Shanghai Ancient Town Recommended Ranking

The top recommended ancient towns in Shanghai include: Fengjing Ancient Town, Nanxiang Ancient Town, Jinze Ancient Town, Xinchang Ancient Town, Sijing Ancient Town, Luodian Ancient Town, etc.

1. Fengjing Ancient Town

Fengjing Ancient Town, located in Jinshan District, Shanghai, is a typical Jiangnan water town. As early as more than 2,000 years ago, people were living in Fengjing Ancient Town. The boundary river in the town was the dividing river between Wu and Yue in the Spring and Autumn Period. Because it straddles the borders of Wu and Yue, Fengjing Ancient Town is known as the "Famous Town of Wu and Yue". The ancient town is crisscrossed by rivers and has 52 bridges. Among them, the Zhihe Bridge, built in the Yuan Dynasty, has a history of nearly 700 years.

2. Nanxiang Ancient Town

Nanxiang Ancient Town is located in Jiading District, Shanghai. Speaking of Nanxiang Ancient Town, Xiaolongbao is famous for its thin skin, tender meat, juiciness, fresh taste and beautiful shape. Nanxiang Ancient Town has a history of 1,500 years. There are Jiangnan Garden Ancient Yi Garden, Nanxiang Old Street, Liuyun Temple, Nanxiang Twin Pagodas, etc. The old buildings in the ancient town are mainly Qing Dynasty residences, and there are also several small rivers. Passing through the town reflects the profound ancient culture.

3. Jinze Ancient Town

Jinze Ancient Town is located in Qingpu District, Shanghai. It has a long history. The town is dotted with lakes and ponds and crisscrossed by rivers and ports. It is a typical fish and rice town in the south of the Yangtze River. . It originally had "six views, one pagoda, thirteen squares, and forty-two rainbow bridges". It is an ancient town famous for its bridges and has always been known as "the first bridge town in the south of the Yangtze River". Moreover, most of the bridges in Jinze Ancient Town were built during the Song and Yuan Dynasties.

4. Xinchang Ancient Town

Xinchang Ancient Town is located in Pudong New Area, Shanghai. The ancient town got its name with a history of more than 800 years. In ancient times, it was a prosperous salt field and salt market, and today it still retains a large number of Ming and Qing buildings. In the ancient town, there are old-fashioned houses with white walls and black tiles beside the narrow river. Strolling on the stone roads of the old streets, stepping on the stone arch bridges with exquisite patterns, and walking through the mottled stone archways, you can feel the precipitation everywhere. With the charm of time.

5. Sijing Ancient Town

Sijing Ancient Town is located in Songjiang District, Shanghai. Sijing Ancient Town has a long history and is known as the "Root of Shanghai". If you count the time when the village was formed in the Northern Song Dynasty, it has a history of more than a thousand years. Sijing was called Huibo Village in the early days, and was renamed Qijian Village in the Southern Song Dynasty. It was not until the middle of the Yuan Dynasty that it was officially named Sijing because the four Jingshui rivers, Waibojing, Tongbojing, Dongjing and Zhangjing, gathered here.

6. Luodian Ancient Town

Luodian Ancient Town is located in Baoshan District, Shanghai. It got its name from the Yuan Dynasty to the Yuan Dynasty when businessman Luo Sheng opened a shop here to form a market. In the early Ming Dynasty, it had become a large town. It was the first of the seven towns and five cities in Jiading County at that time, and was always known as the "Jinluodian". The neat river bank, row upon row of houses with gabled roofs, snow-white walls, cyan tiles, vermilion doors and windows, irregularly arranged portals and stilted eaves, give a new look to the small streets along the river in the Ming and Qing Dynasties.

Reference for the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Fengjing Ancient Town

Reference for the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Jinze Town