What ancient towns can be visited in Shanghai?

Speaking of Shanghai, everyone must know that it is a very prosperous city. After all, the city is called the "Magic City". But Shanghai is also a quaint city with many very quiet ancient towns with long cultural history. Very suitable for everyone to play. So what are some interesting ancient towns in Shanghai? Let’s take a look!

1. Nanxiang Ancient Town

Nanxiang, known as Chaxi in ancient times, is located in the south of Jiading District, Shanghai. It is one of the four famous historical and cultural towns in Shanghai and has the reputation of "Little Nanxiang and Sioux City". Li Zaibei built it in the Ming Dynasty. "The walls are only shoulder-to-shoulder, with many holes and valleys and springs", which is a scenic spot in Nanxiang Ancient Town. Tong was sentenced to build Yiyuan (now known as Guyiyuan) in Dongshi, which is still an attraction in Nanxiang Ancient Town. There are more than 20 gardens in the Ming and Qing Dynasties.

Walking on this quaint old street and in the distant and long bluestone alleys, you will find that the old houses here are genuine, and both the bricks and stones and wood are very dated. It shows the vicissitudes of this ancient town.

2. Xinchang Ancient Town

Xinchang Ancient Town is a beautiful ancient town famous for its salt. As a thousand-year-old ancient town, teahouses, old shops, small temples, small bridges, flowing water, and people all together form a picture of a Jiangnan water town, which is favored by the world. It was also valued by the great director Ang Lee and became the location for the filming of the movie "Lust, Caution". The movies "Ip Man" and "The Ferryman" were also filmed here.

: Southwest Qingpu District, Shanghai 3. Jinze Ancient Town

. The territory is dotted with lakes and ponds, and crisscrossed by rivers and bays. It is a typical land of fish and rice in the south of the Yangtze River.

This ancient town has a long history. It was built before 960 AD (early Song Dynasty). The hometown is a water town, a land of lakes, and a land of plenty, so it is called "Jinze". There are 7 ancient bridges left.

Walking in the ancient town, you can see white walls and black tiles, old houses, ancient streets, deep alleys, river ponds, old trees, boats and people everywhere. The scenery is beautifully scattered among the people in Jiangnan.

4. Chonggu Ancient Town

Qingpu, Shanghai. This ancient town, which still has charm to this day, preserves the ancient cultural site of Fuquan Mountain, a national key cultural relic protection unit, and is known as the "chronology of ancient Shanghai" and the "Oriental Pyramid".

Like most water towns in the south of the Yangtze River, the old street is built along the city river with a wave pool. The Tongtang River is crystal clear, and the white walls and gray tiles of the houses on both sides make the old street look neat and quiet.

: No. 5. Sijing Ancient Town, Songjiang, Shanghai

. Sijing Ancient Town is a thousand-year-old ancient town with a long history and profound cultural heritage. It is known as "Shanghai for a hundred years, Sijing for a thousand years".

There are 53 historical buildings in the ancient town, which has given birth to a large number of historical and cultural celebrities such as Tao, the famous historian, Fan Yunlin, the founder of Fudan University, and Shi, the founder of Shenbao. Here there are important past humanistic memories of the history and culture of Songjiang and even Shanghai.

With mottled brick walls and bumpy roads, the commercial atmosphere of Sijing Ancient Town is not strong, and it basically maintains the style of the Republic of China. The slightly depressed Sijing Ancient Town seems to be sealed in the dust of history.

6. Zhujiajiao Ancient Town

Qingpu District, Shanghai, there are many well-preserved old dynasty buildings here. "The natural scenery of small bridges and flowing water is the original Ming and Qing Street." The natural scenery here can't help but be favored by many film and television directors. They come in an endless stream to bring the beauty of the ancient water town to the screen and TV again and again. Sometimes there will be a grand occasion when several movies and TV shows are started at the same time, which is known as "Hollywood in the suburbs of Shanghai".

7. Qibao Ancient Town

In Shanghai's Minhang District, Qibao is known as "Shanghai Pudong in ten years, Shanghai's Bund in a hundred years, and Shanghai Qibao in a thousand years."

Guqi, a thousand-year-old ancient town in the Taihu Lake Basin in the south of the Yangtze River, has picturesque scenery, abundant snacks, a gourmet paradise, and antique buildings. It is a bustling market integrating "leisure, tourism and shopping" and is also the nearest ancient town to Shanghai.

8. Fengjing Ancient Town

Shanghai Jinshan District is the most important "southwest gateway" from Shanghai to the southwestern provinces.

Fengjing Ancient Road

The ancient town is surrounded by a dense water network, with crisscrossing rivers and as many as 52 bridges. The oldest existing bridge is the He Zhi Bridge from the Yuan Dynasty. Fengjing Ancient Town has 29 streets, squares and 84 alleys. It is the largest and best preserved ancient water town in the south of the Yangtze River in Shanghai.

Other ancient towns in Shanghai include Baihe, Jiading, Luodian, Zhenru, Jiangwan, Hongqiao, Chuansha, Liantang, Panlong, Zhaojialou, Liuhe, Shaxi, etc.