cao Gang River through the town. The town has rivers and harbors, nine long streets stretching along the river, a thousand buildings of Ming and Qing Dynasties standing by the water, 36 stone bridges with ancient styles still existing, and places of interest abound. Tired of playing a similar high price of man-made landscape, people are surprised at the outskirts of Shanghai and a well-preserved piece of the original flavor, the real mountains and water of the natural landscape, where you can find a return to nature, the enjoyment of wildlife. No wonder a famous professor from Tongji University, after visiting Zhujiajiao, marveled: Zhujiajiao has such a rich cultural heritage, which is not only a treasure of Shanghai, but also a national treasure. Taiwan's famous late writer Sam Mao, to this had for the small bridges, running water, people's homes and the pattern of fascination, for the simple and quiet, everywhere can be painted, when there is a poem of the style and intoxicated. China **** Central Committee Political Bureau, Vice Premier Wu Bangguo in the ancient town of Zhujiajiao inspection, can not help but be pleased to order the pen, wrote the national historical town of Zhujiajiao a few big words.
Small bridges and natural scenery, the original flavor of the Ming and Qing streets, the natural scenery here can not help but be many film and television directors, and come in droves, the water town's graceful style, time and time again on the screen, television, sometimes several films and television at the same time to start filming the scene, Zhujiajiao has become the hot spot of film and television filming at home and abroad, known as the outskirts of Shanghai's Hollywood. Zhujiajiao famous town has a long history, in 1958, the town of steel, the town in order to find iron, had a miracle to the town north of the big Dianhu Lake car dry, at the bottom of the lake, people accidentally found a large number of Neolithic relics, proved to be the Majiabang culture, Songze culture, Liangzhu culture, and the Western Zhou Dynasty to the Spring and Autumn and Warring States period of the cultural heritage. 1959, and a large number of stone knives fished out of the Dianshan Lake, stone plows, stone spinning wheels, printed ceramic pieces, etc., these Neolithic period of the stone knives, stone plow, stone spinning wheel, and so on. These relics from the Neolithic Age to the Warring States Period are enough to prove that the ancestors of Zhujiajiao worked and lived here thousands of years ago.
In 1930, the town published "Lijiao Newspaper" published a section of the town east of the Xiangning Hamlet excavation of the East Wu General Gan Ning's tomb, more proof that more than 1,700 years ago in the Three Kingdoms period, Zhujiajiao has formed a village market. According to historical records, Zhujiajiao in the Song Dynasty, Yuan Dynasty has formed a market, the name of Zhujia Village. The ancient temples and temples in the town, such as Yuanjin Zen Temple and Cimen Temple, were all built in the Yuan Dynasty during the reign of Emperor Zhizheng, so it can be imagined that the ancient town had already been inhabited by people and had begun to take shape at that time. Due to the convenient water transportation of the Cao Gang River running through the town, commerce flourished and thousands of houses were set up. The town was formally established during the Wanli reign of the Ming Dynasty, with the name of Zhujiege, also known as Zhuxi. The "Zhuli Xiaozhi" compiled during the Jiaqing period of the Qing Dynasty designated Zhuli as the name of the town, commonly known as Jiao Li. Song Rulin in the preface to the "Zhuli Xiaozhi", had this description: today's Zhuli for a corner of Qingxi, smoke and fire thousands of homes, north of Kunshan, south of the valley water, its streets and quads stretching, the traffic of traders, water and trees, the literary Confucian generation out of the people who are in the group of envy to let the plow to let the side of the wind is still ancient, and more than the Household singing incessantly, though with the high Yang Li, the Crown
Li comparable to the may also be. From this, one can appreciate the prosperity of Zhu Jia Jiao 200 years ago and the human style.
Zhujiajiao with its unique natural environment and convenient waterway transportation, merchants gathered, endless, once known as the standard cloth industry in Jiangnan, known as the world of clothes, become a giant town in Jiangnan, a poem said: fish and rice Zhuang line haunted the six times, the South Bridge to avoid the small patrol division, two Jing (Zhu Jing, Feng Jing) less than the Pearl Street Pavilion, to see all the charts by the total unknown. At the end of the Ming and early Qing dynasties, Zhu Jiajiao rice industry, led by the prosperity of the industry, when the long street of three miles, thousands of stores, old stores, stores, North and South Department Stores, the industry is complete, the township feet throughout the provinces of Jiangsu and Zhejiang outside of the 100 miles, so there are three Jing (Zhu Jing, Feng Jing, swim in the Jing) as a corner (Zhu Jiajiao) said.
Republic of China period, the rice industry flourished, the production of green corner of thin rice, in Shanghai rice market dominance, exported to the capital overseas, whenever the paddy field, the peak of two or three million stone (15002250 tons), the daily collection of 600 tons of rapeseed, produced by the Zhujiajiao vegetable oil marketing hundreds of miles away, known near and far, and industry, handicrafts, money changers pawnbrokers, the financial sector, the rice mills, power plants, are open to the first of the whole county! The early start, fast development, when the North Street, Daxin Street, along both sides of the street, the size of the business, lined up, the town sitting business has more than a thousand households, the night market is as noisy as day. On New Year's Day, there are foreign traders to catch up, restaurants and teahouses are open almost day and night, vendors walk the streets, snacks and snacks all night long, when the black rice farm boats, thousands of hundreds of people came, Cao Gang River for the blockage.
The famous town of Zhujiajiao charming natural scenery, in a mountain and a lake. The real water shows the characteristics of the Jiangnan water town, the mountain called Mount Dianshan, although the mountain is not high, the fame is great, for the western Zhejiang Tianmu remaining veins, the mountain for the beginning, such as climbing the mountain looking
Lake, there are Dianfeng evening illumination of the scene can be appreciated.
Lake, that is, the natural freshwater Dianshan Lake, an area of 62 square kilometers, most of the eastern part of the lake in Zhujiajiao realm area, there are 11 Hangzhou West Lake area is large, boat tour of the lake, a vast expanse of water and sky, the lakes and the reeds gently shaking, startled ducks and waterfowls, feel far away from the dust and hustle and bustle, a relaxed and happy mind. The famous town of Zhujiajiao more fascinating, more ancient town characteristics of the human landscape, is a bridge, a street, a temple, a temple, a hall, a pavilion, two gardens, three bays, twenty-six lanes. If the 900-year-old water town of Zhouzhuang is small and delicate, like a small family, and the millennium old town of Zhujiajiao has a magnificent, big girl's style. First of all, the ancient town of Zhujiajiao covers an area of 1.5 square kilometers, more than three times the area of Zhouzhuang, home to a large, natural place to play more, Cao Gang River will be divided into two halves of Zhujiajiao, the north bank of the Jingting Harbor, the south bank of the northern street, both sides of the meandering alleys, granite street surface, brick and tile Ming and Qing dynasty buildings and many historical sites.
One bridge, when pushed to Shanghai's first stone arch release bridge, but also the largest five-hole large stone bridge in the south of the Yangtze River, magnificent. Standing at the top of the bridge, see the July 27th swinging fast boat, is no better, and the other three dozen ancient stone bridge of the magnificent is not inferior to Zhouzhuang, on the construction and craftsmanship, Zhujiajiao Zhonghe Bridge and Xijie Bridge than Zhouzhuang double bridge is more solid, and those characteristics of the bridge is incomparable to Zhouzhuang. Three steps away from the high and low bridge, the miniature landscape of the class plant bridge, card cackling Qi Jia Bridge, Yongfeng Bridge to commemorate the national shame.
A street, that is the first Ming and Qing dynasty street in Shanghai, North Street, long after the vicissitudes of life, but also preserved so original flavor, that a line of unique construction, it is amazing. There are three miles of long street, store a thousand known as the North Street, old-fashioned store signs standing, big red lanterns hanging high, become the most lively old streets in the ancient town of Jiangnan, is the other ancient towns of Jiangnan can not be expected.
One Temple, is the Newspaper State Temple, for the Jade Buddha Temple in Shanghai under the hospital, the temple of Burma white jade carved Sakyamuni Jade Buddha, Singapore presented the first white jade Guanyin and a thousand years of ancient ginkgo, known as the Newspaper State Temple of the three treasures.
A temple, is the city god temple, has more than 200 years of history of the city god temple, green tile yellow wall, flying dragon warping, auspicious gourd, lattice floor to ceiling long window, presenting the ancient meaning, smoke curls, solemn and magnificent scene. One of the arch stage, woodcut beams and hall scroll (now abolished) is known as the City God Temple three treasures, very rare.
One hall, is the Xi's hall, set Jiangnan rich family building of the great success, especially the wall door brick carving is a masterpiece, its beautiful pattern, carving of fine, skillful, let a person marvel. A museum, that is, Wang Chang Memorial Hall, exhibiting the Qing Dynasty Qianlong nineteen years, the Ministry of Justice, the right minister of the Ministry of Justice, known as the seven sons of Wuzhong Wang Chang's wax man wax image, poetry, calligraphy and paintings, engravings, looms, old-fashioned beds and other nearly one hundred pieces of exhibits in kind, rich in content, informative historical information, the crystal position is extremely high.
The two gardens, is the class planting garden and ZhuXi garden, an ancient, a modern; a huge, a delicate, and reflect each other. Courses planting garden is a manor garden building, covers an area of 96 acres, the garden by the Ma Wenqing built in 1912, it is a class while reading, while farming and planting should be the name of the garden, the garden is built in the city of books, but also open up the village of rice, the garden of pavilions and pavilions, corridors and bridges and trees, the hall room Xuan, a whole range of all sorts of buildings and living room more than 200, the layout of the staggered and sparsely populated, well-conceived, in the private garden building is rare. Pearl River Garden, was built in 1956, covers an area of more than 70 acres, small and exquisite, beautiful scenery, arranged into the spring, autumn, winter three gardens, each with its own characteristics, but also a children's playground, restaurants, tea rooms, stores, for rest, eating, shopping, playing in one of the ideal place.
Three bays, namely: Sanyang Bay, Sedan Chair Bay, Maitou Bay. People walking on the street, before and after the left and right are houses, thought to the end of the road, right-angle corner, a street market in front of the eyes, people have a wonderful feeling of a different world, this old street appeared in the peculiar corner of the landscape, is a rare sight of other ancient towns, non-Zhujiajiao can not see.
Twenty-six lanes, actually Zhu Jiajiao's ancient lane more than 26, every street and every road has a lane, the road through the street, street through the lane, lane through the lane, forming a network checkerboard pattern, Zhu Jiajiao's ancient lanes and alleys and more, ancient, strange, deep, known far and wide, which is in general in Jiangnan, other towns can not be compared. Walking through the alleys, such as into the bewitching array, interesting, searching for ancient ghosts, to appreciate the northern hutong style of interest, but also has a different and similar wonderful. In recent years, the old lane tourism is more and more favored by outsiders and foreigners, is a valuable, to be further developed virgin land.
The famous town of Zhujiajiao fascinating place is also known to the world of the three more, that is, more celebrities, more buildings of the Ming and Qing dynasties, river port, cable stone, teahouse more.
First of all, more celebrities, mainly Zhu Jiajiao quiet environment, pleasant climate, is to study the feng shui treasure, traditionally literary Confucianism, talent, Ming and Qing dynasties **** out of the 16 jinshi, lifts more than 40 people. Among them, the high visibility of the Qing Dynasty scholar Wang Chang, the Imperial Doctor Chen Lianfang, novelist Lu Tuling, newspaper magnate Xizi Pei, painting monks language stone, etc..
Secondly, the deep house of Ming and Qing Dynasty buildings. Historically, many rich and noble families and literati built their homes here, and there are as many as 400 to 500 old houses in the town, with fire walls, shikumen, and walled homes everywhere. There are dozens of old houses in the town, such as San Mao Fishing Village, Wang Chang's former residence, Fu Cui Suizhi, Xi's Hall, Lu's Family, Chen Lianfang's former residence, Zhong's Hall, etc. There are also countless Ming and Qing Dynasty buildings along the streets, with flying eaves and warped corners, diaphanous tiles and powdered walls, and Ming and Qing styles, which form a Ming and Qing Dynasty ink painting scroll.
Three is the river port, cable stone, teahouse more. Zhujiajiao is the hometown of water, water, more bridges, more river ports, close together with the cable car stone, but also countless, that the shape of the water bridge, the cable car stone, filled with the town's rivers and alleys, the unique landscape of the Jiangnan water town, a careful appreciation of the observation, I do not think it is interesting, intriguing, is a combination of history, cultural relics, architecture, style, art and other content. There are two sides of the river bank protruding stone barge, there are concave stone barge one side of the river bank, and more people from the front door into the river from the back of the house out of the stealthy river port. And those inlaid in the water lane stone barge on the granite relief cable boat stone is a wide range of interesting, some carved into a bull's horns, some chiseled into a sword, some carved into a monster, grim-faced, some faceted into a Ruyi, presenting auspicious, simple beauty, these have been hundreds of years of history of the art of carving will be the ancient town embellished with a more charming. Ancient town teahouse, mostly concentrated in the Fangshengqiao, North Street area, no less than a dozen valves of more than a luxury type of new Fangshengqiao teahouse, there is a long time ago the old club teahouse, there are more antique Miao interesting building, there are rows of door panels front, a few tables and a few benches, simple and inexpensive farm teahouse, the most interesting and delightful is the teahouse to open to the boat cruise ship teahouse, is divided into two floors, the cabin on top of the top, are available to be seated! Tea guests, tea boat is also equipped with television, poker, chess, wet and dry snacks, tea on board the tea, look at the bridge, look at the water view, listen to the water, it is a leisurely, not happy.
The famous town of Zhujiajiao water beauty, the bridge of the ancient, the street of the strange, the garden of the fine, not in its realm, it is difficult to say its wonderful, not step on the old stone streets, not explore the deep alleys and lanes, do not walk the arched stone bridges, do not take the babbling canoe, how to embodied in the boat on the water line, the people in the painting of the feeling of the swim?
The ancient town of Zhujiajiao, more bridges, more lanes, more corners, revealing the infinite cultural flavor of the water town. Zhujiajiao because of the water and show, because of the water and the fullness of the centuries created countless heroes, today, Zhujiajiao people continue to extend the source of this long culture. Thus, Zhujiajiao was born out of many "characteristics of the corner", said self-indulgence, said the mass culture, in short, "characteristics of the corner" of the small lotus just showed the tip of the corner. Than cultural skills, cultural taste, line cultural pastime, sucking cultural connotation, has become the Zhu Jiajiao people's life fashion, as if the green leaves lining the peony, to the water town of Zeguo add a heavy amount. This is a rich cultural property.
Peking Opera Corner
Established in the 30's Peking Opera Ticket Fans Organization "Rhyme Sound Society", its activities have been continued to this day. The town has a senior amateur Peking Opera group, the average age of the actors is 70 years old, and often "Peking rhyme curl around the ancient town". In addition to the traditional repertoire, they also perform modern Peking Opera, "Wisdom Takes Tiger Mountain", "Shajiabang" and other selections. Their wonderful performances have been Jiading, Songjiang, Jinshan and other districts and counties. Songjiang, Jinshan and other districts and counties invited to tour.
Singing Corner
Zhujiajiao has more than 10 people who love to sing, spontaneously gathered together, over the past few years, they insisted on going to the park every day, Qiaotou to practice their voices, their skills day and night. Some of them have already taken to the stage through expert coaching and training. Mr. Chen Yaozu's song "I Love Five Fingers Mountain" won the first prize of the National Farmers' Singing Laurel in 1996, and he and another female amateur singer sang a duet, which was selected by Shanghai People's Broadcasting Station as the designated program of "Weekly Radio Concert", and participated in the competitions on behalf of Qingpu County for many times. Several other singers are also fruitful, respectively, in the county, city-level singing competitions, awards.
Literature corner
Zhujiajiao Middle School Chunhui Literature Club was founded 13 years ago, there have been more than 200 people, 566 pieces of work in the national secondary school students published in newspapers and magazines. In the first half of 1998 alone, more than 20 pieces of work were selected in the "Essence of Works" and "Excellent Diary" books respectively.
In the past 13 years, the members of the literary society have created more than 8,200 works in various genres such as poetry, prose, novels, newsletters, etc., and 106 issues of "Chunhui Literature" periodicals have been published and circulated all over the country since the founding of the society. The literary society has won awards in many competitions, and was awarded the title of "Outstanding Campus Literary Society" in 1995. 864 Chunhui people have gone from the Zhujiajiao mountains and waters, where they were first nurtured, to the north and south of the motherland. Another "Literature and Art Creation Group, led by Zhujiajiao Town Cultural Center, has been established for more than 20 years. This team has more than 20 authors to writers, Academy of Arts and Letters creators, micro-fiction members, storytellers members, insisting on amateur, insisting on pen plowing, known as the ancient town of pen.
"Literary and artistic creation group" accumulated in the country's major newspapers and magazines published more than 700 works. Among them, reportage, prose poetry, movie scripts almost every year in the newspapers. They also published "Midnight Star" poetry collection, "Evening Sunshine" reportage collection. A number of works have passed the review of publishers and will be published one after another. Their works have also been selected and collected by Jiefang Daily, Novel World, Young Generation, Story King and other municipal publications.
"Literary and artistic creation group" the second feature, adhere to the creation of mass enjoyable works of art, more than 20 years, they created sketches, operas, stories, small plays, the hit rate is quite high. They were once called "village artists" by Shanghai Coin Mass Art Center. The commentary "Love is like the sea" created by them won the Excellent Creation Award of Shanghai Art and Culture Festival; the stories "Bathroom Storm", "Two Mothers Taking Daughters" and "Hate for the End of the Day" created by them won the First Prize of the Ninth Storytelling String Creation of Shanghai, and the Second Prize of the Middle Form Popular Literature. The song and dance skit "Butterfly Flower Fluttering" created by them participated in the Shanghai Municipal Exchange Performance in 1996, and won the Double Crown Award for mass cultural creation and performance in that year. Zhujiajiao "literary and artistic creation group" phenomenon has attracted the attention of knowledgeable people, "Xinmin Evening News" has made a special research report.
Calligraphy and painting corner
Zhujiajiao Town, another cultural feature. Nowadays, calligraphy and painting enthusiasts from the old to 84-year-old old man, small to teenage dolls, due to their interests, they consciously form interest groups. Book to meet friends, painting to pass the love, "the belly has poetry and books from the Hua", cultivate sentiment, useful and interesting. Living in the street near the water in the old house of Zhao Fuliang, into the door of the fragrance of books to the nose, two years he participated in the National Calligraphy Competition 30 times, won more than 20 times, including in the first "Huaxia Cup" and "Penwu Cup" Calligraphy Competition twice won the first prize in the country, a time when the old town stores have left his dashing handwriting. There are also two members of the painting and calligraphy corner, also in the national hard pen calligraphy competition in good results.
Fitness corner
To be exact, Zhujiajiao fitness corner has several, and the street garden next to the most notable, every morning, some of the elderly came here early, clapping, twisting the neck, kicking and punching to do morning exercises, all in high spirits. Especially a group of gray-haired old lady holding the Mulan sword, and elegant folk music, beautiful and elegant movements, showing the Zhujiajiao people extremely thick cultural literacy. Shanghai "Old Sports Association" organized competitions, Zhujiajiao won many awards, making the ancient town of Zhujiajiao was named Shanghai sports star township.
Morning Tea Corner
Zhujiajiao people have the custom of drinking morning tea, and drinking tea can also drink a lot of tricks, believe it or not. Every day, before the morning mist disappears, the newly opened teahouses under the Zhujiajiao Fangsheng Bridge and on the banks of the Cao Gang River are already full of laughter and tea drinkers. Those who come here to drink tea have a fixed seat, regardless of the wind and rain, the owner of the seat is always the same, both into the town to sell vegetables to the old farmers, as well as the town's regular people. A pair of cakes and doughnuts, a bowl of oily noodles, and a pot of boiling hot "black tea", although not as rich as the Guangdong morning tea, and also leisurely and happy. Tea drinkers eat and talk about social news, drink and talk about the town's business and development, mostly discussing today's policies and changes in life, but also exchanging a variety of information with each other. Occasionally, some of the city to the "first guest", to the teahouse to sit down to relieve fatigue, drinking alone, looking across the river to the green mountains of the beautiful water, to appreciate the countryside of the strong feelings of the countryside, this is the Zhujiajiao morning tea corner of the "tea culture" corner. However, nowadays, the water town teahouse has undergone a refreshing change, it is no longer "old tea guest" reigns supreme, many young people also like to come to the teahouse "rolling noise", they said, Zhujiajiao teahouse is "eat the atmosphere of" the ideal place. Of course, if you are interested, you may want to go to taste.
Folk book collection
Jiangnan water town Zhu Jia Jiao, a long history, is a typical cultural town. Zhujiajiao's "literary Confucian" is a book like life, the common people also read, collect books for fun. early 1991, the first folk book development and utilization of the seminar held in Zhujiajiao ancient town, attracted the attention of all walks of life and affirmation. CCTV Shanghai TV, people's daily, liberation daily, Wen Wei Po, Xinmin Evening News, Shanghai culture and art newspaper, farmers daily, labor newspaper, has made different pages of special reports. The development and utilization of folk book collection listed in the Shanghai Municipal Culture Yearbook, and included in the UNESCO compilation.
Zhujiajiao family book collection popularization rate of more than 50%, the total number of folk book collection of more than 100,000 books, 10 times the total number of books in the town cultural center, more than 21 town libraries in the county's library collection. Among them, 18 households have more than 1,000 books; 27 households have more than 500 books; and 64 households have more than 300 books. The collection of books is complete, there are 22 categories of political philosophy, social sciences, natural sciences, etc. The book collectors are 80 years old, there are ordinary housewives and teenagers, and there are even 10-year-old children who collect books.
Zhujiajiao people are good at brainstorming, reading good books, with good books, hide good books, in the "with" word work. Has held the town-wide "special family culture exhibition", "deepen the use of folk collection of books and resources to explore", "old and new collectors will be", "knowledge is the power of the speech", etc., the preparation of the "area of folk collection of joint book", and reading, use, collection of books as a five good family assessment conditions.
"The belt is widening, and people are pining away for Yi". Shanghai Municipal Library experts visited the Zhujiajiao folk book collection characteristics of the family, given the Zhujiajiao family with book collectors three laurels, bookworms, book owners, book fans.