Suzhou Mudu Ancient Town, there are not as many people as Zhouzhuang, not as noisy as Zhejiang Wuzhen, everything here feels just right. Ancient style, small bridges and flowing water, there is a kind of tranquility and leisure in it, walking on the town's cobblestone road, time has become slower. If you want to feel the atmosphere of Gangnam, this is the right place!
Ticket information
Entering the ancient town is free, and the internal small attractions are combined with tickets (including Yanjia Garden, Hongyin Mountain House, Ancient Pine Garden, and Bangyan Fudi) for adult tickets of 78 yuan. Yanjia Garden alone buys 40 yuan, Hongyin Mountain House buys 40 yuan, Gusong Garden buys 20 yuan, and Bangyan House buys 10 yuan. The entrance fee of Mingyue Temple is 10 yuan, and the entrance ticket of Ming and Qing Ancient Porcelain Museum is 5 yuan, both of which are not included in the joint ticket. Key point: If you have a Suzhou leisure annual pass, you can directly swipe the card to enter.
Traffic information
Bus travel: Take bus No. 69 or No. 69 to the platform of Mudu Yanjia Garden At the first and last station of Suzhou Railway Station South Square. You can also take bus tours 4, 38, 64, 502, 65, 58, 512 to Mudu Ancient Town.
Subway travel: In the city, you can take Metro Line 1 directly at the terminal station Mudu or take Line 2 to Guangjinan Road to Line 1 to Reach Mudu and then transfer to the bus to Yanjia Garden Station.
Key points: After getting off the bus, there will be a guide map at the mouth of the town, and everyone can walk according to the map, without taking a rickshaw on the side of the road. The road is close and unnecessary
Must-see attractions
1. Yanjia Garden is located in the north of WangjiaQiao, Shantang Street, Mudu Ancient Town. During the Guangxu period, Yan Guoxin, the richest man in Mudu, bought the Lower Duan Garden, rebuilt it, and renamed it "XianYuan". Because the owner of the garden is surnamed Yan, the locals call it "YanJia Garden". After more than 200 years, whether it is the vicissitudes of the years or the accumulation of humanities, it has given the Yanjia Garden a cultural atmosphere and a famous garden style. It is known as "Jiangnan Garden Classic".
If you look carefully, you will find that many popular dramas have appeared in the Yan Family Garden: "Daming Dynasty", "Kangxi Dynasty", "Xiao Shiyilang", "Water Moon Cave Heaven", "The Legend of the Tang Dynasty", "Towards the Republic", "Li Wei as an Official", and there are many little girls who love to watch "Ruyi Zhuan"...
2. Mudu past sitcom
This sitcom is to be put behind the Yan family garden. This is an immersive garden drama, divided into nine stories, telling the story of the old man who is the representative of the Dongting Shang Gang at a time of national turmoil and change, contributing the letter and righteousness of the ancestral home and pouring out his family wealth, and contributing his own son to the country.".
In the play, the parents' concern for their children, the children's filial piety to their parents, the wife's support and waiting for their husbands, the husband's love and love for their wives, and the help between brothers will show the persistence of faith and righteousness to the fullest.
The performance is about 1 hour, starting at 7 p.m. and 8:20 p.m. every day, if you have time, just in the evening and can be here, you must feel it, follow the actors and the advancement of the plot, as you move in the Yan family garden, feel the characteristic wedding customs, listen to the drama at the Caolu family banquet around the mountain, sit in the Ming Building to enjoy the evaluation performance, and listen to the parting feelings in the back garden pavilion.
3. Rainbow Drinking Mountain House
Located 200 meters east of Yanjia Garden, the door is opposite Xiangxi and backed by Lingyan Mountain. According to legend, every time the Qianlong Emperor went down to The South of the Jiangsu River to visit Mudu, he would go to the Hongshu Mountain House, where he would visit the garden, watch plays, taste tea, and chant poems, until night fell, and then he would not give up and follow the Shantang Royal Road in front of the door to return to the Lingyan Mountain Palace. Therefore, it is also known as the "folk palace" of the Qianlong Emperor.
4. Ancient Pine Garden
It was built by Cai Shaoyu, a rich man in Mudu at the end of the Qing Dynasty. Legend has it that Cai Shaoyu's ancestral home is Dongting Xishan, originally doing foreign goods business in Shanghai, developed back to his hometown to build a house and land, a good field, and its architectural layout is the front house and the back garden, a typical Qing Dynasty house garden style. There is a Ming Dynasty Luohan pine in the back garden, which is green and vigorous, with a beautiful posture, and the ancient pine garden is named after this pine.
In Feng Xiaogang's "Private Order", Yao Jianping and her Su embroidery team appeared on camera, and the TV series "Because I Met You" specially invited Yao Jianping as an embroidery art consultant. The work has been in space twice, and has been given to foreign VIPs as a national gift many times, allowing her and Su Embroidery to be famous overseas, but Yao Jianping was not blinded by fame and fortune, but chose to hide in mudu ancient pine garden, quietly embroidered, hoping to make Su embroidery adapt to modern rhythms and better inherit it.
5. Bangyan Fudi
It is the place where Feng Guifen, a disciple of Lin Zexu in the Qing Dynasty and a political commentator of the late Qing Dynasty, returned to Yinmudu in his later years. Sitting south facing north, the door is facing the Xu River, and the front house and back garden have a typical jiangnan house garden architectural style in the early Qing Dynasty.
Mudu Sanji - a culinary experience that must not be missed
1, Wu Zhentang wu rice, is the first recommended. It is highly recommended to eat this rice after coming to Mudu before going to play. Pro-test, can avoid mosquitoes.
Black rice looks very plain, and the plastic container even makes it look a little simple, but when you eat it, you can taste its unique charm that distinguishes it from ordinary white rice. Don't look at the appearance of the ordinary, but this black rice has been on the tip of the tongue of China, and traveled all over China programs, the fame is still very large.
In addition to Uchiha, there are also black claws, black pig's trotters, umi mung bean soup, umi sake, etc., and if you are interested, you can buy it and try it.
2, Lao Qingtai Tibetan book mutton: Tibetan book lamb to live slaughter goat as raw material, with white roast lamb, mutton soup, sheep cake and braised lamb flavor of the main varieties, the use of traditional and unique cooking techniques to cook, is an excellent choice for sticking autumn fat.
3, Shijia Hotel catfish lung soup: Mudu's catfish lung soup has a history of 300 years, the catfish is the spotted fish, the locals call it bubble fish. I heard that the eating method of this catfish lung soup is exquisite, called "cold liver hot soup", that is, eating cod liver to wait for the cod liver to cool down, and can only sip, can not bite, in the mouth slowly out of the taste after drinking a mouthful of hot soup, full of fish sweetness.
But to be honest, I didn't eat it, because looking at the sales photos searched on the Internet, it felt like a soup, and I wasn't very interested.
Key points: In Shantang Street, you can see many pastry shops, selling a variety of sock bottom crisps, mustard cakes, begonia drafts and other pastries, this kind of want to eat, do not want to eat there is no too much regret.