The beauty of Jiangnan has been passed down from ancient times as it remains a popular place to hit for traveling. Jiangnan has always been a beautiful place given by people. Not only is there a lot of talents, but also a lot of beautiful women. Tangxi Ancient Town is located in Jiashan County, Jiaxing City, Zhejiang Province, at the junction of Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai, 11 kilometers from Jiashan County. It is an ancient town with thousands of years of history and culture. As early as in the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods, it was the crossroads of Wu-Yue and China. Therefore, it is called "five Yuejiao" and "Yue Shark's House". It is one of the birthplaces of the ancient Wu-Yue culture and one of the six major ancient towns in Jiangnan. Xitang is the most popular of the six major ancient towns in Jiangnan, and is known as a living thousand-year old town. The biggest difference between Xitang and other water towns is that the streets of the ancient town near the river are covered with corridors and sheds, with a total length of nearly one thousand meters, just like the corridors of the Summer Palace. When traveling in Xitang, you can't get wet on a rainy day and can't get sun on a sunny day.

Arrival and Departure

Xitang is located in Jiashan County, Jiaxing City, Zhejiang Province. There is no airport or train station in the county. Visitors who fly can take the airports in Hangzhou and Shanghai. Trains and buses can go to Jiashan first and then transfer to Xitang by bus, which takes about 20 minutes. From Shanghai to Xitang, you need to take a bus at Shanghai South Railway Station or Bus Terminal, which takes about 2 hours. From Hangzhou to Xitang, you need to take a bus at Jiubao Bus Center, which takes about 2 hours. The interior of Tangxi Ancient Town is mainly for walking, or you can take a wooden boat tour.

Type of attraction: country

Best season: March-April is the best. Spring is the best time to visit Xitang. April in Jiangnan is drizzly. It is very pleasant to walk around Xitang in the rain and enjoy the cherry blossoms. Xitang is hot in summer, but walking in the smoky rain promenade can protect you from the sun, and you can also taste the special product "June Crab" which is only available at this time. In the fall, Xitang is a place of fragrant osmanthus blossoms, where you can experience the tranquility of autumn. In Xitang, winter has its own flavor, and you can experience the taste of Spring Festival in the ancient town with the water townspeople.

Suggested playing time: 2-3 days

Admission: 100.00 yuan (including 11 small attractions in the ancient town)

Opening time: all day. Opening hours: Monday to Friday 07:30~17:30, Saturday to Sunday 07:30~18:30.

Address: Tangxi Town, Jiashan County, Jiaxing City, Zhejiang Province

Tel: 0573-84567890

About the food

,000 years of farming civilization and the Xitang people's indifferent habits have created a simple local food culture. The food in Xitang is delicious and healthy. Xitang water town is naturally made of aquatic products, and the dishes are generally small and delicate, with both sweet and salty flavors. The specialties of Xitang include steamed white silk fish and dragon claws. Stinky tofu and gravy cakes are also popular among tourists. Most of the hotels in Xitang are concentrated near Beijie Street, featuring local specialties and costing about 40 yuan per person. Famous restaurants include Yijiangnan, Xiangtang and Lao Pinfang.

About Shopping

Shopping in Xitang is based on local specialties and handicrafts with local flavor. Some of the specialty snacks in Xitang, such as Gorgon fruit cake, Bazhen cake, yellow wine, and so on. Can take home. Of course, many handicrafts are also preferred for shopping. All the stores in the ancient town scenic area have a variety of things for sale, you can choose what you like, and there are many shopping malls outside the scenic area.

1. Eight Precious Cakes

The Eight Precious Cakes are made of eight kinds of herbs, including yam, poria, fructus, rice kernel, wheat teeth, lentil, lotus seed meat and hawthorn. With glutinous rice flour and white sugar. With black crispy pastry and sweet flavor, it has become a famous Jiangnan pastry. Compared with the taste of western-style pastries, the flavor of traditional Jiangnan pastries is more pure and primitive. They are sold in food stores inside and outside the scenic area, so you can taste them before you buy them. If you like them, you can take more home.

2. Jiashan Yellow Wine

Xitang people like to drink yellow wine when they have something to drink. Therefore

When you visit the old town, you can buy a blue calico scarf, which you can put around your shoulders to keep out the cold at night, or you can decorate it with your clothes. Or buy a fan made of blue calico, ornaments and so on. Blue calico comes in many styles, is sturdy and durable, and exudes a classic look. If you like it, bring it with you.

4. Handmade souvenirs

Tangxi scenic area of the town of all kinds of small stores, notebooks, postcards and other special souvenirs, but also with ethnic characteristics of the bell, satchel and other decorative items, is the arts and crafts of the small fresh shopping paradise.

:Xitang scenic spot shopping good place

Xitang scenic spot has a lot of stores, each store will have specialized clothing, handmade arts and crafts, decorations, souvenirs and other items for sale. There are also some famous specialty food stores, such as the Hifutang Food Factory, Ah Niu Steamed Meat Pavilion, Malao Steamed Meat Pavilion and Xiangfu Dumpling Square. All these can provide a place to implement your shopping plan and remind everyone to watch their pockets when shopping.

Post Road outside Xitang Scenic Spot - No. Shopping Street

There are many supermarkets on Post Road in Tangxi Town, such as Nonggongshang Supermarket, Century Lianhua, Pacific Mall and Golden Paris Mall. These malls are shopping places frequented by locals and also have some souvenirs for sale at clearly marked prices, so they are recommended shopping places.

I. Special Events

The town's entertainment, if colorful and complete, is not comparable to that of big cities, but the water town has its own elegance and charm. In addition to the regular movie theaters, video halls and dance halls in the scenic area, there are also Fuyoujulou Cultural Club, Chenjia Old House Bar, Red Pavilion Bar, Follow the Fate ZhuXiao Bar and Langqiao Dream Bar. The three scenic spots of the West Garden, Button Pavilion and Zhang Qiang Root Carving Pavilion will also feature activities such as "Jiangnan Silk and Bamboo" and "Water Town Society Opera".

1. Cruise ship

Take a boat to Xitang at night, see the red lanterns on both sides of the river, the crowd, the combination of fashion and classical. In the river at night, you can also put various sizes of lotus lanterns, very interesting. Xitang Night Cruise is open on weekends and holidays until 20:30 p.m. For more information, please contact the cruise terminal in Tangxi Ancient Town.

2. Meet at a bar

Xitang also has a bar street (Dongtang Street), which is ancient and modern. It's not like the nightlife in the city. There are drunk people everywhere. It's very simple here. A guitar and a keyboard is enough.

All the way along the bar street, bar after bar, red lanterns and piles of bottles of wine hang in front of each house, and all sorts of provocative words adorn the outside walls. Red Yard, Half Point, Tang Dynasty, West Wind Thin Horse, Days of Our Lives, Xitang, there are lots of names, but they all seem to be a bit homogenized. Most of them are singers playing and singing familiar songs. Of course, guests can also sing themselves, much better than karaoke with accompaniment.

3. Discharge tubes

Lighting river lanterns has always been a reserved activity in Xitang on auspicious days. Nearly a thousand water lanterns of different shapes and sizes dot the water surface of Xitang, changing the scenery and adding brilliant colors to Xitang. Each river lamp has a wish, and is one of the most fascinating landscapes in Xitang at night, mirroring the red lanterns dotted under the curved thousand-meter corridor trellis.

Second, special festivals

1. Visiting the sanctuary

Every year, the Spring Festival's "Worship of the Sacred Hall" is very busy. Starting from the 15th Lantern Festival in the first month of Chinese New Year, people from the town and the neighborhood come to the sanctuary to burn incense and pray for blessings. Makeshift toys, stalls, and various kinds of juggling activities are concentrated here. On the fourth day of the first month, stores "receive the road" and "exchange Yuanbao," and there are also lion dances, playing lotus incense and other activities that make the festival lively.

Time: Spring Festival to Lantern Festival

Location: temples and surrounding streets

2. Temple Fair

The third day of the fourth month of the lunar calendar is the temple fair in Xitang. At that time, there will be various stalls on the street selling local specialties and various items, and the crowd will be very lively. All the streets in the town will be filled with azaleas for the gods, and flower lovers will visit and admire the azaleas and exchange skills.

When: the third day of the fourth lunar month.

Where: Tangxi Town

: Local Events and Festivals

1. People from the north who come to Xitang for the first time may not be used to the humidity. It's hot in summer and cold in winter

3. I'm too lazy to remember the route of Xitang scenic spot. Xitang is really not big, the main attractions on both sides of the river. Walking along the river can naturally turn there.

4. Xitang tour is best to stay overnight. The biggest features of the ancient town are in the early morning, dusk and night. You may want to visit the corridor bridge at night. The light riverside and the red lanterns hanging high will surely give you an unforgettable feeling.

5. You can hire a rickshaw as a tour guide in Tangxi Ancient Town. Bicycle riders are both drivers and tour guides, and also know a lot of private attractions, which may bring you unexpected benefits. The rickshaw is about 15 yuan, the offer is high or increase the price in the middle, do not sit.

: Playing tips

1. Classic one-day tour

Tour highlights: both the beauty and humanity.

Come to Tangxi Ancient Town, walk through the corridors and sheds, walk through the longest stone-skinned alley, bypass the kind of praying hall, and finally see the West Garden, a house with Jiangnan characteristics.

D1 Zhang Qiang Root Carving Museum Anjing Bridge Burning Harbor Mud Village Tangsheng Yuyan Promenade Drunken Garden Huanxiu Bridge Shippi Lane Zhongfu Hall Xiyuan Button Museum

Arrive at Xitang scenic spot in the morning, and enter the scenic spot from Jijia Lane near the second parking lot. First, visit Zhangqian Root Sculpture Museum to savor the art of root sculpture. Walk out of the Root Carving Museum to West Street, where you can see Anjing Bridge. Rest on Anjing Bridge overlooking the whole river pond. Walk east along Back West Street and burn Hong Kong. There are two attractions nearby, Mud Zhai and Tang Sheng, where you can admire the ancient dwellings and temples of Jiangnan. After returning to Dongtang Street on the same route, continue north until Anxiu Bridge.

After crossing Anxiu Bridge, you will arrive at the Smoke and Rain Promenade. This is a busy area with the ancient charm of small bridges and flowing homes extended. By this time, my stomach was growling. There are many snacks and restaurants along the nearby river, so you can have a nice meal and take a nap by the river.

After lunch, stroll along the promenade to the Drunken Garden and finally cross the Huanxiu Bridge to turn back to West Street. There are four attractions on West Street, namely Shippi Lane, Zhongfu Hall, Xiyuan, the Button Museum, and finally back to the second parking lot.

Dining: There are many Xitang delicacies near Yuyan Pedestrian Street, such as steamed white silk fish and lake crabs. There are also dishes such as dragon's hooves, June red, and chaotic old duck casserole, as well as specialty pastries such as Pat Zhen Cake.

Accommodation: Xitang accommodation is good. Most of the scenic spots are private hotels, and rooms near the water will be much more expensive, ranging from 200-300 yuan. However, the rooms not facing the water are not far from the core street and are also quieter, with prices ranging from 100-200 yuan.

2. Classic two-day tour

Two days is the best time to visit the small town of Xitang in Jiangnan, stroll through the Individual Museum, turn the bar street high, stroll through the ten-mile promenade and walk into the Jiangnan gardens. This route is suitable for lively foodies.

D1 Zhang争根雕博物馆纽扣博物馆安靖桥焚香港泥寨圣庙

Arrive at Xitang scenic spot in the morning and enter the scenic spot from Jijiaxiang. First of all, visit Zhang Qiang Root Carving Museum and Button Museum, and take a master handmade shell buttons as souvenirs. After leaving the museum, walk along West Main Street across Anjing Bridge and take a break, then head east to Fiery Hong Kong to savor the cultural heritage of the Ni Mansion and the Sacred Temple in the Annex. After turning back to Dongtang Street on the same route, it was getting late, so I chose to stay at an inn near Dongtang Street. Dongtang Street is a famous bar street, so enjoy yourself.

Dining: There is a lot of food in Dongtang Street, you can go to Songzhi Deyue Lou to taste the authentic Xitang dishes, such as braised eel and carp, fried eel rot, steamed white silk fish, Songzhi dragon's hooves, etc.

Accommodation: It is recommended to stay in the old town, you can enjoy the night view. Rooms near the water may be more expensive, about 200-300 yuan.

D2 Smoke and Rain Promenade Drunken Garden Huanxiu Bridge Shippi Lane Zhongfutang Xiyuan

After a night of high fun, enjoy a beautiful lazy sleep until noon. Have some Xitang food at Dongtang Street or nearby West Street. Don't eat too much. Stay in your stomach or you will regret it. Then go straight to the bustling Smokey Road, sneak along the building, sweep the streets with snacks until you get drunk, and finally turn back through Huanx

Travel highlights: literature, romance. Xitang is not big, but suitable for a long stay. It is characterized by "many bridges, many alleys, many corridors and shacks". It's a great way to savor the experience. This route is suitable for literary youth who love small freshness and romance.

D1Zhangqian Root Carving Museum Button Museum Anjing Bridge Burning Hong Kong Mud Zhai Temple

Arriving at Xitang Scenic Area in the morning, you can see a series of folk collections, such as root carving, buttons, and wadangs as soon as you enter the door. Afterwards, you can take your time to stroll around Xitang Street, eat food and see the beautiful scenery. Walk across the Anjing Bridge and find a teahouse with a burning harbor to drive for a while. Stay on Dongtang Street as Ni Mansion and Tang Sheng, and fall asleep at night listening to the slow rock of the bar.

Dining: Xitang West Street has a lot of snacks, stinky tofu, small wontons, soup dumplings and so on. You can find a small restaurant, try the authentic Xitang snacks.

Lodging: live in Xitang scenic Dongtang Street neighborhood. You can listen to the slow rocking sound of the bar at night.

Wolong Bridge Yongning Bridge Yuyan Corridor Songzi Laifeng Bridge Drunken Garden Grain King Temple Protectorate.

Wake up early in the morning to experience the morning light of Xitang, walk along Dongtang Street on your way south, cross Wolong Bridge and walk back, buy some stinky tofu and bean flowers on the street for breakfast. Cross Beijie Street and ascend Yongning Bridge, taking in the small buildings and stilted horse-head walls. There are also people sketching along the river, which also blends into the scenery. Then take a stroll along the Smoke and Rain Promenade, with all kinds of snacks and specialty stores coming in and out.

There are many restaurants along the river. After lunch, we will go to Songzi Laifeng Bridge, a cruise terminal. You might as well take a tent boat for the trip. Then we will visit the Drunken Garden and the Valley King Protectorate Temple.

After dinner, the main event comes, a sultry night in Xitang. Put on the river lanterns, watch the social opera near the promenade and listen to the field songs. If the mood strikes you, you can take another boat trip. You can have it all near Suxi Street, such as the shadow of the lamps, the moonlight, the arch bridge and the promenade.

Dining: There are many restaurants near Yuyan Pedestrian Street, where you can taste Xitang's home cooking.

Accommodation: Inn near Suxi Street, take an evening walk along the river to enjoy the night view, light up the river lanterns, and listen to the social opera "Field Song".

D3 Huanxiu Bridge Shipi Lane Zhongfutang Xiyuan Five Girls Theme Park

On your last day, you can take a leisurely stroll along Xijie Street, where there are still plenty of food and handicrafts. You can walk through the alleys and stroll through the old houses. If you are interested in the houses, you can stop by the Xiyuan, Wang Mansion and Xue Mansion on West Street to see the ancient colors. After lunch, leave the scenic area through the main gate and go for a walk to the Five Girls' Park near the scenic ticket center. Before leaving Xitang, don't forget to go to the supermarket on Post Road to buy some yellow wine and eight precious cakes for your family, and embark on your way home with the flavor of Jiangnan.

Dining: There are a lot of restaurants and noodle shops in the neighborhood of West Street. You can choose a restaurant with good reputation to taste authentic Xitang dishes, such as dragon claw, steamed white silk fish, wontons, old duck pot and so on.