Attractions in Huishan Ancient Town

The best season to visit Huishan Ancient Town is spring, when spring time, azaleas are open everywhere, competing with each other, so gorgeous. Huishan Ancient Town has a long history, known as the open-air museum of Wuxi culture, the following is a small introduction to the must-see attractions in Huishan.

About Huishan Ancient Town

Huishan Ancient Town has a long history, many monuments, rich cultural heritage, known as the open-air museum of Wuxi history and culture. From the Neolithic Age, down to modern times, cultural relics and historical buildings abound, and there are 25 national, provincial and municipal cultural relics protection units. Huishan Ancient Town has discovered ll8 ancestral hall buildings and important relics of the past dynasties, bringing together 80 surnames and 180 historical figures from the Tang Dynasty to the Republican Period. The number of its high density, the category of the whole, the style of the ancient and simple, for the domestic rare. Caused a great deal of attention from all walks of life and participation in the sense of interest, the future is to explore the victory to visit traces of the roots of cultural experience and interaction, with the sages moral philosophy, understanding of the richness of the traditional culture of the Chinese people source.

Huishan Ancient Town by the north-south horizontal street and east-west straight street (embroidered Roach Street) surrounded by the east end of the straight street has written "Huishan Ancient Town" four big words of the town of the big wall, very well recognized; the north end of the horizontal street, that is, the Huichan Road and the intersection of Tonghui West Road is the ticket office, enter the ancient town free of charge, and only to visit some of the small attractions only! need tickets. Horizontal Street and the direct intersection adjacent to the Xihui Park's ancient Huashan Gate and Xiuzhang Gate, a little to the north of the People's Jiejiedi Ling Pai Fang, Huishan on the spring water into the Pai Fang behind the Chengshui Wells, Longtou River from the southwest to the northeast from here into the Grand Canal.

China Azalea Garden, the best place to enjoy the flowers

China Azalea Garden is a theme garden with Wuxi City's municipal flower, azalea, as the content of the exhibition, which was elaborately constructed in the late 1970s by utilizing the eastern extension of the slopes of Huishan Mountain, and is geographically located at the side of the Yingshan Lake in the Xihui Scenic Area.

Huishan ancient town axis, the fragrance of flowers and birds

In the past, people into the Huishan ancient town of the famous Huishan Temple, you need to go from the "Wuli Xiangsheng", through the Huishan straight street, and then enter the present "first mountain in Jiangnan" gate, along the stone pavement, and continue to walk up more than 300 meters, along the stone pavement, and then enter the "first mountain in Jiangnan" gate, along the stone pavement. Along the stone paved road, continue to walk up more than three hundred meters, will be formally to the Huishan Temple's "mountain gate". Legend has it that when the Huishan Temple was first built, the then presiding officer of the temple had planted eighteen ginkgo trees along this road, symbolizing the eighteen Luohan in the temple, but it is a pity that there is only one left at the entrance of the mountain.

Nine Dragons Wall in front of the red mountains, where azaleas bloom all over the slopes

Nine Dragons Wall, built at the foot of Wuxi's iconic mountain range, Mount Xishan, which is 26.71 meters long and 4.09 meters high, consists of three parts: the wall seat, the wall body, and the top of the wall of glazed tiles. The wall body is assembled by 144 pieces of glazed ceramic panels, while the nine dragons are divided into red, yellow, green, white, green, purple, blue, orange and other nine colors, galloping and flying, with different demeanor, symbolizing the nine dragons of the Huishan Mountain Range. It is surrounded by the slopes of the southern foot of Mount Xishan, where a large number of hairy azaleas are planted.

The Dragon's head by the river tea to enjoy azalea, interpersonal spirit of the place to dip light

Huishan ancient town of the original send smooth garden opposite the gate, is a straight river. There is a tall stone plaque by the river, with the words "People and Places" written on it. This is the most eye-catching pagoda in the old town of Huishan, which was built in the Ming Dynasty and has a long history. Especially the back of the pagoda is the straight river, but also the origin.