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Tong
Li :
4st recommended
ancient water town
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Survey:
Tongli, a pictoresque and elegant town, has become
world-known for its having wonderful scenery, classic
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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. |
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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. |
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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.
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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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