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I will write a page about my hometown---- tangqi town

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Tangqi 塘栖
County Town
塘栖镇
Coordinates: 30°47′N 120°18′E
Country	People's Republic of China
Province	Zhejiang
Sub-provincial city	Hangzhou
Population
• Total	90 000
Time zone	UTC+8 (China Standard)
Postal code	311106
Area code	0571
Website	www.tangqi.gov.cn

General Info

Tangqi town is located in north side of Hangzhou, it is the north key of the Zhejiang Province, 10 kilometers away from the main city. Tangqi town is established 1000 years ago,and it is famous for it's unique fruit called Loquat, also the Prunus mume in the neighborhood area Chaoshan Mountain.

History

Tangqi Town has a long history of more than 1 000 years, first built in Northern Song Dynasty (960-1127A.D.), used to be a small fishing village.In Yuan Dynasty, Zhang Shicheng broadened the Grand Canal, and then the local fishers gradually settled down on both sides, and the original of the town formed. In Ming Dynasty, the Tongji Bridge(通济桥) connected two sides, and this town was enlarged. The local record of history named Tangqi Zhi has the specific recordation. In Ming Dynasty and Qing Dynasty, Tangqi ancient town ranked the first of top ten famous towns in Jiangnan region. Originally, Tangqi town was under the administration of Renhe County. During the reign of The Republic of China, Hang County was eastablished, and Tangqi was removed to be one of Hang County. Before 1949, Tangqi ancient town consisted of north town and south town, but the south town belonged to Hang County and north town belonged to Deqing County. In May, 1950, Tangqi ended the separation. Currently, Tangqi is the second largest town of Yuhang District.

Famous For

Guangji Bridge

Guangji Bridge, built 1 100 years ago.

Guangji Bridge, started to built in 1494 AC., long 78.7 meters, 5.2 meters wide, 13.86 meters high, the only 7 hole strone bridge on the Grand Canal (China). There is rummers says that the Guangji Bridge started to be built in the Tang Dynasty, repiered in Dynasty. There is 80 steps on the each side of the bridge.

Royal Qianlong Stele

Royal Qianlong Stele, placed by the Emperor Qianlong in 1751.

Qianlong Stele is orginally located in the branch of Hangzhou Water Conservacy Office in the early years of the Republic of Chinam the Office site was destroyed but the stele was reserved. Because it was embedded into the wall of house of Lu Jinjiang, who was the first executive officer of Chongyu silk production factory.

The height of Qianlong Stele is 5.45 meters. The header part is 1 meter high, 1.5meters wide with the relief of "Two dragons playing a pearl" on it. The mian body part is 3.35 meters high, 1.4 meters wide and 0.5 meters thick. The uncovering bottom patr is 1.1 meters high 1.8meters wide, 0.8 meters thick. The Stele was engraved with 429 Chinese characters as the main text and 10 Chinese characters as the signature of Qianlong. The written characterved as the regular script. The Stele is decorated by carving of cloerds and dragons.

The main content of the SteVe describes that Qianlong Emperor rewarded Zhejiang Province to pay enough amount of grains as taxes even during the period of the natural disaster. when he inspected the South of China in 1751. The Emperor specially permitted the Province to reduce the land tax and poll tax by 30 millions taels of silver and built the Stele to inform the people.

Tangqi Qianlong Stele was regarded as the cultural relic under Hangzhou in 2004. The Stele and the site of the branch of Hangzhou Water Conservancy Office were ' then regarded as the cultural relic under Zhejiang Province in 2011.

Plum-Blossoms in Chaoshan Mountain

Chaoshan Mountain is one of the top three places to view plum-blossoms in Jiangnan. The scene of plum-blossoms here are world-renowned for its distinguishing features, that is, "old, wide and rare". It has a reputation of "a fragrant sea of plum-blossoms” in history.

• Old--

China has five sorts of ancient plum-blossoms named the Jin, Sui, Tong, Song, and Yuan breeds, and Chaoshan Mountain is boasts of two; the Tang and Song plum tree.

Tang Plum Tree: Tang Plum Tree is located in front of fragrance Pavilion. It said that Tang Plum Tree was the incarnation of fairy named Jiangmei. It was very graceful and particular scu;pting indeed. With the history of more than one thousand years, it has expreienced years of wind and frost, but it blooms every year, with enchantion blossoms.

Song Plum Tree: Among Chaoshan plum tree, the most worthmentioning one is the Song Plum tree, which is located in front of the hall of Great Brightnees. The body of the original plum tree has already withered to a large extent, looking like a half a piece of bark with nothing in its trunk and moss on the surface. The trunk is bent like an old dying man. However, it still sprouted out and bloomed out of six petal flowers in spring. It was quite thought-provoking to see the new blossoms and the old trunk. However, it deid in the end.

• Wide--

Chaoshan Mountain at its golden days had a sea of plum-blossoms, which extended for miles. It was a "fragrant sea" for good reason. Nowadays, there are still hundreds and thousands of plum-blossom trees, with a variety of more than ten categories such as scarlet, pink, red and green breeds, and it is reputed as "Plum frafrance can be felt within 10 miles" and " Chaoshan plum blossoms are second to none" .

• Rare--

It is rather rare that the plum-blossoms here in Chaoshan Mountain have six petals, while those in other places usually have five petals. As plum-blossoms bloom every year in early spring, there are spectacular scenes of petals dancing in the air as snow flakes. Mr. Wu Changshuo, the neoteric Master of inscription, Chinese painting and calligraphy, as well as the first president of Xiling Seal Society, was very fond of plum-blossoms in Chaoshan Mountain.

Food

• Ci mao ruo yuan(刺 毛 肉 圆)

Ci mao ruo yuan is concerded one of the most famous food for the Tangqi Town. It constists meatball and glutinous rice. It was said that the Ci mao ruo yuan was invented by a local chief at the time when the emperor Qianlong once was travel down south from Beijing via Grand Canal (China).

• Xi Sha Yang Wei(细沙羊尾)

Un like Ci mao ruo yuan, Xi Sha Yang Wei is a dish of dessert. It is a fried dough with large amount of Red bean paste insdie it. It is named after its shape, which is very much like the tail of a sheep.

Tradition

• Lixia Dog (立夏狗)

It is the believe that eating a dog shape made of 80% Glutinous rice and 20% of Rice vermicelli during Lixia could keep the kids away from chronic summer fever.

Lixia Dog

Celebrity

Wu Changshuo

Born in Anji Zhejiang Province, Wu Changshuo (born September 12, 1844, Anji county, Zhejiang, China—died November 6, 1927, Shanghai) was a central figure in Chinese painting during the early years of the 20th century. Wu Changshuo influenced a later trend in painting that belonged to a Chinese artistic movement known as Hai Pai or Shanghai School.This highly influential cultural trend became dominant in painting as well as in cinema, music and literature. The Shanghai School had a romantic character and stressed the idea of "art for art's sake", it combined eastern and western aesthetics and reflected the great changes that cities such as Shanghai were going through. Wu started painting rather late during his thirties and he was fully able to express his diverse skills and talent. After his deth, he was graved under the Chaoshan.

Feng Zikai

One of the most famous Chinese artist in the 20th centry, Feng Zikai was enjoyed the sign and Loquat of Tangqi.

Advice of Travel

Transportation

• From Shanghai

• From Hangzhou

• From Fuyang, Zhejiang

Hotel

• Linping

• Tangqi