Quanfu Tower

Zhou Zhuang Vacation Travel Video Guide

Travel video about destination Zhou Zhuang in China.
A few kilometres from the modern, pulsating and gigantic metropolis of Shanghai there is an idyllic mediaeval village, Zhou Zhuang, that is believed to have been the first ‘water village’ in China. However, it was not until the middle of the 1980s that the picturesque village was added to the tourist map and since then its splendid old buildings and canals have been recognised as a truly magnificent treasure. The origin and founding of Zhou Zhuang dates back around nine hundred years. Due to its unique location the town has escaped war and plunder as only the local inhabitants knew their way around the labyrinth-like canals that once led into the small town. Free from battle and invasion it has managed to retain its age old Chinese charm right up until the present day. One of the most elegant monuments in Zhou Zhuang is located in the southern area of the town, the beautifully decorated and lovingly restored Quanfu Temple. A haven of peace and tranquillity that encapsulates the serene way of life of this captivating place.

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VENICE OF CHINA

Zhouzhuang, salah satu kota air paling terkenal di Cina, terletak di Kota Kunshan yang hanya berjarak 18 mil (30 kilometer) tenggara Suzhou. Hal ini terkenal karena latar belakang budayanya yang mendalam, rumah-rumah hunian kuno yang terpelihara dengan baik, pemandangan berair yang elegan dan tradisi dan adat istiadat berwarna lokal yang kuat. Selama Periode Musim Semi dan Musim Gugur (770-476 SM), kota kecil adalah bagian dari Yaocheng, dan disebut Zhenfengli. Setelah disumbangkan ke Pura Keberuntungan Penuh (Quanfu) oleh Zhou Digong, seorang penganut Buddha yang sangat taat, pada 1086 pada masa Dinasti Song Utara (960-1127), kuil ini mendapatkan namanya sekarang sebagai peringatan donor.

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Zhouzhuang water town of China

Zhouzhuang water town of China
In the world there are many places that are called Venice. But the Chinese town of Zhouzhuang is particularly well suited for this definition. Zhouzhuang - is the oldest Chinese settlement on the water. Its history goes back 900 years. City is a series of islands surrounded by water. As in Venice, through which spanned numerous bridges. Zhouzhuang located 35 kilometers southeast of the eastern city of Suzhou, Jiangsu Province is known as China's first village on the water. It is one of the most famous water townships in China, noted for its profound cultural background, the well preserved ancient residential houses and the elegant watery views. It has been called the Venice of the East.
Zhouzhuang is surrounded by four rivers of water that formed it eight streets, connected by a few dozen stone bridges. Bridges are very different, but the most typical are paired Shuangqiao bridges built during the Ming Dynasty. They consist of an arched stone span from one beam and stone. Architecturally unique is the two-pass bridge, thrown across the two channels. Streets are rivers, passages are connected by bridges, and houses built along the rivers, which are the roads on which the locals are moved by boat.
Zhouzhang originated as a village by the name of Zhenfengli during the Spring and Autumn (BCE (770-476) Period of the Eastern Zhou (BCE 770-221) Dynasty. It received its current name in CE 1086 during the Northern Song (CE 960-1127) Dynasty when the village, which had belonged to the fiefdom of Yaocheng, was donated to Zhenfengli's Quanfu (Full Fortune) Temple – also known as Blessed Temple – by a devout Buddhist by the name of Zhou Digong, who owned this piece of land
Most of the old houses and bridges of Zhenfengli cum Zhouzhang stem from the Ming (CE 1368-1644) and Qing (CE 1644-1911) Dynasty period, though some are from the Yuan (CE 1279-1368) Dynasty period. Less than 40% of the structures in Zhouzhuang stem from the pre-Yuan era, while a few – including the town's new water tower and Quanfu Pagoda, the latter of which was erected in order to conceal the view of the newly erected water tower as much as possible (which explains why Quanfu Pagoda lies in the northwestern section of the town, near the new archway entrance to Zhouzhuang, while Quanfu Temple itself lies in the southwestern section of Zhouzhuang – stem from the end of the 20th century.
Zhouzhang is a beautiful, picturesque village of willow-lined canals that are contiguous with rows of waterside buildings with whitewashed walls and gray slate roofs, and whose wooden eaves are upturned in the quintessentially Chinese fashion. Inland from the canals and the stone arch bridges are streets paved with cobblestones.

Since the 12th century, Zhouzhuang has been connected to the Grand Canal, which extends from Hangzhou in the south to Beijing in the north. This development naturally brought prosperity to the region of Suzhou, and it was thanks to this prosperity that the region in part developed its own scholars and artists, and in part attracted them from outside. Many of these artists and members of the literati were either native sons, or chose to make the idyllic watertowns of the region their new home.
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