Introduction of Fengjing Ancient Town

Fengjing Ancient Town, located in the southwest corner of Shanghai, is a typical Jiangnan water town. As early as 2000 years ago, Fengjing Ancient Town has people living, the town's boundary river is the Spring and Autumn period of the state of Wu and the state of Yue's boundary river, due to the land across the border of Wu and Yue, Fengjing Ancient Town is known as "Wu and Yue famous town". There are 52 bridges in the town, including the Zhihe Bridge built in the Yuan Dynasty, which has a history of nearly 700 years. Compared with other popular Jiangnan water towns, Fengjing doesn't have so many tourists, and you can enjoy the scenery of small bridges and flowing water leisurely here.

There are two main streets in the old town, one is called South Street in the south, Middle Street in the center, and North Street in the north (although there are three names for the segments, they are all connected), and the other one is Peace Street, which intersects at Fengjing Three Bridges, forming a "D" shape. Fengjing Sanqiao is the center of the town, where the two rivers meet, and you can see the Qingfeng Bridge, Zhuxing Bridge and Beifeng Bridge at the same time.

Fengjing is the birthplace of Jinshan farmers' paintings, and you can enjoy a painting with local flavor at the Jinshan Farmers' Painting Exhibition Center in Shengtang Lane on South Street. There are many painting galleries and ancestral homes of famous painters in the ancient town. The Ding Cong Cartoon Exhibition Hall on North Main Street houses furniture used by Mr. Ding, while on the second floor you can see satirical caricatures, which portray the characters in a perfect way. The Lv Jiren Gallery on Heping Street has paintings by Chen Yifei's classmate Lv Jiren, and Cheng Shifa's ancestral home has many of Mr. Cheng's Chinese watercolors.

The average visitor enters through the main entrance on the south side of the town, walks down to South Street, and begins to slowly stroll through the town along the river. Walking northeast from South Street, you will pass Zhihe Bridge and arrive at Zhongdajie. In the middle of the street can see the head of the Wu-Yue boundary mark, standing boundary monument, in front of an inconspicuous river is the former Wu-Yue boundary line. Continuing to the northeast, after the Fengjing Three Bridges, there is the North Street. On the North Street, you can visit the Shi Wang Temple, which was built in the Ming Dynasty with red walls, and the Ding Cong Cartoon Exhibition Hall. On the South, Middle and North Main Streets, you will also pass by the long corridors with roofs. There are several such corridors in the old town, which are ancient and colorful, providing shade on sunny days and protection from rain on rainy days.

Step on the green stone road, back to the place of Fengjing Three Bridges, and then go to visit another street, Heping Street. First visit the Three Hundred Gardens (Hundred Baskets Pavilion, Hundred Lights Pavilion, and Hundred Walks Pavilion), bordered by the Lu Jiren Painting Pavilion. A little to the southeast, the old site of the People's Commune is worth seeing, with old hot water bottles and telephones from that era, and the Red Sun painted on the wall. Further along is the Fengjing Ancient Theatre which is facing the street on one side and the river on the other side. During the peak season and holidays, there are free traditional drama performances on the theatre, and you can pick a seat by the window in the Chensha Teahouse opposite to the theatre to sit down, sip tea and listen to the drama at the same time, which is very enjoyable. Along the street to the end of the visit Cheng Shifa ancestral home, and finally, across the bridge to the other side of the river to the production of the street, there is a modern fire agency site - the East District Fire Council.

There is a boat pier at the head of South Street in Fengjing Ancient Town, where you can also take a boat to experience the water town flavor for a reference price of 80 yuan.

The food in the ancient town is first of all dinghuo, and there is a dinghuo workshop on the side of Zhihe Bridge on South Main Street, which introduces the development and production process of dinghuo in the ancient town. The restaurant on Production Street near the Fengjing Three Bridges is one of the best in the town, with a long patio that looks like a small bridge and flowing water, and its signature dishes are stuffed meat with snails and Wuyue tofu. Production Street promenade near the river is full of stores, selling Fengjing siu mai, Gorgonzola cake, etc., which smoked lassi is very special, the Shanghai suburb of the vernacular "smoked toad" means, the taste is very good, but first need to have the guts to taste.