🌳"A Golden Tree and a Tender Encounter - My Travels in Huishan Ancient Town"

If I hadn't walked into Huishan Ancient Town in person, I probably wouldn't have believed that a town could hide a thousand years of time so elegantly in every brick and tile, without saying a word, but moving everywhere.

In June in Jiangnan, the weather is slightly hot, but just right. The sun sifted through the willow branches and the eaves, lengthening the shadows of people and quietly slowing down time. The entrance of the ancient town is not ostentatious, like a woman who doesn't want to boast, just quietly waiting for people to approach. When you walk in, you will find that this is a deep alley of time, where hundreds of surnames, thousands of lights, and thousands of memories about "home" live.

Huishan Ancient Town is best known for its row of ancestral halls, which are rare in China. It is said that this place has been a gathering place for literati and clan family traditions since the Ming and Qing Dynasties, and it covers a large area. Walking between the ancestral halls, brick carvings, wood carvings, and stone gatehouses, each one seems to whisper the story of a family. And I couldn't help but walk lightly, as if I was afraid of disturbing the old dreams and nostalgia floating out of the cracks in the wall. Other travelers stopped at the houses and shops that were transformed into modern ones, but I was the only one who loved to linger under the dilapidated archway and admire the beauty of the ancient buildings of the Jiangnan ancestral hall.

Surprising encounter There was an exhibition hall next to the tourist service center - it was the most modern and quietest corner in the entire ancient town. Inside, I saw a wall made of blue and white wrapped in a mirror-like floor and a golden tree standing quietly in the center. At that moment, I had the illusion of walking into a painting. And I had already stood in the painting unconsciously...

I remembered that my favorite writer Zhang Manjuan once wrote: "Time is not for running, but for living well." And this year, I have traveled to many places, but under this tree, I suddenly realized that some places exist for "quietness". Huishan is such a place. It does not urge you to hurry, but only accompanies you to live slowly.

The sunset dyed the ancient town a light blue. Because I wandered around for too long, I missed the opening time of Jichang Garden, which was a bit regretful, but this time I left with a soft heart - like taking away the last sentence of a poem, and I couldn't bear to finish reading it...

It doesn't matter, I will come again, I just hope that my future life can be like Huishan Ancient Town, living a simpler, warmer, deeper and more comfortable life.

#Wuxi
#Huishan Ancient Town
#Jichang Garden of Ming Dynasty
#Must-visit attractions for Kangxi and Qianlong when they went to the south of the Yangtze River
#The carefully planned ancient town is very spectacular
#There is a grand chrysanthemum exhibition every year
#5A-level scenic spot in the mainland
#The second spring in the world, the tea tasting place of Lu Yu in the Tang Dynasty
#Currently the whole town is being renovated
#Travel with Qiao Mei