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　　Zhouzhuang is located in the southeast of Suzhou City and the southwest ofKunshan. It has the reputation of "the first water town in China". It is one ofthe six ancient towns in the south of the Yangtze River. Zhouzhuang is a watertown with a history of more than 900 years, but it was officially namedZhouzhuang Town in the early years of Kangxi in Qing Dynasty. Zhouzhuang islocated in the southwest of Kunshan under the jurisdiction of Suzhou, which wascalled zhenfengli in ancient times. With thousands of years of history and richWu culture, Zhouzhuang has become a treasure of Oriental culture with itsbeautiful water style, unique cultural landscape and simple folk customs. As anoutstanding representative of Chinese excellent traditional culture, Zhouzhuanghas become the cradle of Wu culture and the model of Jiangnan Water Town. Themost famous scenic spots are: Shen Wansan's former residence, Fu'an bridge,Shuangqiao, shenting, quelou, Zhouzhuang eight scenic spots, etc.

　　Fu'an bridge is the only three-dimensional building in the south of theYangtze River; the double bridges are connected by two bridges, with uniqueshape; shenting is a Qing style courtyard house, with strict overall structureand different local styles; in addition, there are Chengxu Taoist temple, Quanfutemple and other religious places. Zhouzhuang Ancient Town is bordered by alarge lake in the south, commonly known as Nanhu and nanbaidang, which bordersWujiang River. By boat, you can get to Qingpu commercial couch and visit GrandView Garden. The lakeside is luxuriant in forest and bamboo, the environment isquiet, the lake water is clear, and the fish and shrimp are abundant. It is notonly a natural reservoir and fish farm, but also a rare scenic spot. The sceneryof Nanhu is suitable for all seasons, and the moonlight on autumn night isparticularly intoxicating. When the golden wind blows and the moon is high, thelake is green and golden, full of the artistic conception of "a long smoke, abright moon, a floating light, a silent shadow". Eight sceneries in Zhouzhuang:Quanfu Xiaozhong, Zhigui Chunwang, boting sunset, clam River Fishing Song, SouthLake autumn moon, wild geese falling in Zhuangtian, sailing in swift water,Dongzhuang snow. With the change of years, some traces remain, some add newluster. Some are hard to find. Be annihilated by the dust of history. MazeTower: located in Zhenfeng bridge, formerly known as Deji hotel. Li Defu, theowner of the shop, was born in Zhenjiang. In the late Qing Dynasty, he moved toZhouzhuang Town with his family. He was good at cooking delicacies and opened ahotel. When the couple were over 40 years old, they were so happy that they werenamed ah Jin.

　　When she was older, Rua Yizhi came out of the water to conquer Qunfang inZhouzhuang. Under the love of parents, boycotting foot binding, the nickname of"big foot Guanyin" spread like wildfire. The suitors came in droves. Li Defucouldn't give up her daughter. She kept her daughter away from her knees. Shekept her parents to spend her life together. She encouraged her to drink andsolicited customers. Her business was booming. At the junction of new and oldtowns at the south end of Quanfu road stands an antique archway. Four strong andstraight light brown granite square columns support the top of the raised eaves,and the rough wooden brackets reveal the style of imitating Ming architecture.The whole archway is magnificent and elegant, just like a solemn and simple doorof Zhouzhuang Ancient Town.

　　Zhouzhuang Town was formerly known as zhenfengli. According to historicalrecords, during the reign of Yuanyou in the Northern Song Dynasty (1086 AD),Zhou digonglang (official name) believed in Buddhism and donated 200 mu (morethan 13 hectares) of Zhuangtian to Quanfu temple as a temple property. Thepeople felt his kindness and named the land "Zhouzhuang". But at that time,zhenfengli was just the rudiment of a market town, similar to a village. 1120_In 1930, the Prime Minister of Jin 20 followed song Gaozong to the south. It wasonly when they moved here that the population became dense. In the middle ofYuan Dynasty.

　　Shen you, the father of the legendary Jiangnan rich Shen Wansan, moved fromNanxun in Huzhou to Dongzhai village in the east of Zhouzhuang (in the late YuanDynasty, he moved to the vicinity of yinyinbang). He gradually made his fortuneby doing business, making zhenfengli prosperous and forming an old market townwith Fu'an bridge as the center on both sides of the Nanbei river. In the MingDynasty, the town was enlarged and developed westward to the areas of Fuhongbridge in Hougang street and Puqing bridge in Zhongshi street. In the QingDynasty, the residents became more and more dense. The area around xizhagradually became a line of shops, and the commercial center moved from Hougangstreet to Zhongshi street. At this time, it was a big town in the south of theYangtze River, but it was still called zhenfengli. It was not until the earlyyears of Kangxi that it was officially renamed Zhouzhuang Town. In addition,there is a saying of "shaking the city" in Zhouzhuang region from the spring andAutumn period to the Han Dynasty. It is said that shaoziyao, king of Wu, andBojun of Han Dynasty were granted here, so Zhouzhuang has a longer history. TheLiangzhu Cultural relics excavated in taishidian, a suburb of Zhenjiang, alsoprove this point. Zhouzhuang belonged to Changzhou County of Suzhou in YuanDynasty. In the middle of Ming Dynasty, it belonged to Huating County, SongjiangPrefecture, and returned to Changzhou County in the early Qing Dynasty. Thethird year of Yongzheng in Qing Dynasty (1720 AD)_ Zhouzhuang Town was dividedinto two parts by Yuanhe County, about four fifths of which belonged to Yuanhecounty (now Wuxian City). One fifth belongs to Wujiang county (now WujiangCity). In 1761, Chen Wengong, the governor of Jiangsu Province, moved theinspection department in Jiaozhi town of Wuxian county to Zhouzhuang, which wasunder the jurisdiction of Chenghu, huangtiandang, Dushu, Yinshan and baishenlakes, covering almost half of the county.

　　Zhouzhuang has developed rapidly from a small town to a big commercialtown, which is closely related to the prosperity of Shen Wansan, a rich man inthe south of the Yangtze River. Shen Wansan used Baibai River (Dongjiang) toconnect the Grande Canale and Zhouzhuang, and the advantage of the NortheastRiver connecting Liuhe river. The trade of Zhouzhuang became a distributingcenter and trading center for grain, silk and various handicraft products, whichpromoted the rapid development of handicraft industry and Commerce in thecountry. The most outstanding products were silk, embroidery, bamboo ware, footfurnace, Baijiu and so on. Zhouzhuang has a quiet environment and simplearchitecture. Although it has gone through more than 900 years of vicissitudes,it still retains the architectural style of the original water town. More than60% of the dwellings in the town are still built in the Ming and Qing Dynasties.The ancient town with an area of only 0.47 square kilometers has nearly 100classical dwellings and more than 60 brick gate buildings. Zhouzhuang dwellingsare still ancient. The most representative ones are shenting and Zhangting. Atthe same time, Zhouzhuang has also preserved 14 ancient bridges with their owncharacteristics, which together form a wonderful water landscape painting of"small bridge, flowing water and people". Zhouzhuang, with its long history, hascreated many beautiful sceneries for the ancient town. Luo Zhewen, a famousarchitect, praised Zhouzhuang as "not only a treasure of Jiangsu Province, butalso a treasure of the country".