Into the west gate by ferry. Ferries are specially for carrying passengers, on a regular basis by the fixed location to fixed location of water transportation. There are a lot of people are asking, now there is the human ferry boat? We now experience is the best answer.

　　Once the wuzhen, is common by ferry. At that time was out of water, to the town, the palace or farther afield, to cross the river several times, is a river, is a grand canal, again is a great river. The ancient jiangnan water is the main transport ships, to be out of town is a very not easy thing. But it was also because of the traffic inconvenience, to save, simple folkway and ancient buildings. Now, the bridge has already replaced the ferry boat, but it cannot replace the ferry leaves the sort of aftertaste... Today we are going to feel this human ferries in water flow to the river, quietly watching dancing ripples, accompanied by the boatman a company with a paddle, enjoy this one thousand years of cultural customs.

　　Friends, here is a large workshop manual environmental protection printing and dyeing drying, tall shelves to hang a lot of blue calico, especially spectacular, it is said that the size of the dyehouse, grade and popularity and are related to the dry reed, whose hanging rod, high drying rack and LiangTai, who is a large house, don't want to miss the pictures FEEL oh, no wonder people, beautiful scenery and historic sites can see less, but this printing dyeing blue cloth must touch more. Blue calico, this most common cloth, really throughout jiangnan girl's life, they are the most beautiful jiangnan girl life complex. Touch, your picture, let's do one wuzhen blue calico girl!!!!

　　Chinese people using pigment dyeing of blue grass, can be traced back to the spring and autumn period and the warring states period. Warring states later period the great thinkers of xunzi, see green "blue grass" the transformation process of pigment and dye by yellow green, the process of change from green to blue, change again green, issued a "green, apply to the blue, and green on blue" sigh, as described later than previous ages quotes "shine on you and is better than blue". By the indigo dye developed into the blue dye technique, the dye by big color such as green, azure is the main color of Chinese traditional clothes.

　　Blue calico development in tang and song dynasty, the Ming and qing dynasties was at its peak. When the Ming dynasty royal has taimei bureau, basically monopolized the taimei, until the qing dynasty, the folk dyeing house began to emerge. Legend has a surname mei guy accidentally fell and fell in the mud, clothes into the yellow color, how doesn't wash off, but when people saw loved, and then he told his story to a surname ge's good friend. Later they are specialized in the cloth dyed yellow, there is a very accidental opportunity, hanging on the branches to dry the cloth they accidentally blown to the ground, the ground is just a pile of indigo grass, namely radix isatidis grass, now it has an ingredient called indigo, can put the cloth dyed blue, when they found the cloth, yellow cloth has become a piece of cloth, "was black and blue all over, a piece of blue" they think this mystery sure on the grass, after that, two people again after a lot of research, finally the cloth dyed blue cloth, Mr MeiGe two also became the granddaddy of blue calico. Since the republic of China, in order to contend with "machine made piece goods", the local craftsmen after several studies and found that different vegetation in the pigment is not the same, just try to use other plants instead of blue grass, such as mulberry skin can dye shallow brown, chrysanthemum pollen () can be dyed yellow, black tea and green tea, respectively can be dyed red and light green, shallow tallow leaves can be dyed light - colored, then become colorful natural fabric.

　　The blue calico is, all manual cotton textile, all natural plant dyestuff (blue grass), rigid, GuaJiang printing and dyeing process, elaborate and become, have full-bodied local flavor. Not only blue and white is clear, and simple texture, character is decorous, dignified and beautiful.

　　It's a blue calico like wuzhen, plain and neat natural do not lose lasting appeal vicissitudes of life. Time-lapse, once selected in this scene, in a classic lines to say: we have drunk in the water, as time went by, a time-lapse.

　　Wu evaluated integratedly, lane, lane number and size of serious, commonly known as the four door eight fang dozens of lane. Wuzhen is the pattern of the typical jiangnan town, a water runs through the whole town, the former for street, after river, as the city, on both sides of the Taiwan ShuiGe make-up. Between the street and old street along the river, the river is also house, every so often, there is always a terminal connected channel. WuPengChuan e. i. commute from time to time, in the river shore, with these cries, batik cloth of blue white alternate with, with this kind of amorous feelings.

　　We walk in the street is also called step street, a main road is the west gate. Why call step street?

　　Because most of the width of the narrow street, generally between 2 m ￣ 4 m, and even more narrow, two sides for the two-story building, at the bottom of the shop opposite two stores only one step away, is not literally can open a holding a foot can cross to the opposite house, sometimes two stores do not go out can shake hands or transfer goods.

　　In west gate block, you can't see a cement road, all the streets are paved with stone, walking in those years wear bright qing shiban, you seemed to be in dialogue with a long history. On both sides of the street shops and houses is horsehead walls across the room, the door is mostly of wood, the imperfect of carve patterns or designs on woodwork and peeling paint to make people feel the endless charm of time. Occasionally see the arch door that transverse ride in the street; Two relatively, that is before the wall boundary marks of a large house.

　　The length of the old street almost all have thousands of meters, walking slowly, slowly, also can take half day time. If folding into a lane of the street, explore the deep residential courtyard, that is the along while also didn't come. Much more long west gate street, alley, seven, eight turn, if a maze of judah. XiDaJie middle is the place where an alley more concentrated, with soy sauce, Chiang's figure and get tang, HongChang lane, etc, into the alley, mountain towering, on both sides at the top of the head cover only a narrow line, the sky from time to time and extremely skill tree or home rose out of the wall, and deep, more add a few lasting appeal. Go tired, sitting in the tea house in the street, the taste is more meaning.

　　Brought to the academy, since the academy, it is brought to, it will be related to master reading experience? Let us go in and have a look. Brought to the academy gets its name from the built in wuzhen library to read a book in the Liang Zhaoming prince xiao tong. Xiao tong compiled the selection of literary works is the first book of poetry, prose anthology. For a long time, the selection of literary works, and later the ancient prose GuanZhi "eight people Wen Chao in tang and song" and so on is an ancient literary text reader necessary paperwork, far-reaching influence.