The difference is that Wuzhen is more commercial and Xitang is more primitive in Jiangnan town. I personally recommend Xitang. So if you take the route, you can visit Hangzhou (mainly the West Lake) first, and then take a bus to Xitang at Jiubao Passenger Transport Center in Hangzhou. The latest train is 18: 15. You can also choose to take the high-speed train, but the transfer is more troublesome and not recommended.
Mainly tell you to pay attention to when you go to Xitang:
1, find a hotel by the river when you arrive, about 150 a day. The environment is very good, and it is very comfortable to sit in a chair and drink tea.
It's nice to go to that restaurant called Another Spring.
3. Steamed meat, wonton and green beans on the roadside are all delicious.
Don't forget to go out for a stroll at night. The night view of Xitang is better. Don't take children to bars, but the bars there are very distinctive.
The next morning, I went to eat the first noodles in the world. There are many companies with this name. I want to go to the one with the blue sign, which is the oldest and tastes the best.
6, for reference only, have fun! ! !
There is another way to save money: go to Hangzhou first, and don't go back to Xitang with the group from Hangzhou the next morning. The fee in 90 yuan includes the fare+Xitang ticket+tour guide+free shuttle service in downtown Hangzhou.
If you go by yourself, the cost is:
1. The fare from Hangzhou Jiubao Passenger Transport Center to Xitang is 38 or 42.
2. Xitang ticket: 100 yuan.
3. There is also the cost from Hangzhou Hotel to Hangzhou Station+the cost from Xitang Station to the scenic spot.
Brief introduction of Xitang scenic spot
Shipinong
Shipilong, with a total length of 68 meters, is paved with 2 16 stone slabs with a thickness of only 3 cm, which is the corridor between the Wangs Zun Wentang and Zhongfutang. According to research, there is a sewer under the stone road in the lane, and there is no water in rainy days. Slates as thin as skin are the skin of sewers, so they are called skindragons. Its widest point is 1. 1 m, and its narrowest point is only 0.8m.. If two fat people meet in an alley, it may not be easy to get through even if they wipe the wall and stick their bellies on it. Therefore, the stone skin has the saying of "one scene" in Xitang.
Longest Lane: Sixian Ancestral Hall Lane in Beizha Street, with a total length of 236 meters.
The narrowest alley: Wildcat Long, which is located on the edge of Huanxiu Bridge, with a maximum length of 30 cm, is the gap between two houses.
Widest driveway: Located in the north of Shao Xiang Port, along Lizhai Avenue, it can accommodate 5.5 people walking side by side.
The shortest alley: the house alley in Yuqingtang, where the Ming and Qing Woodcarving Museum is located, is only 3 meters long.
Yu Yan promenade
Some of the verandahs are by the river, some are in the middle, and some are equipped with long orange backs along the river for people to rest. There are "one falling into the water" and "two falling into the water" on the top of the veranda, and some cross the street to form the veranda roof. It can be said that it is a unique scenery in the ancient town.
Stay in Tongcun Inn, Eryitang, Xu Yuan Antique Inn, Yu Yan Shijia, Yaozhai and Yu Yan Station.
Gourmet Mommy Kitchen, Ding Hotel, xiang tang Hotel, etc.
A wonton restaurant next to Tian Xiang (near Songzi Bridge); Between Laifeng Bridge and Yongning Bridge, there is a small shop that specializes in making tofu flowers and selling mung bean vermicelli. It is sour, fragrant and distinctive. A "Sanwei stinky tofu" near Song Ziqiao has a unique taste, crisp outside and tender inside, while others, such as beef soup and fermented rice balls, are very good. There are board games, ancient flowers, one fruit, Tianzhu workshop, haystack house, Cai Yuntang travel notebook, etc.
Xiyuan
The former site of Xitang Xiyuan is located in Jijiaxiang, West Street. In the Ming Dynasty, Zhu once operated alone and then sold it. There are trees, flowers, rockeries, pavilions and ponds in the park with beautiful scenery. There is a "Tingtaoxuan" teahouse on the rockery on the east side, so it is named because there is 1 Pinus bungeana on the rockery, which is several feet high and the wind comes and the millet falls.
/kloc-in the winter of 0/920, the poet Liu Yazi came to Xitang. I once lived in Xiyuan, where I took photos with friends from Xitangnan. His topic is "the second picture of the collection of Xiyuan Ya".
1in March, 990, in memory of Liu Yazi's visit to Xiyuan, a park with a total area of 16.6 mu was built in the west hill of the town, named Xiyuan. At the entrance of the park, there are small bridges and flowing water, Shishi Pavilion, and there are brick galleries, waterside pavilions, curved bridges, rockeries, pavilions and artificial waterfalls around the park. Several inns built next to this scenic spot are also named after it, such as Xiyuan Yaju, Xiyuan Inn, Xiyuan Post Office and so on.
Huguo Suiliangwang Temple
Commonly known as "Seven Grandpa Temple", the third day of the fourth lunar month is the birthday of Seven Grandpa every year. There will be a temple fair in Xitang. They carried the two palaces of seven lords and seven mothers out of the temple gate. From eleven o'clock in the evening, they each cruised according to the predetermined route. Flags are flying all the way, gongs and drums are loud, and firecrackers are ringing. Tents were set up in many places where the Seventh Master and the Seventh Lady passed by, so that they could take a break in their tents and get confessions. It was not until the next afternoon that they returned to the temple. And began to perform a three-day drama in the temple. There are many leaf-shaped sachets hanging in seven old Temple, which are called autumn leaves, because autumn symbolizes a bumper harvest. This is also the best time to experience Xitang life.
Wuguniang theme park
There is a true love story circulating in Xitang. In the late Qing Dynasty, five girls, the hostess of Yangjiadi in Dong Tang village, fell in love with Xu Atian, a long-term worker, who was opposed by her half-brother and persecuted to death. Later, her love story was compiled into Tian Ge, which has been sung here for more than one hundred years. Dewar Pavilion is a tile pavilion specially baked by Xu Atian when he was working as a kiln to express his unique love for five girls. There is a bell hanging in the pavilion, engraved with the scene where the two of them met here and the words of love at first sight.
Tian Ge, a rural folk song handed down from Xitang folk, is still sung in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai, and it is a valuable local music cultural heritage in China. In particular, the musical "Five Girls" adapted by Xitang Tian Ge won the Wenhua Award at the 7th China International Art Festival. It was adapted into Five Girls by the late Yue Opera creator Gu in 1954. Among them, Five Women's Birthdays and Korean Palace Complaints are the most famous. "Five Girls' Birthday Celebration" has also been made into a movie, which has a very wide influence.
Ming and Qing woodcarving museum
Located in the north of Shao Xiang Street, the museum displays more than 250 woodcarvings of Jiangnan residential buildings represented by Xitang since Ming and Qing Dynasties. There are beams, scaffolding, lattice windows, etc. The carving skills are rich and colorful. The unique soft and gorgeous style of woodcarving in Jiangnan folk houses is displayed in various exhibitions, such as land picking, land carving, missing carving and through carving.
Nizhai
Nijia, located in the south of Hong Kong, is a scholarly family in the town. There are five entrances in front of Nizhai, with a veranda in front and a garden in the back. The main hall is called "Chengqing Hall". Xitang town has a profound cultural background and rich cultural resources of clean government. On this basis, make full use of these resources, combine the promotion of excellent clean government culture with the promotion of the party's fine clean government tradition, and build a clean government culture education base. At present, newly renovated "Ni Tianzeng ancestral home" and Yuqian Hangzhou ancestral temple, Ningbo Qingfeng Garden, Jiaxing Nanhu Revolutionary Memorial Hall and other units 10 have been named as the first batch of "Zhejiang Clean Government Culture and Education Bases".
the Holy Land
The temple was first built in the third year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty (1575), and the memorial tour was presided over by Pang. In the seventh year of Qing Emperor Kangxi, it was renamed Jingjue Temple. In the 13th year of Kangxi and the 50th year of Kangxi, it was rebuilt twice, and the official land was changed, commonly known as Tang Sheng. Guan Yu, a warrior, was a teacher from generation to generation with Confucius in Wen Sheng, and was called a temple.
At the peak of incense in the temple, many pilgrims could not squeeze into the main hall, so they had to light candles on the street outside the main hall to worship. In the Spring Festival, every temple fair, this street is even more lively, and the procession of incense burners has been arranged from the temple to the incense burner. There will also be temporary food stalls on the street, and various pictures will be sold in the main hall of the temple. There is a local folk proverb: visit temple fairs, look at pictures, eat and sell. Every year on the fifth day of the first month, businessmen in the town burn incense and worship in the temple, and exchange the ingots made of pumpkin paste at home for the ingots in the temple, which means that the financial resources are rolling in one year. China wine culture museum
Xitang, an ancient town, is a wine town in history. "Drinking good wine and reciting good poems" has always been the two major pursuits of many ancient literati. In the early Ming Dynasty, Gao Qi, a great poet, crossed Xitang by boat and stopped to ask about the restaurant. In the Qing Dynasty, the town's famous wine "Plum Blossoms and Three Whites" was fragrant. In the early years of the Republic of China, Liu Yazi drank the wine culture of Zhenzhen and Xitang for many times, which can be said to be in sync with the ancient town and enjoy the same reputation as the ancient town.
Mr. Liu Ximing, a famous winemaker in the West, took a fancy to Xitang, a wine town, where he displayed the wine cultural objects collected by several generations, and opened the "Chinese Wine Culture Museum" on the basis of the original yellow wine exhibition hall.
Folk Wadang Exhibition Hall
Ceramic tile is a kind of building decoration fittings with simple materials. Because it is difficult to preserve and has a long history, it has certain historical value. There are more than 300 varieties in the museum, such as lace dripping water, chopsticks cages, walking chickens, brick carvings, ancient bricks and pottery figurines, among which there are traditional tiles with good wishes; There are religious temples and political patterns that indicate a certain historical period.
Root carving hall
Xitang is a treasure trove of geomantic omen, which is suitable for recuperation and can inspire artists. Mr. Zhang Zheng, a root sculptor, 1958, from Shucheng, Anhui Province, 1999 moved to Xitang after talent introduction. Master Zhang Zheng's works are seven points natural and three points human, and more than 500 large-scale works are listed as "the best in Guinness". Master Zhang Zheng has entered the World Who's Who with his exquisite skills and fearless spirit, and is known as the "son of the East".