Tongli Ancient Town Travel Guide, Transportation, Accommodation and Attractions

Tongli Ancient Town is located in Wujiang District, Suzhou City, Jiangsu Province. The scenic area has a mild climate and is suitable for travel all year round. There are residential buildings, water features, small bridges and boats in the scenic area, as well as Ming and Qing Street, Tuisi Garden, Wang Shaochao's former residence and Tongli Wetland Park. The scenery is beautiful and suitable for visiting during holidays. The recommended number of days to visit is 2- 3 days. Tongli Ancient Town

Tongli, one of the six ancient towns in the south of the Yangtze River, was formerly known as "Futu". In the early Tang Dynasty, it was changed to "Tongli". In the Song Dynasty, the old name was split into "Tongli". Founded in the Song Dynasty and with a history of thousands of years, it is an ancient water town in China. Tongli is surrounded by five lakes, with winding streets and crisscrossing rivers, leaving behind many ancient bridges built in various eras. The most famous ones in Tongli are "One Garden, Two Halls and Three Bridges". Transportation and Accommodation

Transportation: Tongli is about 90 kilometers away from Shanghai. You can drive by yourself and it takes about an hour and a half to get there. Parking: Vehicles with local license plates inside and outside the ancient town are not allowed to enter. There is a free parking lot in the north of the town, within 5 minutes of entering the ancient town. Just outside the parking lot is the ticket office of the scenic spot. Tickets: 100 yuan/person.

Including the ancient town area, Tuisi Garden, Jiayin Hall, Chongben Hall, Historical Relics Exhibition Hall, Luo Xingzhou, Geng Le Hall, and Pearl Tower , Chen Qubing’s former residence, Songshiwu Garden, Gufeng Garden, and Wang Shaogao’s former residence. Accommodation: Tongli Huajiantang Inn, Lize Women's School Branch. It takes about 8 minutes to walk into the ancient town to Huajiantang. The inn was renovated from Lize Women's School, and the environment is quiet and beautiful. Recommended attractions

Lize Girls’ School: Lyze Girls’ School was founded by Ren Chuanxin, the second generation owner of Tuisi Garden, and is close to Tuisi Garden. He founded a school at the age of 19 and was very promising at a young age. In the early days, Lize Girls' School used the well-lit Tuisi Thatched Cottage, Piano Room, Land Boat, Osmanthus Hall, etc. in Tuisi Garden as classrooms. Later, a teaching building was built next to Tuisi Garden, which is the current location of Lize Girls' School. Famous teachers including Qian Jibo (the father of Qian Zhongshu), a master of traditional Chinese culture, have been hired to teach at the school. Stepping on the bluestone steps and passing through the path outside the north wall of Tuisi Garden, you can see the century-old school gate with clear water lines and six pillars and eight characters standing in front of you. A hundred years ago, most of the school gates of the Jiangnan generation were like this, with the evening sunlight shining on the black-tiled brick walls, making them mottled. Inside the half-open wooden door, there is a pool of water stains and half-cornered cornices, which seems to be a throwback to the afternoon study time of the Republic of China.

Tuisi Garden: In Tongli Ancient Town, Tuisi Garden is more famous than Tongli. Many tourists come to Tongli just for Tuisi Garden. After breakfast, by the time we entered and exited Siyuan Garden at 9 o'clock, tour groups were already arriving in droves and it was overcrowded. Earlier, really should have been earlier. New York City, USA, built a 3,850-square-foot Jiangnan garden based on the Tuisi Garden in the Staten Island Botanical Garden in the city, named "Tuisi Villa". Tuisi Garden is a private garden built by Ren Lansheng after he returned to his hometown. The name of the garden comes from the meaning of "Thinking forward to be loyal, thinking back to make up for mistakes" in "Zuo Zhuan". The layout is small and exquisite, without revealing the wealth. The garden is built with poetry and prose, pursuing the charm and poetry of the garden. The layout of various buildings strives to be exquisite and exquisite, and the taste is light and simple.

Tuisi Garden adopts horizontal architecture and has a unique style. The garden has changed from a vertical structure in the past to a horizontal structure. It is composed of four groups of buildings of different styles, from west to east, divided into halls, inner houses, atriums, and gardens. It has complete pavilions and pavilions, integrating classical gardens. The essence of it. The entrance is the outer house on the west side of the garden, which is divided into sedan hall, tea hall/flower hall, and main hall, which is named Yinyu Hall. The outer house is mainly used for receiving guests, wedding events, and ancestor worship ceremonies. There are two paoma buildings with five floors and five bases in the north and south of the inner house, named "Wanxiang Building". The buildings are connected by double corridors. There is a ladder under the corridor to provide protection from wind and rain and to separate master and servant. The inner and outer houses can be divided or combined, and the layout is compact. It seems that the white wall must be pressed by a black tile to appear calm.

Wang Shaochao’s former residence: Fuguan Street, Tongli Ancient Town, Suzhou City, was built in the 50th year of Emperor Kangxi’s reign in the Qing Dynasty (1711). Covering an area of ??ten acres, the hall has row upon row of buildings, and the inner house is winding and winding, with three lanes in and out, namely east, west and middle lanes. It is a typical ancient residence in the south of the Yangtze River. A typical Jiangnan house, with a brick and wood structure and a green tile roof. This house has a patio, which is surrounded by the entrance hall and the hall and wing buildings inside. Standing on the second floor of the hall, through the glass and wooden windows, visitors in the corridors in the four directions of the patio form many different pictures of life.