Shanghai - Xitang - Suzhou - Hangzhou - Shanghai. How should I take this route? It starts from Shanghai and ends in Shanghai as well, and the order of other places can be disrupted.

Suggest Shanghai-Suzhou-Xitang-Hangzhou-Shanghai. First see Suzhou gardens, then see Jiangnan water town, then go to the paradise on earth, the end of the shopping metropolis. Can be arranged according to their own travel plans. The following is only the introduction of Xitang.

Xitang Town

One of the six major ancient towns in Jiangnan. Xitang ancient town is located in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai provinces at the junction of Jiashan County, Zhejiang Province, the ancient name of the oblique pond, Pingchuan, 10 kilometers from downtown Jiashan. Xitang town has a total area of 83.61 square kilometers, of which the ancient town area of 1.04 square kilometers, the population of nearly 86,000 people. Xitang - the living thousand-year-old town. It has been included in the reserve list of world historical and cultural heritage, the first batch of famous historical and cultural towns in China, and the national AAAA level scenic spot.

Geographic location

Xitang is one of the six ancient towns in Jiangnan, located in Jiashan County, Zhejiang Province. Jiashan is located in the southwest direction of Shanghai and Shanghai zero distance border, 80 kilometers from the center of Shanghai, 60 kilometers from the Hongqiao business district, 110 kilometers west to Hangzhou, 35 kilometers south of Zhapu port, 85 kilometers north of Suzhou, in the heart of the Yangtze River Delta. The transportation is extremely convenient, Shanghai-Hangzhou Railway, Shanghai-Hangzhou High-speed Railway, Shanghai-Hangzhou Expressway, Shenjiahu Expressway, Hangzhou Bay Bridge North Connection, Tingfeng High-speed Connection, 320 National Highway, all of them are crossing the border, and can be reached by car, high-speed train, and can be reached by train, and by taking Shanghai-Hangzhou High-speed Railway which has been opened to the traffic on October 26, 2010, it takes only about 20 minutes to get to the Hongqiao Hub Station in Shanghai, and it takes only about 35 minutes to get to Hangzhou from Jiashan. Hangzhou is only about 35 minutes away from Jiashan. There are three major airports in the neighborhood: Shanghai Hongqiao Airport, Shanghai Pudong Airport and Hangzhou Xiaoshan Airport. Xitang is 10 kilometers north of downtown Jiashan and can be reached in 20-30 minutes by bus express.

The origin of the town's name

Version 1: According to legend, during the Spring and Autumn Period, Wu Zixu of the State of Wu built a water conservancy and salt transportation, and excavated Wu Zitang to bring the water north of Xushan Mountain (12 miles southwest of present Jiashan County) straight to the territory, so Xitang was also called Xutang. Because of the flat terrain, Xitang, a flat river, also known as Pingchuan, oblique pond.

Version 2: Xitang township in the northeast there is a 3400 acres of area of the lake, that is one of the largest lakes in Jiashan County.　Legend has it that during the reign of Emperor Zhenzong Dazhong Xiangfu of the Northern Song Dynasty, a large family surnamed Tang moved to the swing side of the residence, they saw the beautiful scenery of this lakeshore, the abundance of kingfishers and red rhombus, which are auspicious things, but also in the year of the Xiangfu, the "Xiangfu" two words to call this lakeshore.　This family Tang family, there are two brothers, in Xiangfu swing side of the joyful life, and then split up. Brother lived in the east side of the swing, known as East Tang, brother lived in the west side of the swing, known as West Tang. Later, the older brother of this house gradually declined, the younger brother of this house, the younger generation is very prosperous, like a tree, giving birth to many trees, branches, so, people live in their place, in the "Tang" word on the side of the earth, called Xitang.

The origin of the corridor shed

In the water towns of Jiangnan, scattered, several households in the corridor street can be seen everywhere, however, the corridor street length of more than 1,300 meters, the only Xitang. Xitang corridor street, one side of the store or residence, the other side of the river, the corridor street are close to the river, curved, very moody. Step into the corridor street, into the eyes of the two sides of the water is home and the front and back of the river port. When it rains, the rain drops in the eaves of the corridor to form a long rain curtain, that is, people who do not do poetry will be full of poetry at once. There is no official record of the origin of the street, but there are only two versions of the street, "built for Lang" and "built for charity", which have been circulated among the people.　

One of the versions is that Hu, a young widow, supported a family and a store in Xitang. On the riverbank in front of Hu's store, there was Wang Er, a tofu stall owner. Wang Er sympathized with Hu and often helped her with manual labor. Days a long time, Hu will feel inseparable from Wang Er, but it is difficult to express this feeling, so painstakingly take the opportunity to repair the store, asked people to build a shed along the river, the store in front of the street covered up. In this way, Wang Er can be protected from the wind and rain, the two can also be under one roof. I did not want to Hu family store because of this shed and business immediately boomed. The town businessmen have followed suit, a few years, the shacks connected to a line. Later generations took the meaning of "for Lang and cover", the shed is called the corridor street.　

Version two: Xitang has an open cigarette and paper store boss, one day when the store closed, see a flower girl in front of the store under the eaves to avoid the rain, let him into the house. The man insisted on refusing, the boss took a roll of bamboo curtains connected to the eaves, temporarily built a small shed for the man to hide from the rain. The next day, the beggar left a line on the door of the store: "The porch shed one night to shelter from the wind and rain, and good luck to the good family." After that, the store really prospered. The owner of the store in order to thank the kindness of the caller, so in front of the store under the eaves built a brick and tile with a wooden frame of the corridor street, and across the street until the river port.

Legend of Wolong Bridge

Wolong Bridge was originally a wooden bridge, old and dilapidated. One day, the bridge lived a bamboo maker surnamed Zhu saw a pregnant woman lost her footing and fell into the water and died, would like to rebuild, but there is no money. He cut his hair as a monk name wide margin, running around for ten years, accumulated silver three thousand taels, began construction. To the end of the silver, there is still a lack of stone, but the monk died of old age due to ten years of suffering accumulated disease. Project lack of bridge will stop, at this time, there are two immortals came to Xitang, heard Xitang dried tofu is very famous, taste, full of praise, is intoxicated when, a piece of dried tofu fell down in the unfinished Wolong Bridge, the formation of the bridge. That's why the bridge deck of Wolong Bridge is a big block. The whole bridge is engraved with a dragon, the first east and the last west, which is still clearly visible today.

The Legend of Laifeng Bridge

According to Xitang Township Records, Laifeng Bridge was built in the 10th year of the Ming Dynasty (1637 AD) and was rebuilt twice in the Qing Dynasty. Legend has it that when the bridge was built, a bird flew over it, and the people thought it was auspicious, so they named it "Laifeng Bridge for Sending Sons". 1988 it was reconstructed as a single-hole reinforced concrete arch bridge, and 1998 it was rebuilt, adopting the form of the "compound corridor" in the classical gardens, which has a partition wall and flower windows, and a passageway on both sides. Both sides of the passage. It is said that all newlywed couples who cross this bridge, male left and female right, may be able to divine your son. This bridge is also known as the "water dripping rain bridge" 'harmonious name of the "lovers bridge". The former can remind people of the rainy day scene, sitting here, drink a cup is not better? Slope. Men of course walk steps step by step, women three inches of gold lotus small steps, hold the family steady, the old people say: "newlyweds walk, the south is to send a son, the north is to phoenix", if there is a marriage is not yet a son, may also want to walk a walk.

Seven Masters Temple (protect the country with the food King Temple) of the legend

Ming Dynasty Chongzhen years Jiashan around the famine, the starving people tired, when the seven Masters Supervisor transported the royal grain through, see the starving people all over the place and can not bear to see the royal grain all the people, he himself knows that the private will be the royal grain distributed to the people is a capital offense, so in the Yantawan River to throw himself into the water, the nearby area of the people saved, they are in memory of this clean official. The people in the neighborhood were saved, and they built a temple for him, the Temple of the Seven Masters, with a lot of incense.

Transportation

2, highway, railroad and high-speed train

Jiashan - Xitang Jiashan Passenger Transportation Center, go to the bus transfer area to take the K215 or K216 bus to Xitang (the fare is 2 yuan, coins are required). The bus interval is about 10 minutes, and it takes about 40 minutes to arrive at Xitang (Starting and ending time: 5:30 pm - 17:50 pm). -(Bus interval is about 10 minutes, and it takes about 40 minutes to arrive at Xitang.)　Railroad Jiashan Station, exit the station and walk along the left hand direction of North Huan Road for 5 minutes to Jiashan Bus Terminal and transfer to bus K210 to Xitang. (The fare is 2 yuan, coins are required. The interval between buses is about 20 minutes, and it takes about 25 minutes to arrive at Xitang Starting and ending time: 5:30 pm - 17:50 pm).　High-speed rail Jiashan South Railway Station, transfer to bus K702 to Jiashan Passenger Transportation Center, (the fare is 2 yuan, coins are required, the bus interval is about 10-20 minutes, about 10 minutes to arrive at the Passenger Transportation Center Starting and ending time: 6:30 hours - 21:45 hours) and then transfer to bus K215, K216 to Xitang.　Take a taxi from Jiashan to Xitang, at least about 40 RMB. Xitang back to Jiashan urban and rural buses the latest class is 18:00, such as missing the last bus also do not have to hurry, generally 8, 9 pm before always in Xitang, Jiashan Second People's Hospital near the cab back to Jiashan, and cheap (10 yuan / person, sometimes even a person also go, better than driving back to the empty car).　Jiaxing - Xitang After getting off at Jiaxing South Station of the high-speed railway, you can take K93 bus directly to Jiaxing North Bus Station, and then change to urban and rural bus K152 bus at Jiaxing North Bus Station to reach the ancient town of Xitang. (The first and last bus time of K93 bus to Jiaxing South Railway Station is 7:00~22:40; the first and last bus time of K152 bus to Jiaxing North Bus Station and Xitang is 6:30~17:25).　Railroad Jiaxing Station (stops close to 90 ordinary trains per day. Most large and medium-sized cities in the country can be reached), you can get off the bus, you can take the 4 road, 5 road, 22 road, 32 road, 87 road, 55 road night and other buses directly to the Jiaxing North Bus Station, in the Jiaxing North Bus Station, change to urban and rural transit buses K152 to reach Xitang.　Jiaxing bus station (will soon be in the relocation of the new site, named Jiaxing high-speed passenger transportation center) after getting off, you can take the urban and rural bus K151 in Jiaxing bus station to arrive at Jiashan, and then Jiashan to Xitang, can also be in the west of the Jiaxing bus station to take the 15 road, 15 road night, 20 road, 23 road, 55 road night and other buses to the north of the Jiaxing automobile station to transfer to the K152 directly to the ancient town of Xitang.　Jiaxing North Bus Station Get off the bus and take K152 urban and rural bus to Xitang Ancient Town.　Shanghai - Xitang Shanghai Tourism Distribution Center (Shanghai 80,000 People Stadium, Gate 12, Escalator 5) 9:15 every day to Xitang travel line buses, the same day 16:30 return, the ticket price of 140 yuan / person, with a tour guide service (including attractions package tickets).　Shanghai South Railway Station to Jiashan train only two a day, the South Railway Station bus station to Jiashan coach last 18:00. in Xitang town, in front of the supermarket of agricultural and industrial enterprises, 17:40 car straight back to Shanghai, parked near the People's Square. The ticket is 25 RMB.　Shanghai Hongqiao Station to Jiashan South Railway Station is now also open high-speed railroad, from 7:00 am to 20:20 pm there are corresponding frequency, the ticket price is 32 yuan (the price of the train is 20 yuan), the time is 20 minutes. After arriving at Jiashan South Station, you can take a cab for about 10 minutes to reach Xitang Ancient Town Scenic Spot.　Hangzhou-Xitang From Hangzhou, you can take express buses from Jiubu Passenger Transportation Center to Jiashan (about 30-minute shift, 1?-hour ride, fare is RMB 35), then change to ticketed express buses at Jiashan Passenger Transportation Center to Xitang directly (RMB 5 at the ticket window), or you can take express buses directly from Jiubu Passenger Transportation Center to Xitang (four shifts a day, about 2-hour ride, fare is RMB 39).　Suzhou-Xitang

Board station Arrival station Departure time Car type Fare (yuan) Terminal

Suzhou South Railway Station Xitang 07:25 large high two 37.0 Jiashan Suzhou South Railway Station Xitang 09:25 large high two 37.0 Jiashan Suzhou South Railway Station Xitang 11:25 large high two 37.0 Jiashan Suzhou South Railway Station Xitang 13:25 large high two 37.0 Jiashan Suzhou South Railway Station Xitang 15:35 Large Ko2 37.0 Jiashan Suzhou South Railway Station Xitang 17:25 Large Ko2 37.0 Jiashan You can also buy tickets at the North Square Bus Station next to the railway station

Tourist Tickets

Introduction

Xitang Tourist Tickets Since January 1, 2012, only Xitang Tourist Tickets a combination of tickets, the price of 100 yuan / sheet, including 11 small attractions. The price is 100 RMB per ticket, including 11 small attractions. Tickets are checked at all entrances and exits from May, 2012 onwards. Don't throw away the ticket after checking, you need to show the ticket when you buy the boat ticket as well as when you ride the boat.

Preferential policies

Ticket type Door price Same price

Adult joint ticket 100 80

1, exemptions: national guide card, tour guide card, travel agency manager qualification certificate, press card, disability card, officer's card, soldier's card, disabled military card, veteran cadres retirement card, elderly people aged 70 years old and above with ID card or senior citizen card, travel agency with the group driving AA2 and the height of the children under 120cm. Children below 120cm.　2、Discounts: 10% off for private groups of more than 16 people, 10% off for teachers' certificates; 50% off for full-time students' certificates, 50% off for children between 120-140cm in height, 50% off for the elderly aged 60-69 with ID cards or senior citizen certificates, and 50% off for teaching certificates issued by the state for more than 30 years.

Night tour:

Xitang every night 17:00-20:30 May to October each year to set up a night tour program. During the night tour Xiyuan, Zhangzheng Root Carving Art Museum and Button Museum are normally open.　Evening ticket price of 50 yuan / Zhang, with a joint ticket to buy tickets 20 yuan / person, with a joint ticket to charter 150 yuan / boat (regardless of the size of the limit sit 8 people). The boat is full of people that ship, ship time: 18:00 to 20:30.

Main Attractions

Xitang to "more bridges, more lanes, more corridors and shacks" of the three major features and won the favor of the majority of tourists, of which the Xitang Tourism Company has developed 11 attractions, from the counterclockwise direction: by the central town of Yejialiang enter, enter the West Street, and then the West Street, the West Street, the West Street and the West Street. Yejialiang into, into the West Street, turn right, through the "Root Carving Museum (1), Wadang Museum (2), Xue House Button Museum (3)"; --- to the double bridge, straight across the Anjing Bridge, turn right, in the burning of Hong Kong, touring the "Ni Residence (4), Sacred Temple (5), Woodcarving Museum (6)"; --- Yan Xitang Harbor east of the ancient street north, across the Lion Bridge, visible "yellow wine shop (7) "; --- Along the long and thin smoky rain corridor, via the Bridge for Sending Sons to Phoenix, keep going west, and come to the "Drunken Garden (8), Temple of the Seven Masters (9) --Return to the Huanxiu Bridge, turn right into the "Seed Blessing Hall (10)"; go east along the West Street and finally visit the "West Garden (11)".

Xiyuan

The old Xitang Xiyuan (West Garden) is located in the Keijia Lane on Xijie Street, which was the property of the Zhu family in the Ming Dynasty, and was later ceded to the Sun family. Inside the garden, there are trees, flowers and plants, rockeries, pavilions and ponds, etc., Xiyuan has a beautiful landscape. On the east side of the rockery, there is a tea room called "Listening to Tao Xuan", which is named because there is a white pine on the rockery, which is several zhang high, and the wind comes to the sound of Jiji, so it is named.

Drunken Garden

Built in the early Ming Dynasty, the courtyard houses are now well-preserved. The garden is set up in three, the hall corridor, blue pool green stone, corridor bamboo, color intoxicating. The most impressive is the courtyard that only allows a person to pass the brick pocket bridge, delicate and clear, with ornamental and practical.

Corridor shed

Xitang ancient town in the most famous scenic line is a nearly 1,000 meters long, the shape of the ancient corridor shed, the so-called corridor shed, in fact, is a street with a roof.

Lufen Ginkgo

Lufen Ginkgo in Xitang Town, Post Road, Grave Hamlet Lane, **** two trees, male and female pair. Planted in Ming Hongwu years, more than 600 years ago. Ginkgo old trunk, branches and leaves. Male ginkgo 13.5 meters high, around 3.92 meters; female ginkgo 9.35 meters high, around 3.08 meters.

Shipi Lane

The ancient town in the Ming Dynasty before the big families have Tang, Wang, Zhao, Lu four surnames, after the Ming Dynasty and Ni, Jiang, Zhu, Bu, Lu and other big families, Shipi Lane, so more than a deep house. In the town of Xitang 122 varying lengths of the lane, the narrowest Shipilang, width of only 1 meter, the mouth of the narrowest place only 0.8 meters, the total length of 68 meters, paved with 166 fast stone, the surface of the lane is flat, under the sewers. The two walls of Shipilang have a height of 6-10 meters, and still retain their ancient and unique style.

Folk Wadang Exhibition Hall

Wadang is a kind of architectural decorative accessory made of simple materials, which is not easy to be preserved and has a certain historical value due to its long age.

Chinese Wine Culture Museum

The ancient town of Xitang is historically a wine town, and "drinking good wine and reciting good poems" have been two major pursuits of many literati and scholars in ancient times.

Zunwentang

Zunwentang was built in the late Yuan and early Ming dynasties, in which the Hall of Hundred Lives is one of the best. The beams, pillars, corridors and windows of the hall are all patterned with realistic forms, fine knife skills and superb carvings.

Button Museum

Xitang is the hometown of China's buttons, button museum hall is located in the West Street, *** there are six exhibition halls: ancient buttons display area, modern buttons display area, modern buttons display area, shell buttons production process display area, buttons application area, Chinese knot display area.

Root Sculpture Hall

Xitang is a feng shui treasure land, suitable for recuperation, but also inspire artists. Root carver Mr. Zhang Zheng, who is originally from Shucheng, Anhui Province and a native of Hangzhou, was born in 1958 and moved to Xitang in 1999 through the introduction of talents. Mr. Zhang Zheng's works are based on seven parts natural and three parts artificial, and there are 500 pieces of large-scale works that are listed in the "Guinness Book of Records". Master Zhang Zheng has been listed in Who's Who in the world as "Son of the East" for his excellent craftsmanship and spirit of not being afraid of difficulties.

Lion Bridge

Also known as Liren Bridge, the bridge is also known as Lion Bridge because there are eight small stone lions of different shapes carved on the pillars of the bridge.

Huanxiu Bridge

Built in 1581 (the ninth year of the Wanli reign of the Ming dynasty), it spanned the year of Xiaotong, Beicui two poles, is the earliest high-level bridge in the town of Xihuanxiu Bridge

Tang. Legend has it that in the old days, when it was sunny, you could stand on the top of the bridge and look north at the green hills on the edge of Taihu Lake.

Wufu Bridge

Built during the Zhengde period of the Ming Dynasty, the bridge was repaired in the 27th year of the Guangxu period (1901) of the Qing Dynasty. According to the old people in Xitang, those who walk over this bridge will bring with them five kinds of blessings, namely: longevity, wealth, tranquility, virtue and good end.

Wolong Bridge

Wolong Bridge was built in 1719 (58th year of the Kangxi reign). Located at the mouth of the Beijie City River, it is a single Wolong Bridge

Hole stone arch bridge with a length of 31.46 meters, a width of 4.95 meters, 32 levels on the east slope of the bridge, 30 levels on the west slope, and 9 levels at the corner of the west side of the bridge towards the south. The parade staff is rectangular with a height of 44 centimeters, the watchtower is 71 centimeters high, and the column head is square. The arch ring is built in parallel with the longitudinal link, and the craftsmanship is exquisite, which is the highest bridge in the town.

Laifeng Bridge

The bridge was rebuilt in the forty-eighth year of the Kangxi reign and the fifteenth year of the Daoguang reign. Laifeng Bridge was rebuilt in 1997, its shape and structure is unique, suitable for tourism, as one of the new attractions. The common people commonly known as "rain and shine bridge".

Horse head wall

In the middle of the Qing Dynasty, Huizhou merchants moved eastward and brought their architectural culture to the Taihu Lake area, and buildings with fire walls soon became popular among the people. The difference is that the local people transformed the flat and straight wall in the original Huizhou architecture into a horse's head type, which is known as Horse Head Wall.

Beauty lean

As the saying goes, "beauty leaning on beauty, beauty does not lean on not beautiful." It is said that the earliest beauty leaning on the king of Wu in order to please the beautiful Xi Shi and built, we see the shape of this leaning on the shape of a "goose neck"? Xitang dialect "goose neck leaning" and "Wu Wang leaning" is a harmonic, some people call it "Wu Wang leaning", and later this style in the Jiangnan area of the river building is widely used, now the beauty leaning is also "each person leaning", everyone can lean!

River port

River port is not only a place for people to moor their boats and trade goods, but also a place for people to get water and wash things.

Boat Nose

The relationship between the river port and the boat is inseparable. If you pay a little attention, you can find that on the bank wall next to the river port, there is an eyelet stone for the mooring cable, which is used to fix the boat.

Tie stone

Tie stone looks like a stone lotus flower, buried in the soil, shaped like a lotus stake, which is for passing boats mooring cable, a cable stone can be tied at the same time a few cables, which is one of the few public facilities of the town in ancient times.

Flower wall

It is made of ordinary tiles. It is usually located on the upper part of the fence wall of the patio or yard and is used for ventilation, which is both beautiful and practical.

High step along

The Ming and Qing dynasties of the big families, especially near the river, pay attention to the wealth is not exposed, there is a "small crab hole can be touched out of a big crab," the metaphorical characteristics of the building. But if a little attention, people can often be observed at the entrance to the master identity or value of the characteristics. In the Ming Dynasty, the building stone is generally used lapis lazuli, but in the Qing Dynasty, due to the "lapis lazuli" of the "green" and "Qing Dynasty" of the "Qing" homophonic, changed to use the "Qing". "Qing Dynasty," the same sound, changed to woolen stone. Xitang town in front of some people's homes step edge is more than a foot high, is because of the Ming Dynasty in front of the door with the green stone pavement to the Qing Dynasty and then use the whole woolen stone to cover up the formation of.

Guanyin Pocket

Xitang town almost can not be found on the roof of the flaring eaves and corners, showing the civilian cultural elements. The roofs of most of the houses are the simplest herringbone shaped hard mountain roofs. In the Qing Dynasty, new houses had to pay taxes, and the standard for paying taxes was the beams, and a few beams paid a few taxes. If you want to expand the area and do not pay the tax, you can only think of ways, Xitang people are very smart, build a house with a hard roof, only one beam, and then the east and west rooms are generally a single roof drop, there is no beam. Some sophisticated people build the side walls very high, even higher than the roof and the roof. This part of the wall above the top of a beautiful arc, as if the Guanyin pocket scarf, very charming, known as the Guanyin pocket.

Flower Window

The structure of the flower window has a variety of common for a variety of lattice patterns, there are also lattice and then carve another pattern or auspicious motifs. This is a reflection of the contradiction between conservative and open-mindedness of the local people. When people first started using glass, they always felt that it was inappropriate to expose all the things in the house and the whole family's life in front of other people, but they also wanted to catch up with the fashion, so there was a wooden lattice on the glass window as a cover.

Wadang

Wadang is located in the eaves, in the bottom tile and face tile terminal are equipped with wadang, the lower tile end is called drip, on the end of the tile is called "cat head". Tile is commonly known as "tube tile head" or "tile head". Xitang Ming and Qing dynasty buildings, the earliest of the existing residential buildings on the tiles in the late Ming and early Qing dynasty, has a rich historical and cultural background, tiles are very rich in graphics. Xitang is located in Jiashan, clay texture is fine and sticky, made of tiles and bricks were diaphanous green color, knocking against each other, the sound is pleasant, and its tiles and bricks in the Ming and Qing dynasties have a reputation. Over the years, many buildings have disappeared, but Wadang - a very small component of traditional Chinese buildings - has survived, becoming a record of social history and changes in local customs and styles.　Wadang is developed on the basis of tile, roof tile ridge at the lower end of both decoration and rafter protection function of the special tiles is called Wadang, its flower pattern initially appeared in Wan Nian Qing, inherited the old Wadang "Yan Nian", "long live the world" cultural connotation, later appeared lotus, hibiscus, and so on, and so on. Later appeared lotus, hibiscus and so on. Lotus tiles are mostly used in temples and graveyards, while hibiscus tiles are mostly used in general residential houses. Typical residential tiles in Xitang are as follows: four plum blossom gable-head tiles, spider web gable-head tiles, Republican Founding Coin tiles, etc. Although inconspicuous, different tiles are used for different purposes. Although the tiles are inconspicuous, different patterns, patterns, shapes and materials have different cultural connotations, which is a kind of concentration and accumulation of social history and culture.

Accommodation

There are three kinds of inns in Xitang: ancient houses in Ming and Qing Dynasty, waterfront inns and modern hotels.

Ancient houses

Mostly reflect the ancient charm of the ancient town of Jiangnan. Scenic area of the Ming and Qing dynasty mansions are located in deep alleys and courtyards, deep courtyard, all the furnishings are old antiques, although not near the water, but the mansion is wide, you can y appreciate the ancient town of the ancient charm of the life of the prestige family. Very quiet, the price is also the cheapest. Sleeping in a hundred years of carved beds, smelling the air dense with the smell of the water town, gradually fall asleep, intoxicating. Xiyuan Yajiu, Shende Hall are typical of the Ming Dynasty Jiangnan mansion building, is the ancient town of Xitang Wang family mansion, Xiyuan Yajiu in the attractions of the west side of the West Garden, mansion at hand are antiques, the owner of the heavy feelings speak of faith, live in Xiyuan Landscape Room, you can free to enjoy the beauty of the West Garden attractions. Shende Hall of musical instruments all over the hall, there are often music friends to practice; Chen's old house (youth hostel) before the bar (bar on the water) after the mansion, the charm of the night, accommodation in the courtyard after the bar, very quiet; Zunwentang itself is an attraction, hidden in the stone skin lane. The "Hundred Longevity Case" in the hall is a national monument; Ruyi House Inn is renovated from an ancient mansion, and if you live in Ruyi House, you can visit the "Drunken Garden" free of charge; Tongcun Inn is an old mansion built in the Qing Dynasty during the Yongzheng period, and the owner is a folk artist with the skill of writing with both hands, and all these inns are the most famous places in Xitang Scenic Spot. These inns are Xitang scenic area with the most ancient charm characteristics of the inn, in the donkeys have a good reputation.

Waterfront class

Dwelling by water, rich in the characteristics of the Jiangnan water town.　The characteristics of such inns: generally transformed from the residential houses, low houses, room space is not large, the center of the area (Yongning Bridge and the Huanxiu Bridge between the river room has a better view of the value of the river, especially on the West Street on the river room is really living by the water, but the price is quite high, not affordable. Most of the waterfront inns on the Internet are close to the river, but not really near the water. The price is quite moderate.

Guest houses

Modern features.　Characteristics of such inns: some built outside the scenic area, generally larger, mainly double standard rooms, can accommodate dozens of people at the same time team of inns. Such as: Xitang Hotel, Lai Feng Inn. These rooms are usually priced at around 70 yuan to 100 yuan, with some increases on weekends and holidays.　Rooms can be ordered through the Internet, but the general price and the online introduction of more or less gap (due to changes in the time of the release of information), the price can be negotiated with the store, it is recommended that self-help travelers can also be a site visit before deciding.　The first thing you need to do is to get a good deal on the price of the car, and then you will be able to get a good deal on the price of the car, and then you will be able to get a good deal on the price of the car, and then you will be able to get a good deal on the price of the car.　

Specialties and snacks

Specialties: Jiashan yellow wine, steamed meat in lotus leaf, eight treasures cake, gravy cake, "June red" river crabs, malt cake, lavender green beans, honey dachshund, wontons, old duck pot.　Snacks: gravy cake, malt sugar, mung bean soup, tofu flower, big, small wontons, smoked green beans, tie meat, a mouthful of rice dumplings, orange cake, stinky tofu, fresh meat, roasted meat with moldy dried vegetables, salt and pepper pumpkin, wontons of old duck pot, minced meat, wild flowers, white chicken, Malantau, white water fish, cicadas wrapped in a round, the world's largest noodle in Xitang.

Malt Cake

Also known as Lixia Cake, it is a special seasonal snack of Xitang for thousands of years. Dingji Malt Cake is made of glutinous rice flour, black sesame, red beans, walnuts, sugar, and Chinese herbs Fructus Forskohlii and malt, and is refined by traditional craftsmanship. Dingji malt cake is soft, non-sticky and richly scented, appetizing and can reduce food and fat, prolong life, and is a good gift for friends and the elderly.

Gorgonian cake

Gorgonian: aquatic water lily plant both the spleen and stomach effects, the gorgonian crushed with glutinous rice flour into a cake is the Xitang gorgonian cake features, Xitang Ping'an Hall gorgonian cake has a number of flavors are very popular, unique flavors, and people are not the same, especially osmanthus flavors and pollen and honey flavors of the most glutinous and the most delicious. Xitang gravy cake can be tasted before buying.

Send son dragon hooves

Legendary Xitang in the Ming Dynasty, a rich man married for a long time did not have a heir, and then by a man pointing out the good deeds of building roads, bridges so that all the people in the construction of the bridge when the heavenly palace bird phoenix stops by the bridge, and the rich merchant was also in the year of the happy child, so the bridge is named "send a son to the phoenix bridge". The bridge is now restored in the thousand-year-old town of Xitang Chaonan Dai. When the rich merchant was celebrating the birth of his son, a feast was held, during which a main dish was hooves. The people for congratulations will be named "send son dragon hooves", since then, wherever the square circle in the wedding celebrations, housewarming, family reunions are to the dish as the main dish, meaning that early to get a son, reunion and good luck. Dragon Feet. The use of high-quality pork leg meat, with dozens of ancestral spices, by simmering and cooking steam stew, Wang, the fire repeatedly, the meat is crispy and tender off the bone, fat and not greasy, the taste of a good match.

Steamed meat in lotus leaf

The traditional dish of the ancient town, five flavors to adjust the fragrance of all flavors. The use of suitable five-flower rib meat, five spices fried rice flour, tofu and fresh lotus leaves, with cloves, star anise, soy sauce, sweet noodle sauce and other seasonings refined, this dish has a unique flavor, the meat is crispy and glutinous, fragrant and not greasy, both under the table, but also as a snack, and to give full play to the lotus leaves to relieve the summer heat and clear heat, bruising the role of the pharmacology of the blood.

Xitang the world's first noodles

Noodles are the staple food of the North, the practice is generally very simple, very pure. And for the southerners, especially in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, noodles are as a usual change of flavor snacks, so do the noodles are particularly concerned about the collocation of auxiliary ingredients, often adding a lot of things, such as tripe slices, shredded eel, beef, etc., do a good job of the fabric more, fresh flavor, rich in nutrients. Xitang people are famous for making noodles. To make noodles to use two pots at the same time cooking, a pot for cooking noodles, a pot for frying accessories, Xitang people commonly used accessories are sliced tripe, shredded eel, homemade popping fish and so on. The boiled noodles are put into another pot with sliced tripe and shredded eel and boiled together with water for 2-3 minutes. When the noodles come out of the pot, the soup is thick and delicious, and the noodles are al dente.

Five-spice beans

Annual broad beans after the market, take the green skin of the black head of the broad beans dried, take Chenpi, peppercorns, cooking wine, salt, fennel and other sun-dried broad beans *** cooking, so that the flavor of the beans quickly and completely into the beans, and then take out and rolled on the licorice powder to dry, to be seven, eight dry and then put into the cauldron in the frying brittle, so that crispy, tasty five-spice beans will be made, and become a snack after dinner. The first thing you need to do is to make sure that you have the right kind of food.

Jiashan Yellow Wine

The people of Xitang have always loved to drink yellow wine, so there have been many large and small yellow wine workshops in the history of Xitang. Nowadays, the largest single yellow wine producer in the country ---- Jiashan Winery is located in the north of Xitang Town, which strictly controls quality and produces more than 20 varieties of Fenhu series such as flower carving, good brewing and yellow wine, which are mild in nature, mellow in flavor and unique in taste, and have become a good product for modern people to exchange their feelings and give gifts to their friends and relatives.

Eight treasures cake

Eight treasures cake is made of eight herbs such as yam, poria, fructus, rice kernel, wheat teeth, lentil, lotus meat, hawthorn and other herbs with high-quality glutinous rice flour and white sugar. This cake is green, black and crispy, the first to be able to eliminate pediatric chancre and popular, and then due to the selection of materials, processing, sweet taste, and beneficial to the spleen and stomach, become a famous point of Jiangnan, renowned for more than a hundred years and not decline.

A bite of dumplings

Xitang's dumplings have many flavors, such as fresh meat, bean paste, lard, red beans, etc. Although dumplings are a kind of snacks available in many places, Xitang's dumplings are more fragrant and glutinous because of good rice, sufficient material, and tightly tied, and they have become a kind of traditional tourism products in the town today.

"June Red" River Crab

June Red refers to the river crab produced in the summer of June in the lunar calendar. "The body of the crab is only as big as an egg, the meat is tender, the fat drips oil, the shell is thin, and it turns scarlet when it is steamed in clear water, hence the name. In the Hangjiahu area, there is also a saying that "if you are poor, don't forget June Red", which is a compliment to the "June Red" river crabs.

Wonton Duck Casserole

Wonton Duck Casserole is a Xitang local dishes, it is said that this package of kiln workers invented, due to the long working hours, labor intensity, so the kiln workers to solve the problem, in the kiln wrapped in the stewed duck, but the bare duck, and can not eat, there are kiln workers in the pot to add wontons, not only to fill up the hunger, but also supplemented with nutrients, a two-in-one approach, wontons, old duck Casserole in kilns will spread in the middle of the kilns. The dish spread among the kiln workers and later appeared on the table of Xitang people. Burning method is very delicate, first of all, to choose the local grass duck, preferably raw end of the old duck; secondly, in the ingredients, each family has its own favorites, some put wild rice, green pepper, mushrooms, some put black fungus, salted meat, bamboo shoots, depending on the taste of each person.

Steamed white fish

Xitang, the "land of fish and rice," is particularly rich in aquatic resources, with fishponds dotted along the roads, the most famous of which is Fenhu Lake. The most famous of them is Fen Lake, where the white silk fish, with its delicious and nutritious meat, occupies a place on the Xitang gourmet menu.

Night Tour in Xitang

"A night in Xitang has waited a thousand years for you." It's a pity to come to Xitang without seeing the night view of Xitang! Because of the climate, Xitang is open from May to October every year for night touring activities, 17:00 to 20:30 open three attractions and cruises: Zhangzheng Root Carving Art Museum (located in the parking lot, you can get off the bus and then tour first), China Button Museum (water stage is located in the Button Museum along the river), Xiyuan (you can sip tea, and enjoy the performance of the Jiangnan Silk and Bamboo). Along the river under the promenade there is a row of red lanterns, in the evening all night bright, to the people they are street lamps, to the tourists is a bright landscape. Water stage in the night tour during the opening of the Yueju Opera "five girls to pay homage to life", Tian song "five girls" and other performances, the people sit around the other side of the river to watch the play, tourists on the boat to watch the play, on the stage and off the stage are the scenery. Night tour of Xitang must not forget to take a cruise, sitting on a boat leisurely, with the guide to learn to sing Xitang ditties, in the early lights of the water town, so that people seem to be in a picturesque dream of Jiangnan.