Jinze Town is located in the westernmost part of Shanghai, adjacent to Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and is the west gate of Shanghai to Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces, the Golden Triangle area of Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai provinces and one city, and an important fulcrum for the integrated development of the Yangtze River Delta. In March 2004, the original Jinze, Shangtao and Xicen towns were merged to form the new Jinze Town, which has jurisdiction over 30 administrative villages and 5 neighborhood committees. There is the largest natural freshwater lake in Shanghai - Dianshan Lake. The lakes in Kanazawa are dotted with lakes and criss-crossed river networks, and the water area accounts for more than one-third of the total area. If you wander around the ancient town of Kanazawa within the jurisdiction, in addition to seeing the ancient bridges and ancient temples, you can also experience the smart vitality of the ancient town to inherit the ancient rhyme, so today's bridge township is more attractive than before.
It has a great geographical environment
Jinze Town is located in the southwest of Qingpu District, bordering Zhujiajiao Town in the east, Liantang Town in the southeast, Dingzha Town and Dashun Town in Jiashan County, Zhejiang Province in the southwest, and Xinta Town in Wujiang City, Jiangsu Province in the northwest, Zhouzhuang Town and Jinxi Town in Kunshan City. The water and land transportation is convenient, and the 318 National Highway and the Huqingping Expressway run through the town. The national main waterway, Taipu River and Rapid Water Port, is an important waterway leading to Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Anhui and other places, and is also the best waterway of the Huangpu River. The dense rivers and lakes have created a well-developed water transportation environment for the local people and provided convenient water transportation. After the reform and opening up, land transportation in the Kanazawa area gradually developed. As a result, until the 80s of the 20th century, an area like Kanazawa had a transportation system dominated by water transportation supplemented by land transportation.
Kanazawa Town (** Model Kanazawa).
It has a rich history
According to historical records, the town of Kanazawa flourished in the Song Dynasty and flourished in the Yuan Dynasty. Legend has it that in the past, there were people who obtained stones such as gold, so they were named "Jinshi", and there was also this place as "Water Town Zeguo", and "rich in fish and rice Saijin", so it was called "Jinze". Kanazawa still has preserved the pattern and style of the ancient town since the Song Dynasty. The ancient town takes water as the vein, and presents an overall layout of "two streets and one river" in the north-south direction.
Kanazawa is famous for its water, named after the bridge, and famous for its bridge temple culture characterized by "bridges and temples have temples and bridges and temples coexist". There are still 7 ancient bridges in the ancient town area, namely Wan'an Bridge (1260), Puji Bridge (1267) built in the Southern Song Dynasty, Yingxiang Bridge (1335-1340) and Lin Lao Bridge (1264-1294) in the Yuan Dynasty to the Yuan Dynasty, Fangsheng Bridge and Tianhuang Pavilion Bridge in the Ming Dynasty, and Ruyi Bridge in the Kangxi Dynasty of the Qing Dynasty, all of which have distinctive characteristics of the ancient water town in the south of the Yangtze River, and its distribution is dense, the form is rich, and the age is the first of the ancient towns in the south of the Yangtze River, and spans the four dynasties of the Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties. Therefore, there is a saying that "the ancient bridge of the four dynasties is led by one line". The famous scholar and calligrapher Qian Junwei once watched the emotion and praised the "Kanazawa Ancient Bridge in the world".
Wan'an Bridge (built in 1260).
Puji Bridge (built in 1267).
Since the Song Dynasty, the temples of Jinze ancient town have been built one after another, and there are one view, two temples, three pavilions, four nunnery, and thirteen temple buildings. The earliest temple "Donglin Temple" is said to have been built in the Eastern Jin Dynasty. The largest temple "Yihao Temple" was built in the first year of Song Jingding (1260), for the Southern Song Dynasty Prime Minister Lu Yihao chose the feng shui treasure of Jinze, and built a mansion as a temple. After the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties expanded several times to form a Tibet, it is said that there are 5,048 houses, about 30,000 square meters, with its grand scale, the majesty of the building is called the south of the Yangtze River. "Songjiang Mansion Chronicles" said that "although the spirit of Hangzhou is hidden, Su Zhichengtian is incomparable". In the Yuan and Ming dynasties, it was known as "Fan Chalin Palace", and it had ordered the eunuchs, monks, and celebrities of the past dynasties to come to visit. For example, the Yuan Dynasty calligraphy and painting master Zhao Mengfu, the writer Mu Wei, the Ming Dynasty household department Shangshu Xia Yuanji, the essayist Tang Shunzhi, the historian Wang Shizhen, the Qing Dynasty minister Xu Qianxue, the historian Gao Shiqi have all left footprints, calligraphy, painting and articles. There are still three ancient ginkgo trees, one planted in front of the main hall is planted by the Western Regions monk Ben Nibrna himself, and it has been more than 700 years old. The incense of the temple has been extremely prosperous in the past dynasties, and there is an endless stream of pilgrims in a hundred miles.
Yihao Temple. 
Yihao Temple after reconstruction.
In the core area of the ancient town, there are the chief management temple next to the Fangsheng Bridge, the relevant emperor temple next to the Lin Lao Bridge, and many temples such as Yihao Temple, Yang Zhen Temple, and Chenghuang Temple still exist and are preserved to this day.
There are unique traditional "intangible cultural heritages" here
As a national intangible cultural heritage, "Tayama Song" has been sung in Kanazawa for hundreds of years, and is a primitive singing art as well as an oral literature. The content of its lyrics mainly comes from the real life of the local people, which is extremely rich and colorful, and the themes are mostly to express the labor, life, thoughts, love and other aspects of the local people, which is an important way to observe the social life and customs of Shanghai and the surrounding rice farming areas. At present, a heritage base has been set up in Xuemi Village, Kanazawa Town.
Tian Shan Song. "Apo tea", is a kind of "tea as a gift, tea hospitality" of the traditional water town customs, according to the "Qingpu Tourism Journal" (2012 edition): in Qingpu, Dianshan Lake around Jinze, Zhujiajiao and other areas, this custom is very popular, the business couch is the representative area of this tea drinking custom, so it is called "business couch Po tea". The merchant does not talk about "drinking tea", but customarily calls it "eating tea". In 2007, "Apo Tea" was included in the first batch of Shanghai's intangible cultural heritage list, and now it has become a civilized and moral trend to build good neighborliness and harmony, and over time it has naturally become a unique folk custom in the Kanazawa area.
In the 80s of the last century, the business couch grandma tea.
Grandma tea.
Xuanjuan", that is, the meaning of the story: it is preached by one person, two people help the foil, accompanied by a small band, its form is similar to Suzhou Pingdan, but it is not the same, and it is more distinctive. Xuanjuan originated from the Tang Dynasty's "vulgar speaking" and the Song Dynasty's "Tanjing", and the speaking language of Xuanjuan artists paid special attention to being easy to understand in order to attract and please the audience. On the shores of Dianshan Lake, this "native" folk art has been passed down for more than 1,000 years and is still loved by the residents of the water town.
Stills from the performance of Xuanjuan in the 80s of the last century.
Xuanjuan performance. Branding painting", in Qingpu Kanazawa, branding has become a "wonderful" of folk art, skillfully and naturally integrating various expression techniques of painting art with branding art, forming a unique artistic style of Kanazawa, the works produced are brown, simple and elegant, exquisite.
In addition, Kanazawa is also home to many traditional festivals, traditional crafts, and traditional customs, among which "Kanazawa Champion Cake", "Zhaojia Tofu", and "Plum Blossom Jelly Bean" are called "Kanazawa Three Treasures" by local residents. The temple fairs on the 28th day of the third lunar month and the ninth day of the ninth month of the lunar calendar are even more lively, which is the characteristic folk customs of the thousand-year-old town of Kanazawa. These folk customs should be regarded as the intangible cultural heritage of Kanazawa's distinctive regional characteristics, which is simple and unique.
Temple fairs and theaters in Kanazawa in the last century.
The scene of the temple fair in Kanazawa.
There is the traditional pattern and historical features of the ancient town
Kanazawa Town has always advocated the development and development of the ancient town with the purpose of maintaining and continuing the traditional pattern and restoring the historical features. The core area takes Jinzetang and Beikatsubang as the backbone of the waterway, forming a water system vein of "one vertical, one horizontal and multiple branches". The main roads of the ancient town are two vertical and one horizontal, and the direction is consistent with the direction of the main water system. There are many ancient stone bridges distributed between the rivers, connecting the streets and alleys and houses, and the granite paved Shangtang Street, shops and houses are lined up one after another, forming a typical water town pattern.
Gangnamqiao Township "Kanazawa" (taken in the last century).
Kanazawa Shangtang Street and Xiatang Street are old streets, with a total length of about 1,000 meters from east to west, starting from Yingxiang Bridge in the south to Jinying Bridge in the north. The ancient streets and ancient houses of the ancient town are still well preserved, such as the long street is a 200-meter-long street, and the relatively complete Ming and Qing Dynasty buildings are still retained, and the whole long street is located with dozens of Ming and Qing Dynasty houses with similar structures, the form is neat, and the scale is large. The relatively complete old house of the Xu family, the plane layout of the building structure, along the longitudinal axis from east to west, is reasonable. There are many similar old houses in Kanazawa Town, and there are more than 10 immovable cultural relics listed in the district.
Gangnamqiao Township "Kanazawa (photo taken in 2003).
Ancient streets, houses, bridges, and temples are the tangible cultural heritage of Kanazawa Ancient Town. Shangxiatang Street is the backbone of the tangible heritage of the ancient town, and the shops on both sides of the street are scattered, which together with the old street constitute the most significant public space in the historic district. The streets and alleys are full of antiquity, there are caves in the houses, the incense is surrounded by the ancient temple at the bridgehead, and the vitality is full of vitality in the greenery, which completely preserves the historical and cultural space of the ancient town and truly carries the living life of the water town of Kanazawa Ancient Town.
In 2014, Kanazawa was awarded the honorary title of the sixth batch of "Chinese Historical and Cultural Towns", and was recently approved as a "National 4A-level Tourist Attraction".
Kanazawa Town-Caihama Village.
Da. Tsing West Country Park.
Kanazawa is like a rich and colorful picture, presenting its own rich historical atmosphere, distinctive humanistic characteristics and beautiful living environment. In your spare time, you might as well take a walk through the beautiful scenery of the ancient town area, the blue bead chain, the Jinze Reservoir, the Qingxi Country Park, the Grand View Garden, the Yuandang Lake Ecological Belt, Lianhu Village, Caibang Village, Cembu Village and other beautiful scenery, and feel the profound historical and cultural heritage of Jinze and the beautiful and graceful style of the ancient water town.