Nanxiang Ancient Town
Address: People's Street, Nanxiang Town, Jiading District, Shanghai
Transportation: Metro Line 11
Parking: Old Street parking lot
Opening hours: 00:00-24:00
Ticket Price: Free
History of the ancient town:
In the fourth year of Liang Tianjian (505 AD), the White Crane Nanxiang Temple was built, because the temple was named "Nanxiang" Town, which has been more than 1500 years ago. Nanxiang was known as Chaxi, when Emperor Wu of Liang founded the country, Nanxiang was still just a desolate village. One day, while cultivating the land, local farmers dug up a large stone that was more than a foot long, and as soon as the stone was exposed to the ground, a pair of red-crowned cranes hovered over the stone and fell to rest on the stone.
A monk named Deqi thought it was a Buddhist land and decided to build a Buddhist temple here. It is strange to say that every day the white crane flies in which direction, in which direction there are people to donate money, every day, never stopping. Soon a large sum of money was raised and ground was broken to build a monastery. In 505 (the fourth year of Liang Tianjian), the White Crane Nanxiang Temple was built, and because the temple became a town, it was named Nanxiang.
Main attractions of Nanxiang Ancient Town:
Crane Maple Mountain:
In the fourth year of the Southern Song Dynasty (1130), Han Shizhong moved his army from Pingjiang to the sea to resist the Jin soldiers, and built this beacon pier in the Nanxiang garrison as a signal connection. The Southern Foothills Xiangxue Nunnery is a Qing Dynasty building.
Guyi Garden:
It is famous for its five characteristics of green bamboo, quiet and curved water, elegant Ming Dynasty architecture, timeless poetry and beautiful flower and stone paths.
Originally named Yi Garden, built by Min Shi of Henan during the Ming Dynasty, designed and arranged by Zhu Sansong, a famous bamboo carving artist in Jiading in the Ming Dynasty, with the scale of "ten acres of garden, five acres of house", the pavilion, the pavilion, the column, the rafter, the long corridor, are engraved with a variety of bamboo patterns.
Min Shizhi died, and the garden was transferred to Li Yizhi, the son of Li Mingfang of Hanlin, in the last year of the Wanli Calendar. After several changes of hands, in the winter of the eleventh year of the Qianlong Dynasty (1746), Ye Jin purchased the Yi Garden, which was rebuilt the following year, and the thirteenth autumn of Qianlong was completed, because of the gap between dynasties, it was renamed Guyi Garden.
In the fifty-third year of Qianlong (1788), local people in Jiading donated money to buy the Ancient Yi Garden as the temple garden of the City God Temple, and pilgrims could enter the park. In the eleventh year of Jiaqing (1806), donations were collected again for renovation.
During the Xianfeng Tongzhi period, the Taiping Army fought fiercely with the Qing army and the "foreign gun team" in Nanxiang many times, and some buildings in the park were destroyed. During the years from Tongzhi to Guangxu, various industrial offices in Nanxiang were gradually restored and added to the buildings.
In 1932 and 1937, the Japanese army destroyed the garden several times, and the local patriots restored it several times, and built a new supplementary pavilion, which was the only northeast corner, and was named "Lack of Corner Pavilion" in order to be ashamed of the country. At this time, the area of the whole park is 18,000 square meters.
In the 40 years after the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, Guyi Garden has been renovated and built 10 times, and the total area of the park has increased to 91,900 square meters.
In 2006, Guyi Garden was rated as a national AAAA-level tourist attraction.
Tan Garden:
The private garden of the Ming Dynasty scholar Li Liufang was named after Li Liufang's tan garden. Li Liufang (1575-1629), originally from Anhui, was born in Nanxiang, Jiading. Tanyuan garden was built in the 33rd year of the Ming Wanli Calendar (1605), the original site in Nanxiangbei City, covering an area of more than three acres, and was later destroyed in the "Jiading Three Massacres" during the Ming and Qing Dynasties.
The current Tanyuan Garden is a restorative reconstruction of Nanxiang Town, built in the Nanxiang Old Street Twin Towers Historical and Cultural Landscape Area, covering an area of about 10 acres. Due to historical reasons, the graphic materials about Tanyuan garden are almost non-existent, and it is impossible to restore the old garden as a model, so it was rebuilt with reference to many classical gardening art in Jiangnan and opened to the public in October 2011.
Huilongtan:
Built in the 16th year of the Ming Wanli Calendar (1588), from north to south there are five rivers converging, Yingkui Mountain is located in the pool, embraced by green water, like a pearl, since ancient times there are five dragons to grab pearls, Huilongtan got its name.
Yunxiang Temple (Liuyun Zen Temple):
It was founded in the fourth year of Liang Tianjian (505 AD), and was originally named "White Crane Nanxiang Temple". The foundation of the temple in the Tang Dynasty was expanded to 180 acres, reaching its peak. During the Song Shaoding period, Because Emperor Zhao Yun gave the plaque of "Nanxiang Temple", the name of the temple was changed to Nanxiang Temple. In 1700 AD, Kangxi gave the title of "Yunxiang Temple", so it was renamed Yunxiang Temple. Later, due to natural and man-made disasters, the temple was destroyed. At present, only a pair of twin towers can witness history, and the Tang Shi Jing and Song PuTong Pagodas scattered in the Ancient Yi Garden.
The rebuilt Yunxiang Temple is also known as Liuyun Temple, and the name of the temple is derived from Liuyun Temple in downtown Shanghai. The current temple covers an area of 15 acres, with a grand scale, reasonable and rigorous layout, and is divided into three courtyards.
Yunxiang Temple was rebuilt in the Tang Dynasty style and is the first complete imitation Tang temple in Jiangnan.
Nanxiang Twin Towers:
Built in the fifth dynasty to the early years of the Northern Song Dynasty, it was originally built on both sides of the mountain gate of the White Crane Nanxiang Temple. It is the old life star in the ancient tower of Shanghai, and also the treasure of China's brick tower.
"Nanxiang Temple" Yuan Dynasty Su Changling
Senzai Nanxiang Ancient Dojo, floor Jie Ge crown all sides.
Yi Chuan Vulture Ridge is short-lived, and the incense of the Dragon Palace Bay Leaf is passed out.
The old house is half titled Tang years, and the broken stele is engraved with Song articles.
Pedestrians want to ask about the previous dynasty, and the ancient juniper pine is full of sunset.