"The Xin'an River is clear and long, and the people on both sides of the strait are scattered. A few nights of dreams under the Tunxi Bridge, broken intestines like Yangzhou. The poem comes from the "Tunxi Night Park" by Yu Dafu, a genius of the Republic of China, expressing his praise for the quiet and comfortable feeling of the mountain city and the beautiful scenery. In the middle of the night, the spring rain dripped on the bow of the boat, and the boat swayed with the flowing river, and Yu Dafu, who could not sleep, "reclining on the pillow, closing the rain rhyme on the canopy, in a hazy dream", wrote this popular poem in 1934, and it has been 90 years now.
Tunxi, also known as Yucheng. It is the central urban area of Huangshan City and an important birthplace of Huizhou culture, and the Xin'an River with a thousand years of rhyme passes through the city, where the international style, fashion style and Huizhou rhyme are perfectly blended. Watching the smoke of the three rivers, listening to the pine waves, and appreciating the lotus rhyme of the mountain, let us enjoy the beautiful scenery of Tunxi "without applying powder and falling into the city".
Tunxi Old Street
Tunxi Old Street is located in the center of Tunxi District, Huangshan City, north of the verdant Huashan Mountain, south of the blue Xin'an River, east from "Zhaobi", west to Zhenhai Bridge. It is the origin of the growth of Tunxi, experiencing and witnessing the rise and fall of the city.
The old street is 1272 meters long, the essence part is 853 meters, 5-8 meters wide, including a straight street, three horizontal streets, 18 alleys, the whole street and alley composed of more than 300 Hui buildings built in different years, it is distributed in the shape of a fish skeleton, narrow in the west, wide in the east, like a giant fish, swimming on the bank of the Xin'an River.
The shops on both sides of the street are lined up one after another, and there are shops such as cultural toys, special products, Hanfu, Hui cuisine, jewelry, and tea.
Liyang in Lane
The block located south of the Hengjiang River and west of the Shuishui River is Liyang in Lane. As the name suggests, it is a renovated and modern neighborhood. Liyang, was founded in the Eastern Han Dynasty Jian'an 13 years, in the Tang and Song dynasties, the Liyang rate water wharf gradually formed a market.
Today's Liyang block is composed of Liyang Old Street Historical and Cultural District, Huizhou Special Food Street, Riverside Bar and Leisure Street and dozens of branch alleys. The new fashion and the old architecture are perfectly blended here. Dozens of old Hui style houses and new creative buildings complement each other, which really gives people a sense of dream core. The shops in the block cover new catering, leisure bars, specialty retail, homestay inns, cultural experiences and other diversified formats.
Tunxi River Street
Tunxi River Street is born because of the old street, located on the south side of the old street, built near the river, commonly known as "under the river", Tunxi River Street continues the style and texture of the historical and cultural block of Tunxi Old Street, combined with the waterfront riverside characteristic space, innovative reconstruction of Yubutou, Yanghudu and Yanbutou, and reproduces the humanistic customs of the river street and wharf.
The bright light and shadow show of the unnamed building is quietly sprinkled over the river street, which is beautiful, and you can enjoy the visual feast at night. At the riverside wharf, you can enjoy a variety of programs such as intangible cultural heritage performances and skill displays on the ancient stage of River Street, and dream back thousands of years ago to taste with the ancients at that time, making people feel the phantom beauty of time and space, and bringing a new experience of multi-dimensional night performances.
Zhenhai Bridge
Tunxi Zhenhai Bridge, located in Huangshan City, Anhui Province, Tunxi District, Sanjiangkou, that is, the intersection of Xin'an River, Shuishui and Hengjiang River, stands on the Hengjiang Estuary, runs through Tunxi Old Street and Liyang from east to west, and is the gateway to Tunxi in the old days.
Zhenhai Bridge was built in the 15th year of Jiajing in the Ming Dynasty, six piers and seven holes stone arch bridge, 6 meters wide, 10 meters high, 133 meters long, has a history of more than 480 years. The Zhenhai Bridge spans the mouth of the Hengjiang River, running through the old street and Liyang from east to west. The arch foot and arch ring of the bridge are all staggered masonry with brown and red hemp stones, and the bridge deck railing is laid with tea garden stone, and the bridge body is solid in texture and majestic. 50 meters distance under Zhenhai Bridge, the intersection of the rate water and the Hengjiang River, it is called the Gradual River, the river surface is more extensive and majestic, and Tunxi has become the starting place of the Gradual River.
In July 2020, the Zhenhai Bridge was destroyed by flooding, but it was reborn because of its unwavering belief in protecting cultural relics. The Zhenhai Bridge, which has been repaired, has re-crossed both sides of the Sanjiang estuary of Tunxi, and the style is basically the same, and the momentum is still like a rainbow.
Xin'an River Waterfront Tourist Scenic Spot
It's not the Li River, it's better than the Li River, the Xin'an River in the Landscape Gallery is like a jade belt, with nine bends and three bends, winding for hundreds of miles. It passes through from west to east after the confluence of the Yan River and the Lian River in the upper reaches of the Pukou River. The Tang Dynasty poet Meng Haoran once wrote a poem: "The lake passes through Dongting and is wide, and the river enters Xin'anqing." The Xin'an River is the mother river of Huizhou, and the water of the Xin'an River is one of the rivers with the best water quality in the country.
The Xin'an River in Huangshan City is more than 300 kilometers long and has a basin area of 5,500 square kilometers. Perhaps, in the "vast nine schools of China" in China, Xin'an River is just a thin line, but for Huizhou, it is as lovely and valuable as a mother. From the Xin'an River to the Fuchun River, the Fuchun River to the Qiantang River, and the Qiantang River re-enters the East China Sea, meandering all the way forward, living up to the mission of going east.
Boating on the river, full of green eyes, on both sides of the river, the mountains are dotted with green, deep pools and shallows, all kinds of different states. To feel the charm of Xin'an River, the mother river of Huizhou, sit in the boat, explore the history of Huizhou merchants and listen to the history of Huizhou merchants, watch the layout of Huizhou in ancient villages, read the origin of Tunxi in Sunwang Pavilion, listen to the stories of merchant women in Wangyouxi Gudu, appreciate the ancient worship of Huizhou humanities in the wall, listen to the Qingying of the forest corridor and learn the Shuikou culture, and take you to appreciate the beautiful landscape of Xin'an.
Huashan World, Huashan Mystery Cave
Huashan World Huashan Mystery Cave Theme Park is located in Tunxi District, Huangshan City, 5 kilometers away from the central city, with a total area of about 1,200 acres.
The park is now composed of Huashan Square, Linjiang Mystery Path, Mystery Cave Valley, Shenhua Mountain Lake, the ancient artificial grotto group in the park has rich and unique historical research and ornamental value, about 1700 years of history, the scale of the grottoes is grand, the momentum is magnificent, the characteristics are distinct, it is breathtaking, the cause, age, and use of the grottoes are still a mystery to this day.
At night, wandering in the colorful "rainbow plank road", as if in the painting, in the natural stage composed of lakes and rocks, vocal music and light and shadow interpret the "mystery of mountains and lakes" here, stage the change and change of the natural four seasons, and the legendary story of Huashan ripples in the night sky.
Tunxi, born by the water, prospering by the water, beautiful because of the water, the space and the landscape depend on each other, black and white and green reflect each other, condense the cultural landscape and historical context of the unity of nature and man, and it is a window for the world to see through the Yellow Mountain and understand Huizhou. In this late spring and early summer, come to Tunxi and experience the beautiful night of Tunxi written by Yu Dafu~
Source: Tunxi District Bureau of Culture, Tourism and Sports