Jiangnan is a gentle place that stays on the tip of everyone's tongue, as long as you say these two words, you can feel the soft breath coming to your face.
Crossing a few green mountains, crossing several major rivers, and drenching in a few april rains, you can come to the dream of Jiangnan.
The landscape here flows with thousands of years of light and shadow, and the rivers and lakes here are full of chivalrous breath.
"Everyone says that Jiangnan is good, and tourists only meet Jiangnan old." The village is surrounded by water, the streets and bridges are connected, and the pavilions are in between... Who doesn't love Gangnam like this?
It is said that when you go to Jiangnan, you can't help but look at the ancient town, Huishan Ancient Town, and the beautiful gentleness of Jiangnan is vividly reflected.
Huishan Ancient Town is located in the western part of Wuxi City, at the foot of the northeast slope of Xishan and Huishan.
It is only 2.5 kilometers away from the city center, and the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal flows close to its north.
"Wuxi Xishan Mountain Wuxi", it is said that the Zhou and Qin Dynasties Xishan produced tin, to the end of the Han Dynasty tin, so the name "Wuxi", so it is also the birthplace of Wuxi place names.
The entire Huishan Ancient Town covers the ancient architectural area, which is commonly known as "Horizontal Street" and "Straight Street" by the locals, Huishan Temple and other cultural relics and monuments, Xihui Scenic Area, and there are many well-known gardens in the garden, such as Jichang Garden, Chinese Rhododendron Garden, etc.
The ancient town is characterized by its unique geographical location, beautiful natural environment and dense distribution of ancient ancestral halls, and it is also the only well-preserved neighborhood in Wuxi's old neighborhood.
The cultural heritage of the ancient town is rich, and the tributary of the Grand Canal, Huishanbang, directly reaches the hinterland of the ancient town. The two sides of the strait are lined with historical relics and humanities.
Huishan Ancient Town Scenic Area has been famous for its first mountain in Jiangnan, the clear clouds of Xishan Mountain, and the famous springs of scenic spots since ancient times, and its scenic resources are unique and splendid.
Literati and scholars of all generations came to Huishan Pinquan to hang and explore the ancients; the Kangxi and Qianlong emperors of the Qing Dynasty went down to Jiangnan six times and toured Huishan seven times, leaving countless magnificent poems and anecdotes.
Su Shi "alone with the world's small group moon, to try the world's second spring", Qianlong "only Huishan elegant and quiet" is the most wonderful promotional words and cultural business cards here.
Not only that, this ancient town has more than a hundred ancestral halls; more than a hundred historical celebrities have been produced.
Here, you can not only feel the beauty of nature's miraculous creation, but also experience the light of history and humanity that has been passed down for thousands of years.
Jichang Garden is located in the eastern foothills of Huishan Mountain on the eastern side of the western suburbs of Wuxi City, in Xihui Park on Huishan HengJie, adjacent to Huishan Temple.
In the nineteenth year of the Wanli Calendar (1591 AD), Qin Yi took the two words "Send Chang" in Wang Xizhi's poem "Reply to Xu Rafters": "Take Huan Ren Zhi Le, Send Chang Shan Shui Yin" in the sentence ."
Jichang Garden belongs to the foothills of the villa type of garden, with ingenious scenery, superb stacked stones, exquisite water management, and washed architecture, which is unique in jiangnan gardens.
The Kangxi and Qianlong Emperors of the Qing Dynasty traveled here many times and repeatedly inscribed poems, which shows their love and appreciation. The Harmonic Garden in the Beijing Summer Palace and the Grand Duke of Kuran (later known as shuanghe zhai) in the Yuanmingyuan were all built to imitate the Jichang Garden in Huishan, Wuxi.
Huishan Temple, adjacent to Jichang Garden, is located at the innermost point of the central axis of the cultural relics and monuments area of the present-day Huishan Ancient Town, and it was founded more than 1500 years ago in the Southern and Northern Dynasties.
The famous sentence "Four hundred and eighty temples in the southern dynasty, how many buildings are in the smoke and rain", Huishan Temple, is one of these four hundred and eighty temples.
The ancient temple is built on the half slope of Huishan Mountain, the "first mountain in Jiangnan", and is the oldest Buddhist temple in Wuxi.
The ancient ginkgo tree of His Highness Datong of Huishan Temple, the branches are ancient, majestic, the tree is full of light, and the ground under the tree is broken with gold. This ancient ginkgo tree is said to have been planted by the monks of the Hongwu Chunian Temple of the Ming Dynasty, which has a history of more than 600 years, and is currently the oldest life star tree in Wuxi City, witnessing the historical vicissitudes of Huishan.
Huishan Spring was excavated by Ling Jingcheng of Wuxi County during the Tang Dynasty, and the source is located in the spring vein on the slope of Huishan Mountain, and the water quality is very clear, so it is also called "Stone Spring".
Tang Dynasty tea saint Lu Yu tasted all over the world's famous springs, believing that "Lushan Kangwang Spring is the first, Huishan Stone Spring is the second", since then Huishan Spring water has been famous all over the world with the name of "the second spring in the world", Su Shi also came to taste the spring, and wrote a poem "Alone with the small group of moons in the sky, to try the second spring on earth".
The second spring in the world is the source of Huishan tea culture and the elegance of the literati and inkers of past generations. Later, Ah Bing's famous erhu song "Erquan Yingyue" also originated from this, the song achieved the spring, the spring moisturized the song, the spring song reflected each other, and sang the world.
"Huishan Street, five miles long; stepping on flowers, full of shoes." Travel through the smoke and dust of history, linger in ordinary alleys, feel the folk customs and customs, and read the stories of Wuxi.
Picking up a fallen leaf and sipping tea is the most comfortable way of life in Huishan Ancient Town.