南通全英文介绍

Food
Cloth
Traditional opera
西亭脆饼 草鞋底
南通头菜
It means the most important dish.
海门羊肉
淡菜皱纹肉
The traditonal Nantong blue calico printing and dyeing has been popular for a long time in almost every county of Nantong. After the Yuan and Ming Dynasty, there were female weavers in every house in Nantong, which is famous for weaving blue calico. Nantong blue calico is spun, woven and dyed all by hand in mainly plant and flower patterns, and is used to make useful things for every day life.
Zhang decided to abandon politics and to devote himself to developing Nantong into a model district. In 1895 he founded the Dah Sun Cotton Mill (大生纱厂) at Tangzha(唐闸). Out of its profits, Zhang, between 1900 and 1905, built up an industrial complex in Nantong that included flour and oil mills, a modern factory for reeling silk, a distillery, and a machine shop. He also founded a shipping line and, after 1901, formed the Tonghai Land Reclamation Company—the first of a number of such companies that brought much of the northern coastal zone of the Yangtze estuary under cotton cultivation.
Zhang also founded the first teachertraining colleges in China—the Nantong normal schools—which staffed hundreds of primary schools. Later he founded an agricultural college, a textile school, and a medical college (1910–12), which eventually merged to form Nantong University. In addition, he established museums, libraries, and theatres, and Nantong became an important cultural centre as well as a prosperous industrial town. In the early republican period (after 1911), Nantong was commonly called “Zhang Jian’s Kingdom,” or the “Model County.”
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Hao River来自百度文库濠河)
First, let's enjoy some views of Nantong.
Zhonglou Squre(钟 楼广场)
It is situated on the northern shore of the head of the Yangtze River (Chang Jiang) estuary. Northward, it is connected with the Tongyang and Tonglü canal systems, which serve the coastal zone of Jiangsu north of the Yangtze and connect westward with the Grand Canal. Tiansheng port, about 7.5 miles (12 km) to the west, and Nantong port provide Nantong with ports on the Yangtze. Another port at Langshan, some 8 miles (13 km) south of Nantong, has been developed since the 1990s; this facility has greatly expanded the handling capacity of the ports group administered by the city and has made Nantong one of the largest ports along the Chinese coast.
Tongzi Xi is a native traditional Chinese opera. Tongzi means native wizard originating from Chu. Tongzi used to chant in order to wish a harvest.