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The hometown of "Double Gold King" Sheng Lihao, a proper treasure tourist destination!

Paris 2024

Sheng Li Hao from Zhangjiagang, Suzhou

Won 2 gold medals for the Chinese team

and break the Olympic world record

Became the first "double gold king" of this Olympic Games

Impressive results

Let his hometown

Suzhou City - Zhangjiagang City - Yangshe Town - Donglai Village

It has become the focus of everyone's attention

The hometown of "Double Gold King" Sheng Lihao, a proper treasure tourist destination!

Just yesterday

The 2024 China's Top 100 County Economic Counties were released

Zhangjiagang City ranked third

It's not your average cow!

The scenery of the landscape, the flavor of the sandbank, and the customs of the market

It has become the unique urban charm of Zhangjiagang

It contains both graceful and subtle classical beauty

It also exudes a modern commercial atmosphere

Fireworks in the world, landscape atmosphere, pastoral style

Depart Zhangjiagang immediately

Champion hometown super treasure!

The hometown of "Double Gold King" Sheng Lihao, a proper treasure tourist destination!
The hometown of "Double Gold King" Sheng Lihao, a proper treasure tourist destination!
The hometown of "Double Gold King" Sheng Lihao, a proper treasure tourist destination!

Let's join me today

Walk into Sheng Lihao's hometown

Take a look at the endless style of Zhangjiagang

Zhangjiagang, formerly known as Shazhou, the Yangtze River rushes into the sea after turning the last big bend in Zhangjiagang, nourished by the river wind and sea charm, and the scenery here is beautiful and pleasant.

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Xiangshan Scenic Area

The hometown of "Double Gold King" Sheng Lihao, a proper treasure tourist destination!

Photo: Huang Guozhu

Xiangshan is 136.6 meters above sea level, which is the highest point of Zhangjiagang. Xiangshan has beautiful scenery since ancient times, many historic sites, rough and beautiful, majestic and elegant, known as the reputation of the famous mountain in the south of the Yangtze River.

Throughout the ages, countless celebrities have left many footprints in Xiangshan, not only the incense picking path left by Xi Shi Xiang, the plum blossom hall inscribed by Su Dongpo, the peach blossom stream that Xu Xiake admired, but also the Xiangshan Lake with open lake surface and water quality like a mirror, and the new scenery of Wanzhu Meiling of "thousands of acres of snow waves", constitute a picture of lakes and mountains, which is pleasing to the eye and lingers.

Address: No. 1, Wangjiang Road, Jingang Street, Zhangjiagang City

Ticket price: 60 yuan

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Twin Hills Island

The hometown of "Double Gold King" Sheng Lihao, a proper treasure tourist destination!

Shuangshan Island is located in the northwest suburbs of Zhangjiagang City, between the Zhangjiagang operation channel and the main channel of the Yangtze River, and is one of the "ecological islands" with the most intact original ecological environment in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River. The island is a network of rivers, vertical and horizontal, ponds are dense, vegetation is forested, the environment is elegant, the air is fresh, and the quiet and simple natural scenery is retained.

Take a boat at the pier and slide into Shuangshan Island with one click, stroll through the Dabodun wetland, and your troubles will be deeply healed by a touch of green. There are also several hotels, B&Bs and camping bases on Shuangshan Island. If you're not in a hurry, you can stay on the island for one night and enjoy the starry sunrise and untouched beauty.

Address: Shuangshan Passenger Terminal, Zhangjiagang City

Ticket price: 8 yuan/person for ferry (round trip)

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Phoenix Mountain Scenic Area

The Phoenix Mountain moves from west to east, just like the Danfeng spreading its wings, so it is called "Phoenix Mountain". The Phoenix Mountain Scenic Area is a good place for sightseeing, with beautiful scenery and many places of interest and historic sites. There are scenic spots such as Heyang Mountain Song Museum, Yongqing Temple, and Tianzhuang Ancient Street in the scenic area.

Heyang Mountain Song House

The hometown of "Double Gold King" Sheng Lihao, a proper treasure tourist destination!

Heyang folk songs are the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage, with a history of more than 6,000 years, and are known as the living fossils of ancient Chinese music. Heyang Mountain Song Museum is a comprehensive venue integrating performing arts, academic research and cultural exchanges, which enriches the content of the exhibition hall by combining sound, light and electricity, and reproduces the scene of singing.

Tianzhuang Ancient Street

The hometown of "Double Gold King" Sheng Lihao, a proper treasure tourist destination!

Tianzhuang was founded by Qian Hong in the Ming Dynasty, and was originally known as "Grange". Qianlong and Jiaqing in the Qing Dynasty reached its peak, and there was a saying of "Jin Gu Mountain, Yin Tian Village". Tianzhuang North Street is the most well-preserved historical street in southern Jiangsu, with a length of 280 meters and is paved with 481 bluestone slabs. There are many Ming and Qing Dynasty style houses and courtyards on the old street, telling the vicissitudes of the ancient Tianzhuang. Bangyan Mansion, Yang's Xiaofang, and Yang's South Mansion are state-level cultural protection units.

Yongqing Temple

The hometown of "Double Gold King" Sheng Lihao, a proper treasure tourist destination!

Yongqing Temple was built in the second year of Liang Datong, has a history of more than 1,500 years, is one of the "480 temples of the Southern Dynasty", and has been as famous as Hangzhou Lingyin Temple and Zhenjiang Jinshan Temple. In the twelfth year of Tang Tianbao, the senior monk Jianzhen crossed east to Japan for the last time, came to this temple to pay respects, and then boarded a ship from Huangsipu to the east. According to other research, Shi Nai'an once lived in seclusion in the temple Wenchang Pavilion to write the book "Water Margin", and there are still relics such as washing inkstone pond and clothes mound in the temple.

Address: Fengtian Road, Fenghuang Town, Zhangjiagang City

Ticket price: 20 yuan for Tianzhuang Ancient Street, 20 yuan for Yongqing Temple, 20 yuan for Heyang Mountain Song Museum (50 yuan for three scenic spots, 35 yuan for any two scenic spots)

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Yonglian Village

The hometown of "Double Gold King" Sheng Lihao, a proper treasure tourist destination!

There are many scenic spots in Yonglian Village, and in the Yonglian Exhibition Hall, you can have a panoramic view of Yonglian Village from being poor and white when the village was reclaimed and built in 1970 to ranking among the top three in the country with 600,000 administrative villages today, and the vicissitudes of life in the past 50 years.

The golden finger of the golden finger square means that Yonglian is self-made, hard-working and rich, and Yonglian Council Hall and Love Mutual Aid Street will take you to appreciate the simple and simple rural style of the new countryside. Yonglian Fishing Center is a good place to experience rural leisure life such as fishing, tea tasting, and barbecue.

In addition, there is also a model of rural revitalization and integration of agriculture and tourism - Suzhou Jiangnan Farming Cultural Park. The whole park is divided into six areas: Fat Rice Grain Cute Pet Paradise, Leisure Wooden House Area, Workshop Area, Farm Paradise Area, Water Park, and Playground, which reproduces the beautiful pastoral scenery and simple farm life.

Address: Yonglian Village, Nanfeng Town, Zhangjiagang City

Ticket price: 60 yuan for open tourist area, Jiangnan Farming Cultural Park

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Jiyang Lake Ecotourism Zone

The hometown of "Double Gold King" Sheng Lihao, a proper treasure tourist destination!

With a water area of 1,000 acres, including Happy World, Luozhou Island, Wetland Park, Ecological Education Center and other scenic spots, Jiyang Lake Ecotourism Zone is an artificial lake-type urban wetland park integrating urban ecological restoration, resource protection, popular science education, cultural inheritance and tourism.

Address: Zhangjiagang City, Yangshe Town, Hunan Road, Jiyang Lake Ecological Tourism Zone

Ticket price: open tourist area, 60 yuan for Happy World

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Changyinsha Ecological Agricultural Tourism Zone

The hometown of "Double Gold King" Sheng Lihao, a proper treasure tourist destination!

Changyinsha Ecological Agricultural Tourism Zone is adjacent to the Yangtze River in the east and across the river from Nantong, which is a riverside style leisure area integrating catering and accommodation, leisure and entertainment, barbecue and fishing, picking and sightseeing, and vacation and recuperation.

Prosperous in the city, hidden in the village, away from the hustle and bustle of the floating world, this "back garden" of the port city can bring you many surprises. In addition, a number of leisure tourism check-in points such as woll forest nature camp and forest sitting have also been created here.

Address: No. 3, Tongjiang Road, Changyinsha Modern Agriculture Demonstration Park, Zhangjiagang City

Ticket price: Open tourist area, free

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Zhangjiagang Museum

The hometown of "Double Gold King" Sheng Lihao, a proper treasure tourist destination!

Zhangjiagang Museum is a comprehensive museum integrating collection, display, education and research, and the main building is in the imitation Tang Dynasty architectural style of "symmetrical axis, orderly master and slave, and four corners of the lofty building".

The museum is divided into five theme exhibitions: "Yangtze River Culture Museum", "Zhangjiagang History and Culture Exhibition Hall", "Zhangjiagang Folk Culture Exhibition Hall", "Calligraphy and Painting Art Exhibition Hall", "Inscription Exhibition Area" and three temporary exhibition halls.

Address: No. 2, Jiyang West Road, Yangshe Town, Zhangjiagang City

Admission: Free

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Yangshe Old Street

The hometown of "Double Gold King" Sheng Lihao, a proper treasure tourist destination!

Yangshe Old Street is one of the most famous old streets in Zhangjiagang, which has experienced wind and snow, witnessed prosperity, and retains the imprint of the times. At night, Yangshe Old Street is brightly lit and full of people, and it is a cultural and tourism style block integrating viewing, tourism, leisure, shopping, catering and entertainment.

Address: Yangshe Old Street, Zhangjiagang City

Ticket price: Open tourist area, free

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Shazhou Youhuang Cultural Park

The hometown of "Double Gold King" Sheng Lihao, a proper treasure tourist destination!

Relying on the unique resources of Jiangnan water towns and the profound accumulation of rice wine culture, the scenic spot has created a comprehensive industrial tourism destination integrating rice wine production and research and development, catering, cultural creativity and leisure with the concept of shaping the "connotation of new Jiangnan humanistic products".

Address: No. 300, East Road, Houcheng Street, Zhangjiagang City

Ticket price: 80 yuan

This colorful sandbar not only has a lot of natural and cultural scenery, but also has local characteristics of food. Cockroach tofu, tuo oven cake, deer garden chicken...... These strange names can make people "scratch their heads" at first hearing. However, once you have tasted these authentic port flavors, you will definitely remember them for a while!

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Phoenix peach

The hometown of "Double Gold King" Sheng Lihao, a proper treasure tourist destination!

Zhangjiagang Phoenix Town is one of the earliest areas in southern Jiangsu to grow peaches. Phoenix peaches have been planted for more than 100 years, and are famous as "tributes", and are the first "national geographical indication agricultural products" in Zhangjiagang.

Phoenix peach has dense flesh, less fiber, more juice, strong aroma, sweet with a hint of acidity, and has more than 20 high-quality varieties.

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Phoenix tofu

The hometown of "Double Gold King" Sheng Lihao, a proper treasure tourist destination!

There are two most famous delicacies in Phoenix Town, one is Phoenix Peach, and the other is Phoenix Tofu. Phoenix tofu can be eaten in a variety of ways, from tender tofu flowers, salty and fresh dried tofu, to a variety of dishes made with tofu.

With a history of more than 100 years, Fenghuang Gaozhuang dried tofu is especially popular with diners, and its production skills have also been included in the representative list of intangible cultural heritage of Zhangjiagang City. Twelve delicate and strict production processes make each piece of dried tofu rich in bean aroma and long aftertaste.

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Cockroach tofu

The hometown of "Double Gold King" Sheng Lihao, a proper treasure tourist destination!

Zhangjiagang's special delicacy Jiao Worm Tofu has appeared in the documentary "Flavor World 2". Although the name is "tofu", it is not a soy product. Remove the shell of the cockroach first, remove the umbilicus, wash it, mash it, and then wrap it in gauze, squeeze out the juice, and make the cockroach pulp. After mixing the meat slurry with egg whites, scooping it into the boiling soup, the liquid meat pulp slowly transforms into a tofu flower-like meat soup.

The taste of cockroach tofu is smooth, soft and delicate, although there is no tofu, it is more tender than real tofu, and every bite is the original freshness.

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Deer Garden Chicken

The hometown of "Double Gold King" Sheng Lihao, a proper treasure tourist destination!

Luyuan chicken, also known as Luyuan chicken, is named after the deer garden produced in Tangqiao Town, Zhangjiagang City, has a history of more than 200 years, and has been famous in the Qing Dynasty, and was once listed as a tribute. Luyuan chicken is yellow all over, with yellow feathers, yellow beaks, and yellow feet, and the meat is tender and fat, steamed, and stewed in soup is beautiful.

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Drag oven cake

The hometown of "Double Gold King" Sheng Lihao, a proper treasure tourist destination!

Oven cake is a traditional snack in Zhangjiagang, most well-known in the Heyang area, with a history of more than 150 years. The filling contains a variety of ingredients such as pork fat, shepherd's cabbage, bean paste, sesame seeds, osmanthus and other ingredients, and the taste is salty and sweet.

When baking the oven cake, two furnaces are needed, the lower one is the flat hearth furnace, the upper one is the spire furnace, the two furnaces are heated at the same time when baking, and the cake is hung with the heat of the top furnace, there is the meaning of "the top furnace drags the bottom furnace", so it gets this name.

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Feast Yang Lou noodle soup

The hometown of "Double Gold King" Sheng Lihao, a proper treasure tourist destination!

Founded in 1980, Yanyanglou is an old gourmet restaurant that carries the memories of several generations of Zhangjiagang people, focusing on the old taste of sandbank, serving Suzhou-style noodle soup and Zhangjiagang-style snacks.

The noodle soup of Yanyang Lou is made by selecting a variety of ingredients such as old hens, big bones, snails, eel bones, etc., which lasts four hours to boil, and concentrates the essence in a pot of freshness. All kinds of noodle toppings add flavor to a bowl of good noodles, such as braised eel, big three fresh, stir-fried shrimp, etc., with a wide variety of varieties.

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Sandbar is yellow

The hometown of "Double Gold King" Sheng Lihao, a proper treasure tourist destination!

Speaking of Zhangjiagang, there is another thing that has to be mentioned is rice wine. The representative of Supai rice wine and the provincial intangible cultural heritage of Shazhou Youhuang is produced here, with a warm and soft taste, fresh and sweet glutinous.

【Zhangjiagang two-day tour route recommendation】

Day 1:

Zhangjiagang Museum → Shuangshan Island→ Xiangshan Scenic Area→ Yangshe Old Street

Day 2:

Phoenix Mountain Scenic Area→ Yonglian Village→ Changyinsha Ecological Agricultural Tourism Zone

Endless Zhangjiagang

Endless Zhangjiagang

Zhangjiagang, which is not tired of eating

Every day in Zhangjiagang is

"The world is worth it"

This summer, waiting for you!

Source: Fun Suzhou

Editor: Xiao Ren

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