What are the places worth visiting in the ancient town of Changjing in Jiangyin?

There is another rookie in the water resort-Jiangyin Changjing.

The prosperity of Changjing ancient town is not far away.

When I came to this ancient town, which was built by water and the city by street, I saw the old shop with small bridges and flowing water, which had a vicissitudes and familiar taste.

He Lin is a stone revetment of the same color, and narrow streets are paved with stone slabs of the same color. On the stone revetment, there is a stone beach with the same color. Stone steps extend into the water along the river or eastward or westward, and there are water wells and stone well railings on the stone bank.

It seems that you can see that the beach is crowded with women washing dishes. They greet each other across the river, their parents' brief soft words, the boatman's screaming in water, the boatman's proud laughter, and the hawker's hawking ... The ancient town of Jiangnan woke up in the morning, and the old street was filled with the smell of fried dough sticks, all of which still vaguely existed in the hustle and bustle of modern civilization.

Changjing is called Dongshun City in Jiangyin. According to the Records of Local Customs compiled at the beginning of the Western Jin Dynasty and Zhou Dynasty, Shun once lived here, slash and burn, and civilized his ancestors. Since then, the ancient civilization of Changjing has been opened, and the site of Dongshuncheng has become a scene.

Therefore, the ancient town of Changjing has the saying that "Shunzi lived in the south of the Yangtze River, but Changjing ancient town was vaguely 5,000 years old, and Dongcheng Guanjing still water chopped thorns and cut mountains and rivers for forty miles". The prosperity of Changjing began in the Song Dynasty. Because Changjing is located at the central node of the Yangtze River and Taihu Lake, with developed water system and convenient transportation, it gradually formed two major markets, namely, North and South, hence the name Li Dongcheng.

During Chenghua period of the Ming Dynasty, the rivers were also connected, making the Three Rivers become one water, the east and west connected with the big river, and the two banks gradually became streets and cities by the water.

There are two streets, facing each other across the river and parallel to each other. The two streets in Henan and Hebei are connected by four bridges to form four lanes.

The street is the dragon's body, not its feet. Head east and tail west, there is a tendency to fly.

On a drizzly afternoon, we walked on this gem street. Most of the storefronts facing the street are two-story buildings, which are close to each other and separated by a narrow and deep alley. Narrow streets and Ming and Qing style verandahs skillfully form a "scene", and the small buildings on both sides depend on each other and can almost cross the street hand in hand.

Shops are opened in the facade room, and the pavements vary in size. Looking through the facade hall, there will always be several deep courtyards, and some still hide a deep quadrangle.

Most houses have basements under them, which is rare in Jiangnan, probably because of the high terrain and low groundwater level on both sides of the water mirror.

There are many shops in Shiban Street, such as rice shops, cloth shops, bookstores, teahouses, pharmacies, north-south grocery stores, inns, bathrooms and tailor shops. There are only seven pawn shops, and the rich people in Changjing are very famous in Fiona Fang Baili, "the southeast city of Yancheng Jiang Yi".

On March 3rd, 1903, a special guest came to Shiban Street. He was the teacher of the emperor and Qing Dynasty Prime Minister Weng Tonghe.

Changjing Zhangshenyu Store is famous for producing water chestnut cake, snow cake, sesame cake, crispy cake, dried beans, powdered salt beans and spiced peanuts.

The prosperity of the Yangtze River market is well known. In this old street, people from four miles and eight townships come to buy new year's goods. Women buy oil, salt, sauce, vinegar, clothes, shoes, hats and cosmetics. Men buy hookahs, old wine, hoes, rakes and coir hats. Everything from daily necessities to production tools.

When we went, the street had lost its former prosperity, and only a few crumbling small restaurants were still open.

One of them is called "The Old Inn", which faces the street and the river. People in the shop will also talk about the past in the town.

Of course, the business of this old hotel on Shiban Street is still booming.

At the eastern end of Shiban Street is the 80-year-old Dafu Silkworm Breeding Farm, a big yard, a building in the early years of the Republic of China, and a two-story semi-open long building (including a semi-basement). All the buildings in the courtyard are connected by cloisters, winding and winding, and the small courtyard is scattered and elegant.

Although it is midsummer, it is still cool and breezy to walk into the breeding workshop.

It used to be the largest silkworm egg farm in the south of the Yangtze River, with an annual output of more than 50,000 high-quality hybrid silkworm eggs, which are exported to Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Shanghai, Xinjiang and other places under the brand of "Sailing".

From the two maps of the ancient Silk Road on the wall, we can see that the silkworm eggs, silk and silk here were transported from rivers, lakes, seas and canals in the south of the Yangtze River to Luoyang and Kaifeng, then to Chang 'an, out of the western regions and to the western European continent.

Out of the gate of Dafu Silkworm Breeding Farm, Mianhe River is a declining ship dock.

Standing on the dock, I think back to the Yangtze River. The water is connected with the Yangtze River. When the Yangtze River estuary is at high tide, the river flows into the inland river. Especially at high tide, the river rushes to the Yangtze River like a hurricane from the west, and the river rolls up thousands of piles of snow.

There was a poem to prove it: the Changjing water has a long history, and there is a tidal surge to connect Jiangpu.

Spring returns to Qiu Lai in the morning and evening, and the divine fish jumps into the deep sea to breathe.

Suddenly, a huge wind blew from the west, boiling and angry like snow.

Although the waves, sails and sounds are gone, the celebrity demeanor of atmospheric leader Nagai is still circulating.

Shang Guanyunzhu 1920, a generation of movie stars, was born in an old brick-wood building on Shiban Street, which has now become the Shang Guanyunzhu Memorial Hall.

It is this narrow slate street that gave birth to many celebrities, including Zhang, the founder of "Two Bombs and One Satellite", astronomer Shen Xuan and isotope expert.

Bao hansheng, an anti-Japanese.

Growing up on a bay, the traces of history and the accumulation of culture are pounding your senses and stirring your heart all the time. You will naturally have an impulse to cherish the beauty of history and culture and the people who have infiltrated history and culture. This is the beauty of Changjing. "