Happy Tycoon
Chapter 627: The birthplace of purple clay teapot
Regardless of whether Gege dare not walk the transparent glass trestle bridge, but she is very interested in this kind of aerial view, even if the height of the Shanghai Center Building is much higher than the World Financial Center Building, but the Shanghai Top Tourist Hall The ground is opaque, so she is not afraid at all here.
Shanghai Sea Top Tourist Hall is, after all, located on the 118th floor with an altitude of 546 meters above sea level. At this height, you will step on the entire Shanghai Sea.
Grid was very interested in the coin-operated binoculars in the hall. After watching for more than an hour, he reluctantly left the binoculars. There are many tourists who come here for sightseeing. Many of them like to watch with binoculars. Grid can't occupy a binocular by herself, so once someone wants to use the binocular, she will take the initiative to give it to others, and wait until others finish watching. Keep watching.
After watching most of the Shanghai Sea through the binoculars, Grid took Yang Jing to buy a lot of postcards, and then wrote a lot of names and addresses on these postcards, and put these postcards into the green one on the side of the sightseeing hall. Postbox.
This post box is currently the tallest artificial building post box in China and the second tallest in the world, second only to the post office on the 148th floor of Burj Khalifa at an altitude of 555 meters.
Of course, this post box is only 546 meters above sea level, which is far worse than the world’s highest post office at 5,200 meters above sea level at Mount Everest base camp, and even the highest post office in Europe at the top of the Jungfrau in Switzerland, but this After all, it is in a post office in an artificial building. Postcards can be sent out in this post box, which is actually very memorable.
Especially Grid sent a postcard to each of them in her own name and Yang Jing's name. When they received this postcard after returning home, it would be more memorable.
After coming down from the Shanghai Sea Center, the four of them drove straight to Wuzhen, more than 100 kilometers away, after having lunch.
Wuzhen is one of the first batch of China’s historical and cultural towns, China’s top ten charming towns, nationally beautiful towns and towns, and a national 5a-level scenic spot. It has a history of 300 years of building a town. It is a typical Chinese ancient water town in the south of the Yangtze River.
Wuzhen was originally called Wudun and Qingdun. It was originally divided into Wuzhen and Qingdun towns by the city and river. Hexi was Wuzhen and the east was Qingzhen. After liberation, Wuzhen, west of the city and river, was placed under Tongxiang County before being collectively called Wuzhen.
This quaint town is a typical Han nationality water town in the south of the Yangtze River. It completely preserves the style and pattern of the water town in the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China. Houses built by the river, deep house courtyards, heavy ridges and high eaves, antique flavours, stone paths, old wooden houses, and clear lake breath. In Gege's words, coming here to play is a kind of sentiment, a kind of atmosphere.
Yang Jing and Gege have been to Zhouzhuang Town and Tongli Town before, but neither of them has been to Wuzhen, so after coming out of the Shanghai Sea this time, Gege is going to visit Wuzhen.
And it happens to be three days before the fifteenth day of the first lunar month. There is an important custom event here in Wuzhen on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month and the Lantern Festival, that is, the "Lantern Festival Walking Bridge".
The fifteenth day of the first lunar month is the Lantern Festival, commonly known as "the first half of the lunar month". Wuzhen people have the custom of walking on bridges, that is, when traveling together three to five at night, ten bridges must be walked along the way. The route cannot be repeated. A disaster avoidance and relief activity with women as the main body is called "walking ten bridges" or "eliminating all diseases".
In ancient times, after dressing up, women each brought an earthen jar for decoction and threw the earthen jar into the river when they crossed the bridge, believing that they would be free from illness in the new year. However, in modern times, crockpots are not thrown away, but the activity of "walking the bridge" has been passed down all the time.
Such a fun and meaningful event, why wouldn't Grid not participate? Even though there are still three days to go before the Lantern Festival, Grid took Yang Jing out of the hotel after arriving in Wuzhen for a while, taking a boat trip to feel the charm of this ancient town, and at the same time began to explore the route of "walking the bridge" at night.
It's rare that this girl is so interested in this custom activity. Yang Jing is also happy to play with her, so two foreigners who are big in Malaysia are behind the **** of two people. This strange combination travels through the streets of Wuzhen. middle.
After dinner in the evening, the four began to "walk the bridge". To be precise, it was Yang Jing and the three elders who accompanied Grid to walk the bridge. But what makes them happy is that even if it’s not the Lantern Festival, there are still many big girls and little wives in the evening, all dressed up and walking out the bridge.
Occasionally I meet a lady walking the bridge. Whether they know each other or not, both sides will greet them politely. If they feel good, they will even stop and say a few words to exchange the experience of walking the bridge.
Anyway, Grid walked very happily this evening, and even Clark and John, who had been following behind their ass, also smirked. Although they don’t know what the **** is going around here, but they can also feel the good mood of the boss and the boss, and there is almost nothing about them during this period, they are following the boss and the boss. In addition to being happy, I also secretly sighed about the good security of China.
After staying in a hotel for one night, four people drove two cars in the early morning of the next morning. Although it was a return trip, the next destination was not Jinling, but Yixing on the Taihu Line.
It is only more than 100 kilometers from Wuzhen to Yixing, and the entire highway can be reached in more than an hour.
The reason why I went to Yixing was mainly because Yang Jing wanted to see it. After all, it was the "Pottery City" of China, and it was also the hometown of Mr. Gu Jingzhou, a master of purple clay pots. Since I came to Wuzhen, I happened to pass by Yixing when I returned. If he didn't stop in Yixing, Yang Jing would feel sorry for himself.
The reason why Yixing is called the "Chinese Pottery City", according to legend, after Fan Li assisted the Yue King Goujian to overthrow the Chu King, he retreated bravely and took the beauty Xi Shi back to the West Lake. This pair of gods and relatives once made pottery in Yixing for generations, so Yixing was hailed as the "pottery capital" by later generations. There is still a Li River in Yixing. According to legend, it was named to commemorate Fan Li and Xi Shi's rafting here.
Yixing is not only the pottery capital of China, but also the birthplace of the Chinese purple sand culture. In this small city, a generation of purple sand pot masters such as Chen Mingyuan and Gu Jingzhou were born. Dingshu Town, located in the south of Yixing City, is the true origin of the Zisha culture.
The small town is not very big. Lihe looks at the town from north to south, and the birthplace of the real purple sand culture in the town is Shushan Gunan Street on the east bank of Lihe.
Yixing's Shu Mountain is not the big mountain in Sichuan Province. This mountain is just a small mountain tens of meters above sea level. It is only because the great writer Su Dongpo in the Northern Song Dynasty once said that "this mountain resembles Shu", hence the name "Shu Mountain".
Shushan Gunan Street is at the foot of Shushan Mountain, and it is bordered by the Li River to the west, which can be called Yishanbangshui.
Outstanding, often human spirit!
This long ancient street is not only the birthplace of Yixing Zisha, but also the production and sales center of Yixing Zisha from the middle and late Ming Dynasty to the 1960s, and it is also the cradle of Zisha art masters. Once born Chen Mingyuan, Gu Jingzhou, Zhang Hongshou, Gu Shaopei, Wu Yun
A large number of purple clay pot masters such as Yun Gen and Ren Ganting are even a generation of masters.
In ancient times, this place was very prosperous. The mountain was a blend of mud and fire. Merchants gathered under the mountain. More than half of the residents engaged in the production and operation of purple sand. The fired purple sand utensils set off from the Lihe Wharf and were transported to all parts of the country after entering Taihu Lake... It lasted for nearly 500 years, until after the reform and opening up, with the development of land transportation, the purple sand production center moved to Dingshan, and Shushan fell silent.
Yang Jing and the others parked the car outside and walked into Gunan Street.
The length of this street is only one thousand meters, and the width is only three or four meters wide. It is a small street paved with stones. The small street can't even be seen on ordinary maps.
In this street full of ancient charm, there are two-story brick and wood buildings on both sides, purple clay pot shops, teahouses, cloth shops, small hardware shops, wooden doors, lattice windows, telephone booths, and QR code shops. Small advertisement... History and reality, ancient and modern are blended here.
If Wuzhen seems to be a quiet and virtuous young woman, then this Gunan Street is a knight who has travelled across the world. Although both are very old, they have completely different flavors.
Gege is also very interested in this ancient street. She has been to Yixing, but she has never been here.
On both sides of the ancient street, there are a large number of former residences of masters of purple clay teapots. You can see the former residence of a master of purple clay teapots within a few steps. There are also many antique wooden doors hanging with various small signs~www.mtlnovel .com~ There are some content written on it that both Yang Jing and Gege can't understand.
For example, two people saw an antique wooden sign next to a door with the words "a pot of Jiangnan" written on it. Of course, the two of them didn't know what it meant, and they thought who this house was. The former residence of the late Master Zisha Kettle. As a result, when the person next to you inquired, I realized that this is a purple clay teapot workshop.
The two of them also found a wooden sign in front of another old house that seemed full of history, with the words "Shushan Father's House" written on it. This name is so magnificent, it should be the former residence of a certain master. As a result, Take a closer look, and there is a line of small characters next to the four big characters. After reading them, the two of them couldn't help being amused. Because this house is still a modern purple clay pot studio
Of course, the most famous residences of the famous Zisha teapot masters along the way are the homes of Master Gu Jingzhou. Of course, there is no need to mention the former residences of Master Gu Jingzhou. In addition, I also saw Zhang Hongshou’s former residence, Huang Fenglai’s Huang Zhiqiang’s former residence, Xu Xiutang’s former residence, Ren Ganting’s former residence and a series of masters’ residences. former residence.
Don't look down on the whole ancient street, but here is a place of pilgrimage for Zisha lovers. Here, if you just knock on a house, maybe you can have a conversation with the master.
Now that he came here, Yang Jing moved his mind. Don't look at Mr. Gu Jingzhou's death for more than 20 years, but the purple clay pot made by his old man is now a national treasure. Just take out one and start with an eight-figure number, which is of great collection value.
Now passing by Baoshan, how can you return empty-handed?