The four unpopular ancient towns in Suzhou, which must be visited, are not recommended by tour guides because they have no commercial flavor.

The Spring Festival is coming, so many friends must have begun to plan their Spring Festival trips.

So when going to Suzhou, many people will choose to go to some ancient towns, feel the antique history and let their hearts fly.

In Suzhou, there are many ancient towns, such as Zhouzhuang, Tongli and Luzhi, which are very famous, but if you go on holidays, you will definitely see a sea of people instead of scenery.

As an authentic Suzhou native, I recommend four ancient towns, which have the essence of ancient towns in the south of the Yangtze River, few people and beautiful scenery. When you have been there, you will never forget them.

The first is the ancient town of Lili.

A writer once wrote: Walking into the ancient town of Lili, the river is bright, and the scattered roofs are still green and gray.

The history of Lili ancient town can be traced back to the Spring and Autumn Period. In 496 BC, there was a battle between wuyue and Li, and the mark of wuyue's hegemony remained in Li.

Walking into Lili, a clear river more than three miles long divides the street into north and south banks, and strolls leisurely along Qingshiban Road to taste the ancient town customs.

Rows of houses on both sides of the river are mostly two-story buildings with wooden structures. The upturned eaves, the door of the title page, the lattice window and the mottled black brick wall all interpret the sense of vicissitudes.

The depth of the alley is a major feature of Lili. There are 85 narrow lanes perpendicular to the main road, with different structures, most of which are narrow and deep: open lanes, dark lanes, water lanes, floor-crossing lanes, two "Yuanyang lanes" and "ventilation lanes" leading directly to the suburbs, and endogenous "mother-child lanes".

There are five alleys over 100 meters, with the longest 135.7 meters, the narrowest only 0.7 meters and the widest 2 meters. The name of the alley is very folk, generally called "a alley".

In the middle of Qing Dynasty, there were eight surnames in Lili ancient town: Zhou, Chen, Li, Kuai, Ru, Lu, Xu and Cai, and each surname had a lane. There are Zhou Fu, Chen Youting and Li Youli. ...

The second is the ancient town of Guli.

Located in the eastern suburb of Changshu, Guli Ancient Town is a famous historical and cultural town in China. There is a famous local saying: "Changshu in the world is blessed by ancient power."

Guli Town is located at the intersection of Qingduntang, Sanya Port and Qingshui Port. The waterway has become a distribution center for fishermen and gradually formed a market town. Song Dynasty Zongyuan Local Records Series? Qin Chuanzhi: This place is low-lying and overgrown with vegetation for many years, so it is called "Qili Village".

The word "one" was first seen in the collected works of Mr. Tao tuian in Ming Dynasty. The inscription "Guri Renfeng" of Zhanggong Formation in the year of Qing Daoguang 13 (1833) was first seen, and it is still in use today.

Guli Town has a long history. As early as the end of the Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, Qian Heng, a famous person in the town, was quite upright and was accepted by the court. Since the Qu family entered in the early Qing Dynasty, the market towns have become more prosperous. By the middle of Qing Dynasty, there were four famous people in the town, Qu, Liu, Ding and Wang, with developed commercial economy and 92 shops in 26 industries.

Guli Town is an ancient historical and cultural town with profound cultural heritage. There is also Qushi Qintie Copper Sword Building, one of the four major libraries in China in the Qing Dynasty. With a history of more than 200 years, Qutong Jianlou, together with Liaocheng Haiyuange, Gui 'an Lvsi Building and Qiantang River 8,000-volume Building, is known as the four private libraries in Qing Dynasty.

Qu's bronze sword building was built in the Qianlong period of Qing Dynasty, with a building area of 285 square meters. Formerly known as "Tian Yuzhai". The founder Qu He, the owner of books in the Five Dynasties, was indifferent to fame and fortune, and liked to collect books and read books. Qu Yong, the son of the second generation of Qu family, has an eclectic study of Ding Yi's ancient seal characters. Among the stone cultural relics, Qu's family especially treasures an iron piano and a bronze sword, hence the name "Iron Piano Bronze Sword Building".

Lou Zhuqu's books have been collected by generations for more than 200 years, leaving a rich cultural heritage for future generations. 199 1 65438+February, Qin Tie Bronze Jianlou Memorial Hall opened. The buildings here were announced as provincial cultural relics protection units on June 5, 2006.

The third is Jinxi ancient town.

Once upon a time, elderly people in Shanghai and Suzhou knew that there was a water town called "Chen Tomb" at the junction of the two places, and there was a "Wubao Lake" in the town, where a concubine named Chen was buried.

Jinxi is called "Chen's Tomb" and has a true story. During the Shaoxing period of the Southern Song Dynasty, the northern nomads invaded south on a large scale. Zhao Kuangyin, Prince of the Southern Song Dynasty, set out from Hangzhou and went north to Zhenjiang along the canal to prepare for a decisive battle with the nomadic people. When the warship passed by Jinxi, a love princess named Chen died unfortunately and had to be buried in Jinxi by water after her death.

Later, King Zhao Wei acceded to the throne and proclaimed himself emperor, and ordered that "Jinxi" be renamed as "Chen Tomb" to commemorate the late. Later, Wen Zhiming, a poet in the Ming Dynasty, wrote a poem for this purpose: "Whoever sees the underwater grave is ethereal and carefree, and Wang loves it to the end, and he has a surname of Chen."

According to research, during the "Songze Culture" period about 5,500 years ago, ancestors lived in Jinxi area.

Jinxi ancient town is a water town in the south of the Yangtze River with a long history. Known as "the hometown of folk museums in China". There are many cultural landscapes, historical sites and buildings in the ancient town, with unique and distinctive features. Small bridges and flowing water, as long as you go to Jinxi ancient town, you can understand the mystery.

On 1983, the famous painter Mr. Chen Yifei came to Jinxi ancient town and Zhouzhuang and Luzhi ancient towns adjacent to Jinxi, took many photos with his camera, and then went back to paint.

His first day cover "Memories of Hometown" designed for the United Nations was once considered as the painted Zhouzhuang Double Bridge, but the bridge in the painting is actually the Nantang Bridge in Jinxi Ancient Town. Nantang Bridge is the representative of Jinxi ancient bridge, which was founded in the Southern Song Dynasty and is still an attractive place in Jinxi ancient town.

The fourth is Shaxi Ancient Town.

Shaxi Ancient Town is located in the middle of Taicang City. It is an ancient water town in the south of the Yangtze River with a history of 1300 years. Since ancient times, there has been a saying that "there are eighteen towns in Dongxiang and the first town in Shatou".

Shaxi Ancient Town is rated as a national historical and cultural town with its unique shed architectural style and complete ancient town pattern of "one river, two streets, three bridges and one island", and it is a typical strip-shaped water town.

A river refers to the Qipu River with a history of thousands of years, which runs through the town; Second Street refers to the three-mile-long ancient street on the north bank of Laoqipu River. The Third Bridge refers to the Li Ji Bridge, Yixing Bridge and Anqiao, which span the Old Qipu Bridge and connect the ancient streets on the north and south sides. The first island is Olive Island. Shaxi ancient town is connected with diaojiao buildings and sheds along the river, stretching for hundreds of meters.

When you go to Shaxi Ancient Town, you must visit Lu Jingshi's former residence, which is a residential building with a combination of Chinese and Western styles. The whole house is divided into two parts, with Lu Jingshi's ancestral home in the east, which is a typical residence in the late Qing Dynasty. On the west side is the building of the Republic of China with three entrances and three bays, which was built in Lu Jingshi's hometown after the victory of 1946. The architectural style is westernized. The two buildings are connected by a small room, which used to be a telephone room with national direct dial telephone.

I also want to see the sculpture hall, which is the third entrance to the East Hall of Gong Guzhai. Built in the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, it is now a cultural relic protection unit in Jiangsu Province. The wood carvings on the beams in the temple are exquisite, and various techniques such as deep carving, shallow carving, round carving and through carving are fully used.

Be sure to collect it well. The tour guides of these ancient towns are too lazy to recommend them, because they want to let everyone know that there are so many ancient towns with few scenery and little commercial atmosphere, which is crying.

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