Shipilong
Shipilong is 68 meters long and is paved with 216 stone slabs with a thickness of only three centimeters. It is the corridor between the Wangs Zunwen Hall and the Zhongfu Hall. According to textual research, under the stone slab road in the lane is a sewer that keeps water from accumulating in rainy days. The stone slab as thin as skin is the skin of the sewer, so it is called Shipilong. It is 1.1 meters at its widest point and only .8 meters at its narrowest point. If two fat people meet in the lane, it may not be easy to pass through even if it is a narrow sky above, so the stone skin has the saying that Xitang is "a ray of sky".
The longest lane: Sixian Ancestral Hall Lane located in Beizha Street, with a total length of 236 meters.
The narrowest alley: Yemao Lane, located on the edge of Huanxiu Bridge, is 3 cm at most, which is a gap between two houses.
the widest lane: located in the high-grade lane along Lizhai in the north of Shaoxiang Port, it can walk 5.5 people side by side.
The shortest lane: the house lane located in Qing Yu Hall where the Ming and Qing Woodcarving Museum is located, with a total length of only 3 meters.
misty and rainy promenade
Some of the verandahs are near the river, some are in the middle, and some along the river have long orange backs for people to rest. There are "one falling into the water" and "two falling into the water" on the top of the verandah, and some cross the street to form the roof of the verandah. It can be said to be a unique landscape in the ancient town.
Stay in Tongcun Inn, Eryitang, Xuyuan Antique Inn, Yanyu Family, Yaozhai, Yanyu Station, etc.
gourmet mommy kitchen, Dingji Hotel, Xiangtang Hotel, etc.
a wonton shop next to xiantian (near songzi bridge); Between Laifeng Bridge and Yongning Bridge, there is a small shop specializing in tofu flower and selling mung bean vermicelli, which is sour, fragrant and unique. A "three-flavor stinky tofu" near Songziqiao has a unique flavor, crispy outside and tender inside, while others, such as beef soup and fermented rice balls, are all very good. The specialty shops are board games, ancient flowers, one fruit, Tianzhu workshop, haystack house, Caiyuntang travel notebook and so on.
Xiyuan
The former site of Xitang Xiyuan is located in Jijianlong, Xijie Street, which was owned by Zhu in the Ming Dynasty and later sold to Sun Shi. There are trees, flowers, rockeries, pavilions and ponds in the park, with beautiful scenery. There is a "Tingtaoxuan" teahouse on the rockery on the east side, so it is named because there is a Pinus bungeana on the rockery, which is several feet high and the wind is coming.
In the winter of p>192, Liu Yazi, a poet, came to Xitang, where he once lived and took photos with his friends from Xitang South Community. His title was "The Second Picture of the Elegant Collection of Xiyuan".
In March, 199, a park with a total area of 16.6 mu was built in Zhenxishan, to commemorate Liu Yazi's coming to Xiyuan, which was named "Xiyuan". At the entrance of the park, there is a small bridge running water, a stone lion hall, and the park is surrounded by brick latticed verandahs, waterside pavilions, curved bridges, rockeries, pavilions and artificial waterfalls. Several inns built next to this scenic spot are also named after it, such as Xiyuan Yaju, Xiyuan Inn, Xiyuan Post Station and so on.
Protecting the country with the grain king temple
Commonly known as the "Seven Grandfathers Temple", it is the seventh grandfather's birthday on the third day of the fourth lunar month every year. There will be a temple fair in Xitang. Everyone carried the two palaces of the Seven Masters and the Seven Ladies out of the temple gate. Starting from eleven o'clock in the evening, they each cruised according to a predetermined route. All the way, flags fluttered, gongs and drums blared, and firecrackers exploded. Tents were set up in many places where the seven masters and the seven ladies passed, so that they could take a short break in their accounts and get confessions. They didn't return to the temple until the next afternoon. And began to play a big play in the temple for three days. There are many sachets shaped like leaves hanging in the seven old temples, which are called autumn leaves, because autumn symbolizes a bumper harvest. This is also the best time to experience life in Xitang.
Wuguniang Theme Park
There is a true love story circulating in Xitang. In the late Qing Dynasty, Wuguniang, the mistress of Yangjiadi in Tangdong Village, fell in love with Xu Atian, a long-term worker, who was opposed by her half-brother and was persecuted to death. Later, her love story was compiled into Tian Ge, which has been sung here for more than 1 years. Duwating is a pavilion made of tiles specially burned by Xu Atian when he was working as a kiln to express his unique love for five girls. There is a bell hanging in the pavilion, engraved with the scene of the two of them meeting here and the words of love at first sight.
Tian Ge is a rural folk song handed down from Xitang folk, which is still sung in the neighboring areas of Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai, and it is a valuable local music cultural heritage in China. In particular, the musical "Five Girls" adapted by Tian Ge from Xitang won the Wenhua Award at the 7th China International Art Festival. And in 1954, it was adapted into Five Girls by the late Yue Opera creator Gu Xidong. Among them, Five Women Celebrate Birthdays and Han Gong Complain are the most famous. "Five Girls Birthday Celebration" has also been made into a movie, which has a very wide influence.
Ming and Qing Woodcarving Museum
is located in the north of Shaoxiang Street. This museum displays more than 25 woodcarvings of residential buildings in the south of the Yangtze River represented by Xitang since the Ming and Qing Dynasties. There are beams, trellises, lattice windows, etc., and the carving skills are rich and colorful. The unique soft and gorgeous style of woodcarving in Jiangnan folk houses is displayed in various exhibitions, such as picking the ground, carving the ground, missing carving and penetrating carving.
Ni Zhai
is located in the south of Shaoxiang Port. The Ni family is a scholarly family in the town, with a veranda in front and a garden in the back. The main hall is called "Chengqing Hall". Xitang town is rich in cultural heritage and clean government cultural resources. On this basis, we should make full use of these resources, combine the promotion of excellent clean government culture with the promotion of the party's fine clean government tradition, and build a clean government cultural education base. At present, the newly renovated ancestral home of Ni Tianzeng, Hangzhou Ancestral Hall of Yu Qian, Ningbo Qingfeng Garden and Jiaxing Nanhu Revolutionary Memorial Hall have been named as the first batch of "Zhejiang Incorrupt Culture Education Bases".
shrine
the shrine was first built in the third year of Wanli in Ming dynasty (1575), and it was visited by pang shangpeng. In the seventh year of Kangxi in the Qing Dynasty, it was renamed Jingjue Temple. It was rebuilt twice in the thirteenth year of Kangxi and fifty years of Kangxi, and it was changed to Guandi, commonly known as Shengtang. Guan Yu, a warrior sage, is a teacher for generations with Confucius in Wen Sheng, and is called a temple.
At the peak of incense in the temple, many pilgrims could not squeeze into the hall, so they had to put candles on the street outside the hall to worship. In the Spring Festival, this street is even more lively when the temple fair is held, and the procession of incense burners has been lined up from the temple to the incense burning port. There will also be temporary food stalls on the street, and the main hall of the temple sells all kinds of pictures. There are proverbs among the local people: visit temple fairs, see pictures and eat and sell. Every year, on the fifth day of the first month, the businessmen in the town must go to the temple to burn incense and worship, and exchange the ingots made of pumpkin paste at home for the ingots of the temple, which means that the financial resources are rolling in a year. China Wine Culture Museum
Xitang, an ancient town, is a wine town in history. "Drinking good wine and reciting good poems" has always been the two major pursuits of many scholars in ancient times. In the early Ming Dynasty, Gao Qi, a great poet, crossed Xitang by boat and specially stopped to ask about the restaurant. In the Qing Dynasty, the town's famous wine "Plum Blossom with Three Whites" was fragrant for a hundred miles. In the early years of the Republic of China, Liu Yazi repeatedly drunk the wine culture of the town and Xitang, which can be said to be synchronized with the ancient town and enjoy the same reputation as the ancient town.
Mr. Liu Ximing, a famous wine-making family in the west, took a fancy to Xitang, a wine town, and displayed the wine culture objects collected by his generations here. On the basis of the original yellow wine exhibition hall, a new "Chinese wine culture museum" was opened.
Folk Tile Exhibition Hall
Tile is a kind of architectural decoration fittings with simple materials. Because it is not easy to preserve, it has a long history and has certain historical value. There are more than 3 varieties of lace dripping water, chopsticks cages, step chickens, brick carvings, ancient bricks and pottery figurines in the museum, among which there are traditional tiles with good wishes; There are religious temples and political patterns that indicate a certain historical period.
Root Carving Museum
Xitang is a treasure trove of geomantic omen, which is suitable for recuperation and can inspire artists. Mr. Zhang Zheng, a root art sculptor, was born in 1958 in Shucheng, Anhui Province, Hangzhou, and moved to Xitang in 1999 after being introduced by talents. Master Zhang Zheng's works are based on seven points of nature and three points of man-made, and more than 5 large-scale works have been included in the "Guinness Best". Master Zhang Zheng is listed in the World Who's Who with his excellent craftsmanship and fearless spirit, and is known as the "son of the East".