Do you like visiting ancient towns? If you like, you can’t miss the Zhaojia building in Minhang District
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Each brick and tile here has a historical heritage
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As an ancient town with a history of more than 800 years, it retains many historical buildings with the charm of the Ming and Qing Dynasties, such as horse riding wall and lotus wall
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Small bridges, flowing water, white walls and black tiles shuttle through the streets and alleys here, and history seems to be displayed in front of it
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Today, let’s take a stroll in this ancient town
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It spans the yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties and gradually becomes a prosperous market town
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Zhaojialou ancient town is located in Pujiang Town (Innovation Village), Minhang District
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It originated from the early Yuan Dynasty and spans the yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties
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Today, it covers an area of 150 mu
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The current Zhaojia building was still a coastal place in the Northern Song Dynasty, only about 30 miles away from the Haitang
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The seawall reaches Wusong River in the north, Pukou in the South and Jinshanwei in the south
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Outside the seawall is the vast sea, and inside the seawall is the vast plain
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This broad and boundless land is the area first known as “Pudong”
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At that time, Pudong was still in the primitive ecology of “two or three miles at a glance, four or five smoke villages”, blue sky, white cranes flying, wild pond and spring grass fertilizer
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During the Southern Song Dynasty, some people in the Central Plains moved to the area of zhaojialou
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Here, a large area of land to be reclaimed has opened the prelude to reclamation driven by a large number of labor force
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In order to facilitate the convening and management of wasteland reclamation people, people built a small platform building at the North street corner of today’s zhaojialou Town, which is named because “the small building is specially used for convening Jiageng farmers”
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In the Ming Dynasty, the scope of reclamation increased and the number of employed tillers increased
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Everyone settled around the zhaojialou area according to local conditions
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At the same time, the ensuing merchants and other people also built houses in Jiahe
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Zhaojialou became more and more popular and gradually became a prosperous market town
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With the change of years and the evolution of villages and cities, Zhaojia building has accumulated more than 800 years of humanistic history
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In 2005, Zhaojia building was announced as a historical and cultural feature reserve in Shanghai
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In 2008, Zhaolou ancient town officially started the restoration and transformation
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The transformation adheres to the principle of “repairing the old as the old”, and reproduces the glory of the past
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18 months later, the first phase of the project was basically completed and the style of the ancient town was restored
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In May 2010, the restored zhaojialou street was opened
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The T-shaped streets are facing the city river; The sparkling yaojiabang and Fuxing port stretch in a cross shape; Willows on the roadside and jagged houses nestle beside the river, showing the calm, calm and honest cultural texture of rural ancient towns
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Zhaojialou was announced as the most beautiful village in Shanghai in 2011 and became a national 4A tourist attraction in 2015
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Among them, Liyuan was announced as a popular science education base in Shanghai in 2013
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Zhaojia building has many well-known houses, old houses, traditional streets, ancient bridges and rivers
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Horse riding wall, lotus wall, blue brick and black tile buildings full of the cultural charm of the Ming and Qing Dynasties
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The main housing forms in the suburbs of ancient Shanghai can be seen at a glance
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Many buildings have been baptized by the sun, moon, wind and frost
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Although they are dilapidated, they are still unique
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The punch in ceremony garden in the scenic spot was originally the site of “Renshan hall” of Zhaojia building in the Qing Dynasty, which was built during the repair in 2005
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There are Yixiu Pavilion, Wanghai Pavilion, boat boat, library, flower hall, etc
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in the park, the winding path corridor, step by step, and the two lakes of cloud and crane, separated by a long corridor, connected with laoyaojiabang and Fuxing port
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The winding water is connected and forms a network vertically and horizontally, forming the characteristics of gardens in the south of the Yangtze River
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Plum Garden plum garden, formerly known as “plum moon”, was built in the Qing Dynasty
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The courtyard sits in the north and south
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Three into one storey buildings are successively built on the central axis, all of which are of brick wood structure and green tile hard mountain roof
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The main building surface in the hospital is 13 bays wide, and the wooden beams of the hall are decorated with carved flowers
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The Qianjin and Zhongjin patios are longitudinally divided into three sets of courtyards by two corridors, and the day after tomorrow is surrounded by high brick walls
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Most of the architectural facades in the plum garden have changed today, but its large scale, complete main structure and layout and fine workmanship are only seen in today’s area
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It is an ancient house with high historical and artistic value
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Xi’s ningjian hall house was built in the late Qing Dynasty
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The house sits in the north and south, with a “one front and two compartments” triad layout
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The building is a brick wood structure with one floor, through bucket beam frame and green tile hard mountain roof
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A brick instrument door is built at the south entrance of the courtyard
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The main roof is seven bays wide and six boundaries deep
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The gable of the hard mountain roof is connected with the wing room, which is combined with the slope roof
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The shape is similar to the Xie peak, and the ridge is decorated with gray plastic
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The main beam is carved with wood, and the story figure is carved on the Fang wood; The original stained glass remains on the North window of the West secondary room
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The wing rooms on the East and west sides are two bays wide and six boundaries deep
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Although some parts of the building have been slightly reconstructed and damaged, and the carvings on the lintel of the instrument door are slightly missing, the main structure and shape are still intact, the wood carvings are exquisite, and the surrounding environment has a historical appearance
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It is a representative traditional residential house in this area, with high historical, scientific and artistic value
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Built in the mid Qing Dynasty, the ritual farming hall is the central hall of the original building complex, with a construction area of 98.21 square meters
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The building sits in the north and south, with brick and wood structure
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It is five bays wide and six boundaries deep
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It has a hard peak and a small green tile roof
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The main room of the three Bay hall is of the beam lifting type, and the secondary room is of the bucket type
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There is a single porch in front, and the Liang Fang wood has exquisite relief figures, flowers and auspicious patterns
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Opening information opening hours: 9:00-16:00 every day
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Admission: zhaojialou ancient town scenic spot is open free of charge
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The admission to the ceremony park is 20 yuan
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Pujiang country park is located in Minhang District, Shanghai
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With a planned area of 15.29 square kilometers, Pujiang country park is one of the seven pilot country parks in Shanghai, with 5.3 kilometers of Huangpu River shoreline resources The forest land resources and rich cultural resources are positioned as “suburban urban forest type country park with forest recreation and waterfront leisure as the main functions”, and it is the first country park of national 4A scenic spot in Shanghai.
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