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Tong Li : 4st recommended ancient water town
 
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Tongli, a pictoresque and elegant town, has become world-known for its having wonderful scenery, classic building and precious relics.
Local Festivals :
During the Spring Festival, a series of celebration activities, such as dragon and lantern dance, the flower-basket yangge dance and lion dance will be held by the locals. During the night of the Lantern Festival(the 15th day of the first lunar month), all of the inhabitants will get together on the main street, rejoicing and dancing amidst the gongs and drums. Besides, stage performance will be convened successively in the open air. During the Duanwu Festival(the 5th day of the 5th lunar month) the race of dragon boat will be inaugurated on the lake. During the Ghost Festival (the 30th day of the 7th lunar month), the local people will come to the riverside and place lanterns on the water to comfort the soul of their deceased kinsmen or relatives. During the Zhongqiu Festival (the 15th day of the 8th lunar month) people will get together and eat mooncakes in various style.
Local Snack:
The seasonal snack includes fermented glutinous rice cake, green dumpling and malt flat cake, etc. The perennial snack includes frilling small wonton, seed of gordon euryale porridge, diversified nut shortbread, sesame cake.Ming and Qing Dynasties Style Street is a assembly of current Tongli's snack, where the local specialities like Zhuangyuan hoof, edible amaranth and seed of gordon euryale can be found.
Tuisi Garden (World Heritage):
Built during the Qing Dynasty and named after a notable quotation from "Zuz Zuan", Tuisi Garden is the private mansion of Ren Lansheng, a prefectural-level military official served in the reign of Emperors Tongzhi and Guangchu.Between the middle courtyard and the main structure of Tuisi Garden situates a moon-shaped gate with square bricks. Passing through this gate, you will be fascinated by a typical Chinese classic landscape composed by halls, pavilions, terraces, towers, stream, pond and bridge. As a major scenic spot of this garden, Tuisi Cottage is constructed in a magnificent style. Standing on a waterside platform before this cottage, you will enjoy a panorama view of this renowned scenic spot which looks just as attractive as a long scroll of Chinese traditional painting. They include Shuixiang Pavilion, Naohong Boat, Heavenly Bridge, Xin Terrace, Guyushengliang Pavilion, Three Turning Bridge and Guihua Hall.
Triple Bridge :
Triple Bridge, seated at the center of the ancient town, is a collective name of Taiping, Jili and Changqing Bridges. All of these three bridges are small, exquisite, primitively simple and ecegant. It says that on the date of brith, marriage or brithday ceremony, people walking over all of the three bridges can impetrate luck and happiness.
Jiayin Hall:
After gaining fame and fortune, Liu Bingnan, the owner of Jiayin Hall, moved to Tongli where he built this mangnificent mansion at the cost of 20,000 tales of silver. The main building in Jiayin Hall is an imitation of the architecture popular during the Ming Dynasty. Apart from being high and spacious, it is magnificent and grand. Many images, such as steed, phoenix and flower, are engraved at the end or middle of the main beam. The most valuable achievement is the engravings based on the Chinese classical novel "The Romance of Three Kingdoms". All of the images are so skilfully and vividly accomplished that they have been printed and introduced in the history of Chinese Drama.



Chongben Hall:
Qian youqin, a native of Tongli, is the owner of Chongben Hall. Having bought a part of Xizhai Lodgings owned by Gu family, he renovated it into Chongben Hall. The most attractive feature of Chongben Hall is the wood engravings all over the building. The inscription on the carved-brick gatearch shows that the owner of this mansion is keen to advocate the principle of high integrity. Chongben Hall has more than one hundred pieces of wood engravings and their content differs from each other.


Lize Girl School :
Established in the first years of 20th century, Lize is one of the famous schools exclusively for girl students. It was founded by Ren Chuanxiu, the second-generation owner of Tuisi Garden.


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Mr Aron Long,an excellent local English Guide in Shanghai!1.Shanghai city tour (Sightseeing,Shopping,Leisure,Golfing,Working,Nightlife)2.Business tour/interpretation (International Exhibition,Conference)3.Family tour 4.Outdoor camping near Shanghai5.water-town guiding in Shanghai6.Airport pick-up service (Shanghai Pudong /Hongqiao Airport)7.Vehicle rental(Car,Van,Mini-bus)8.Flight& Hotel booking 9.Accompanying service around China.Shanghai Map, Weather,Shanghai Local Time,Currency & Exchange,Chinese Food & Snack,Shanghai Local Phone Calls,Visa & Customs,Useful Chinese ABC,Useful Conversions,Consulates in Shanghai,Int'l Hospitals in Shanghai,Int'l Kindergartens & Schools,Chinese Traditional Festivals,Chinese Traditional Music