China's First Water Township: Zhouzhuang

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Zhouzhuang is located in the southwestern corner of Kunshan City, at the junction of Wujiang, Wuxian and Qingpu County in Shanghai. It is surrounded by Chenghu, Changbaidang, Dianshan Lake, Termite Lake and Nanhu Lake. It is a veritable "island town". In the first year of the Northern Song Dynasty Yuan Tuo(1086), Zhoudigonglang set up a village here, and later the house was Quan(all) Fu Temple, which was called Zhouzhuang. It has been in use for more than 900 years. Zhouzhuang is characterized by the fact that the town is Zeguo, surrounded by water, and the harbors are different. The lakes and rivers are connected and close to each other. The "well" shaped river in the town runs through the town and forms eight long streets. There are dozens of stone bridges in the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties. They were built in the Fu'an Bridge of the Yuan Dynasty. There is a vertical corner of the eaves on each of the four nights. Decorative rich pavilions, It is the only remaining bridge building in Jiangnan.
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The scenery of Zhouzhuang alone is red and green, and the spring is bleak. It is known as the "thousand year old town of China's first water town" and it has set off a spring wave of travel. In summer, Zhouzhuang is beautiful and beautiful. When people set foot in the 0.47 square kilometers of the ancient town area, the charming scenery of "Little Bridge, Running Water, and People" came into view. The banks of the Qinglong Bridge fell on the banks of the river. Through the simple and elegant Taiping Bridge, one can see the small wooden boats that are slowly approaching, and the Wunong language that speaks beautifully. On the famous "double bridge" at home and abroad, painters from afar are painting. Zhou Zhuang's grass, wood, boat, bridge, and street, all can be painted, become a vivid watercolor painting.
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Zhouzhuang is the hometown of water. "The town is Zeguo, surrounded by water and close to each other, all must be in the boat." Zhouzhuang Bishui 3,000, if the boat is a flowing note, then a simple and elegant stone arch bridge is the most harmonious melody, the bridge because of the boat, the boat for the bridge. Tour Zhouzhuang Reward Double Bridge can not forget Chen Yifei. It is Chen Yifei's famous painting "Double Bridge" that allows people outside to find Zhouzhuang in the world. Zhouzhuang has such a great reputation today. These, the stele of the bridge, the curving wooden oars, were stirred, one by one, in the water, and the stone bridges, the houses, the shadows of the trees, and the clouds and birds of the sky, which were reflected in the water, were all shattered by the slow wooden oars. Broken into a gorgeous point of light, blurred and flashing, like a long colored silk in the wind, no one can describe its dazzling pattern ...
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"Jun went to Gusu to see him, and people slept in the river. The ancient palace is idle and there are many small bridges in the water lane. "How many bridges are there in Zhouzhuang, I am not sure, but in the total stone bridge of Zhouzhuang Linlin, the most distinctive is the double bridge. It is made up of a stone arch bridge and a Shiliangqiao. It looks very unique, one vertical, one side and one round. Because it is shaped like the key used by the ancients, it is also called the "key bridge." Looking at Zhouzhuang from a height, the lake just encircled Zhouzhuang. The lake ripples slowly, although there is no river's rushing, the sea's fickle, but it has its unique taste. On the lake, a boat was drawn, and the powerful arms and the rhythmic squeaks of the boat and the lake water were intertwined into a love song.
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Zhouzhuang, which is composed of a powder wall and a small bridge, and Zhouzhuang, which is woven and connected by the boat, is a kind of Zen environment. It is a home of the spirit of materialization. It always gives people a feeling of Anningheping and makes people think of anything. Let people spread the accumulation of the heart, feel comfortable and pleasant.
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What is more poetic than boating in the river in Zhouzhuang? The small wooden boat glided slowly through the narrow river, and the arched bridges passed one after another overhead. Zhenfeng Bridge, Fu'an Bridge, Shuangqiao ... The ancient stone bridge, one has a shape, one has a style, crossed a bridge, and a landscape was changed. Pedestrians standing on the bridge looked down at the boat in the river, and the passengers on the boat looked up at the people on the bridge. They were not tired of looking at each other. The sight of both sides was moving.

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