#Chongren Ancient Town Travel Recommendations for 2024 (Updated in May)
Ancient Towns
Address:
Chongren Town, Cangzhou City, Shaoxing City
Recommended sightseeing time:
4-6 hour
2024 Plum Blossom Latest! Six thousand acres of white plum blossoms will bloom during the Spring Festival!!!
From mid-February to early March in 2024|1 day hiking|Round trip from Shanghai|
●Just not far from Shanghai, in Shaoxing
There is a thousand-acre plum garden hidden
Every February, the plum blossoms here bloom
This year happens to be the Dragon Year Spring Festival
Setting off the entire mountain top as if covered with pink snow
This is the plum appreciation reserve of Shaoxing people
"Wangtan East Village
Since the last century, the villagers of Dongcun have started to plant plum blossoms in the village. So far, Dongcun has more than 6,000 acres of green plums. Every spring when the plum blossoms are in full bloom, the villagers of Dongcun "appreciate the plum blossoms and brew plum wine", leisurely and contented, showing a pastoral scenery.
The ancient town of a thousand years, the misty and rainy Jiangnan, was once called "Apricot Flower Village", and was later settled here by the Qiu family of Songyi Gate. Because of advocating benevolence, it is named "Chongren".
Chongren does not have crowded tourists, but many are Ming and Qing buildings of Sanheyuan and Siheyuan. Its ridge, eaves, and horse head walls are all decorated with brick carvings. Over the millennia, it is majestic and elegant. There is also very delicious Chongren stewed duck!
No. 132 exclusive design, Wangtan East Village to appreciate plum blossoms + Chongren Ancient Town
√No. 32 has multiple hiking experiences in Wangtan East Village, and has organized excellent plum appreciation routes, and has completed the entire plum appreciation loop.
√Ancient town tour + flower appreciation, double leisure elements, one natural and one cultural, travel experience MAX.
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Hiking mileage: 7 kilometers, entry-level difficulty
Activity time: mid-February to early March
Meeting place: Yishan Road/Shanghai Songjiang New Town
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Roaming Zhejiang| Chongren Ancient Town, the gradually disappearing old stage door
|Chongren Ancient Town, the gradually disappearing old stage door.. Transportation:
High-speed rail: Hangzhou-Shengzhou Xinchang, 45 minutes
Bus: Take the bus from the entrance of Shengzhou Xinchang Station to Shengzhou West Station, and then transfer to the bus to Chongren Ancient Town
Highlights:
1 The first ancient stage in Zhejiang
Located at the entrance of the town, the temple roof in Weizhen Temple is very gorgeous
2 Old stage doors
Scattered around the town, unfortunately, most of them are private houses and cannot be visited
3 Rice cake dumplings
Turn right out of North Street, and you can see it. Search for 'Chongren Special Rice Cake Dumplings' on Gaode, it's very delicious
4 Roasted buns
On North Street, the shop is called 'Jianping Roasted Buns', the filling is tofu, and the pot is very strong
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Shengzhou, an ancient town with no trace of commercialism| Chongren Ancient Town
Chongren Ancient Town. A low-key thousand-year-old ancient town, without commercialization, not many people, walking around and taking pictures here has a unique flavor.
The wood carvings, stone carvings and brick carvings here are very exquisite. In addition to this, there are stages, public temples, gates, ancient wells and many ancient buildings in the ancient town.
It is recommended to wear plain colored clothes or Chinese-style clothes such as cheongsams for photos here!
🚗Navigation: Chongren Ancient Town
🅿️Parking: There is a free parking lot
🎫Tickets: Free
Food recommendations:
1. Rice cake dumplings: It can be said to be the business card of the ancient town, and it is also very characteristic.
2. Jianping roasted buns: A specially marked shop. There are a lot of people, the shop is full of neighbors, and there are many people waiting outside for the pot. Sisters who are patient and like food can try it!
3. Yuanfeng fast food: An ordinary small shop, but their fried stinky tofu buns and radish shreds are particularly delicious, and they are very cheap, only one yuan each.
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Shengzhou, the hometown of Yue Opera
🔸 Xiaokun Village on the top of the mountain to watch the stars 🎑
The little Kun village with a history of over 800 years that has become popular
Hidden in the depths of Xibaishan, a paradise on earth, also known as 'Western Seda'
Walk up for about 2H, you can reach the top of Xibaishan
Xibaishan, also known as Shaobaijian, with an altitude of 1095.7 meters
You can overlook the whole view of Xiaokun Village
The red bricks on the roof under the sunlight
Look just like Seda
PS: Mountain road
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🔸Chongren Ancient Town without too much commercial atmosphere
The ancient town is open for free, without too much commercial atmosphere
Preserving the original Ming and Qing buildings, the closed courtyard or quadrangle is suitable for a leisurely stroll
If you're lucky, you might even come across a Yue Opera performance
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🔸Wubai Gang, Fragrant Fir Forest and Village above the Clouds🏞
Wubai Gang, known as 'Little Wugong Mountain of Shaoxing', stretches across nearly 500 peaks of the Kuaiji Mountain Range
The big pointed mountain in the middle, with continuous peaks, in the depths of more than 600 meters above sea level, there are occasional villages along the ancient road
PS: Single lane, the road is quite narrow
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🔸Baizhang Waterfall Scenic Area
'Flying straight down three thousand feet, it seems like the Milky Way falls from the sky'
Nine waterfalls fly out of the Baizhang canyon, with a magnificent momentum, spectacular
It's the free season, from 1.1 to 6.30, the scenic area is free of charge
PS: The water flow is relatively small in winter
Roaming Appetites
The ancient town of Chongren, hidden in Shengzhou, Shaoxing, has been around for nearly a thousand years
Originally named Xinghua Village, it was established in the Tang Dynasty and flourished in the Ming and Qing Dynasties.
The ancient town mainly consists of over 150 terraced houses, about 10 temples and shrines, over 50 ancient wells and other ancient buildings and sites, covering a total area of 30 hectares.
The architecture of the ancient town is solemn and elegant, basically maintaining the style of the Ming and Qing Dynasties. The brick, wood, and stone carvings are exquisite, pleasing to the eye; the ancient streets and alleys are winding and varied, and it feels like entering a maze when you are in it; the ancient wells are long-standing, the spring water is sweet, and the legendary stories are fascinating.
In the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China, Chongren was still an economically developed ancient town in eastern Zhejiang. In the 1930s, there were more than a dozen silk factories, tea factories, and cloth factories with assets of over 100,000, known as the 'Little Shanghai of Zhejiang'.
Chongren is the main production area of Yixing purple clay crafts in Shengzhou. When you come to Chongren, don't forget to taste the famous Chen's stewed duck, and you can also buy some local specialty products such as Xitan pressed noodles, Xiqing tofu skin, Guiyan mist tip tea, etc.
Chongren Ancient Town
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