Introduction to 11 attractions in Xitang Ancient Town

Xitang Ancient Town in Jiaxing is a national AAAAA-level tourist attraction, and it also has a refreshing and refined elegance and charm. There are many elegant attractions in the ancient town. So what are the 11 attractions in Xitang Ancient Town? About Let’s take a look at the attraction introduction below. 11 scenic spots in Xitang Ancient Town

The combined ticket includes 11 scenic spots: Ni Zhai, Shengtang, Wood Sculpture Array Museum, Jiangnan Corrugated Museum, Zhang Zhenggen Sculpture Art Museum, Button Museum, Rice Wine Exhibition Hall, Xiyuan, Wang Zhai, Zuiyuan, Qilaoye Temple. Introduction to attractions

Ni's House

Ni's House is the ancestral home of Ni Tianzeng, the former deputy mayor of Shanghai. It is located in the south of Hong Kong. It was built in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties. The overall architecture is simple and subtle, not A hint of publicity is a typical representative of Confucianism.

Xitang has five major surnames: Ni, Jiang, Zhu, Bu and Lu, among which Ni ranks first. The Ni family is a scholarly family in the town, and Ni Tianzeng's grandfather was a scholar in the late Qing Dynasty. Ni Tianzeng was born in 1937. He served four terms as deputy mayor of Shanghai and was deeply loved by the people. Unfortunately, after years of overloaded work, he died of myocardial infarction at the age of 54. The former Prime Minister of the State Council praised him as a "citizen" He is a public servant" and "a model of hard work, sweating in Pudong, and his achievements will last for a long time."

Ni House is a typical residential style of the Ming and Qing Dynasties. It originally had five bays and a shed in the front and a garden in the back. Now only the second bay has been repaired. The last three bays are still inhabited by local residents and are not open to the public. The first entrance is the foyer, where the statue of Ni Tianzeng is located; the second entrance is the patio and the main hall, which is called "Chengqing Hall". On both sides of the main hall are the piano room and the chess room. There is an exhibition of Ni Zengtian's relics upstairs, as well as information about his life. Picture materials and inscriptions by relevant central leaders.

The Holy Church

The Holy Church is located in the north of Hong Kong. It was formerly known as Pang Gong Temple because it was originally dedicated to Pang Shangpeng. It was first built in 1575 (the third year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty), written by Yao Shou, a native of the city. In 1674 (the 13th year of Emperor Kangxi's reign in the Qing Dynasty), Shen Zhigao rebuilt it and changed it to a statue of Emperor Guan, commonly known as the "Holy Hall". In 1711 (the 50th year of Emperor Kangxi's reign in the Qing Dynasty), the palace corridor was rebuilt and renamed Jingjue'an, but the town people still called it "the Holy Church".

When the incense in the church is at its strongest, many pilgrims cannot squeeze into the church and can only worship by placing candles on the ground outside the church. During the Spring Festival, this street becomes more lively when the temple fair is held in the temple. The queue of incense burners lines up from the temple to the Hong Kong port. There will also be temporary food stalls set up on the streets, and various paintings are sold in the main hall of the church. There is a proverb among the local people: go to the temple fair, look at the paintings, and eat siomai.

Wood Sculpture Array Hall

The museum displays more than 250 wood carvings of residential buildings in the Jiangnan area represented by Xitang since the Ming and Qing Dynasties, including beam frames, beam pads, support arches, and sparrows. The carving techniques are rich and colorful, such as floor carving, floor carving, leak carving, openwork carving, etc. The patterns are elegant, neat, exquisite and beautiful, which focus on the unique softness, delicacy, freshness and splendor of Jiangnan residential wood carvings. style.

Jiangnan Corrugated Museum

The Jiangnan Corrugated Exhibition Hall is located at No. 51, Xitang West Street, Shuixiang Ancient Town. It is collected and displayed by a private collector in the ancient town (

Mr. Dong Jifa) The Jiangnan Water Town Folk Brick Art Exhibition Hall has more than 300 varieties in six categories: lace drippings, chopstick cages, walking chickens, brick carvings, ancient bricks, and pottery figurines. The patterns include good wishes, religious colors, and political patterns. It has now become a special thematic museum in Xitang Ancient Town. Tile is a kind of architectural decoration accessory made of simple material. Because it is not easy to preserve and has a long history, it has certain historical value.

Zhang Zheng Gen Sculpture Art Museum

Mr. Zhang Zheng, a root sculptor, moved to Xitang in 1999 after talent introduction. Master Zhang Zheng's works are based on seven parts natural and three parts artificial. More than 500 large-scale works have been included in the "Guinness Book of World Records". Master Zhang Zheng is listed in the Who's Who of the World for his outstanding craftsmanship and fearless spirit, and is known as the "Son of the East".

Button Museum

The Button Museum is located on West Street. It has six exhibition halls: ancient button exhibition area, modern button exhibition area, modern button exhibition area, and shell button production technology. Process display area, button application area, Chinese knot display area.

The opening of the Button Museum opens a new page in the history of Chinese buttons, and also adds a new landscape to Xitang, the hometown of buttons.

In the Button Museum, you can not only view various buttons from ancient and modern times, at home and abroad, but visitors can also make buttons by hand.

Yellow Wine Exhibition Hall

Yellow Wine Exhibition Hall is located in the middle section of Chunzhu Street between Wan'an Bridge and Wolong Bridge in Xitang. It was rebuilt by a group of folk. It is the largest rice wine production area in the country and a microcosm of Xitang’s winemaking history.

Xitang Rice Wine Exhibition Hall consists of a rice wine product exhibition room, traditional rice wine production process, Xitang Rice Wine History Exhibition, Jiuhun Garden and a tavern. The showroom displays dozens of rice wine series products from Jiashan Winery. The latter is a traditional crafts showroom, which reproduces Jiashan tradition with real objects such as earth stoves, sausages, wooden presses, wine jars, windmills, measuring tools, stone ladles, rice levers, bamboo baskets, buckets, funnels, bends, poles, and wine jars. The production process of rice wine. The exhibition on the history of Xitang rice wine is divided into ten parts, including the preface, the origin of wine history, the prosperity of grain mills, public-private partnerships, local state-owned enterprises, the spring breeze of reform, carrying forward the past and opening up the future, three leaps, five major achievements, and conclusion, showing the development process of Xitang rice wine. Finally, you can taste the authentic Jiashan rice wine in the tavern in the exhibition hall to relieve your fatigue during the journey.

West Garden

The former site of Xiyuan is located in Jijia Lane, West Street. It was a separate business of the Zhu family in the Ming Dynasty and was later transferred to the Sun family. There are trees, flowers, plants, rockeries, pavilions and ponds in the garden, and the scenery is beautiful. There is the "Tingtaoxuan" teahouse on the rockery on the east side. It is named because there is a white-barked pine on the rockery, several feet high, and the wind makes a sound.

In the winter of 1920, the poet Liu Yazi came to Xitang. He stayed in the West Garden and took photos with friends from the Nanshe Society of Xitang in the West Garden. Elegant Gathering Picture" and named the photo "Second Picture of Elegant Gathering in Xiyuan".

Now there are exhibition halls such as the "Zhu Nianci Fan Calligraphy Art Museum", "Hundred Seals Museum", and "Nanshe Showroom" in the park. The "Zhu Nianci Fan Calligraphy Art Museum" exhibits more than 100 fine fans by Mr. Zhu Nianci, a national arts and crafts master. The "Hundred Seal Pavilion" displays one hundred seals, prints and borders that reflect the customs and style of Xitang and were carved by hundreds of domestic and foreign seal carvers organized by Hangzhou Xiling Seal Society. These 100 seals represent 100 scenes of Xitang.