Again to the south of Yunnan (four): Jianshui ancient city to visit the old

Jianshui, the town on the southwest border, has been on fire again since poet Yu Jian's Jianshui Ji appeared on the college entrance exam paper the year before.

In Jianshui Ji, the poet describes the architecture, crafts, food, and lifestyle of Jianshui, providing a realistic template for "poetic dwelling.

The poet argues that the way of life in the ancient city of Jianshui is now a model for the good life that Chinese people aspire to and seek.

How to truly understand an ancient city, an ancient building, a ritual that has been passed down from generation to generation; how a city puts and shelters the human heart - Jianshui Ancient City, or really can give us some insights.

But here I would like to point out one thing: what is depicted in "Jianshui Memoirs" is the ancient city of Jianshui under the time and space of 2015.

I always think that when we talk about Yunnan, we must pay attention to the "tense"! Because each year's Yunnan is almost always very different from the previous year, or even completely different.

In early 2017, the day before the Lantern Festival, I arrived at the ancient city of Jianshui alone, which was my first meeting with Jianshui.

More than four years ago, time beat a horse. 2020 after the New Year's Day of the year Gengzi, I accompanied my friends from my hometown to drive to Yunnan, and I saw Jianshui again, but that time was affected by a sudden epidemic, and rushed in and out.

This trip to Jianshui is my third trip to Jianshui, so I call it "Jianshui visit".

First of all, let's talk about the old city of Jianshui.

Undoubtedly, Jianshui is a living ancient city, just like Weishan. And Jianshui Ancient City is bigger and better located than Weishan Ancient City, while the tourism resources are richer and deeper.

The poet Yu Jian said, Jianshui ancient city is a living museum. Any door or window, a water tank, ordinary people's home railings pottery calligraphy and painting, may be a work of art.

Some years ago, a very popular saying: keywords. If you say Jianshui keywords, it must be the following: old buildings, ancient houses, ancient wells, baked tofu, purple pottery, Dianyue train, food, as well as the old city inside and outside of a few regular attractions.

The old buildings and ancient houses, the poet Yu Jian in the "Jianshui record" talked about in detail. 2017 I live in Jianshui half a month, but also really see a lot. Those doors and windows, water tanks, beam carvings, are really worth seeing.

I remember one day, after a fiery introduction by Lao Xu of the Dianyue Youth Hostel, I walked out of the city and went to the Huang's ancestral temple in Xinfang Village.

A whole eave, all the fine carvings! The carvings are too high and too small to be seen clearly, but you can still see how beautiful they are.

When I left, I stopped in the doorway, turned back: they are there, a long, thin, beautiful, like a miniature gallery, hundreds of years, silently watching the years, do not bear to grow old.

At that moment, a complex feeling suddenly surged, caught off guard, almost fell into tears.

I thought of a saying: waste time on beautiful things.

Yes, people in those days, they really understood this saying!

It is such a beautiful old city, or demolished.

The city was demolished, and then another street was demolished - in China's vast city-building campaign, how can you play personality.

In fact, to be honest, how many Chinese people are really interested in those original ancient buildings, ancient relics? The first is the Mogao Grottoes in Dunhuang, which is the world's greatest treasure!

Similarly, how many Chinese people are really interested in the restored, remodeled and imitated buildings and cultural relics?

Similarly, how many Chinese people are really interested in restored, altered and imitated buildings and artifacts?

Only the latter is better than the former to take pictures, to take pictures more "photogenic", only.

According to the poet Yu Jian said, and then Jianshui seems to be not demolished, so I was able to leave something.

Today's Jianshui Ancient City, there are still a few old areas, alleys like a spider's web, all the way around, Jumon abounds in the compound, but these compounds have become a big house, the land reform period has been divided into pieces, and there is nothing to talk about what to protect.

In the Jianshui sojourn time, I almost every day in the ancient city wandering, many alleys do have a lot of Zhu Men compound, most of the gatehouse has been dilapidated decadence, the two sides of the wall was once the painting engraving, but also all destroyed, replaced by a special period of slogans slogans - in addition to the sighs, and there is also nothing to say.

Like Lijiang, Shiping, today's Jianshui is also a new city set the pattern of the ancient city. However, Jianshui City and Lijiang is different, it is not four sets of sets, from Jianshui ancient city to the wilderness, just a few minutes of the matter.

In the words of the poet Yu Jian, "the earth has not been driven away". The wind, the sun, the flowers, are still on the left.

When it comes to Jianshui people's ancient wells, Jianshui people's well complex, it is really no one.

It is said that the whole Jianshui has 128 wells, many wells built during the Ming Hongwu years, are still in use, and each well has a Dragon King Temple and inscriptions, etc.

Jianshui is the only place where you can find a well, and it is the only place where you can find a well.

The wells that can be named in Jianshui city are one eye well, two eye wells, three eye wells, four eye wells, Daban wells, Xiaojie wells and so on, among which Daban wells are most known to tourists.

Jianshui tofu must use the well water of Dabanjing, or the taste will change, so many tofu stores are concentrated near the well, and previously even made on-site right by the well platform, just for the convenience of getting water.

However, the locals believe that the water in the small section of the well is the sweetest.

It is said in China on the Tip of the Tongue that the people of Jianshui know a lot about water, and they believe that water nourishes one's spirituality and enlightenment.

Yes, Jianshui people do know and love water. You just have to take a look at each well along the lapis lazuli that deep strangulation marks, that is called a shocking. Those deep marks indicate the thing called "age".

In addition to the well complex, Jianshui people have a complex that has been passed down from generation to generation: tofu complex.

When it comes to Jianshui tofu, there is a folk song: Yunnan stinky tofu, to count Lin'anfu ...... smells bad, eat fragrant, three do not eat heart panic.

It is said that Jianshui stinky tofu originated in the Qing Dynasty. The tongue of China, said Jianshui stinky tofu, is a subtle chemical reaction between the wind, water, sunshine and tofu. It is also said that Jianshui people are very good at enjoying the flavor created by air-drying and fermentation.

Indeed.

More than that.

Baked tofu is not just a delicacy in Jianshui, it is a way of life.

Inside and outside the old city of Jianshui, baked tofu stalls can be found almost everywhere, and every restaurant in front of the door set aside an area for it.

It seems to be there forever, you can always pull your foot in, sit down, enjoy and pass the time.

You can also enjoy your meal while looking out over the street and taking in the sights. At the same time, it also becomes a scenery in the eyes of others.

Jianshui's baked tofu stall is very simple, is a frame with iron grates on the four sides of the short table, four sides of the short benches, composed of a physical operation of the space, baked stall owner occupies one side of the rest of the three sides of the guest.

Know each other do not know the casual guests sitting together, a sit down, do not want to get up, will keep eating ......

Jianshui's baked tofu stalls there is a more interesting custom, is to bake the stall owner with a small plate, which puts a lot of dry bush, dry beans, in addition to place a few empty plates, on behalf of the Guests. The guests themselves from the fire grate clip tofu, clip a piece, the host on behalf of the guests of the empty dish thrown a grain of rice, to show that the book.

The tofu is roasted slowly, and the people eating it chat as they eat. The tofu stall is a "dinner party" that can be joined at any time, and is open to the public.

Creamy yellow tofu cubes, put on the fire to roast, turned into a golden, bulging a little cute, very cute. It's no exaggeration to say that this kind of reddish colored rice grid size stuff, almost filled the whole life of Jianshui people.

Jianshui's regular attractions are more concentrated: Zhu Family Garden, Chaoyang Building, Temple of Literature, Xuezheng Kaobang, etc., are very close to each other, all in the ancient city.

Outside of the city, there are Tuan Shan Minzhu, Shuanglong Bridge, Dianyue Train, Swallow Cave, etc. The first three are also on a line, and you can take the Dianyue Train, which runs through.

Of course, new attractions have been developed over the years.

This trip to Jianshui, the day I left, I took the 919 bus to the train station, the driver is a very chatty local middle-aged man, there is a Beijing brother style.

According to him, now Jianshui and the development of a number of new attractions, a lot of tourists do not yet know, which is the Nanzhuang Yunlong Mountain Scenic Area.

He felt that Yunlong Mountain Scenic Area is worth seeing, there are ancient temples, tea gardens, natural and humanistic scenery are great.

There are also five dragon lake ant workshop, purple pottery street night market and so on, visible Jianshui is very with the times.

We are always very up-to-date.

Especially those ancient towns and cities, if you want, you can almost always develop new attractions - is not the landscape + story? Easy.

When it comes to Jianshui food, naturally, the first Jianshui tofu, in addition to the steam boiler chicken, grass buds rice noodles, all kinds of barbecue.

Some people say that Jianshui food is the NO1 in Yunnan, and the night market on Zitao Street can test one or two.

Jianshui is the birthplace of Steamboat Chicken, because the material of the steamer is purple pottery, which is the specialty of Jianshui. Steamboat chicken is steamed with steam, not stewed, not fried, but steamed - to be "time"!

In my opinion, the slow life in Jianshui is embodied in the preparation of these delicacies: be it baked tofu or steamed chicken.

Of course, there is also the morning bird walking in Chaoyang Building, the afternoon card games, chess games. Watching, very much that flavor of the old Beijingers.

Also normal. It is an old ancient city, all the human life of the old city of deep sediment.

Jianshui steam boiler chicken real meat tender soup beautiful, better than other production method. It reminds me of a proverb: you can't eat hot tofu in a hurry.

Yes, you can't eat the real food in a hurry, so you have to eat the "pseudo-food" that is quickly blended out.

In this sense, to Jianshui, is to cure the modern people of this "urgent disease".

In Jianshui taste food, in addition to some roadside stalls, barbecue stalls, small stores, such as Zixing Duck Shop, Lin'an Hotel, Baoxing House, Fu Ji cuisine, etc., can try, basically will not be disappointed.

In addition, there are some locals will often patronize the "fly museum", as long as you have the interest and time to find, to ask, I believe there will be a surprise.

I once read a quote: "When you go to Yunnan, you will find that some trips are called traveling, while some trips are called "going to another kind of life" - Yunnan is another kind of desirable life.

That's a good point. I would like to add: before, the representative of this life is Dali, but now, I prefer to say, it is Jianshui.

When I was in Dali, I heard the word "good in" for the first time.

Today's Kunming is already "difficult".

Today's Dali, also slowly "difficult in" - "good in" Jianshui, when will become "difficult in"? "The first thing you need to do is to get your hands dirty.

Let us pray for that day to come later, later, and later ......

The poet Yu Jian "Jianshui record" has quoted Ming Yang Shen wrote Jianshui poem, sigh Yang talented son pen that hundreds of years ago, Jianshui city, and not separated from the world, is still in the general: the city, the buildings, carved beams and paintings, the vermilion door Lv Lane, wells, pagodas, restaurants, lotus, and so on, and so on, and so on. The most important thing is that the world under Yang Shen's pen, although the details have changed a lot, but the atmosphere can still be felt.

It is a miracle - the poet exclaimed. In the midst of centuries of change, Jianshui is still the hometown of the aborigines, still living much the same life as when Yang Shen visited: making bean curd, drawing water from the well, making cold noodles, making rice noodles, and doing laundry by the well.......

At the same time, the poet could not help but be worried: today's Jianshui is besieged by a homogenized new city! ...... I witnessed its friend hesitation, change, and steadfastness.

Jianshui, can really escape the invasion of modernization, commercialization, manipulation, and distortion?

As the title suggests, this trip to Jianshui, my initial intention is to "visit the old". Since the "old place", then, there will always be certain people, things, things, there will always be certain places, extraordinarily attached, so that people want to revisit, want to meet again.

There are.

From the passenger station outside the ancient city, I chose to walk into the city, along the Yinghui Road all the way up.

Compared to four years ago, Yinghui Road has become more beautiful, the green belt in the middle of the road is full of flowers, colorful flags, more like a "welcome road".

A new Walmart has opened in the neighborhood of Literature Mingbang Fang, which is a little surprise.

After the document famous state square, as if suddenly traveled to another time and space, there is a moment of trance. The door of the ordinary pagoda, as if it is a secret organ, just enter, and then opened the Ming and Qing Dynasty mode.

Almost all of the old buildings on both sides of the road, the real thing, not a modern imitation.

The road is lined with almost all old buildings, real ones, not modern replicas. The road surface and the facades of the buildings should have been repaired, but more or less, it is the same as the old, so it does not look bad.

I walked on the raised pedestrian walkway in the middle of Yinghui Road, through the pavilions built on top of it, and arrived at the Yinghui Gate, which is the eastern gate of the old city, and on top of which is the famous Chaoyang Building, locally known as the small Tian'anmen Gate.

Through the Gate of Yinghui, is the ancient city of Jianshui.

After four years, has the ancient city changed?

The road has been a long time in the past, but it's been a long time coming.

The road seems to have been repaired, and as you look at it, the whole Lin'an Road has become more beautiful and photogenic. However, there is no shock, largely the same as four years ago, and, those four years ago frequented the small store is still there: spoon powder old store, papaya old store, selling Jianshui chicken claws of the pavement stalls. The prices are still the same as they were four years ago (very touching, isn't it?).

I'm not sure how much I'm going to pay for it.

I turned to the side alley to see the ancient well. The well is still there, still in normal use. The people in the alley, the people coming and going, the hands busy camping, and, on the faces of the people that relaxed look, and not slow demeanor - all still there.

A real living ancient city - I thought to myself.

Under the blue sky, white clouds and bright sunshine, the slow life of self-sufficiency and simplicity for thousands of years has always been carried out unhurriedly, and the atmosphere cultivated for thousands of years has been flowing gently and endlessly in the city life of a drink and a meal and the lights of ten thousand houses.

That's great.

Don't destroy it, let it go on like this - ten years, a hundred years, forever.

I prayed for it silently in my heart. Though I knew that the chances of that were slim to none. Because, change, always, is also in progress.

Everything is just a matter of time.

Walked to the Hanlin Street, under the street corner, as usual, there is a picket selling a variety of fresh fruit snacks, the price does not seem expensive. The price doesn't seem to be too expensive.

A group of tourists gathered in front of the Xuezheng test shed, naturally, in a variety of photos. I fixed my eyes to see, the original baking shed in front of the new sculpture, this engaged in, really some of the noise, claptrap. Originally, there was a group sculpture in front of the test shed, and there is a group sculpture in the yard. I think just good, quite harmonious.

About these two groups of group sculpture, there is an interesting story. When I first saw the group sculpture in front of the door, I always thought it was the candidates in the game of chess, and Mr. stood at a chess. One day I got close enough to take a closer look, and then it dawned on me: it turned out that they were baking tofu! The first thing I did was to get the money to pay for the purchase, and then I had to pay for the purchase!

This discovery, I can not help but laugh: Jianshui baked tofu, really elegant and vulgar **** appreciation, down to the kitchen, on the hall, to the hall of elegance which! Simply penetrated into every pore of local life.

I think of that group in the courtyard: walking while reading the candidates son, with a boy, picker to catch the test. The picker picks, is not also accompanied by a set of baked tofu utensils? This thought, I was first half a moment of joy.

After Lin'an Road in the middle of the magnificent "two winding key" pagoda, and then walk, is the Jianshui Temple of Literature.

Four years ago, during the time of residence, morning and evening, I always have to enter the Temple of Literature to linger. The Jianshui Temple of Literature is the second largest temple in China, second only to the Confucius Temple in Qufu, Shandong Province.

In my opinion, this is a very pleasant place, the open garden is lush with trees, the water (Panchi) is clear, a full of vitality, look at the people's eyes bright, heart bright, heart happy.

Jianshui has such a great temple (Jianshui city **** seven temples and eight temples), but also cause and effect. During the imperial examination era, Jianshui city was full of talented people, enjoying the reputation of "Lin half of the list", which shows the prosperity of its culture and education.

Now, the ancient city of Jianshui every year in the Temple of Culture to organize a large-scale festival of Confucius, as well as a series of cultural activities, inheritance and promotion of Confucianism.

Jianshui Ancient City and its ancient ecological life, can continue to this day - one of the bottom of its perseverance, must come from this traditional culture and inheritance.

The section from the Temple of Literature to the West Gate City Tower was once the most bustling section of Jianshui Ancient City, where the Temple of Literature, Lin'an Prefectural Government Offices, Finger Grove Temple and other cultural relics were concentrated, as well as several delicious rice noodle stores, cloud candy stores and so on.

As far as I remember, there used to be a few good stores on both sides of the street, but now, almost all of them have been replaced by purple pottery stores.

I could see the West Gate tower from afar, and the sunset was coming to an end. The last sunset hit the big green tree next to the tower, and the famous "Taste of Lin'an" rice noodle store was still there, and still doing a great business, with lots of customers.

I look at the neighborhood of a bed and breakfast, settled down, it was early lights, I went out straight to the west gate.

The change in Ximenwai is the biggest. Four years ago at this time, this street is the hottest business, but now, a street looks dark and cold, more than half of the store door has been closed.

I heard that many tourists are now shifting positions, run to the purple pottery street night market to eat baked tofu and grass buds rice noodles, so the west door of the tofu industry is slowly cool down.

I remember the board well across the board well tofu workshop, her family early in the morning when there is a tofu buffet breakfast, 5 yuan a person. Tofu brain, soymilk, dried tofu, stinky tofu, fried bean skin, and various seasonings, just to eat. The flavor is not seen much better, but the victory is that you can eat enough tofu at a time.

I don't know if this buffet is still there, see the online introduction, it should still be there, the price has not changed.

It's okay.

In the night, I wandered back and forth on the street that leads to Dabanui, and people who don't know will think I lost something.

Yes, I lost something - I lost part of my memory.

The baked tofu restaurant, where did it go?

I can't quite remember which one it was. During the half-month of my sojourn four years ago, I came by almost every day to eat her baked tofu.

She always sat at the door of the baked bean curd table, baked bean curd for the guests, each time I recognized her people, and did not remember exactly which house, where the houses are so similar.

I was in the old street under the dim street lamp, a house carefully recognized, walked over and over. Two of the doors were closed, and the ones that were open, were doing other business. There is a half-open door, you can see inside the chicken, a cage of chickens, stacked on top of each other, and the memory of this street does not have this kind of business.

I suspect it was this one. Or maybe it was the one next door, where, in the middle of the hall, a woman was sitting, buried in making those little chess pieces, a packet of them, a squeeze of them, a little piece made, yards and yards of them, drawers and drawers of them, laid out around her.

The directions are roughly here, I'm basically sure.

Her brother and sister-in-law rented out the hall and stopped working as a restaurant? Their elderly mother died? So where did she, and her big fat son, go? Back to their own homes in the army? Or have they found another job?

I call her "the daughter of Simon's baked tofu family". It's a middle-aged woman in her 40s who told me her story: she went out to make a living at a very young age and married a northern soldier in the army, and the marriage was not as good as it could have been, and the business changed one after another, and didn't make much of a dent. After the rise of tourism in Jianshui, her family's ancestral home because of its proximity to Ximen Dabanjing, instantly worth money. Her brother and sister-in-law and her mother lived in it, and her brother and sister-in-law made the first floor of the hall into a restaurant and baked tofu. She came back to help bake the tofu. The first time I saw this, I was able to get the ball rolling, and then I was able to get the ball rolling.

I can't forget the look on her face when she said this: she kept her voice down (her brother and sister-in-law were working in the half-open kitchen at the back), she rambled, and she looked around from time to time, as if she were on guard for something.

I also can't forget the hidden resentment and hatred in her words.

I'm not sure if I'm going to be able to get a good look at this.

They're not the only ones who can't get it right. I'm not sure what I'm talking about, but I'm not sure what I'm talking about. What do you hate?

I was a little disappointed.

I'm a little frustrated. I can't tell you why, but I want to see her again more than I thought I did.

Why do I have such a hold on her? I can't tell you why.

Traveling is an amazing thing sometimes.

When I came back to the old city again, it was not too late, it was the best time of the night, and Lin'an Road was brightly lit. I turned right at the Hanlin Street intersection and headed straight for the South Gate.

I stayed at the Reverse Traveler's Inn outside the south gate for half a month four years ago.

It was an inn run by a girl from Anhui, and it's an interesting story that I'll tell later.

In that half-month, except for every morning and evening in the ancient city around, from time to time to the ancient city around the tour, the other time I stayed in the inn, read a book, write a travel diary.

I've met all kinds of people.

There are a couple of people that I'm very attached to.

Two middle-aged men, both from Beijing.

One is a resident guest, living in the inn for two or three days, seems to have just come down from Yuanyang, or ready to go up, I do not remember. I can't remember what he looked like, and I think he looked like a passerby, a typical Beijing brown man, like that.

At the beginning of the performance is quite deep, the night before leaving, we drink tea and chat in the hall on the first floor, the big brother suddenly opened the box, talking about his failed business, failed marriage, as well as full of anger, suppression, and confusion.

"The beginning of a very successful, earned a lot of money, somehow lost, and the more losses, simply can not brake the car", the big brother's confusion is real, heavy.

"In the end or too greedy ...... my wife advised me, I can not listen to ...... the results of the chicken and egg ...... women ruthless up really special! The most ruthless, nothing to say, roll up the bag to leave, the child also took away ...... together with my damn spell half a lifetime, what did not fall, an empty".

The big brother had a sentence that gave me a deep impression. "If life is smooth sailing, they can cope with, who the hell still need religion" - at that time the big brother was asking everyone here to teach Buddhism liberation.

Four years later, I can still clearly remember the pain on the face of my brother in Beijing that night, and the scars under his eyes.

Life, sometimes it really hurts.

Another Beijing brother came to help a friend look at the room.

He has rented an old courtyard in a certain alleyway, and is going to clean it up and make it a pizzeria.

Chatting, I don't know how the topic has changed, and even the expression of the big brother's lightheartedness has changed: bastard! The first thing I want to do is to let me catch him, and I don't want any money, so I'm going to take off one of my grandchildren's thighs.

With this supporting, is the big brother's face hideous expression.

It turns out that the elder brother was a photographer for a magazine in Beijing, and had hiked the Great Wall of China with his friends, taking a lot of good photos. "The clarity and color of the photos are better than ordinary photography photos, and now will not take out."

Later, the big brother and his friends opened a company, agent of an outdoor sports brand, the results of friends absconded with the money, has not been caught and returned to the case.

Big brother for this bankruptcy, divorce, and a stumble.

"Son of a bitch, ruined my life." Big brother grits his teeth.

There is also from the Northeast, a road hitch to Yunnan, the boy, since the said in Yunnan to find a love of occupation, and the direction of life - that is, tea.

There is that ......

There is that ......

The reason why I remember the two Beijing big brother in particular, because the two people have a very deep resentment in their hearts, hate poison.

They remind me of that book by the great Russian writer Dostoevsky, The Insulted and the Damaged - yes, they are both damaged people, by their friends, by their own greed, by life, by destiny.

Are they okay now? Have they moved on from the past? Have they thought about discharging those resentments and hatred in their hearts?

I hope they can.

Fate can't always favor one person over another!

They are the first to be able to do so.

I don't know where they are now, or if they've left Jianshui long ago, but I'd like to visit the inn again.

The inn is still there. As soon as I stepped into the familiar front room, memories came to me across thousands of mountains and thousands of rivers ......

There was no one in the front room, and I didn't say hello, I just wanted to take a look, to take a look and then leave.

I lingered in the large lounge, looking at the graffiti on the wall that was still the same, which was taken from two illustrations in The Little Prince, covering two whole walls, the same composition as in the book, the same color tone.

"Oh, that was painted by a young guy who used to live here and had nothing better to do." When I inquired, the young woman owner downplayed the situation.

As I left, I turned to look again, at the little boy with the blonde curls, the lonely, tiny back, looking away from his planet ......

I lifted my hand to try the corner of my eye, and turned away.

Early the next morning, I went to the ancient city of Shiping.

On the morning of the third day, I went out of the city to see the Double Dragon Bridge. From afar, I saw that the bridge next to the old tree "to the water" is still there, or that intoxicating posture. The bridge is still a large round stone, was polished by the soles of the feet more and more moist.

I continue to rush to the not-so-distant Xianghui Bridge train station. Standing on the narrow steel rail, looking around, the blue sky is still, the wilderness is the same, a wind, came from the land and the aroma of flowers and trees - inexplicably reassuring, delightful.

I once saw a picture taken by a tourist here: a bright yellow train slowly drove from the flowers - looking at it, your mind will immediately come up with the words: the train to spring.

Yes, in the flowers, the train to spring - this scene can only be in Yunnan.

Yunnan is this kind of luxury, luxury like a dream!

Because this piece of land is too rich and beautiful. The local poet Yu Jian said, Yunnan earth is this ability, and then how to man-made destruction, a few rains, a wind, the garden will grow again, one by one, full of this piece of land that is blessed with.

I hope this is true.

I hope it will always be so.

Jianshui travel tips--

1, transportation.

Train: There are trains from Kunming to Jianshui several times a day.

Trains: There are several trains from Kunming to Jianshui every day, and the green train continues to operate.

From Jianshui Railway Station to the ancient city, there is a bus line 919, which goes directly to the north gate of the ancient city. You can also take a cab.

Car: This time I took a shuttle bus from Mile to Jianshui, there is no direct shuttle bus from Mile to Jianshui, you can take a shuttle bus from Mile to Kaiyuan, several times a day, 31 yuan. Then take a shuttle bus from Kaiyuan to Jianshui, also several times a day, 27 yuan. You can leave a message to inquire about the details.

2. Accommodation.

Jianshui ancient city and the new city have a variety of accommodation to choose from. Ancient city on both sides of Lin'an Road, there are a variety of hotels, inns, B&B, youth hostel, the north gate of the south gate outside the north gate also has some youth hostel inn. The new city has a variety of grades of hotels, B&B.

3, shopping.

Lin'an Road, Hanlin Road, Zitao Street is the main shopping place. Purple pottery is the main specialty of Jianshui, but when buying, be careful to choose, the quality of good and bad.