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The ancient village of bright gulf travels Suzhou of China

The ancient village of bright gulf travels Suzhou of China

Write: Platt [2011-05-23]

The ancient village of bright gulf travels  Suzhou of China

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Spring and autumn more than 2,500 years ago according to legend of origin of the name of gulf village of bright moon, the intersection of and poor and the beauty Xishi Wang Wu, once enjoyed together the bright moon here, the ancient village gained the name from this.
Bright moon gulf, Wu Wang plays the moon herein. ( will of Suzhou office ) Dongting Lake Western Hills lie among the Tai Hu, at the spring and autumn, Wu Yue fight for, Western Hills the intersection of country and forward position Wu, leave a lot of legends and traces about king Wu, go to the bright moon gulf to admire the full moon for king Wu and Xishi, have left the great imagination space. Did Wu Wang and Xishi really once come here to admire the full moon? And why yes go here to admire the full moon? This has already become the eternal mystery. The understanding of poet Gao Qi was in the Ming Dynasty: The bright moon is everywhere yes, had a partiality for the moon here! The ancient village of bright moon gulf lies in the south of island of Western Hills in Tai Hu, belong to the common administrative village of stone of Western Hills town now, large bright gulf natural village 1.5 kilometers west of the stone common mountain. Because spring and autumn period more than 2500 years ago, Wang Wu enjoy together bright moon and gain the name bright moon gulf here with the intersection of beauty and Xishi while being bad, abbreviated as the bright gulf, is famous because the remains of history and culture with beautiful environment are rich and colorful.
Tang Dai, the bright moon gulf has been already well-known, famous poet Bai Juyi, skin stop, land tortoise covering with, Liu ChangQing,etc. on day, have got here, has left the poem of the bright moon gulf of praise. Invade in the south of soldier Jin in the Southern Song Dynasty, large quantities of high-ranking official s nobles go to Western Hills to live in seclusion, go to the bright moon gulf to horbor, have in order to writing poem object to Song case go in for in a big wag to and famous for remonstrate with by officer Su Deng, be last Sichuan Jin to declare to comfort for son Wu,etc. at Lin Wu after spending stone key link. In the Ming and Qing Dynasties, large quantities of bright moon gulf people joined and claimed to bore day Dongting Lake Dongting Lake help,until if you can t engage in trade, build up the family fortunes out. In the period of Qianlong in the Qing Dynasty, Jiaqing About 250 years ago) ,The bright moon gulf has reached the great prosperity, has built large quantities of exquisite large houses, and public buildings such as the ancestral hall, slabstone street, river port, quay,etc.. These large houses and ancestral halls, there are exquisite and refined tile carving, wood carving, stone carving, extremely rich local characteristic of the building. The bright moon gulf stores about 9 hectares of area of ancient village now, there are more than 100 inhabitants, nearly 400 people, mostly lean against and plant the flowers and fruits, green spiral shell s spring tea, the loquat, red bayberry and peach, and and concurrently catches, cultivates to the peasants who the silverfish made a living in Tai Hu, surname, until Deng, Qin, yellow and Wu Wei much, retire descendant that noble multiplied the Southern Song Dynasty. The bright moon gulf draws near the lake near the mountain, three hills and mountains are surrounded, grassy green and dark green perennially, keep one s own counsel, firmly get the artistic conception of the Peach Garden. It is happy to add many Western Hills peasant families newly around the bright moon gulf now, offer the facility to visitor too. Bright moon gulf set up north and south two arterial street of east west trend in the village, there are many crosscuts between the two street, cross vertically and horizontally, in good order, commonly called as the chess board street. Lay with the granite strip stone in the street, it is the irrigation canals and ditches to play, there are bright gulf slabstone streets, wear and embroider the shoes after the rain Proverb. The building in the many Ming and Qing Dynasties of both sides of residential district, straggly at last, mottled and dark green and ancient. Around the house, plant four seasons flowers and fruits, the intersection of poet and De Shen sneak, call it the intersection of signs of human habitation and the intersection of chicken and dog in the flower Lin Zhong Qing Dynasty ,The intersection of poet and RuHuan Ling call it water embrace the intersection of green hill and mountain embrace, spend, use up depths have household Qing Dynasty.