"Visiting the Ancient City on the First Day of the Chinese New Year"
On the first day of the first lunar month of the year of Nongyin, I originally planned to go to the "Forest House Plum Sea" to admire thousands of acres of plum blossoms, but there was a light rain in the sky early in the morning, so I had to give up. After the lunch break to see the sky, the clouds are getting thinner, with his wife Lao Wang took the subway line 2, to visit the "Qili Shantang Street", taste the taste of Suzhou ancient city and "Gusu people do their best pillow river" of the small bridge flowing water beauty.
Two stops away, the subway drive to Shantang Street Station in less than seven minutes. Exit No. 3, the west entrance of Shantang Street, look around, and be dumbfounded. I saw that starting from the entrance, along Guangjinan Road to the north, the tourists waiting to enter Shantang Street had already lined up five hundred meters away, and it was still rapidly extending. Madame asked me, "Are you still going inside?" I suggested visiting the other old streets, Madame said yes.
We walked south along Guangnan South Road to Shangtang Street, and walked another 1,000 meters to the east to Zhangmen. The towers of The Gate are still majestic, but they are a little more old than the daily life, and a pair of seal books about two or three feet high hangs on both sides of the city gate, attracting dozens of tourists to stop and take pictures. The north pier outside the gate is particularly busy, the cruise ships are like shuttles, tourists are weaving, the "herringbone" waves drawn by the cruise ships on the surface of the moat river cross and twist from time to time, and there are two or three herons soaring with the cruise ship, presumably smelling fish.
Entering The Gate, that is, coming to Xizhongshi Street, there are internet red shops "Yao Ji Soy Milk", "Old Lu Manuscript Recommendation"... Soon after, we came to the "Temple of Tabor". The "Taibo Temple" was built to commemorate the first monarch of Suzhou, "Taibo". Tai Bo was the great uncle of King Wen of Zhou, born more than a thousand years AGO, hundreds of years before Wu Zixu. Zhou Taibo excavated the first canal in human history, the Bodu River, founded the Wu civilization, and gave up the throne three times at the age of 91. The four big characters in front of the Temple of Tabor, "Zhi De Ming Bang", are a heartfelt tribute to Tabor's life.
Not far from the "Tabor Temple", you will come to DongzhongShi Street. The dividing point between West Central Market Street and East Central Market Street is a famous bridge, Gao Bridge. Gaoqiao is named after a wealthy merchant and virtuous man who lived in the west of the bridge during the Eastern Han Dynasty, Gao Botong. It is said that one spring, the Gao Botong family took in a couple who were in distress, and after taking them in, the couple did miscellaneous labor in the Gao Botong family and ate mixed food. One day, Gao Botong saw that the couple's words and deeds were very different from those of ordinary miscellaneous servants, and the wife made a meal, loaded the plate and used a tray to give her husband a meal, and the height of the tray end was the same as that of the eyebrow. Gao Botong thus determined that the couple was not idle and treated with the above guests. It turned out that the couple was Liang Hong and Meng Guang, a well-known socialite in the Eastern Han Dynasty. Liang Hong offended the emperor with a five-character poem and fled to Suzhou with political refuge. Liang Hongsheng's appearance is grand and talented, but he prefers to marry an ugly wife. It is said that Meng Guangchang is fat and black, with small eyes, and freckles on the side of his face, and he has great strength to grasp Ding. Although the Meng Guang people are ugly, they are of good character and are willing to follow Liang Honglang to the end of the world and live in seclusion in the mountains. The idiom "Raising the Case and Raising eyebrows" tells the story of Liang Hong and Meng Guang during their miscellaneous work in the Gao Botong family, comparing the love of husband and wife. Husband and wife love is a common thing, Gao Botong can find talents through subtlety, and then love is good, nai Bo Le also! Suzhou people commemorate Gao Botongshi with "Gao Bridge" to praise Bole is also! Historically, there were many celebrities living near Gaoqiao, and Tang Bohu, a talented man, also lived, and Tang Bohu's father opened a winemaking workshop. After having money, Tang Bohu bought a yard in Peach Blossom Dock, and posterity called Tang Bohu the "Peach Blossom Master".
Our old couple walked along Dongzhongshi Street to the east for a while, crossed the Shanjia Bridge, turned left to Zhongjie Road, about 1,000 meters, that is, came to Taohuawu Street. Taohuawu Avenue motorway is paved with rough bluestone slabs, the walking path is a non-slip granite floor, and the shops on both sides of the road are very different from West Central Market Street and East Middle Market Street, which are more wide and bright. Continuing eastward, we came to Renmin Road.
Renmin Road is the north-south main road of the old Suzhou City, and the section we walked through is located in the northwest corner of the ancient city area, with the North Temple Pagoda to the east and The Taohuawu to the west. The Peach Blossom Wood Area is not known because of the "Peach Blossom Master" Tang Bohu? Or did he have a peach blossom dock and then Tang Bohu? Regardless of him, now here is a high-end residential area, high-walled deep courtyard, pink-walled Dewa, villa mansion. As I walked, I heard the sound of high heels pedaling behind me from far and near, and it turned out to be a woman who "walked with the wind" and walked by. The little woman nian fang 40 fall, wearing a camel winter hat, wearing a bean green cashmere trench coat, wearing a money beige silk scarf around the neck, pedaling a pair of brown and red pointed high heels, carrying a brown Hermès bag on the left shoulder, walking posture similar to the female number one Su Mingyu in the "All Is Good" TV series, but the height difference is ten centimeters. Watching this little woman also seem to turn into the villa area of "Taowu Graceland", the sound of high heels tickling and stomping gradually faded, and Mrs. Lao Wang said with praise: "You see people!" I said, "Let's buy a villa too!" Lao Wang said, "Dream! What about money? I said, "Walk and look at the road, maybe you accidentally pick up a big treasure!" Hahahahaha! Hahahahaha! Walk north along Renmin Road for more than two thousand meters to reach home.
The burrow nest is warm and warm, and the seven or eight pots of flowers such as Junzi Orchid, Crab Claw Orchid, Yang Orchid, Phnom Penh Hanging Orchid, Peony Hanging Orchid, Fragrant Vine, Red Palm, Moon Season, etc. are full of spirit, and are celebrating the New Year with the host! What's so ugly?
