Pingyao Old Street

#cherryblossom2024 🌸 I still recommend this route for Yuanxiao (Filled round balls made of glutinous rice-flour for Lantern Festival). Many people worry that the weather on the day of Yuanxiao (Filled round balls made of glutinous rice-flour for Lantern Festival) Festival is not very popular. This note recommends two travel routes, one suitable for rain free travel, and the other for indoor travel. 1 outdoor free route: Liangzhu Heritage Park (nine minutes' drive) - from creation. A One Bottle Kiln Old Street in the Folk Art Research Center is suitable for playing on rainy days, enjoying plum blossoms and feeding deer in the Bailiangzhu Ancient City Ruins Park, leaving natural creations for a stroll in the evening, experiencing that it is not a pastime for culture, and exploring the market and lanterns in the Bottle Kiln Old Street for descendants of natural darkness.

Pingyao 'Natural Creation', founded in 2013, has been dedicated to field surveys of Chinese folk crafts, capturing and organizing a large amount of video, physical, and textual materials. In 2020, the 'Natural Creation Folk Art Research Center' was established, and through innovative research and transformation, traditional folk arts have been continuously deconstructed and recreated, allowing more people to experience the charm of authentic Chinese traditional culture. Pingyao 'Natural Creation' spans three floors: on the first floor, the first thing that catches the eye is a hand-drawn map titled 'Discovering the Beauty of China's Local Charm'. Each mark on the map represents the steadfast steps of the Natural Creation team in their exploration of folk arts. More impressive than the dense markings is a wall full of photos of craftsmen. In these photos, each craftsman's gaze never strays from their passion, all focused on the handicrafts they are creating, whether it be weaving, painting, or carving. They are the storytellers of folk art. The first floor also features a courtyard and a coffee corner. The second floor is filled with a dazzling array of cultural and creative products (products redeveloped by Natural Creation), which include the Handicraft-Natural Gifts series, the Chinese Festival series, and the New National Trendy Toy series. The third floor is home to folk art classes and a hands-on workshop. This is a paradise for handcraft enthusiasts. Here, you can experience various interesting hands-on activities such as rattan weaving, clay sculpting, paper cutting, and iron art. In short, here you will deeply feel the unique charm of intangible cultural heritage and the endless joy of handicrafts.

Pingyao Old Street is located in Yuhang District, Hangzhou City, about 10 kilometers away from Liangzhu. There are fewer people on Pingyao Old Street, and the commercial atmosphere is not too heavy, suitable for niche check-in on weekends. Apart from a few breakfast shops in the old street, they usually open around noon. There are several stir-fry restaurants and coffee shops on the street, and there is ancient tea for milk tea. The old street itself is not big, and the dining options are relatively limited. Although the old street is small, it has all the internal organs. There are many good exhibition halls to visit. We strolled around for a day. Pingyao Old Street Tour Map: Figure 18. 🚗Parking Roadside parking in the marked area: free Underground parking lot: charge 🏠Four major intangible cultural heritage museums The four major intangible cultural heritage museums are all located in one area, and each museum has an intangible cultural heritage inheritor. 1️⃣Yuhang Paper Umbrella Museum (Figure 6-7) 2️⃣Kite Lantern Museum 3️⃣Liangzhu Jade Carving Museum 4️⃣Pingyao Pottery Museum 🏠Other exhibition halls 1️⃣Mulberry Silkworm Culture Museum Understand the culture of mulberry silkworms 2️⃣Old Time Audio and Video Exhibition Hall (Figure 14-17) Display of old movies and music equipment 🏠Natural Creations (Figure 9-13) A traditional handicraft grocery store, very good to visit and very photogenic, also offers coffee and other drinks inside. 🏡Kiln Ancient Road/Kiln Mountain Park (Figure 5-6) There is a wall in the old street that says "Kiln Mountain Ancient Road" (next to Natural Creations), and you can reach Kiln Mountain Park by going up the stairs. After going up, turn right and keep walking to find the way down the mountain, and you will pass the Kiln Mountain Kiln Site on the way.

To the west of Hangzhou's main city, the mountains are lush, the fertile fields stretch for miles, and the Dongtiao Creek flows elegantly between the mountains and waters. On the north bank of Tiaoxi lies a small town with wide urban roads, bustling with traffic and people, and a gathering of merchants, presenting a lively scene of human life. This place is Pingyao. Known anciently as Ting Market, Pingyao has been prosperous since ancient times and is reputed as a 'land of culture, a heavenly prefecture, a hometown of fish and rice, and the bright pearl of the north.' It is also the core area of the light of Chinese civilization—the Liangzhu Culture, where the Liangzhu Ancient City ruins are located. Pingyao is a 5A-level scenic town in Zhejiang Province, with its gentle natural scenery and charming cultural heritage, becoming a popular spot for tourists. Here, one can find a unique nostalgic atmosphere and rich cultural heritage, a free admission intangible cultural heritage museum and a handicraft research center, as well as cafes with a cultural and creative vibe, retro-style gourmet shops, and cinemas with an 80s style... Pingyao, centered around Mozi Heart, has its east-west streets as Waiyao and Liyao. Waiyao Street backs onto Yao Mountain and faces south to Dongtiao Creek, while Liyao Street starts from the bend of Dongtiao Creek and stretches west to the foot of the main peak of Yao Mountain. Waiyao Street is a commercial street between Yao Mountain and Tiaoxi. Mountain people coming out of the mountains to catch the early market pull bamboo and firewood with two-wheeled carts to the bamboo and wood market at Yangqiao Head to sell; there are also farmers from Penggong, Changming, Anxi, and surrounding villages of Liangzhu, carrying their homegrown vegetables and chickens and ducks to sell on the street. Liyao Old Street was once the busiest market in the old town of Pingyao. The street is lined with shops and bustling with people, and the old cinema was considered the most magnificent building on the old street at that time. Today's Pingyao Cinema still retains the retro style of the old cinema. When night falls and the neon lights on both banks of Tiaoxi light up, walking across the brightly lit Pingyao Bridge, what appears before you is a glittering Liyao old town. The lights along the ten-mile canal outline the contours of the buildings, with some eaves and corridors still adorned with traditional red lanterns, paired with buildings in the style of the 70s and 80s, creating a strong atmosphere. Pingyao is also the inheritance site of Pingyao's intangible cultural heritage. Sericulture culture, Yuhang paper umbrellas, kite lanterns, Liangzhu jade carving, pottery making, various intangible cultural heritage products on display, allowing visitors to witness and experience making them by themselves...