Longtan Water Town Scenic Area, located in Chenghua District, Chengdu City, Longtan Temple territory, covers an area of 220 acres; national 4A level scenic area. The total investment of about 2 billion, after 4 years of construction; Suzhou garden architecture as a model, adding the elements of Western Sichuan residential, and create the ancient garden landscape.
The scenic area is organized around three small islands, with 21 different shapes of small stone bridges, corridor bridges; small islands surrounded by water; the entrance is divided into: east, west, south, north and south directions. West gate is magnificent; especially two heavy door, majestic and solemn, atmosphere. The entrances are equipped with differently shaped stone workshops; and the north and south squares are the best places for square dancing and displaying talents.
On the left side of the west gate, there is a large lotus pond. When the lotus is in full bloom in summer, sitting on the head of a crow's nest boat; looking around, with small bridges and streams, pavilions and pavilions, you really have a feeling of floating as if you were immortal. On the opposite side, there is a Bianjing Corridor Bridge, which is a double corridor pavilion type, distributed on both sides of the bridge; in the middle is the main channel; the pavilion is built at the head of the bridge, with the roof ridge cocking its head to the sky and the top of the pavilion is a treasure roof type. Walking on the Bianjing Corridor Bridge, standing on the bridge and looking out, the crow's nest boats moored on the river, the red-column corridor pavilions, the courtyard and pavilions of the southern style, and the green-brick and gray-tile style of the Jiangnan residential houses, which are lined up in rows and staggered in height, are distributed on both sides of the river. This is not a living picture of the Qingming Riverside?
Walking down the Bianjing Corridor Bridge, through a courtyard; it comes to the Scholar's Bridge, on which there is a bronze ox, a realistic image, oxen; there is so a sense of defiance. Walking down the bridge, you will come to the core area of Longtan Water Town Scenic Spot. Here there is a nine-ridged roof of the platform roof, and a tower building - Longtan Pavilion. Longtan Pavilion, 32.8 meters high, 21 meters wide, **** five floors; all copper framed. Roof ridge angle pengtian, the eaves are set with a small dragon relief; each eave hangs a mouthful of copper bells, the breeze is pleasant to the ear; walls, beams on the bronze-colored exquisite patterns, very beautiful; brass-colored cover tiles; bronze-colored doors and windows; fence masonry, the ground are the top quality of the lapis lazuli. All this will be the essence of classical Chinese architecture, showing the best. Looking from afar, the whole tower is brilliant, very atmospheric, magnificent; especially hanging on the tower, three 'Longtan Pavilion' plaque characters, very dazzling.
Here in the tourists are really not a lot, there are wedding photos; rest gathering. Wandering around, feel a little hungry, what to eat? Along the direction of the signage, across a small stone bridge, to find a Chinese restaurant, called what 'stay in the family fishermen's hall'. I ordered a large knife back to the pot of pork, a mapo tofu, a bowl of white rice, the taste is not bad; fat but not greasy, very rice. In addition to eating, you can also play mahjong and drink tea here to relax; mahjong is free.
After a full meal, continue along the southeast direction, you will come to Tanchun Lane. Tanchun Lane and Shichun Lane, located in the scenic area on the east and west sides of the island; there are twelve alleys, all according to the "Dream of the Red Chamber" Twelve Haircuts of the Golden Hairpin to be named. Next to the twelve lanes, there are Zhao Mansion, Wu Mansion, Zhang Mansion, Qian Mansion and other courtyards. In front of each house, there is a pair of monsters guarding the door; some doors, but also placed a pair of stone tanks. Between the mansions there are bronze pillars with flower-shaped street lamps and four-sided bronze clocks; each clock represents: Beijing, New York, London and Tokyo time respectively. At the entrance of each alleyway, there are different stone carvings of twelve zodiac signs according to the corresponding phases of each hairpin; it is said that these stone carvings of zodiac signs are collected from the folk in the south of the Yangtze River. The door beams of each house are carved with exquisite reliefs, realistic; house walls, embedded with different shapes of lattice stone windows, extremely beautiful and generous. In the alleyway planted with some bamboo; walking inside, giving a beautiful and deep feeling.
Walking along the river, there are beautiful views along the way. There are stone steps down to the river at every other section of the river. In the promenade, downstairs corridor, from time to time will also see the walls, beautifully carved reliefs. The first time you come to play in Longtan Water Town, you need to plan a good route in advance, otherwise you will get lost! Wandering, inadvertently came to the scenic south side of the bright moon bridge. Standing on the bridge, looking around the beautiful scenery; there is a kind of intention to tour the unfulfilled feeling. The scenery here is beautiful, few tourists, quiet and comfortable, suitable for wedding photography, photography, leisure and entertainment.
Here, you can feel the Jiangnan water town, long corridors, gray stone bridges, long and narrow rivers; hanging red lanterns on the crow's nest boats; the beauty of its own, so that you have a poetic. Stroll in Longtan Water Town, shuttle between the courtyard pavilions, bridges and rivers, flowers and trees, green tiles and gray bricks of the Jiangnan residence of the town, as if you are in the Jiangnan water town in general, making you as intoxicated.
To play in Longtan Water Town, the transportation is relatively convenient. You can take the subway line 7 in Chengdu, get off at the subway Cuijia station, transfer to the 128 bus to Huahan Road Longji intersection station, you can reach the Longtan Water Town scenic spot.
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