Travel guide of Jiaxing

>>The south lake of Jixing
The south lake gains the name because of lying in the south of Jiaxing city. Many mandarin ducks of south lake in the past, Su DongPo had written in " crossing the beautiful state " this poem: "Mandarin duck lakeside moon like water, fatherless boat draw near mandarin duck blow night. "it is the big calligraphist DongQiChang write too in the poems at " floor at the misty rain ":" The lotus flower in the lake and the moon on the floor, beat a song with the feet to get up the sleeping mandarin duck. "People of Middle of Tang dynasty poetry Liuchangqing have one poem to praise the south lake " whether mandarin duck lake see off ", so, the south lake is called the mandarin duck lakes refined, is abbreviated as the mandarin duck lake.
Since the Tang Dynasty, south lake become the famous excursion center in the South with their misty rain beautiful scenery that fan cover with, the refined scholar of the past dynasties scholar has left countless poems and picture scrolls here. Perhaps it is the pretty and intelligent unique makings of south lake that have attracted Chinese warm blood children, make her in a thousand cradles becoming China's revolution after death. In 1921, the first national congress of the Communist Party of China finished the last agenda in a gaily-painted pleasure-boat on south lake, China earth begin great incident that separate heaven and earth since the beginning of history from then on, make south lake well-known again. "Just as no West Lake, no Hangzhouing, south lake was not just Jiaxing." This sentence has expressed the south lake to the good importance for the Jiaxing city.

>>Beautiful garden
one of the ten famous garden of China, lie in military original town beautiful garden town, take up an area of 0.987 hectares. This garden is the waste garden in the Ming Dynasty originally, back Feng built the garden here, it is called the Feng's garden. The host of beautiful gardens the poet of Qing dynasty, he is the second-class son-in-law of Huangxieqing, Huang family should have the Zhuoyi garden and ink stone garden clumsy successively. Among Xianfeng years (1851-1861) of Qing dynasty, two gardens are destroyed by the war, Tongzhi six years, Fengzanzhan collects two gardens of mountain stone essence, acquire some stones of Tai Hu, build this garden, begin to take shape with managing for ten years of Tongzhi period. Continue build the pavilions, terraces and open halls, set up the beauty spot, and name it as the beautiful garden. Feng dedicated the garden to the country, laid out into the Jiaxing worker's sanatorium of commissioner's office well from the 10th, 1960 to October of 1961 after liberation. Rebuilt it in 1967, renamed as people's park of Haiyan. Replied the beautiful garden of the name in June of 1985. In front of the beautiful garden is the house, buildings such as three happy halls in existence ,etc.. Hall for a about 90 chi wide two floor,in front and at the back of all courtyard, in door socket at the tile carving decorations last rafter sets of brackets on top of the columns , " bamboo the loose and luxuriant in bud " ,etc. at the horizontal inscribed board at the hall latent So-called " three happy ", until " it is worthy of it to face upward, it is free from shame before people to bow, even happy; The brothers of parents are all here, the second happy too; Gather the talents all over the world and educate it, this the third happy. "Professor ChenCongZhou is written the words for three happy halls. Garden take trees mountain pool as the core, ancient wood reach to the sky, mountain, water, bamboo, wood , drawing room, pavilion, pavilion, bridge, tunnel, fly to roof beam ,etc. overall arrangement exquisite, in picturesque disorder. Water look around with mountain, mountain live with water, take their should each other. Enter the garden as a spacious and bright colored drawing room " one hundred trees " on four sides . water ago the drawing room. Wind drawing room flow to east, pierce through from hole to large pool behind the mountain, the pool in front of the room was put on the shelf and had bridges, contrast finely with the embankment, rockery that face each other across the river, hinder behind the drawing room with the hill, with jagged rocks of grotesque shapes on the mountain, " the beauty looks in the mirror " on a strange stone in the northwest of drawing room, " mirror " person, stone neck office have one round hole, early morning, hole brilliant four efflux smooth like mirror; " beauty " person, a beauty of explaining stone, two beauty of explaining visitor's mood. Visitors appreciate the scenery for instance, the beauty look in the mirror. Water of the pool is bright and limpid like the mirror behind the mountain, there is " chants the pavilion drunk " on the east bank of the pool; The Northwest have " face wave waterside pavilion ", pass Hongqiao to the north along dyke, way turn with the mountain, the ancient rattan crawls, the bamboo pedals one directly , wheel and have, there is " the small latent pavilion " on the mountaintop, is a peak of the whole garden.

>>Floor of misty rain
" misty rain floor " establish in the middle of five generation period, it is jiedu officer Guangling Gongqian Yuanzhen build for step to view, fetch famous poet Du Mu artistic conception of " the Southern Dynasties 480 temple, how many tower be in the rain " to name the Tang Dynasty. Repeatedly destroy and repeatedly build later, by Song Dynasty, already the good name has been raised far, and then already destroyed in the fire, by the 27th year of Jiajing in Ming Dynasty (A.D. 1048 ), the officer of Jiaxing ZhaoYing, gather the person to build city river, transport the soil fill out south lake succeed the ait, rebuild floor of misty rain at the island in accordance with the original appearance in the second year. Misty rain floor building grand, double eaves of two layers, up to more than 30 meters, the ground floor is built with the big bricks and stones, the foundation is firm, the structure is lifted lightly. The previous eaves of floor must have Dong military handwritten " floor of misty rain " and three word banners, pen force is vigorous. Can step on the floor and go to the southeast bank to park a medium-sized pleasure-boat, this is a commemorative ship " the first meeting " of the Communist Party of China. Floor the south leave " angle Ao river cliff" on platform, building the north backyard, rockery stand towering, a group of Yue State's conditions and customs. Institute the west have " treasure plum pavilion ", pavilion have Yuan Dynasty one of four everybody Wu Zhen picture bamboo stone engraving and past dynasties celebrity poem paint the tablet.
Step out west gate reach lakeside long dyke, light step Wanfu bridges go back to watch " floor of misty rain ", fly in the eaves and draw one, simple and unsophisticated and high and great; Lake fine gauze gentle to overflow, poetic and picturesque, misty rain floor here and there face water, wooden Tsing-Hua University of water, cigarette dusk of morning rain, is really too beautiful to be absorbed all at once.

>>A line tide
View and admire place lie in the garden of view the tide which outside of south gate of Yanxu town.
When tide coming, appear one fine rule like silver pale line of silk in the east of Qiantangjiang river, it divide the sky and the water into two half, this white thread is intermittent. A gust of breeze blow, come in come silk silk little patter of rain in one's ear. Soon, white line has been turned into a white silk ribbon and floated slowly, the ones that brush in a period of time gather the patter of rain too with wind.,"The tide will come! "The crowd begins to surge, falls over each other to be crowded, stand on the foot and look far into the distance, it was another scenery that represented before eyes at this moment, the tide is like one and grip the dragon and rise to the sky , swim in the river surface, sometimes dragon's body is hidden into in the river, sometimes the first part and the concluding paragraph is on the river surface, pay get up enormous spray, visitor cheer for it all without exception, come salt officer account for Ao Tamerlan nearby as tidewater, flood dragon parked to rise and fall turn into a white water wall sometimes , go to the other bank directly actually, Form the grand one "pagoda first line of salt officer damply", in a moment, water wall arrive, at the moment, speed along like jokul already, surge ahead, send out the earth-shaken regret of shaking. Mountain is moving, the land is break, people is shake, the river is flying, a soul-stirring scene, make people unforgettable forever. When you sigh over the nature with feeling magically, this enormous tide of welling up has been already from speeding to leave at the moment, leave the turbid wave of whole river that the great wave seethed .

>>The old residence of the Chen 's of Haining
I.e. Qing dynasty prince's power official, gentle deep pool pavilion great scholar, Director of the Board of Rites transferred dragon's former residence to ChenYuanglong, minister of Ministry of worker in Qing Dynasty. It is located in the tile dam of the weir of the salt officer's city, while establishing in later period of Ming Dynasty Chen Yuang's dragon great-grandfather (Chenyuxiang ). After Chen YuanLong reconstructs is as the officer, rebuilt it and expand the scale and change the gate into a bamboo door leaf after visiting the looks, add build " one pair of Qing thatched cottages " and " Jun fragrant hall " again, it is magnificent that there is patio of imperial palace. Chen YuanLong, called Guangling, also called Hanzhan, call the wide prime minister of imperial tomb generation, also call the prime minister in Haining, the prime minister of Qing Dynasty (prime minister ) is also called the pavilion old, so breathe out " the old residence of the Chen 's " vulgarly in its former residence. The mansion of this prime minister of that year, remain the right way sedan-chair drawing room, east concubine's ancestral hall, get into bed floor, one pair of Qing thatched cottages and Jun fragrant hall now. Other " one hundred drawing room ", " love day hall",etc. main building destroy, dethrone already. Have covers an area of more than 4700 square meters, with a construction area of 1100 square meters. The sedan-chair drawing room is the gate of the old residence, bordered on the river northwards, the imposing manner is stern, and came into the building being seen in the gate, all invert and turn towards the south. East road it enters to be getting old ancestral hall that family offer a sacrifice to an ancestor, there are three floors in the south of it, it is the Chen's that puts the getting into bed in the building of people, get into bed and have the high wall to rejected in front of the floor, wall Pi has not been replied today, it is obvious light drawing room three, fit after billows garden abolish, garden have " Jun fragrant hall " horizontal inscribed board transpose Room this, so call it fragrantly with Jun today. There are rockeries several piles in front of the drawing room, several of famous wood, flowing water and first pulse, have song bridge Nantong " pairs of clear thatched cottage " , garden although little and song bridge flowing water, mountain stone grass wood respectively has, the environment is peaceful and refined.

>>Fan LiHu
Wu Yue period one famous historic site, Gou Jian Wang behind the shame that snow can be checked for Fan Li according to legend, go boating in the living in seclusion ground of five lakes together with Xishi. The Fan Li lake is 100 meters long, 15 meters wide, cover an area of 5351 square meters in the park. Garden win with water scenery, Xishi dress and make up every day, incline rouge and powder among the lakes that year according to legend, spiral shell food become the five colours, so lake produce the colored spiral shell. Zhang Yaotong in Song Dynasty is with having poems: " the uncle occupied this, whorl spits the color silk, the mirror is fine in a autumn for Lian, still all right to shine Xishi. "The Fan Li lake has the title of Xishi tomb old, Xishi dies herein according to legend, in the lake of the grave, ZhuYi write down, " fall flower March burying Xishi , lonely shrine , Fan Li of the corner of a city wall , for it Qing Dynasty. If bottom spread spiral shell five color to the limit, lakeside empty to register for network a thousand silk ". Lake northwest bank build ink a high one, i.e. Xishi dressing table, lifts the roof beam type building for the hiproof, original Fan Li and Xishi statue, make up Taibei still have " little shrine Fan uncle " , " float stone 2 of horizontal inscribed board green " at the wall now inside. Dressing table at the Xishi and it is gold penetrating judgment one foot-path at the temple through,Jinming temple set up in the first year of an era the Kaixi years of Southern Song Dynasty (1205), rebuild it in the first year of Zhengtong era (1436 ) of Ming dynasty, have audience three hall, step 10 over of corridor at that time, lake day sea for being good to revitalize one of " all corners of the country " monthly pavilion among them. Remain one audience hall, hard mountaintop building, hall statues such as " passing on a skill and learning to embroider " , " Xishi dresses and makes up " ,etc. are displayed now. There is one octagonal pavilion on the rockery in the audience hall.
Fan LiHu's have many classic's original handwritings, except the stone engraving that the aspect says Wen HuiMing " floats greenly " ,etc., have Wanli of Ming write by Chedaren " free pool ", pool write Guo tablet, groups of " rebuilding record of events inscribed on a tablet at the temple bright at the gold " and Wang Qu of often, JianCheng Tan , ZhenWei Zhang ,etc. the ink marks of classics made old at the money at the time of Qianlong in the Qing Dynasty at the " kilometer at the Zhu at the pottery " With Fan Li lake park city south park 13.533 of area that separate all the way , assign square entry district , ecology visit rest district , aquatic activity region , children's activity region and protect the green bringing area, it is one of the parks of important city of urban area.

>>Wu Zhen
Lie in the junction of two provinces and four cities of Tongxiang and Jiaxing, Huzhou and Wujiang city of Jiangsu province, it is one of the six ancient towns of the south of the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, it is the birthplace of the Maodun of modern literature master of our country. Four old streets of the east , the west , the south , the north where the ancient customs are still deposited present Cross and cross, form pairs of chessboard river street parallel , land and water adjoint ancient town pattern. Local-style dwelling houses residence room of here draw near river and build, residential district both sides have architecture for a large number of Ming and Qing Dynastieses to keep, complement the stone bridge on the river , has reflected graceful bearing of ancient town of the South of small bridge , flowing water , ancient residence . Town the east resolve academy cogon grass shield reading office at the teenager, lay out into the Maodun memorial museum now. The old street of west bar in the town is one of the buildings in intact Ming and Qing Dynasties of our country.

>>The west pool of Jiaxing
West pool is one the south of the lower reaches of the Yangtze River ancient town, locate in the Jiabeng county which is the intersection of Jiangsu and Zhejiang Provinces, Shanghai. The west pool formed the distributing centre since Yuan Dynasty, before liberation, it has been the important commercial market town of the good plain in Hangzhou all the time. Town street Qu build in accordance with river, local-style dwelling houses face water to build, until bridge many, get more, corridor canopy famous for more, it is a sincere , quiet small town with strong graceful bearing of land of rivers and lakes. West pool, ancient name oblique pool , Xu pool, town southeast " lie across the universe Xun " sixth of partials " west pool " name of " oblique pool ". As far back as period in the Spring and Autumn and the Warring states times, this is the bounded of Wu Yue two country, have " whether Wu stick cross the angle " claim. Asth legend, Wu ZiXu has helped the Wu 's to build the water resources in the west pool . There are small bridge , ancient street , stone lane of ancient town of land of rivers and lakes now in the west pool , there is its unique township musical sound . The local-style dwelling houses of west pool were mostly built in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, three , five is extremely usually , it is not rare that six , seven, have residence link to each other, form scene of " rainy day can't wet shoes, walk in the household all the same". Imposing dwelling and spacious courtyards at the these "before river street later "or "before river later for street ",more lane open-air institute between residence. The statistics show, there is the whole town lane different in size amounts to 122, among them one hectometre of residences of the above makes 5. Deep and serene narrow a long one these small alley, add for west pool simple and unsophisticated and mysteriously. Most characteristic one in the open small alley is to be " whether stone skin alley ", take shape in the Jiajing Year of Ming Dynasty, it is one small alley among the Wang descendants' house family in the town. The alley is 68 meter long, most narrow place only 0.8 meter wide, one " one cross alley ". " whether stone skin alley " spread level get the surface , under the slabstone is the escape canal 168 book slabstone of book. Get both sides the very high residence wall small, because is old, the wall has been already variegated, let people immerse in simple and unsophisticated history.
The " kinds of good fortune hall" of east of alley is keeps to be comparatively intact ancient local-style dwelling houses one of press down at present. It is Wang Yuan's descendants' house in Song Dynasty. As the legend, Wangyuan with Zhaogou who is the king of Song get to south river.In last years of Yuan Dynasty, horbored and revitalized well in order to avoid the chaos caused by war, and then migrated to the peaceful and peaceful west pool town again. " one kind of good fortune halls" build in the period of Kangxi period of Qing Dynasty. this house have seven parts, it is the stall of " one kind of good fortune halls " that the third part, have two " get fully " respectively of east and west. The arch over a gate of tile carving opposite to the stall is the intact ancient arch over a gate. It carve arch over a gate " blue , stones , bamboos , chrysanthemums " and "link, with, collecting, good fortune" word carve, not only demonstrate the faith of everybody's magnificent and host of rich and influential family but also make the whole small courtyard demonstrate the happy and auspicious atmosphere.
The corridor canopy is a extension in the shop house along the street, in fact take the street on the roof. It is a great characteristic of the west pool . In the past, west pool side street path of town have corridor canopy cover, make the going to market buying and selling, pedestrian's passing bitterness not exposed to the sun and rain. Carrying " one is drowning " of the corridor canopy, there is " two falls into water ", there is overhead building projection too. In the past, west pool town such a corridor canopy for several, keep a best one towards south Dai, tower gulf street commercial downtown area in ancient times now, the flagstone path wonder frank to cross celebrity bachelor, merchant farmer and pedestrian visitor too much. Cook Hong Kong west one characteristic destination of pool, west pool people call " Hong Kong ", it is in fact that " lane " word adds three water, mean " water lane ". There are dozens of in such a " water lane " in the ancient town, for example " the Zhu's harbour " , " meal bamboo basket harbour " , " craftsman's harbour of the cellar " , " harbour of 5 kilometers " , " coming to phoenix's harbour " etc.. Especially on New Year's Day and other festivals, villagers come to west pool to burn joss sticks, catch the temple fair near the various year such as ship, the small river ship connect ship, people crowd people is lively and outstanding. So, the brook is " burns Hong Kong " by name. There is a beautiful human cultural sight in the west pool, but also there are strong culture atmospheres, Yuan Dynasty WeiShan Qian, poet of Qiantang, famous poet high to open, get west pool seek deep and remote to visit anciently the beginning of Ming Dynasty and the end of Yuan Dynasty. Reached during 427 years in Qing Dynasty on the Ming Dynasty, is it surnamed the recorded JInshi 19 , 31 successful candidates. Liuyazi whois the poet of WuJiang come west pool and person hereinbefore of town , recite a poem and gather friends many times, there are 18 scholars who participates in south society of the west pool. West pool people like lute-playing, chess, calligraphy and painting, raise bird cultivate flowers from generation to generation. Moreover, the people are simple, honest and unspoiled in the town of west pool, the people of west pool are hospitable, no matter which piece you come into light to get or how many light courtyards, you will experience culture ancient town those unique cultural characteristics by a thousand.

>>West Garden
West Garden of West pool come from Liuyazi imitate Huangtingjian and so on person , invite friend recite a poem joyous song in west pool little courtyard, have a picture taken as a memento name " whether two West Garden refined to collect pursuing " matter. Present West Garden is the newly-built park in 1993, it is even nothing but the exhibition hall of south society to have another West Garden, south society recite a poem originally all, The expression of Liuyazi already been yellowing photo too. However, in cultural history of the west pool, the gentleman of Liuyazi is a personage making a strong impact. Now have " whether bright red read kind covering of a fan calligraphy odeum " , " whether one hundred print hall " , " south society showroom " exhibition room in the garden. Real West Garden built it on the Ming Dynasty by the exhibition hall of south society today, it is the largest private garden in history of west pool in fact, simple, there is not any magnificent place . The host is surnamed Ke, there are several generations of scholars in history , left a lot of poems for West Garden.

>>The long corridor of misty rain
The rain corridor (corridor canopy ) of the west pool is the unique building in the south of the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, and a unique scenery in the ancient town. What is called rain corridor, street that area carried in fact. West corridor of pool canopy together unique to invite graceful bearing absorb Chinese and foreign visitors while being tall and erect. West street of pool have corridor canopy cover mostly, make businessman trade, pedestrian passing to have expose to the sun and rain worried. There is a long chair of back along the river and some sea of one side in the corridor canopy, for pedestrians to have a rest. Corridor canopy mostly brick timber structure, generally 2-2.5 meter wide, concentrate on north bar street , south bar street, towards shopping centers such as south Dai ,etc., always have 1000 meters , can both sunshade and take shelter from rain . The most characteristic, are those bordering on the river, at the very quiet moment at dawn and dusk, stroll under the corridor canopy, only there is some very nostalgic mood in one's own heartbeat sound. Towards the corridor canopy of south Dai, last a century, the dark tile of whitewashed wall of two sides, shade sink to river in front of the door, blow a gust of wind, light to the limit like wet on quiet shadow come loose black. Assume , rest on fence to be silent to wait for window moon reflect water , can think of in the past. Prediction of a person's luck in a given year like water, south society all friend poem under corridor wine happy, enter descendant talk and laugh early. Think of its skill, can't help admiring the room to revitalize and sigh.

>>The mountain travel resort of Kowloon
Lie in the east head of Zhapu ancient city of Pinghu city, it is the Hangzhou gulf exit, east of " eastern Dagang District " of Zhapu, border on the sea in the south, connect with the plain in the north, the mountains and sea are caused, the natural scenery that and concurrently it is blue and green to hold the mountain, wide in the sea, the forest is deep and remote, the border is beautiful, and abundant human cultural sight, mountain, sea, island, beach are complete, natural scenery and human cultural sight are alternate, modern project and characteristic that historic site coexist, have " spread eight scene Pu ", " refined mountain ten scene ", " old mountain 8 scenes " saying once old times, today is classified as the national-level Forest Park by national Ministry of Forestry. In the gulf of Dongsha in the eastern section of scenic spot of Kowloon mountain, have built up sea bank outdoor bathing place the most of Jiangsu and Zhejiang Provinces, Shanghai area - -Mountain bathing beach of Kowloon. This outdoor bathing place carries and depends on the green hill, the sea in the south, is enclosed with hills on three sides, similar to the crescent, total length of seabeach is more than 1500 meters, sandy and hard and net , called " iron plate sand " in history, area, district of bath, up to 500,000 over, can hold visitor 20,000 more than people at the same time. Unless head south on it is at bathing beach, it is last mountain mere glans penis mountain at the sea wind not to have, by in accordance with one mountain Pu outside that separates of gorge, in mountain as dominant hue by pinewood and masson pine dark in vegetation,among there is Chinese sweet gum fragrant, ginkgo, camphor tree fragrant, leave Qing Dynasty in the ancient cypress, ancient camphor tree, the courtyard old site of general top while having.

>>Mo's garden
the Mo's garden lie in the east head of south river of Danghu town of Pinghu city, establish in Guangxu 23 years (1897 ) of Qing dynasty, go through will it be spring and autumn three year, cost 100,000 two silver, and then inform and complete. It was the latter stage of Qing Dynasty the landlord put in the large-scale closed ancient buildings of local-style dwelling houses where the three generations of grandparent and grandchild of plum lived . Cover an area of 4800 square meters in the manor, with a construction area of 2600 square meters, more than 70 houses. To three group in ensemble architecture four enter, overall arrangement the intact, streamline the happy, about and symmetrical, before and after the straggly, unless it and can't follow face south, the ancient to make when bordering on the river along the street, and according to before get into bed hall later pattern traditional arrange. At the east, in, entrance hall, ancestral hall, accountant, spend drawing room, family hall for worshipping Buddha, kitchen the west three piece sequentially from south to north at axis; Sedan-chair drawing room, stall, retreating in the drawing room, hall balcony (including the bedroom and woman drawing room ); Study , bedroom and so on. Three gardens are straggly during that time, fist stone spoon water, move heaven contract place. Flowers and trees, pond, meander, lake stone all become small scene, poetic and picturesque, make people pleasing. All single building adopt, wear type of fighting and lift roof beam roof beam sets of structure separately, mix with featured by exquisite carving roof beam eaves component and magnificent changeable corridor hang, fall, sew it with the woodcut with consummate craft , with fine and smooth skill in using a kitchen knife in cookery, tile carving ,etc., the plot is ingenious , contrast finely with, reflect the beauty of the Chinese ancient building. On the furnishings, collect the furniture, calligraphy and painting, ware, antique in a stove even more, condense the cultural quintessence in the South. Stay during that time, is like product precious tender tea leaves of good wine, leave a lasting and pleasant impression or aftertaste, make visitors in ecstasies, happy and does not think of returning to !