Clouds poured out and poured down like ink, but a mountain range was exposed on the horizon, bright and fresh, and the splashing water was like white pearl gravel, splashing on the boat.
The wind comes and blows away. Looking at the water under the lake is like looking at the sky. Everyone has heard the poem "Looking at the Lake Building and Drunken Books on June 27th". This poem was written by the beautiful West Lake. Wuzhen, Hangzhou, where we are going today, is comparable to the West Lake. Wuzhen, once known as Wu Dun and Qingdun, has a long history of more than 6,000 years, and is known as the "Land of Fish and Rice and the House of Silk".
Wuzhen is a typical water town in the south of Yangtze River. Wuzhen has typical characteristics of water towns in the south of the Yangtze River, completely retaining the original style and pattern of water towns in the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China. Taking the river as the street, connecting the street and the bridge, building houses by the river, and integrating water and town, the architectural elements with unique charm in the south of the Yangtze River, such as Shui Ge, Xiaoqiao, Shiban Lane and Mao Dun's former residence, are organized, which embodies the humanistic thought of "harmony is beauty" in China's classical houses, and presents the spatial charm of the ancient water town in the south of the Yangtze River with the overall beauty of harmonious coexistence of its natural environment and humanistic environment. Small bridge and flowing water bridge are indispensable factors in the ancient town of Jiangnan water town. It is said that there are more than 120 bridges in Wuzhen history, which is really "one bridge takes a hundred steps", and there are more than 30 existing bridges. Among them, there are Tongji Bridge and Renji Bridge in Tashi, Yingjia Bridge, Taiping Bridge, Renshou Bridge, Yong 'an Bridge and Fengyuan Double Bridge in Zhong Shi and Dongzha. South Gate has Fuxing Bridge and Fulan Bridge; There are Tiyun Bridge and Li Ji Bridge in Beizha. These bridges were first built in the Southern Song Dynasty, and most of them were built or rebuilt in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Some are also engraved with bridges, such as Tongji Bridge: "In the cold trees and smoke, the old place of the Six Dynasties is exhausted; Outside the sunset sail, there are several distant mountains in Xing Wu. " (facing south) "Tongyunmen opens tens of thousands of miles in the waters of western Zhejiang; The title bridge people look at Yanjing three thousand miles north. " (facing north) has a strong historical and cultural atmosphere. Harmony makes people feel old.
(Shiban Lane) Walking into Wuzhen, walking on the narrow streets paved with bluestone slabs, and seeing all kinds of houses on both sides, as well as villagers still living in houses, will make people feel cordial and natural. Wuzhen, as a historical ancient town, both the whole town and Guanqian Street reflect the overall beauty of harmonious coexistence of human environment and natural environment. Walking into this ancient town full of agricultural culture and strolling on the stone street stretching for more than a mile, you can hear the echo of footsteps in another alley. There is a "stone bank" along the water street, some of which may be decorative. For example, I have seen a bottle with three halberds engraved on it, which means "level 1 to level 3". It's used to tie boats.
People are doing their best to pillow the river.
Wuzhen, like many water towns in the south of the Yangtze River, has streets and houses built near the stream, as the saying goes, "People do their best to pillow the river." What's different is that some houses along the river extend to the river surface, and the bottom is hit on the river bed with wooden stakes or columns, with beams and boards, which is called "Shui Ge", which is a unique feature of Wuzhen. Shui Ge is a real "pillow river" with windows on three sides, from which you can see the scenery of the city river. Mao Dun once described Shui Ge in his hometown in "Mountains and Rivers": "Ah ... outside the back door is a river, standing at the back door (that's Shui Ge's door), you can draw water with a bucket, and when you wake up in the middle of the night, you can hear the sound of rushing water and drift over ..."
Write it down, please enjoy the beautiful scenery of Wuzhen!