As a famous tourist destination in China, Suzhou Luzhi Ancient Town naturally has many attractions worth exploring. This article will provide a detailed introduction to the attractions in Luzhi Ancient Town for your reference. It includes not only the popular attractions but also some niche attractions that are also very interesting. Let’s take a look!
1、Baosheng Temple
Recommended reason: The outstanding work of the Tang Dynasty sculptor Yang Huizhi, the half-hall Arhat, the ancient stone base of the Northern Song Dynasty Xiangfu period, the Tang and Song Dynasty bluestone pagoda, the iron bell of the late Ming and early Qing Dynasty… A thousand-year-old temple, besides the Zen, is another kind of tranquility that has been accumulated over the years.
2、Ye Shengtao Memorial Hall
Recommended reason: Mr. Ye Shengtao said that Luzhi was his second hometown. Over the years, the people and things that inspired him to create endlessly, the old objects that incorporated his endless affection and handwriting, you can all find them in the Ye Shengtao Memorial Hall.
3、Xiao Residence
Recommended reason: The former residence of Hong Kong Film Awards Lifetime Achievement Award winner, Fong Fong. I’m curious, what exactly are the everyday things that such a beautiful woman cherishes?
4、Wang Tao Memorial Hall
Recommended reason: This is the former residence of an outstanding thinker who preceded the “Kang Liang” reform. The memorial hall is divided into three parts: the Wang Tao’s Life and Deeds Exhibition Hall, Wang Tao’s Former Residence and Tao Garden. Some stories you can only understand if you slow down.
5、Water Town Women’s Clothing Museum
Recommended reason: I’m always curious about the hardworking and kind women of Luzhi, what are the characteristics of the “eight-piece set” they wear? The answers you are looking for are all in the Luzhi Water Town Women’s Clothing Museum, where there are textual, pictorial, and physical introductions in a systematic way.
6、Historical Relics Museum
Recommended reason: If you want to know what Luzhi was like 5,000 years ago, go to the Historical Relics Museum. The production and life scenes of the ancestors for 5,000 years are all on display.
7、Jiangnan Cultural Garden
Recommended reason: Just one glance, and all the beautiful imaginations of Jiangnan in my dream that year emerge. Small bridges and flowing water, water pavilions and rockeries, long corridors reflecting the azure sky, green willows with endless verses of poetry.
8、Wansheng Rice Merchant
The story of Ye Shengtao’s novel “Collected Three or Five Dou More” can be seen in the form of comic strips on the walls of the courtyard. It’s like going back to the past, in the magnificent scroll of Jiangnan traditional farm implements and the prosperous scene of the rice merchant during the Republic of China.
9、Shen Residence
The Shen Residence is located in Luzhi Town, Suzhou, Jiangsu Province. It is the former residence of Mr. Shen Bohan, an educator. It was built in 1873, and has a history of 130 years. The original building area is 3500 square meters, and only the western part of 720 square meters is open to tourists. The ceremonial hall inside the residence (where official hats, sedan chairs, etc. are placed) is now the exhibition of the achievements of Luzhi Ancient Town’s protection. This was originally the Shen family’s welcoming hall, a tea room for entertaining ordinary guests, and is now used as the exhibition hall of “Wu Dong Water Town Women’s Clothing Exhibition”.
Recommended reason: The former residence of Shen Bohan, a prominent family of Luzhi, only a fifth of it is open to the public, it is very characteristic of Jiangnan, with changing scenery as you walk.
10、Wansheng Rice Merchant
An old shop in Luzhi Ancient Town. Founded in the early years of the Republic of China, it was the leading rice merchant in the eastern part of Wu. The “Wansheng Rice Merchant” we see today was reconstructed by the Luzhi People’s Government in 1998 for the development of tourism, located on the east bank of Nanshi River, more than one hundred meters away from the original site of “Wansheng Rice Merchant”. The reconstructed “Wansheng Rice Merchant” strives to reproduce the rice market scene of Jiangnan in the Republic of China. A golden signboard with “Wansheng Rice Merchant” hangs under the eaves of the three-bay storefront. There are counters for buying and selling grain inside the store, with a sign that reads “Thousands of Merchants Gather”.
Behind the shop is a spacious stone courtyard. Through the courtyard, you come to the “Leisi Hall”, where old Jiangnan rice-growing farm implements and tools for processing grain are displayed, making it a unique “Farm Implement Museum” with the charm of the water town. In the past, Wanshengheng Rice Merchant was operated by Shen and Fan, two wealthy merchants in the town. The rice merchant was large in scale, with nearly one hundred granaries for storing food, becoming one of the grain distribution centers for Luzhi Town and more than ten surrounding townships. The layout of the rice merchant is “store in front, field in back”, with the store in front for doing business and the processing workshop and granaries for storing grain in the back.
Recommended reason: It’s a very interesting place, it’s the rice merchant in Ye Shengtao’s “Collected Three or Five Dou More”, and now it’s a museum displaying tools for weighing grain and farming tools. It exhibits the process of farmers from farming to sowing to harvesting and the farm tools used by farmers at that time. Many of the farm tools I have never seen before, both learning and experiencing the hardships of farmers in farming.
11、Luzhi Jiangnan Cultural Garden
Located in the southeast of Luzhi Ancient Town, connected to the ancient town, covering an area of more than 150 acres, it is a classical garden with Jiangnan water town characteristics, integrating leisure, entertainment and sightseeing. Luzhi Jiangnan Cultural Garden highlights the theme of “living fossil of ancient town, new cultural experience”, and brings together the multi-source, diverse and multi-level tourism resources and characteristics of Luzhi, creating a new model for showcasing the differentiated tourism of the ancient town, expanding a new area for showcasing the cultural heritage of the ancient town, becoming a platform that brings together the essence of Luzhi Ancient Town tourism.
Luzhi Jiangnan Water Town Cultural Garden has built “Luzhi Water Town Women’s Clothing Museum”, “Luzhi Historical Relics Museum”, “Tang Dynasty Puli Street”, “Puli Academy”, “Leisure Water Street”, “Performing Arts Workshop”, “Central Garden Area”, “Ancient Stage” and other landscapes.
Recommended reason: It is definitely worth visiting in Luzhi, the scenery is quite beautiful! And the ancient stage inside will have free performances of operas from time to time!
12、Chenghu Ruins
The Luzhi Chenghu Ruins are located between Chefang and Songnan, 25 kilometers southeast of Suzhou city. They were jointly excavated by the Nanjing Museum and the Wu County Cultural Relics Administration in 1974. The time span ranges from the primitive cultural relics, the geometrically imprinted pottery relics, and the cultural relics from the Han to Song dynasties. There are about thousands of ancient wells. In the excavation of the Chenghu ancient wells, a large number of primitive cultural relics were unearthed, mainly vessels for drawing water. The chicken-shaped, bird-shaped lugged pot, pig-shaped pot, turtle-shaped pot, leather-bag pot, patterned painted pottery, painted pottery, and fish-basket-shaped jars with engraved pottery characters, all gleam with the sparks of ancient Chinese civilization.
Recommended reason: Very typical of Jiangnan, small bridges and flowing water, it once unearthed some relics from the Songze period, those interested in archaeology and history must come and visit.
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