Today I want to take you to explore a thousand-year-old town in Shanghai - Qibao Old Street. With a strong historical and cultural heritage and a wide variety of food and snacks, it is a must-visit destination. So, let's take a look at how to play Qibao Old Street!
1.First of all, we need to know how to get to Qibao Old Street. Qibao Old Street is located in Qibao Town, Minhang District, Shanghai, and can be reached by taking Metro Line 9 to Qibao Station, and then walking for 10 minutes. Alternatively, you can also take a bus or taxi to get there, which is very convenient.
2.After arriving at Qibao Old Street, we can first visit the Qibao Temple, which is an ancient temple built in the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, and is also the origin of Qibao Town. There are precious cultural relics such as the Golden Lotus Sutra, the Flying Buddha, the Flying Bell, and the Ancient Catalpa Tree of the Yuan Dynasty, as well as exquisite buildings and carvings, which are worth seeing.
3.Coming out of the Qibao Temple, we can walk along the Puhuitang Bridge into the core area of Qibao Old Street. Here is a checkerboard street in the shape of "non", on both sides are imitation Ming and Qing style buildings, red walls and black tiles, white wooden doors and windows, very ancient. The shops along the street also have their own characteristics, there are handicrafts, jewelry, antiques, calligraphy and paintings, as well as cotton weaving workshops, Zhang Chongren Memorial Hall, Qibao Shadow Puppet Art Museum, cricket thatched cottage and other folk attractions, you can walk around at will and feel the style of the ancient town in the south of the Yangtze River.
4.Of course, the most attractive thing is the food in Qibao Old Street. There are abundant special snacks here, such as Qibao soup dumplings, square cakes, stinky tofu, meat skewers, zongzi, gourd cakes, and hooves, which make people salivate. My favorite is the Qibao gnocchi, which is a small round dim sum made of glutinous rice flour with a variety of fillings, both sweet and salty, with a soft and glutinous crust and a fragrant filling that melts in your mouth and is very delicious.
5.After eating and drinking, we can go to the surrounding area of Qibao Old Street, there are some good scenic spots, such as Anping Bridge, Zhouqiao Old Street, Xinzhuang Park, etc., which are very distinctive places, you can take pictures, enjoy the scenery, and relax your mood.
6.Finally, we can go back to Qibao Old Street, find a comfortable place to sit down, taste tea, chat, reminisce about today's journey, and feel the leisurely and warm Qibao Old Street.
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