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How to play a one-day tour of Tongli ancient town in Suzhou is better?

Tongli ancient town is not big, and the more famous one is tuisi garden. It is necessary to go. After playing in the retreat, there are other small scenic spots around the street, which can be reached on foot and played together. It won't take long. If you want to know about the ancient town of Jiangnan, you might as well go to Tongli Old Street, where there are many local products shops, and you can buy some local products. If you go to Tongli, it will take more than an hour. If it is after 9 o'clock, you can play in the old street first, buy local products, have lunch, and go to Tuisi Garden and other scenic spots in the afternoon. Three hours is basically enough to play. The old street is far from the retreat, so don't buy local products around the scenic spot, which is more expensive. ) The retreat garden was built in the 11th to 13th year of Guangxu reign in Qing Dynasty (A.D. 1885- 1887). Director Lan Sheng, alias Wan Xiang, real name Nan Yun. In the tenth year of Guangxu (AD 1884), Zhou Derun Xun, a bachelor of cabinet, was appointed as Lansheng, who was engaged in self-enrichment for profit. In the first month of the 11th year of Guangxu (AD 1885), Cha Suoxun was dismissed from his post to be punished, and the Ministry decided to change his post. Ren Lansheng left his job and returned to his hometown. He spent 100, 000 taels of silver to build a house garden named "Tuisi". His younger brother, Ren Aisheng's Poem on Crying My Brother has the sentence "It is entitled to make up for the retreat period, and every grass and tree in Pingquan is beautiful", so it can be seen that the name of the garden is taken from Zuo Zhuan, which means "make up for the retreat". Long Yuan, the designer of Tuisi Garden, skillfully designed the library building, piano room, Tuisi Caotang, Red Pavilion, Sleeping Cloud Pavilion and other buildings in less than four acres.