朱家角简介

Shanghai's Venice

上海的威尼斯

Located in a suburb of Shanghai city, Zhujiajiao is an ancient water town well-known throughout the country, with a history of more than 1700 years.

座落于上海城郊的朱家角是一个全国闻名的、古老的水乡小镇，历史长达1700多年。Covering an area of 47 square kilometers, the little fan-shaped town glimmers like a bright pearl in the landscape of lakes and mountains.

小镇面积47平方公里，呈扇形铺开，在湖山之间犹如一颗珍珠熠熠生辉。

Endowed with another elegant name - "Pearl Stream" - the little town is the best-preserved among the four ancient towns in Shanghai.

小镇还有一个优雅的别名叫做“珠溪”。它是上海保存最完好的四座古镇之一。

Unique old bridges across bubbling streams, small rivers shaded by willow trees, and houses with courtyards attached all transport people who have been living amidst the bustle and hustle of the modern big city to a brand-new world full of antiquity, leisure and tranquillity.

奇雅的古桥下水流涓涓，小河两旁柳树掩映，小院精舍把终日生活在喧嚣的现代化大城市里的人们带进了一个充满乐古趣、闲乐与宁静的世界。

Bridges in the town

小镇里的桥

It is said that to visit Zhujiajaio without seeing the bridges means that you have not really been to Zhujiajiao at all!

有人说：“来后不看桥，枉来朱家角。”

Bridges in the town are distinctive and old, built during Ming and Qing Dynasties.

镇子里的桥造形独特，古老优雅，都是明清年间的建筑。

The old town is thoroughly connected by 36 delicate spans in different shapes and styles, from wooden to stone to marble.

老镇区全部由36座巧夺天工，造型与风格各异的拱桥连接，选用材料从木头、青石到大理石样样都有。

Fangsheng Bridge (Setting-fish-free Bridge) is the longest, largest and tallest stone bridge, with five openings both in Zhujiajiao and in the Shanghai region.

放生桥（在此把鱼放生）是在朱家角镇和上海地区最长、最大也是最高的石桥，总共有五个桥洞。

This bridge was built in 1571. On the bridge stands a stone tablet named Dragon Gate Stone, which is engraved with 8 coiling dragons encircling a shining pearl.

该桥建于1571年。桥上立有一块石碑，名曰龙门。碑上刻有八龙戏珠。

On top of the bridge are 4 lifelike stone lions.

桥栏上还雕有四只栩栩如生的石狮。

Lang Bridge (Veranda Bridge), also named Huimin Bridge, is the only wooden bridge and the most featured span in this town. It has wooden bars on the two sides and upturned eaves above, just like a narrow corridor.

廊桥，又叫惠民桥，是小镇仅有的一座木制桥梁，倍受人们喜爱。桥两边立有木制栏杆，顶上覆有飞檐，就如一条窄窄的过道一般。

Zhujiajiao Ancient Town

Chinese name:朱家角古镇(Zhu Jia Jiao Gu Zhen)

Location: in Qingpu Town (青浦镇), 48km from downtown Shanghai, south-central of Qingpu District, Shanghai.

Ticket prices:

- Free for entering the town

- CNY30 for a custom tour including 3 scenic spots- Shanghai Ancient Cultural Center, Post Office of Qing Dynasty, Kezhi Garden;

- CNY60 for a custom plus countylife tour including 9 scenic spots- Shanghai Ancient Cultural Center, Post Office of Qing Dynasty, Kezhi Garden, Town's God Temple, Quanhua Art Gallery, Rice Countylife Gallery, Yuanjin Buddhist Temple, Hanlin Horizontal Stelas Museum and Shanghai Handicrafts Exhibition.

Opening time: 08:30-17:00

Introduction to Zhujiajiao Ancient Town

Zhujiajiao, also called genially as Jiaoli (角里), is a 54 square-kilometer fan-shaped ancient town bustling for over a thousand years. Embed between Dianshan Lake (the largest lake in Shanghai) and Dian Mountain, it is a famed ancient town labeled as Shanghai's Venice and the pearl stream by the lakeside of Dianshan Lake. As one of the first four major towns in China, this waterside town south of Yangtze River is composed of both natural landscapes and historic relics. Simple and clean paths, towering big trees, streams flowing through lanes and streets as well as lots of well-preserved residences that have experienced great changes for centuries, all of them are helpful for lost dreams in the noisy city and a return to the nature and inner self. A "vagrant" writer of China, San Mao once was deeply attracted by the bridges, streams and residences arrangement here and was moved by the breathtaking scenery. The quiet town is of simple but full of poems and pictures with original flavored streets of Ming (1368-1644) and Qing dynasties (1636-1911), which make it a famed Hollywood in the suburb of Shanghai popular with many film directors.

History of the ancient town

Zhujiaojiao Ancient Town's standing history can be traced back to the Neolithic Age as a large quantity of historical relics of the era as well as of the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods

(770BC-221BC) were found in the Dianshan Lake. The market of the town had already formed during Song (960-1279) and Yuan (1271-1368) dynasties, and Zhujiajiao was thriving and officially set up as a town during Emperor Wanli’sRreign (1573-1620) of Ming Dynasty. In Qing Dynasty, it became a trading center in the area, and in the late of the dynasty, it became the first business town and a famous collecting and distributing center for subsidiary agricultural products among the surrounding towns. Today, the past prosperity of this ancient town can be still seen from the existing original streets of Ming and Qing dynasties.

Owing to its favorable natural environment and convenient transportation, lots of merchants gathered here and developed the cloth industry, making it a major town in the south of Yangtze River. Rice