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Tongli is an aged town located a short drive from Suzhou, which is about a hour drive outside of Shanghai. Tongli is over 1000 years old and has only recently been changed into a tourist attraction. The town is characterized by stone bridges and well preserved ancient architecture including private gardens, temples and houses. 

15 small river lanes crisscrossed the town, over which spans around 49 stone bridges in variety of styles. Bridges are important parts of the town. The most famous bridges among the 49 bridges in Tongli are the three bridges called Taiping (peace), Jili (luck) and Changqing (celebration) bridges, which has been important landmarks of the place and regarded as the sacred architecture by the locals. Whenever there is an important occasion, such as wedding, people would like to walk through the three bridges, which is supposed to bring peace, fortune and happiness in their lives.  

Buildings well preserved from the Ming and Qing Dynasties standing by the rivers fill the town. The traditional gardens are well worth seeing. The Tuisi Garden makes a good example. The garden was constructed between 1885 and 1887 by an imperial scholar. In the garden, pavilions, terraces, halls, rockeries, ponds and other elements of the garden were harmoniously integrated together.

Transport: Tongli is a town under jurisdiction of Wujiang city (at county level) Jiangsu province, seven miles apart from Songlin, the location from Wujiang government, and 25 kilometers from the urban area of Suzhou. In Suzhou, Wu Jiang and Shanghai buses are dispatched at high frequency.

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2011-05-23
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by Firaki 2011-05-23
Introduce Tongli famous historical site The long clouds and mists in the mountains are green It is not far from Tongli middle school, stand far apart facing each other with village of 4.5 kilometers of Hubei of 4.5 kilometers. About the long clouds and mists in the mountains are green ,The intersection of people and thoroughbred horse Wu have poem write ...
by Woodward 2011-05-23
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by Yolanda 2011-05-23
Introduce The exhibition hall of the history relic, it is the residence where the cloth policy of Jiangxi enables He Yuan. The exhibition hall of the history relic mainly regards scholar, historical relic, literature and history as main exhibition s contents, represent the historical style and features in the ancient town of Tongli. Celebrity hall include ...