? Several years did not go to Jiaxing, to visit his wife and sisters and brothers, sisterly love, my lover often nagging in front of me, is very nostalgic. Our trip is a two-way street, one is to visit them, see for themselves the current family business and living conditions, the second is to go to Jiaxing's famous scenic spots to take a walk.
? The first time I saw them was when I was in the city, and the second time I saw them was when I was in the city. In the daytime, we will have tea at our sister-in-law's house and talk about family matters.
? The sun is going down, the three families all set out, together with a proud car battery car, to not far away from the town of Shuangqiao, in the highway side of a private restaurant to eat a reunion dinner. Wife and siblings are very polite, ten or so adults and children to eat, but all of a sudden ordered a large table full of small dishes, more than thirty pots of food, are dishes with local specialties, pots a large number of feet, this time, please we must have spent a lot of money. Large dishes are braised pig's feet, steamed river eel, fried beef steak, braised eel, steamed guppy, braised turtle block, chicken soup, Jiaxing Wenhuo sauce duck, white chicken and so on. Most of the meat dishes, Jiaxing food and our Huzhou food is similar, similar, the flavor is good, just a little spicy. We sit around together, very happy, while drinking drinks, chatting, talking to each other very happy, there are endless words, say endless parents.
? The world does not have a feast that does not end. After dinner, we shook hands and said goodbye, his wife's brother with a small car to drive us to the city of Jiaxing overnight, that night our family in the Moon River Bridge southeast of a hotel accommodation.
? After dark, the family went to the neighborhood of the big commercial street to walk around and look around. Jiaxing neighborhood architecture is luxurious, the street is wide and clean, the commercial buildings are prosperous and grand, shopping night market is quite a lot of people, restaurants are crowded, eaters are surprisingly many. My brother-in-law told me that Jiaxing people are especially conscientious about food and clothing, especially like to eat on the street casserole pots, night often take loved ones to stroll through the commercial buildings, colorful life, like consumer shopping. There are many young men and women here, dressed with our Huzhou people, women love to dress up, dress beautiful and bright, men dressed generously, suave and dashing. I see than the usual Shanghai street pedestrians also wear good, wear fashion.
On the morning of April 7, the temperature in Jiaxing plummeted, and that time I went out because I didn't have more clothes, and I wore less, and I felt that the weather was especially cold. Estimated that the wind at the South Lake is certainly more windy, we do not dare to go to the South Lake side of Jiaxing to play, beat the drum.
? From the hotel out, by the way to go in the side of a small restaurant, eat Jiaxing famous breakfast. Then the family will have no choice but to go not far away from the Yuehe old neighborhood walk. Walking through a long corridor bridge, I saw the bridge side of a big stone, engraved with "Moon River" two big red characters, turn the corner and walk down dozens of steps, into the scenic area. This ancient street imported at the house is very beautiful, flying eaves and corners, here side tour, do not charge admission.
? Yuehe old street and our hometown of Zhujiaba ancient house to create the same style, small bridges and water, pillow water habitat, porch chairs, stone qiaokou, wooden boat, riverside trees, bonsai hanging color, stone masonry bank, water village scenery is particularly rich and simple, and here really can be compared with the Wuzhen town and Nanxun.
It is said that the ancient town of Moon River is the original transformation of the old residence, the total area of about 90,000 square meters, is the government invested more than 400 million yuan to create a human history, cultural recreation and livability of the ancient town of tourism. There are two large north-south roads on the east and west sides, and the transportation is very convenient. Scenic area south of the Grand Canal (Ring City River), within the Riyue River, outside the Moon River, the neighborhood is divided into a well-organized atmosphere, neat and tidy. On both sides of the old green stone road, stores of all kinds stand, with carved beams, different plaques and ancient atmosphere. A connected to that household, this store according to that store. There are selling snacks, there are selling local specialties, there are also selling handicrafts, take art photos, store store has characteristics, home furnishings beautiful.
? Raise your eyes and look around, look at the street alley, each give you a different visual enjoyment, very childhood feeling, as if back to the childhood scene. There are familiar memories, there are scattered houses, small lanes, stone bridges, walled halls, horse-head walls, wells, stone mortars, wooden boats, and the reflection of the houses and trees in the water. Rippling waves, ripples Fen Street, delicate and touching. Here is a bit like Linghu's oil car pool, as if into the Huzhou clothes street, as if in Nanxun, in Wuzhen, in Tongli, in Xitang, in Luzhi, in Mudu, in the new city ......; small bridges, water, living by the water, white walls, brick and wooden buildings, boat sculling, willow, the beauty of the chairs... ... Everything in front of you will make you seem to instantly traveled to the past, this is not the precipitation of the years, or I am sleepwalking?
Here the traditional Jiangnan water township residential water-based situation, the ancient streets and alleys winding, winding, criss-crossed, covered with the wheel of history and the vicissitudes of life. Wooden buildings and windows, stone gangs, small rivers, old stone bridges, narrow lanes, old-style homes, corridors and so on, all show a strong water town style, everywhere reflecting the old Jiaxing as the "Jiangnan capital city" of prosperity.
The wide Moon River is a small tributary of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal. Built alongside the river and the Moon River Street, according to the Qing Guangxu "Jiaxing Prefecture" records, the river holds the city, bent like the moon, so the name. Yuehe Ancient Town is now the most well-preserved, largest, most reflective of China's Jiangnan water town characteristics of the late Qing Dynasty and the early Civil War architectural complex.
? The center street of Yuehe Ancient Town is the most prosperous. On both sides of the street stores, merchants gathered, the most popular, especially more tourists. People crowded, noisy. The street brings together Jiahe Water Stage, Dragon Boat Festival Folk Culture Experience Museum, Jiaxing Dumpling Culture Museum, Pottery Culture Experience Museum, Old Xianghe Silver House, Bird and Flower Workshop, Goldfish Pond and so on.
? In the scene of a large stone plaza, there are many tourists flocking together, this side of a pile, that side of a piece, we are watching the fun. I was curious to get closer to see, there are seven or eight craftsmen, under the eaves of their own shed, hands and feet to do things. Some are doing to buy malt candy, there are in the pinch face the Monkey King, Pigsy, the Tang Monk, there are blowing sugar people in the do the mouse to steal oil; there are also doing cotton candy, with a long calabash leaves pulling the hand-knit animals and so on, traditional skills, attracting a lot of big and small tourists here to watch and buy. We stayed there for a long time. My grandson had never seen it before, so I accompanied him to see the strange things. My daughter bought a dragon made of sugar syrup and a horse made of sugar. My grandson was so happy that he couldn't hold it in his hand and couldn't eat it. These old crafts, when I was a child, I used to go to the street on New Year's Day, and I could see them from time to time. Now he has not seen for many years, in this side to see so many at once, very rare, very rare.
Stroll through the ancient town, go inside, but also saw the shadow theater, teahouse restaurant, commentary bookstore, flower and bird market, antique market, Rihe style, Xiu Shui Tou fountain and so on. There are many things to see, the tourists. Meandering in the scenic area of the winding alley, style, unknowingly, the family in the old neighborhood lingering viewing half a day.
Around noon, the family reluctantly left the Yuehe Street scenic area, to the south side of the river on Huating Street, to enjoy Jiaxing's food - Tongxiang pot, or daughter son-in-law to pay the bill, a *** spent more than two hundred dollars.
Tongxiang pot is the intangible cultural heritage of Jiaxing City, Zhejiang Province, is the traditional famous food of Tongxiang City. It is favored for its unique taste of numbness, spiciness, freshness and aroma. The main ingredients in the casserole are prawns, chicken claws, crabs, Chinese cabbage, winter melon, potatoes, dried cabbage and so on. Tongxiang pot taste delicious, salty and light, nutritionally balanced, and by the people around Jiangsu and Zhejiang, but also Jiaxing people's favorite. Tongxiang pot cooking method is not the same as Chongqing hot pot, hot pot is cooked while eating, and Tongxiang pot is a chef with good ingredients, cooked over high heat, served on the table, you can use chopsticks to eat.
? A big pot full of Tongxiang pot, enough to our side of the two big scalding bowl of food, something surprisingly much, the flavor is particularly delicious. It was the first time both my lover and I had seen and tasted this kind of food for the first time. Before ordering, we asked the owner of the store not to put spicy. The flavor was still appropriate and the family had a great meal. Such a pot of Tongxiang pot, five people let go of their stomachs to eat, still can not finish. Leaving the table before the soup pot, there is still a lot left, really a bit of waste, some guilt, this time out of the dining out did not fulfill the CD-ROM action.
? This is a delicious meal, this kind of cuisine, you only personally tasted, will know its name is not false, will understand why Jiaxing people so fond of it. If the next trip to Jiaxing, I will definitely eat again, order a slightly spicy Tongxiang pot to try, to experience the full range of this Jiangnan flavor strong Haogong meal.
? The old street of the Millennium Moon River Ancient Town is a typical Jiangnan water town, very distinctive, very delicate , very charming, unique scenery, beautiful. It is elegant and serene, simple and beautiful, like a thick ink and colorful landscape painting of Jiangnan, great beauty and elegance, worth a look, worthy of my future revisit. You can imagine how cozy and wonderful it is to savor quite special dishes with your loved ones in a great environment!
? May Day vacation is coming, let's take a domestic trip! Beautiful scenery with food is the blessing of romantic life in life.
Addendum on the evening of April 30, 2021 at home in Shanghai