balmy autumn day
It's a holiday
Why not take a tour of the ancient town!
Watch the ancient town change
Try the classics
See the cultural scenery
The ancient town has a new look
Recently, the street landscape improvement project of Qibao Ancient Town is underway, and the transformation of the entrance square based on the overall landscape greening transformation and the integration of Qibao culture has been basically completed.
Entrance fence
The newly added entrance fence fully integrates the Qibao element, with a seven-piece treasure pattern at the movable door and a text pattern of Qibao Ancient Town on the side of the door. On the basis of aesthetics, the entrance fence will also effectively ensure the order of entrance and exit and ensure the safety of tourists.
Tree pool
The appearance of the two tree pools at the original entrance has been completely transformed, and the east and west tree pools have words related to Shippo from the outer circle to the inner circle, which fully demonstrates the humanistic feelings of Shippo.
Rockery pool
Based on the large exposed area of rockery rocks in the past, this time, on the basis of appropriately covering the soil to increase the amount of plants, ecological means were used to improve water quality, increase aquatic plants, etc., restore water fall, and increase atomization system, effectively filling the exposed area and fully improving the viewing experience.
After this renovation, about 100 square meters of green planting area has been added to the entrance square, and a total of more than 30 trees and shrubs have been added, such as the bell tower and its surroundings, and a number of flower beds and upper, middle and lower plant landscapes have been added.
Coming and not eating more?
Shippo Lane
"Qibao Lilane" is a special food culture brand created by Qibao Ancient Town, aiming to integrate traditional food with innovative ideas, and promote Qibao folk culture to the whole country and even the world through quality food. Inside, visitors can enjoy local cuisine made by local craftsmen with the local characteristics of Qibao.
Address: No. 15-2, North Street, Qibao Old Street
Contact number: 13482451417
Qibao Old Hotel
Qibao Old Hotel is one of the largest time-honored restaurants in Qibao Old Street, with an old-fashioned wooden loft in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, with an antique look. The business area of the hotel is 1500 square meters, and the second floor can overlook the entire old street with a view room. The restaurant specializes in local cuisine, and its signature dishes are big fish head soup and Qibao mutton, etc., with distinctive characteristics and affordable prices.
Address: No. 8, North Street, Qibao Old Street
Contact number: 021-54867779
Eat and drink enough and not go shopping?
01 Cricket Grass Hall
Composed of a front hall garden and a main fighting platform in the back hall, the Cricket Grass Hall is a Ming and Qing dynasty building that combines cricket competition and ancient and modern insect tool displays, which has a history of more than 100 years. The inner hall of the grass hall displays cricket pots, bamboo tubes, cricket tearing grass, and cricket specimens of different sizes.
Address: No. 37, Fuqiang Street, Minhang District, Shanghai
02 Shippo Shadow Art Museum
Qibao Shadow Art Museum is a comprehensive art museum integrating the exhibition, production, performance, research and collection of Qibao shadow puppet art, and its shadow puppet repertoire is innovated on the basis of tradition, which is more in line with today's aesthetic taste and highlights the characteristics of Shanghai shadow puppets.
Address: No. 95, Beixi Street, Minhang District, Shanghai
03 Cotton mill
Qibao Cotton Weaving Mill is a humanistic and historical exhibition hall of cotton weaving technology, with the theme of "humanistic feelings, clothes and quilts in the world", from the four aspects of trend (development), people (protagonists), things (products), characters (culture), focusing on the development history of Qibao cotton weaving industry, completely showing the planting technology and textile technology of the cotton weaving industry, focusing on the characteristic cotton weaving fabric of Qibao - Xibu (that is, "Qibao Jian"), and the soul of Qibao's development - Huang Daoba.
Address: No. 43, North Street, Minhang District, Shanghai
Photo: Qi Yin
Transcription Editor: Shuting Gao
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