Nanxun town is located in Jiaxing-Huzhou Plain, north, south of Taihu Lake, west of Huzhou City km, bordering the East and Wujiang, Suzhou, Jiangsu. Since the Southern Song Dynasty, the area is" red land and water to the land," because the name Bin Xun Xun River and the river, then south of the river due to Au merchants, houses everywhere, and Ming Nanlin. To Junsuke twelve years (1252) built the town, Central South Forestry, Xun River from each of the first two words, renamed Nanxun. As the silk industry, the rise and development of commodity economy, Nanxun Wanli in the Ming Dynasty to the unprecedented prosperity of the mid-height of the Qing Dynasty, Qing Dynasty has become China's silk trade center, and the formation of a silk industry and fortune for operating the rich class.
Nanxun town local image with elephant, cow and dog body size to the corresponding amount of their property, so with the" four images and eight cattle seventy-two golden dog," said. Generally considered" like" means to own property 1,002,000 more than the rich," cow" as 500000-1000000 both, 300000-500000 both called" dog." One Liu, Zhang, Pang Gu four as" Nanxun four images" , and Liu property ranked first for the" four images," the first, known as the" bull" has Xing, Zhou, Qiu, Chen, Jin Zhang, Mei, Chiang eight, as" dog" there seventy-two the. Which has a substantial financial Nanxun male became the town of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, while under the Huzhou, but the public has" a city of Huzhou, less than half Nanxun town," said.
Tom Lee Bridge Today's Nanxun town remained a Qing Dynasty style, Town something transverse extension of the canal, the town of Jiujiang River north and south through the town, rich with water so that the rapid development of Nanxun premise. Entrance from the street as the door came in, just turn the place is the river, a stone bridge on each side, a Tom Lee said the bridge, a bridge, called the Chiang family. Although not as good as Zhouzhuang, the" double bridge" so well known, but the Bridge," double-bridge noodle" or a minor celebrity, and locals crowded the small table in the river to eat noodles for breakfast, is a rather pleasant thing .
Nanxun town noodle shops along the street in front of, through a lot of shops, but also through the old Rice Merchants and the grocery store, there is a facade which is not prominent, called" Liu ladder number" is" four images" of the The first three sub-Liuti Qing Liu Yong's private residence. This person is a businessman, in 1927 he founded the Chong Yu Yuhang Tangxi mill, Zhejiang and even China for the first class was a large filature.
Nanxun town Liu ladder No. renamed the" Chongde Tang" , commonly known as" Red House" , because it's Western-style buildings with red brick inside the cut. Into the hall, also entered the Chongde Tang main building, is the central axis of the house, it is living according to traditional Chinese philosophy and design, the front of the hall, back to the inner chamber, grandparents center, on both sides of the room according to seniority in the family home.
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