Experience the charm of Nanxiang, a thousand-year-old ancient town in Jiading for a day trip

✨ Want to experience a journey through time? 🚀 Nanxiang Town in Jiading District, Shanghai, this ancient town of a millennium, is waiting for you to explore! 🏮 🌿 Guyi Garden: Stepping into this lush garden 🌳, it feels like returning to the Ming Jiajing period. The name is derived from the 'lush bamboo' imagery in the 'Book of Songs'. As one of the top five classical gardens in Shanghai 🏞️, its charm is beyond words. Wander through the four scenic areas of Guyi Garden, Flower Fragrance Fairyland, Qu Creek Crane Shadow, and Secluded Reed Smoke Moon 🚶‍♀️, and enjoy the five characteristics of lush bamboo 🎍, Ming and Qing architecture 🏛️, quiet meandering streams 🏞️, floral stone paths 🌸, and couplets of poetry 📜. Don't forget to check in at the Yuanyang Lake, surrounded by red maples 🍁 and azaleas 🌺 at the Missing Corner Pavilion! 🍲 As for lunch, the xiaolongbao (steamed buns) 🥢 at the Guyi Garden restaurant are a must-try for both domestic and foreign tourists. Although my xiaolongbao had a slight disappointment (maybe I was unlucky to taste a bit of sourness 😅), overall, the food here is still worth a try! 👌 🏯 Yunxiang Temple: Not far from Guyi Garden, you can reach the incense-filled Yunxiang Temple 🙏. This temple, with a history of over 1800 years, lets one feel the weight of time and the power of faith. 🕊️ 🌆 Nanxiang Old Street: Strolling on the stone-paved roads of the old street 🚶‍♂️, with shops lined up on both sides 🏚️, white walls and black tiles, small bridges over flowing water 🌉, and houses standing in rows, it's like traveling back to the ancient water towns of the Jiangnan region. Here, you can taste Nanxiang's specialty foods 🍽️, such as Nanxiang xiaolongbao 🥢, Dingsheng cake 🍰, lard rice candy 🍬, sweet fermented rice 🍶, and more, letting your taste buds also take a journey through time! 🍡 🏯 Nanxiang Twin Towers: The Twin Towers built during the Liang Dynasty 🏯, have withstood a thousand years of wind and rain, and still stand tall. Standing under the towers, one feels the historical significance and the accumulation of time. 🏞️ 🏞️ Tan Garden: This was the private garden of Li Liufang, a Ming Dynasty literary scholar and artist 🎨. Although not large, 'a small space with mountainous and varied scenery' makes it unforgettable. One can imagine the scene of literati and scholars gathering to recite poetry and drink merrily, as if it were right before your eyes. 📜 🚇 Transportation: Take exit 2 of Nanxiang Station on Metro Line 11 and walk 1.2KM to reach Guyi Garden 🚶‍♀️. Or choose the high-speed train to Nanxiang North Station 🚆, just over ten minutes. From Guyi Garden, it's a 680-meter walk to Nanxiang Old Street. 🚶‍♂️ This weekend, why not come to Nanxiang in Jiading and feel the charm of this thousand-year-old ancient town! 🌸🍃