Xinshi Ancient Town

Deqing County, under the jurisdiction of Huzhou City, Zhejiang Province, is located in the northern part of Zhejiang Province. It is bordered by Tongxiang City to the east, Yuhang District and Linping District to the south, Anji County to the west, and is adjacent to the suburbs of Huzhou City to the north, situated in the hinterland of the Yangtze River Delta; the terrain slopes from west to east, featuring a north subtropical monsoon climate, with distinct seasons, abundant sunshine, plentiful rainfall, and a warm and humid climate throughout the year; the total area is 936 square kilometers. Deqing County, deriving its name from the idea that 'a person of virtue is as pure as water', was established 1800 years ago. It retains historical and cultural relics such as the Middle Ages jade workshop and the thousand-year-old ancient temple Yunxiu Temple, and is an important birthplace of China's original porcelain and artificial pearl cultivation techniques. It has nurtured historical and cultural celebrities such as Meng Jiao and Shen Yue, forming unique regional cultures such as the anti-wind culture and the wanderer culture.

· A native of the Jiangnan water towns will tell you: Wuzhen has long been purely commercialized, If you want to feel the real Jiangnan and experience the life of the locals, Those less famous ancient towns are actually more local and more fun!!! · Last weekend, I went on a short vacation around Hangzhou, and visited Xincheng Ancient Town with friends, which has a history of 1700 years, It has been the setting for many classic movies, and is known as the 'Millennium Little Shanghai, Broadway of Jiangnan' In 2011, it was even included in the tentative list of World Heritage Sites!!! · 🎫There is no admission fee, and most of the visitors are residents from the surrounding area, so there's no need to fight for photo spots; The small shops in the ancient town are mostly old stores opened by locals, the items are not expensive and the food is delicious, it's really comfortable to sit by the small bridge and flowing water, basking in the sun and enjoying tea, rather than pushing through the crowds in Wuzhen, you might as well come to this niche ancient town!!! - 📒Travel Guide · ▪️For those who like ancient styles: Upon arrival, you can first go to the Octagonal Pavilion in the ancient town, where you can change into Hanfu for free, and even get a special fan of the ancient town, follow the route to collect stamps and you can exchange them for candied haws or sugar paintings; ▪️For movie fans: The ancient town is the filming location of 'Lin's Shop' and 'Silkworm Flower Girl', and also the hometown of Wang Manni from the TV series 'Nothing But Thirty'; ▪️For history buffs: You can visit the former residences of Shen Quan, Zhong Zhaolin, Hu Xu, and the Tong Runfu Memorial Hall, and go to the Xincheng Cultural and Historical Museum to learn about the culture and history of the entire ancient town; ▪️For those bringing elders: The ancient Jiangnan temple Juehai Temple is well worth a visit, and you can taste Huangjiu for free at the Xincheng Huangjiu Culture Museum; ▪️For those with children: Xiantan Academy is worth a visit, with a rich academic atmosphere, and the entire academy is very beautiful and suitable for sitting down to read and drink tea; ▪️For those staying more than one day: If you like staying in hotels, you can stay at the Holiday Hotel, which is close to the ancient town and the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, with an excellent location, and for couples, it is recommended to stay at Juehai Domain, a homestay transformed from an old house in the ancient town, for an immersive experience!!! ·

😭 Hangzhou in spring is too crowded! Even on weekdays, West Lake is full of people...🆘 I decided to take a different path and look for lesser-known places around Hangzhou.🎈 After a long search, I finally found this treasure of a wetland park just 1h drive from Hangzhou - Wild Forest Beach!🌳 The environment here is a bit like Xixi Wetland, and you can even see a sunset as beautiful as West Lake!😍 The key is that it's free! No people! It's just too good!👍 🌳 Wild Forest Beach is really 'wild', you can't find the exact address on the map (spanning Hangzhou, Huzhou, Jiaxing, who knows🫤), and you can't find any information online. But my friends all asked me why I only brought them here now!🤣 🚩If you want to make your trip more enriching, you can go to Xinshi Ancient Town in the morning (20 minutes by car) and come here in the afternoon.🤩 📸 For those who like camping, you can set up a tent here. There is also a newly opened coffee shop in the campsite, where you can drink coffee and wait for the sunset, and take some beautiful photos by the way.🌄 ✨ The atmosphere of the campsite at night is super great, after taking pictures of the sunset, you can dine directly here, both shabu-shabu and army hot pot are very good!🍲 Generous portions, affordable, and delicious to tears!😋 📍Wild Forest Beach 🚗Self-driving navigation: 1. 【Wild Forest Beach Golden Island】 Deqing County, Huzhou City, Yu Zhong Line 2. 【Tongxiang City Wild Forest Beach Ecotourism Development Co., Ltd.】 3. 【Elephant Camping】 📌When you arrive at the navigation location, you will see a restaurant, parking is free. After getting off the car, walk in from a long bridge, see a sign that says 'Golden Island', and walk in to get to Wild Forest Beach. Then find Elephant Camping🐘, the best place to take sunset photos is next to the campsite food truck. If you don't understand, you can ask the people at the campsite or the locals.🎣 📷Girls can dress a little more fairy-like, light-colored clothes are more photogenic~ The sunset is very weather-dependent, it must be a sunny day!🤩 If the shooting effect is not satisfactory, you can pull the color temperature a little warmer in post-production, or use Mix Magic Sky P, it's super simple! (Picture 1 is the sky added by Mix) ⚠ Be sure to pay attention to safety when taking pictures! There are no major safety measures on the plank road!🙏 Safety first!

| A record of snacks in Xinshi Ancient Town. Children in the water towns of Jiangnan, their childhood memories are all related to food. After school, on the small path along the canal, the grandmother is burning the coal stove, and various kinds of pasta are tumbling in the oil pan, with a fragrant aroma. Holding the hot oil dumpling in hand, eating while walking, is the most relaxing time of the day. I felt a long-lost intimacy in Xinshi Ancient Town. The town is large in scale and ranks among the top seven ancient towns in Jiangnan. The old houses from the Qing Dynasty on both sides of the canal are still inhabited, and the houses are in good condition. Grandpa and grandma run a snack shop at the door of their own house, the ingredients are fresh, and a bite brings back the deep-seated taste of childhood. 🥡Must-eat food recommendations: ✨Tea cake: a local specialty of Xinshi, with fresh meat and bean paste flavors. The outer skin is a mixture of glutinous rice and japonica rice, wrapped with fillings, and steamed over water. The pork is fresh, with a little bit of soup, fresh but not greasy. 4 yuan each, affordable and filling. ✨Radish shredded oil dumpling: The shredded radish is white and tender, fried in batter. Eating it in hand, it's slightly hot, and this is my favorite bite. 4 yuan each. ✨Plum cake: the C-position food in Xinshi Ancient Town, the shop location is excellent, at the confluence of two tributaries, crowded with people. The plum cake is sweet, the outer skin is crispy, the middle is runny bean paste filling, the top layer of plum-shaped pancake is mixed with red dates, walnuts, and black sesame. Glutinous rice lovers can't miss it. 6 yuan each. ✨Soup-filled stinky tofu: A very special combination, you can't smell the peculiar smell of stinky tofu, only the fragrance of fried soy products. The tofu is very tender, the skin is crispy, topped with sweet bean sauce, special meat sauce, salty chili sauce, its goodness, only those who eat it know. Five pieces of tofu for 10 yuan. 🌿The stove tea is very popular recently, there are many supplies in Xinshi Ancient Town, the price is quite affordable, tea products 25-30, snacks 15-20, an average of 40 can happily chat and play cards by the river. The shop sent out a dog to attract customers at the door. 🏩Accommodation: Xinshi Ancient Town Holiday Hotel, a new Chinese-style building with a strong sense of design, garden landscape, canal walkway, water view restaurant, everything that should be there. The ordinary guest room area is nearly 40 square meters, which is up to the four-star standard. The hotel has a parking lot underneath, with ample parking spaces. Deqing Xinshi Ancient Town Holiday Hotel

Uncovering a lesser-known ancient town of a thousand years! Hangzhou is an hour's drive away, and the key is that there are few people! Not only is the charm of the Jiangnan water town strong here, but compared to Wuzhen and Xitang, there is more of a down-to-earth atmosphere~ The ancient town retains its original architecture, there are various special foods on the street, and tea shops where you can sit around a stove are everywhere. When you're tired, find a place to sit down and bask in the sun, it's very suitable to invite family and friends to experience a leisurely slow life! - 🚗【Transportation] ⛳Location: Xinshi Ancient Town 🚗Transportation: About an hour's drive from Hangzhou 🚘Parking: The ancient town has a relatively large parking lot, 2 hours for 5 yuan, 3 hours for 8 yuan, 4 hours for 10 yuan! Free parking on the side of the road!! 🎫Tickets: No tickets are required for the ancient town, but tickets or joint tickets are required to enter the Xinshi Cultural History Museum, Shen Quan's former residence, etc.! - 👉【Recommended route] You can enter from the east entrance of the tourist center→Follow the West River Mouth Historical Culture Street→Juehai Temple→Central Park 🥳The town is not big, you can finish touring in about an hour. . 🍱 1⃣️Tea cake (Third Girl): The meat is wrapped in glutinous rice, which has a unique flavor 2⃣️Plum cake (Ling's Mother): Sweet glutinous rice sprinkled with red dates, and sweet red bean paste underneath! (The top is average, the red bean paste is delicious) 3⃣️Baked bun: There is a crispy chicken baked bun in the innermost part of the ancient town, it's delicious! 4⃣️Noodles (Xiantan): Crispy lamb noodles, a bowl of mixed noodles + lamb, the taste is delicious 5⃣️Sitting around a stove to make tea: Choose a position where you can bask in the sun, usually 50 yuan per person!

Xinshi Ancient Town is a completely free scenic area, part of the old town has completely integrated with the new city community. The ancient streets have become part of the modern community, and it is very convenient to enter the ancient town. If you drive by yourself and are not familiar with the urban roads, it is most convenient to park your car in the scenic area parking lot. The parking lot still retains the granary of that year, which is also the memory of the prosperity of this small town by the canal for thousands of years. Leaving the scenic area parking lot, go to the small town through the visitor center. The small town surrounded by modern industrial parks and living communities is slowly emerging. Walking along the ancient streets paved with bluestone slabs, the calm river is beside you, and the two banks are the simple traditional houses of the south of the Yangtze River. As the alleys of the old street go deeper and deeper, the plain but not losing the life breath comes oncoming. The hustle and bustle outside the small town also disappeared. Compared with other more famous ancient towns in the south of the Yangtze River, the appearance of Xinshi Ancient Town in history is a bit vague. But this can leave beautiful legends and stories, so that we tourists can find the answers we recognize in the town. Xinshi Ancient Town produces deep tea cakes, choose a tea house by the river, drink tea and eat cakes. There are so many legends and stories in the old town, it takes some time to digest. If you are lucky enough to have a performance on the old stage, I don’t care if I can understand it, it’s good to watch the excitement.

This mysterious place has long been listed as one of the four major tourist destinations in China, and even foreign media generously praise it as one of the most worthwhile places to go in the world. It is located in Deqing County, Huzhou City, Zhejiang Province, let's unveil its mystery together! First stop: Moganshan Bamboo Sea It's a fascinating paradise. Here, you can taste the natural wonders: the green mountains and forests, the mountain streams full of bamboo, like poetry and painting, as if entering a quiet fairyland. Coming here, it seems that time has also slowed down, without the noise and hustle and bustle of the city, just immerse yourself in the embrace of nature, and enjoy the tranquility and comfort of the soul. In the bamboo sea, with the breeze on your face, walking in it, it seems to be in a wonderful world isolated from the world. Second stop: Xinshi Ancient Town Take you to feel the long-lasting history and cultural heritage. Stepping into here, it seems to go back to ancient times, every ancient building and stone road is precipitating the traces of time. Small bridges and flowing water, bluestone alley entrances, shops with ancient style, make people seem to walk into an ancient town lost in time. There are also a variety of special snacks, allowing you to enjoy the taste of food, and taste the traditional taste. At night, the lights illuminate the entire ancient town, presenting a picturesque scenery in the flowing light and shadow, as beautiful as a fairyland. Whether it is exploring historical culture or enjoying food, here can satisfy your rich vacation experience. Third stop: Xiaozhu Lake Wait for you a thrilling water park adventure! In Deqing County, there is another exciting place, that is Xiaozhu Lake! The clear lake water, blue sky and white clouds, and the lush forests around will take you into a dreamy water world. Here, you can have fun, experience various water projects, such as sailing, boating, surfing, etc. In the laughter and splashing water, release your inner pressure and enjoy a soaking and healing from nature. Not only are there exciting water activities, but also natural landscapes such as the lakeside wetland park and the reed flower park, which allow you to get close to nature and feel the joy of being one with the world.

The ancient city of New City, with a thousand years of history, is located in Deqing County, Zhejiang Province. A green river runs through the town. It is full of Zhejiang and Supa characteristics, and the water and the street are in harmony. The feelings and colors of the Jiangnan water town, the long streets and the deep alleys. There is no bustling downtown, only the tranquility and tranquility of the bridge, perhaps this is the longing dream of life! In this small town, it is the rich and simple Jiangnan water town style.

What is Jiangnan? Jiangnan is a beautiful scenery with the wind is back to the clouds and the rain is clear, and the lake is warm and clear. It is a beautiful beauty of the people like the moon, the wrists and the frost. Where is Jiangnan? Jiangnan is not just Suhang, which has a reputation as a paradise. Zhejiang Huzhou has always been famous for its elegant gardens, and it has the characteristics of the ancient towns of the small bridges and the waters of the ancient towns. Been to many other ancient towns, the new town of New Town is relatively more flavorful, there is not much modern business culture, some are quite nostalgic maltose, mottled stone road, winding small river. The living conditions of the original residents have not changed, the wash in the river, the morning tea by the river, is a clear spring in modern civilization. When you walk into the ancient town of Xinshi, you can always find that the Jiangnan people are highly skilled. Whether it is brick or stone carvings on the walls or wood carvings looking up, one piece of art in our view is so common here. They are very common in the corner of the house, the location may be extremely remote, but it is always so eye-catching. The ancient town of Xinshi has a history of thousands of years. Among them, the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the Jue Temple, the ancient bridges, etc., the residents built on the river, the bridge and the city, with a rich and typical Jiangnan style. On both sides of the water street, the street-street buildings built along the waters of the past dynasties basically maintain the characteristics of the old streets of the water town in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China. The simple and elegant stone wall door, the exquisite brick carving house, the unique fire wall, the stone embankment river, and the most on both sides of the river is the tea break for the tea.