What are the attractions in Tongli Ancient Town?

Tongli, formerly known as "rich soil", in the early Tang Dynasty, because of its name is too extravagant, changed to "Tongli". In the Song Dynasty, some literati stacked the old name "Fu Tu" two words, go up to the point, in the cross section, split the word for "Tongli", which is still in use today.

Tongli is located 10 kilometers west of Zhouzhuang, only 18 kilometers from Suzhou City, the ancient town outside the four sides of the water, inlaid in the Tongli, Jiu Li, Ye Ze, Nansheng, Pangshan five lakes. The buildings are erected according to the water, and it is called "Little Venice of the East".

Features

Water, bridges, Ming and Qing Dynasty buildings, celebrities and elegant people, known as "small bridges, running water, people", the main attractions can be summarized as "a garden", "two halls The main attractions can be summarized as "one garden", "two halls" and "three bridges".

Best time to visit

Tongli is a typical water town in Jiangnan, with pleasant climate, no cold winter and hot summer, and the scenery of each season. Therefore, you don't have to mind the time of the year, but it's better not to go there on weekends or holidays, because it's hard to appreciate the quiet beauty of the ancient town and water town in the midst of the rolling crowds.

Festivals

As the saying goes: "thousands of miles of different winds, a hundred miles of different customs," Tongli has many of its own unique folk festivals:

The first day of the first month of the point of Luohan

The first day of the first month of the first five, the four townships of the eight neighborhoods of the good men and women rush to the seat of the southwest of the town, "South View" is located in the ancient town. "South View" to point Lohan, to pray for the four seasons of peace.

March 28, Zhu Tianhui

This is a spontaneous folk commemoration of the last emperor of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yujian activities, but most of the Tongli are mainly grannies, so very few people in the same area know the essence of Zhu Tianhui, only remember a folk song: "March 28, rolling the old lady". The main activity is to "sit on a futon and eat vegetarian food".

April 14th fairy meeting

This is a wider area of activities, but Tongli has Tongli's characteristics. The main activities include: stilt walking, tikang arm incense, mussel shell essence, and river boat swinging. The procession is very long, and at the end there is a group of good men and women wearing sin clothes and sin dresses to show atonement for their sins.

Shooting the water dragon on June 23

It is one of Tongli's specialties and is actually an annual firefighting competition. From the Great Temple to the west, all the way to the bridge of the ferry, people with the water faucet fired together, the river water dragon in the air, the fog dispersed, the scene is spectacular.

July 30th burning incense and releasing water lanterns

July 30th is the birthday of Jizangwang Bodhisattva. Every household lights candles and burns incense in front of their house or on the ground of the courtyard, and then releases water lanterns at the end of the day, when the whole town's river surface is lit up with flickering water lanterns as if full of stars in the sky, and slowly disappears into the night along with the waves of water from west to east.

Tickets

Combination ticket: 100 yuan

Admission to the ancient town area: 30 yuan

Package ticket: 40 yuan (low season)/60 yuan (high season) (including Retreating Scholar's Garden, Exhibition Hall, Chongbentang, Jiayintang, Kengleidang, Luoxingzhou, Pearl Pagoda)

Lizhe Women's College: 15 yuan

Luoxingzhou: 15 yuan

Open time

Open time

Lizhe Women's College: 15 yuan

Luoxingzhou: 15 yuan

Opening hours

8:00-17:00 on weekdays; 7:30-17:30 on holidays

Gourmet food

Tongli has a mild and humid climate, and is densely covered with streams and valleys, which are rich in river freshness and various aquatic crops. The culinary culture is characterized by the typical characteristics of the south of the Yangtze River. The most famous ones are Scholar's hooves, Gao Li shrimp, three silk spring rolls, eel paste with sesame oil, and famous water village dishes cooked with river freshness such as white fish, perch, cinnamon fish, turtle, etc. The aquatic plants such as wild rice, water hyacinth and other aquatic plants are also popular. Aquatic plants such as wild rice, celery, Brasenia schreberi, water chestnuts, lotus roots, and tzatziki are all distinctive local specialties. As for snacks, there are sock-bottom pastry, honey cake with 100 fruits, tsubo cake, green dumplings, min cake, lard rice cake, chicken rice head, big meat steamed buns, wine cake, malt collapsed cake, and small smoked fish, etc. Visitors can taste them at the century-old stores Yilong Soy Sauce Garden, Guxiangcun, and Nanyuan Teahouse.

Lake food dishes

Gao Li shrimp: egg white seasoned with rice flour, shrimp, blanch into the pot made of oil, colorful, fluffy and delicious, can also be set up in a small box, accompanied by tomatoes to eat, the taste is better.

Three silk fish rolls: choose five or six pounds of mackerel or grass carp, take the female valves in the middle, go to the belly when the skin, rolled into the ham, chicken, Roux silk, and yellow wine, scallions and other condiments, into the cage steamed into. Its meat is tender, fragrant and delicious, unique flavor.

Eel paste with sesame oil: fried eel with shredded ham, shredded chicken, shrimp and other preparations, a little ginger, ghee, garlic, boiling meat oil on the surface. On the table, thinly sprinkled with pepper, aromatic, fresh in the mouth.

Living

"Every house has a waterfront, every house is open to the boat," Tongli, the people and the land, the alleys are long and deep. String heart lane simple and elegant, green stone path contains the unique cultural colors of the water town, both sides of the Ming and Qing dynasties of residential experience in the Jiangnan rain wash, more and more beautiful and simple, people forget to return.

In this light and secluded, full of poetic and picturesque ancient architectural complex, a number of distinctive flavor of the ancient residential inn officially opened to the public. The folk style is rich, the water passes by the window, the head rests on the river and sleeps, the sound of the sculling boat accompanies you to sleep, and the same dream with Tongli, into which you can be a Tongli person.

The famous accommodations in Tongli are Shidetang Hotel, Sanyuan Hotel and Tongli Lake Resort.

Travel

Tongli Ancient Town is located on the shore of Taihu Lake and the Grand Canal, 18 kilometers away from Suzhou, 6 kilometers away from Wujiang, and 80 kilometers away from Shanghai Hongqiao Airport. Land and water transportation is very convenient. At present, the direct shuttle buses from Shanghai and Suzhou to Tongli have been opened. The town has many rivers, many bridges and boats, and modern transportation is even more convenient. The opening of the tourist tourist battery car, more will bring you a kind of time and space interlaced with the dream feeling.

From Shanghai to Tongli (105 kilometers):

By car

Tongli Map (Suzhou Tongli Ancient Town Traffic Map§From Shanghai, go to National Highway 318 to Lixing to Songshe Highway to Tongli.

§Through Shanghai-Nanjing Expressway, exit at Suzhou East and go south to Tongli.

§Through Shanghai-Hangzhou Expressway, exit at Jiaxing and go towards Pingwang, then go through Provincial Highway 205 to Songling and go east for 6 kilometers to Tongli.

Passenger bus

§Shanghai Stadium→Tongli Time: 8:00/9:00/10:00/11:00 Drive: about 2 hours

§Shanghai Hutai Road→Tongli Time: 12:30/13:40 Drive: about 2 hours

From Shanghai to Suzhou and then to Tongli (Suzhou is only 18 kilometers away from Tongli):

§Air-conditioned bus Shanghai Hongqiao Airport→Suzhou Time: 10:00/11:00/12:00/13:00/14:00/15:00/16:00/17:30/19:00Drive: 1 hour and 40 minutes

§Automobile Shanghai→Suzhou Time: every 15 minutesDrive: about 2 hours

Suzhou South Bus Station→Tongli Time：6:30/6:50/8:30/9:25/11:00/12:25/14:00/15:25/16:20/17:00Ride：35 minutes

Suzhou Wuxian Bus Station→TongliTime：Every 15 minsRide：35 mins Fare：￥8

Suzhou Railway Station→TongliTime：Every 30 mins Trip: 50 minutes Fare: ￥ 8

Songlin Town, Wujiang City, take the No. 5 bus directly to Tongli under the Trip: 10 minutes Fare: ￥ 1

§Train Shanghai → Suzhou time: every 20 minutes Trip: 1 hour

Tongli boat

§Three Bridges in the ancient town of the scenic tour fare: ￥ 60/boat (can be seated in 6 people)

§Tongli Lake Scenic tour fare: ￥ 200 / boat (can sit 40 people)

§Tongli Lake surfing tour fare: ￥ 80 / boat (can sit 6 people)

§Deluxe cruise Tongli → Zhouzhuang one-way fare: ￥ 450 / boat (can sit 60 people)

§Deluxe cruise Tongli - Zhouzhuang round-trip fare: ￥ 600 / boat (can sit 60 people)

Sightseeing Battery Car

Retreating the Garden of Thought ----- Entrance to the town ----- Luoxingzhou on call

Tongli Town Highway Mileage Reference

§Outside the province highway: Shanghai (105 kilometers) Hangzhou (148 kilometers) Huzhou (83 kilometers) Jiaxing (55 kilometers)

§Province highway: Nanjing (248 kilometers) Zhenjiang ( 214 km) Changzhou ( 214 kilometers) Changzhou (130 kilometers) Wuxi (68 kilometers)

CHANGSHU (65 kilometers) ZHANGJIAGANG (110 kilometers) KUNSHAN (48 kilometers) TAICANG (66 kilometers) WUJIANG (6 kilometers)

YOURS

Tongli is small but the street circuits, the deep twists and turns, and the distribution of cultural relics is also confusing, so in order to let first-time tourists to the same place to play happy, Tour enjoyable, we have designed three routes for your reference.

One, if you are in a hurry to come and go guests, can only stay in Tongli for a while, then we recommend that you take the A line, part of the essence of Tongli first into the heart.

The specific route is:

Retreating Siyuan→Relics Hall→Chongbentang→Three Bridges→Jiayintang→Dingzhi River→Mingqing Street→Shide Hall

Two, if you have more time, you can play in Tongli for a day, then we suggest you take line B, you can taste the snacks of Tongli in the Mingqing Street, and then bring some local specialties in Tongli, and end the day's tour happily. You can take some souvenirs and end the day happily.

The specific route is:

Retreating the Si Garden→Li Zai Women's College→San Xie Hall→Relics Hall→Chongbentang→Three Bridges→Kengle Hall→Dingzhi River→Jiayin Hall→Mingqing Street→Shide Hall→Wuhemen Tower→Chen Lai Diao's Residence

Thirdly, if you come to the rest of the vacation, then we recommend that you may wish to stay in the same place on the first night, and after dinner you can go to the Retreating the Si Garden to enjoy the night garden scenery (open on weekends). View (open on weekends), savor that unique sense of seclusion and transcendence, and then start the tour the next day. You can get up early in the morning, take the C line, step into the morning light, wear the sunrise, take a boat, start your day's tour from Luoxingzhou in Tongli Lake.

The specific route is as follows:

Luoxingzhou→Chen Daizi's former residence→Wuhemenlou→NanDaiDongDai Old Street→NanShiXiaoYi→ShangXinLane→DingZi River→KeChengTing→KongLeTang→SanBridge→JiaYinTang→ChongBenTang→Cultural Relics Pavilion→SanXieTang→Pearl Attractions Group→Lizi Women's School→Retreating Siyuan→MingQing Street→ShideTang

Buy

TongLi's Ming and Qing Dynasty Commercial Street is a good place for shopping. A good place for shopping. The buildings on both sides of the street were built in the Ming and Qing dynasties, preserving the original style. The street is filled with a variety of specialty crafts, calligraphy and painting, antiques and embroidery, food and snacks, such as traditional specialties smoked fish, meat dumplings, chestnut pastry, fruit crisp, etc., traditional snacks big meat steamed buns, wine cake, malt collapsed cake, green dumplings, etc., at inexpensive prices. If you are a collector of antiques, you may find a remnant of history at an obscure stall.

Tongli is rich in aquatic products, and aquatic products and souvenirs are also the main choices for shopping. Must-buy items are Tongli wine cake and chicken head rice.

Entertainment

Tongli, a thousand-year-old town, has a long history and culture, with silk and bamboo, pleasant rolls, commentary, opera, ditties, flower baskets, lianxiang, dragon dances, lion dances, bridge lanterns, river lanterns and so on, all of which are extremely rich in the traditional charms of the cultural heritage and the circulating repertoire. Walking the three bridges and rowing a boat is a form of relaxation that combines tourism and entertainment. The boat ride through the ancient town of the water village landscape, another interesting.

Tongli Night Garden is an excellent place for people to savor the real life, trace the old times and marvel at the beautiful life. Can be a cup of tea in the garden at the same time, while enjoying the wall at the leisurely "Spring River Flower Moonlit Night", the corridor at the beginning of the Wu Nong's lyrics, the pavilion at the fall of the "two springs reflecting the moon", the shore of the boat at the bright "Pearl Tower" selections, the hall at the gentle warmth of the tunes, the back of the moonlight of the garden is bleak and confused, the streets and alleys at the simple style of the people's homes, the river and the river lanterns reflecting the lanterns of the boat and the red and green lights hanging all over the branches of the traditional bridge lanterns. The river is full of colorful lantern boats and traditional bridge lanterns with red and green lanterns.