Enjoy the Spring Festival in Yixing Yulongtan Ming and Qing Ancient Town + Shushan Lihe Ancient South Street + Dayou Qiu Zhushan

Yixing Yulongtan Ming and Qing Ancient Town: Located in the south of Yixing City, Jiangsu Province, it belongs to Hufu Town and is located at the junction of Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Anhui. It has superior natural endowments and a beautiful ecological environment. The ancient town was formerly known as Jingyi and Yangxian, and is praised by tourists as the 'ancient capital of pottery, the world of caves, the oasis of tea, and the ocean of bamboo'. There are many Ming and Qing buildings in the ancient town, with pink walls and black tiles, orderly and scattered, green stone roads, winding paths, small bridges and flowing water, rippling water waves, carved beams and painted buildings, pavilions, towers and pavilions, ancient style, and full of ancient charm. Most of the buildings in the ancient town are ancient houses from the Ming and Qing Dynasties in southern Anhui and western Zhejiang. They have been restored to their original style to the greatest extent through renovation, transplantation or imitation. Especially the carved beams and painted buildings are extremely exquisite, and friends who like wood carvings are worth a look. About half of the buildings in the ancient town are occupied by merchants, operating restaurants, tea rooms, homestays, etc., and most of the rest are idle and slightly desolate. The weather was fine on New Year's Day, but there were few tourists. There is a not-so-high hill behind the ancient town, and tourists who plan to stay here for a few days can also run and climb mountains. Yixing Lihe Shushan Ancient South Street: From Yulongtan Ancient Town, drive east for about 9 kilometers and 20 minutes to reach Shushan Ancient South Street on Dongpo East Road. This is an ancient street located on the side of Lihe River and backed by Shushan Scenic Area. The old street is also known as Shushan Ancient South Street and Shushan Old Street. It was the main distribution port for Yixing ceramics during the Ming and Qing Dynasties, like an independent bustling small town. With the development of the economy and the gathering of the population, it gradually merged with Dingshan in modern times. Shushan Ancient South Street is the best preserved ancient street in Yixing, and it has important value for studying the construction of Yixing towns and the development of the ceramics economy. In November 1996, the Yixing Municipal People's Government announced it as a city-level cultural relics protection unit. Shushan Old Street, located at the foot of Shushan Mountain in Dingshu Town, Yixing City, is a quaint pedestrian street. It connects to Dongpo Academy in the east, borders Lihe River in the west, connects to Shushan Bridge in the north and connects to Ancient North Street. It is about one kilometer long, with a well-preserved old street of 370 meters long and 2.4-3.4 meters wide. The ground is paved with whole pieces of granite 1.4 meters long, and there is a drainage channel underneath. Most of the shops on both sides of the street are two-story buildings. The lower floor is equipped with long wooden doors along the street, and the upper floor is carved with short grids. In addition to shops selling various daily necessities, there are also many workshops that operate and make ceramics. Dayou Qiu Zhushan (Daniehua Bay): Leaving Shushan Ancient South Street, along the 230 provincial road towards the northeast corner of Zhou Tie Town, Yixing, on the edge of Taihu Lake, it takes about half an hour to reach the scenic spot of Dayou Qiu Zhushan. During the Spring Festival, parking and tickets are free, but there are too many tourists, and the vehicles are relatively congested along the way. Dayou Qiu's first phase of Zhushan has a total planned area of about 380,000 square meters, including Zhuli Commercial Street, Youqiu·Sustainable Farm, Tik Tik Pony Riding Club, Ranqiu Zhou Wetland Park and other contents. As the early model of the Dayou Qiu project, it carries the concepts of Dayou Qiu product system, aesthetic style, operation and service mode, etc., based on ecology, health preservation as the body, and cultural tourism as the soul, presenting the vision of the 'Three Quan Three Yang' beautiful life bay area for tourists. The entire project repairs the original mountains and mountains of Zhushan, strengthens the weathered rocks and landslides, connects the broken places, fills the low places, and then creates scenery and covers green. There is a new pavilion and pavilion on the mountain, and three waterfalls. The original mining left many pits, and silt was piled up during the treatment of Taihu Lake. They dug away the silt and restored it into a wetland. As a 'park at the doorstep', the wetland park draws inspiration from Song-style aesthetics. Integrate local culture and create a beautiful life scene. In history, Zhushan was full of bamboo, and the bamboo culture was well-known far and near. Jiang Jie has the verse 'Bamboo Mountain People'. Therefore, the commercial street in the first district is named Zhuli. The main attractions are Fushan Temple, Zhushan Academy, Tianbo Pavilion, rockery waterfall, and Ma Mountain across the lake from Taihu Lake.