Overview

Jinxi Ancient Town is a national 4A-level tourist scenic spot and the hometown of Chinese folk museums. As of 2013, the town still retains the Zhangzhou Provincial Art Museum, the Chinese Ancient Bricks and Tiles Museum, the Maruote Mud Zen Workshop, the China Jinxi Xuanjuan Art Museum, the Antique Museum, the Jinshi Family, the Persimmon Garden, the Central Plains Culture and Art Collection Museum, There are 11 folk museums, including China Yixing Zisha Museum, Jinxi Outstanding Figures Museum, and Modern Folk Teapot Museum.

The traditional buildings in the ancient town are mainly from the Ming, Qing and early Republic of China. The architectural features are simple and typical of Jiangnan architectural style. They are mainly residential houses and courtyards. There are also water wall gates, stilted buildings and falling water corridors. There are unique river street market buildings such as sheds, bridge towers and Langfang, and the area of ??ancient buildings accounts for more than 86% of the residential buildings in the town.

There are many cultural relics and historic sites in the ancient town. As of 2011, the "Zhudian Ancient Kiln Site Group" in the ancient town is a cultural relic protection unit in Jiangsu Province, including Wenchang Pavilion, Ancient Inland River Channel, Lianchi Temple, Tongshen Taoist Temple, 14 places including Wenchang Pavilion, Chenfei Water Tomb, ancient river revetments, and ancient stone arch bridges are Kunshan municipal cultural relics protection units.

As of 2012, there are still 26 ancient bridges remaining in the ancient town, most of which are buildings from the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Among the 36 bridges in the town, 8 are the most famous, namely Tianshui Bridge, Taiping Bridge, Shiyan Bridge, Jinxi Zhonghe Shuangqiao, Zhongan Bridge, Puji Bridge, Puqing Bridge and Lihe Bridge.

Main Attractions

●Chen Fei Water Tomb

Chen Fei Water Tomb is located in Wubao Lake in the south of the ancient town. In the second year of Longxing in the Southern Song Dynasty (1163), Concubine Chen built a water tomb in Wubao Lake to protect Zhao Zhong after he died of an arrow. The water tomb became a symbol of Jinxi's history. There are reeds growing all around the tomb of Concubine Chen. No matter how high the water level is, the tomb of Concubine Chen is always exposed on the lake.

●Ancient Lotus Pond

The Ancient Lotus Pond is affiliated to the Lotus Pond Temple. It was a temple built by Emperor Xiaozong of the Southern Song Dynasty. From the second year of Longxing to the third year of Jiatai, it was full of It took 40 years to build, and it now has palaces, verandas, pavilions, pavilions, waterside pavilions and boats. All the buildings in the current Lotus Pond Zen Monastery were rebuilt by relevant departments after 1996. The stone ridge of the Zen Monastery and the two mirror-like lakes are known as the Ancient Lotus Pond and Lingtang Bay.

●Wenchang Pavilion

Also known as Wenxing Pavilion and Pianyun Pavilion, it has always been dedicated to Wenquxing, the star that dominates literary fortune and is the number one scholar of Dian sect. People pray here to the gods to bless the candidates who will be successful in the exams. This is a symbol of Jinxi’s traditional culture of worshiping literature. Wenchang Pavilion rises near the water. It is three stories high, with yellow walls and red eaves, and jingling wind chimes. Climbing up the stairs to the pavilion, you can have a panoramic view of the whole town. The pavilion displays poems written by celebrities Gao Qi, Shen Zhou, Wen Zhengming and Zhu Zhishan for Jinxi in the Ming Dynasty.

●Ten-Eye Long Bridge

There are many bridges in Jinxi. There is a local folk saying of "Thirty-six bridges, seventy-two kilns", among which the more famous ones are Ten Eyes Long Bridge. The Ten Eyes Long Bridge was built in the Ming Dynasty, and together with the Ancient Lotus Pond, Wenchang Pavilion, Causeway Corridor and Taoyuan, it forms a complete Ancient Lotus Scenic Area. The bridge has nine pillars and ten holes, with a total length of 52 meters.

●China Ancient Bricks and Tiles Museum

Jinxi is the hometown of ancient bricks and tiles in Kunshan. As early as the Western Jin Dynasty, Jinxi had the tradition of making bricks and firing kilns. Walking into the new location of Jinxi Dingzhai, more than 1,000 brick and tile treasures are displayed in the museum. From the "red-burnt earth" on the walls of "half-cave" houses in the Neolithic period, the brick decorations of Qin Shihuang's palace "Wangyi Palace", Han Dynasty city bricks, Six Dynasties tiles, Western Jin chronological bricks, and Song Dynasty mortise well bricks, to the Ming and Qing Dynasties and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom , blue bricks from the Republic of China period, and even red bricks with five stars as the symbol.

●Shiyuan

Shiyuan is the former residence of Mr. Lu Shulun, a famous modern painter and Go player. It is named after the two persimmon trees in the garden. The main building, Pianshi Shanfang, was built during the Tongzhi period of the Qing Dynasty. It is now the calligraphy and painting art exhibition hall of the late Mr. Lu Shulun and his second son, Mr. Lu Jiaheng.

●Antique Museum

The Antique Museum is an exhibition hall for Mr. Xue Rensheng’s antique collection in Suzhou. There are 800 exquisite water bowls from all dynasties dating from the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period to the present. Among them are the three-legged toad water bowl of Yue kiln in the Northern Song Dynasty and the "jewel glaze" and "tiger brave" water bowls made by the famous Qing porcelain artists Ge Mingxiang and Ge Yuanxiang brothers. The museum also houses Hongshan jade bracelets, Warring States jade cicadas, Western Han Dynasty chicken head pots, Hua Wei stone Buddhas, Southern and Northern Dynasties beast statues, Tang Dynasty iron bottles, Northern Song Dynasty Jun kiln porcelain bottles and other exquisite products.

●Zhang Sheng Art Museum

Zhang Sheng Art Museum is located beside Puqing Bridge, Tang Street, Jinxi Town. It was founded in October 2002 by Mr. Qi Gong, a famous contemporary Chinese art master. Inscribe the name of the library.

The art museum is divided into two floors, with the first and second floors being exhibition halls. The calligraphy and painting works displayed in the museum include the works of the contemporary young Chinese painter Zhang Sheng from various periods in the past thirty years, as well as some of the masterpieces of calligraphy and painting masters such as Liu Haisu, Qian Juntao, Chen Dayu, and Zhang Jixin collected by Zhang Sheng, with a total of 209 works. , donated by Zhang Province to the Jinxi Town People’s Government in 2002.

●Cultural Revolution Collection Museum

The museum displays documents, newspapers, trademarks, leaflets, and posters related to the special period of the "Cultural Revolution" collected by Mr. Peng Hongzhang, a collector from Wuhan, Hubei Province. , posters, textbooks, artworks, tickets, securities; there are also various quotations, poems, works of Marx, Engels, Lu Xun, and related annotations, explanations, and coaching materials published during the Cultural Revolution. "Rebel" leaflets, small-character posters, notices, statements, appeals, and ultimatums; work certificates, membership certificates, attendance certificates, honorary certificates, household registers, graduation certificates, certificates, and letters of introduction during the Cultural Revolution; there are food stamps, cloth stamps, Gas stamps, meal stamps; cigarette, salt, sauce, sugar, soap, matches, meat, fish, eggs, soy products stamps. There are also tens of thousands of Mao Zedong badges, commemorative medals, revolutionary model opera scripts, revolutionary model opera statues, etc.

●Yixing Zisha Museum

Yixing Zisha Museum was opened in May 2002. It gathers Yixing Zisha boutiques from the pottery capital in Jinxi Ancient Town. The exhibition hall is divided into upper and lower floors. The bottom floor is famous ancient and modern pots. Comprehensive exhibition, the second floor is an exhibition of modern celebrity boutiques. Entering the first floor, the first thing that catches your eye is a purple clay statue of Maitreya Buddha, the "Buddha of the Future World". Behind it is a giant "Dongpo Lift Pot", which is an exaggerated imitation of the one used by Su Dongpo, the famous writer of the Northern Song Dynasty, to light the stove and make tea. The second floor is a modern celebrity boutique exhibition, displaying more than 600 exquisite works by my country's modern and contemporary craft masters.