Don't look at Gege and don't dare to walk on the transparent glass trestle, but she is very interested in this kind of high-altitude overlook, even if the height of the Shanghai Center Tower is far more than the World Financial Center Building, but the ground of the Shanghai Sea Top Sightseeing Hall is opaque, so she is not afraid here at all.After all, the top of the Shanghai Sea Sightseeing Hall is located on the 118th floor and at an altitude of 546 meters above sea level, at this height, you will trample the entire Shanghai Sea under your feet.Gege was very interested in the coin-operated telescope in the hall, and watched it for more than an hour one after another, and then reluctantly left the telescope.There are a lot of tourists who come here for sightseeing, and there are many tourists who like to watch with binoculars, Gege can't occupy a telescope by herself, so once someone wants to use a telescope, she will take the initiative to give it to others, and she will continue to watch it after others have finished reading.After seeing most of the Shanghai Sea through the telescope, Gege took Yang Jing to buy a lot of postcards, and then wrote many names and addresses on these postcards, and threw these postcards into the green mailbox located on the side of the sightseeing hall one by one.This mailbox is currently the tallest man-made building post box in China and the second highest man-made building post box in the world, second only to the post office at an altitude of 555 meters on the 148th floor of the Burj Khalifa.Of course, the altitude of this post box is only 546 meters, which is far worse than the world's highest post office at an altitude of 5,200 meters above sea level in the base camp of Mount Everest, and even much worse than the highest post office in Europe at the top of Jungfrau in Switzerland, but after all, this is a post office in an artificial building, and it is actually very commemorative to be able to send out postcards in this post box.In particular, Gege sent a postcard to each of them in her own name and in the name of Yang Jing, and it will be more commemorative after receiving this postcard after returning home.After coming down from the Huhai Center, the four of them had lunch and drove straight to Wuzhen, which was more than 100 kilometers away.Wuzhen is one of the first batch of Chinese historical and cultural towns, one of the top ten charming towns in China, a township with a beautiful environment in China, and a national 5A-level scenic spot.Wuzhen was originally called Wudun and Qingdun, originally bounded by the city river, divided into two towns of Wuqing, Wuzhen in the west of the river, and Qingzhen in the east of the river.This quaint town is a typical Han water town in the south of the Yangtze River, which completely preserves the style and pattern of the water town in the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China.Build houses along the river, deep house compounds, heavy ridges and high eaves, antique, stone paths, old wooden houses, and clear lake breath.In Gege's words, when you come here to play, what you see is a kind of emotion and an atmosphere.Yang Jing and Gege had been to Zhouzhuang Town and Tongli Town before, but neither of them had ever been to Wuzhen, so after coming out of Huhai this time, Gege was going to come to Wuzhen to play.And there are exactly three days left on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, and there is an important custom activity here in Wuzhen during the Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, that is, "Lantern Festival Walking Bridge".The fifteenth day of the first month of the lunar calendar is the Lantern Festival, commonly known as "the first month and a half", Wuzhen people have the custom of walking the bridge, that is, after nightfall, they should travel together, and they should take ten bridges on the way, and the route cannot be repeated.In ancient times, women dressed up and carried a clay pot for decoction of medicine, and when crossing the bridge, they threw the pot into the river, believing that this would keep the new year free of illness and disaster.However, in modern times, clay pots are not thrown, but the activity of "walking the bridge" has been passed down to the world.With such a fun and meaningful activity, how could Gege not participate?
Even though there are still three days before the Lantern Festival, Gege arrived in Wuzhen and rested for a while, then pulled Yang Jing out of the hotel, and began to explore the route of "walking the bridge" at night while feeling the charm of this ancient town by boat.It's rare that this girl is so interested in this custom activity, and Yang Jing is also happy to play with her, so the two people's butts are followed by two big foreigners, and this strange combination shuttles through the streets and alleys of Wuzhen.After dinner in the evening, the four of them began to "walk the bridge", to be precise, Yang Jing and the three old men accompanied Gege to walk the bridge together.But what makes them happy is that even if it is not yet the Lantern Festival, there are still many big girls and little daughters-in-law at night, all dressed up beautifully and come out to walk the bridge.Occasionally, I meet a lady walking on the bridge, whether I know each other or not, both sides will greet each other very politely, and if I feel good, I will even stop and say a few words, and exchange the experience of walking the bridge.Anyway, Gege was very happy this night, and even Clark and John, who had been following behind their butts, also giggled.Although they don't know what to do here in this dark day, the two of them can also feel the good mood of the boss and the boss, plus there is almost nothing to do with the two of them during this time, they are happy with the boss and the boss, but also secretly sigh that the law and order in China is good.After staying in the hotel for the night, the four of them drove two cars early the next morning, although it was the return trip, but the next destination was not Jinling, but Yixing on the Taihu Lake line.It is only more than 100 kilometers from Wuzhen to Yixing, and the whole highway can be reached in more than an hour.The reason why I went to Yixing was mainly because Yang Jing wanted to go and see, after all, it was the "pottery capital" of China, and it was also the hometown of Mr.
Gu Jingzhou, the grandmaster of a generation of purple clay pots.The reason why Yixing is called the "pottery capital of China" is that after Fan Li assisted the king of Yue Gou Jian to overthrow the king of Chu, he retreated bravely and took the beauty Xi Shi to hide on the shore of the West Lake.And this pair of fairy couples once fired pottery in Yixing for a generation, so Yixing was praised as the "pottery capital" by later generations.Now there is a Lihe River in Yixing, which is said to be the name given to commemorate Fan Li and Xi Shi boating here.Yixing is not only the pottery capital of China, but also the birthplace of Chinese purple sand culture.Dingshu Town, located in the south of Yixing City, is the real origin of Zisha culture.The town is not big, the Lihe River looks through the town from north to south, and the real birthplace of the purple sand culture in the town is located on the east bank of the Lihe River Shushan Gunan Street.Yixing's Shu Mountain is not those big mountains in Sichuan Province, this mountain is just a small mountain bag with an altitude of dozens of meters, but because the great writer Su Dongpo of the Northern Song Dynasty once said that "this mountain is like Shu", so it is named "Shu Mountain".Shushan Gunan Street is at the foot of Shushan, and the west is close to the Lihe River, which can be called a mountain and a river.Dijie, often human souls!
This Changgu Street is not only the birthplace of Yixing Zisha, but also the production and sales center of Yixing Zisha from the mid-to-late Ming Dynasty to the sixties of the last century, and the cradle of Zisha art masters.A large number of purple clay pot masters and even a generation of grandmasters such as Chen Mingyuan, Gu Jingzhou, Zhang Hongshou, Gu Shaopei, Wu Yungen, and Ren Ganting were born.In ancient times, it was prosperous here, the mountain was a blend of mud and fire, the merchants gathered under the mountain, more than half of the households were engaged in the production and operation of purple sand, and the purple sand ware made of firing set off from the Lihe wharf, and was transported to all parts of the country after entering Taihu Lake......
The bustle of Shushan lasted for nearly 500 years, and it was not until after the reform and opening up, with the development of land transportation, that the purple sand production center was transferred to Dingshan, and Shushan fell silent.Yang Jing and the four of them parked the car outside, and then walked into Gu Nan Street.The length of this street is only a kilometer, and the width is only three or four meters wide, and it is a small street paved with stones, so small that you can't even see this ancient street on the general map.On this street full of ancient charm, there are two-story brick and wood buildings on both sides, purple clay pot shops, teahouses, cloth shops, and small hardware shops can be seen everywhere, wooden doors, lattice windows, telephone booths, and small advertisements with QR codes......
History and reality, ancient and modern, blend here.If Wuzhen seems to be a quiet and virtuous young woman, then this Gu Nanjie is a chivalrous man who has traveled all over the world.Although both are ancient, they have very different charms.Gege is also very interested in this ancient street, she has been to Yixing, but she has never been here.There are a large number of former residences of purple clay pot masters on both sides of the ancient street, and you can see the former residence of a purple clay pot master after walking a few steps, and there are also many antique wooden doors next to them, hanging all kinds of small signs, which are written with some content that Yang Jing and Gege are a little incomprehensible.For example, two people saw an antique wooden sign next to a door, which read "a pot of Jiangnan", of course the two people didn't know what it meant, and thought that this house was the former residence of the late master of the purple clay pot.As a result, like the person next to him, he inquired, only to know that this is a purple clay pot studio, and the two of them also found a wooden sign in front of another old house that looks full of history, with the words "Shushan Father's Room" written on it, how atmospheric this name is, it should be the former residence of a master, and the result is to take a closer look, there is a line of small words next to the four big characters, and the two of them can't help but be happy after reading it.Because this house is still a modern purple clay pot studio, of course, the most seen along the way is the former residence of those famous purple clay pot masters, the former residence of Master Gu Jingzhou, needless to say, in addition, I also saw the former residence of Zhang Hongshou, the former residence of Huang Fenglai, the former residence of Huang Zhiqiang, the former residence of Xu Xiutang, the former residence of Ren Ganting and a series of former residences of masters.The whole ancient street is not big, but it is a pilgrimage place for purple sand lovers.Here, you can knock on a random house and maybe have a conversation with the master.Now that he has come here, Yang Jing has moved his mind.Don't look at Mr.
Gu Jingzhou, who has only passed away for more than 20 years, but the purple clay pot made by his old man is now a national treasure.Now passing by Baoshan, how can you return empty-handed?