Day 1 Nanjing → Tongcheng → Nanjing
07:15
07:15-07:30 We gather at Exit 1 of Andemen Subway Station and see the yellow flag of China-TravelNote.
07:30
Depart on time, introduce activities along the way and familiarize yourself with the destination.
10:30
Arriving in Tongcheng, we begin our journey through this treasured town.
Tongcheng City Walk Recommended Route: Confucian Temple/Tongcheng Cultural Museum - South Street - Six-Foot Alley - North Street.
Confucian Temple: The Tongcheng Confucian Temple is a complex of ritual buildings dedicated to Confucius during the Yuan, Ming, and Qing dynasties. It also served as a learning palace, housing the Tongcheng County School and Confucianism instructors. It is a cultural and educational venue that combines temple and school.
Tongcheng Cultural Museum: The Anhui Tongcheng Cultural Museum boasts over 11,000 artifacts, including seven first-class national cultural relics and 41 second-class cultural relics. The Spring and Autumn Bronze Zun with Animal Ears is the museum's crowning treasure, showcasing the city's rich historical heritage and recreating the ritual and musical civilization of the Jianghuai region during the Bronze Age.
South Street: Once a bustling commercial street in old Tongcheng, its original identity is now revealed only by the houseplates on its old residences.
Six-Foot Lane: "A piece of paper comes only for the wall, so what if I give him three feet?" Although the lane is narrow, the concept of "putting courtesy first, yielding as virtue, and harmony as the most valuable" contained in it has deeply influenced the world for hundreds of years.
As the capital of literature, Tongcheng's simplicity is not displayed in front of everyone, but hidden in the bustling alleys. If you want to experience the life of old Tongcheng, you must start from this history, which is step-by-step and shallow-step, and explore on foot.
12:00
Free lunch
2:30 PM
Gather again and head to the next stop with your respective gains
3:10 PM
Arriving at Kongcheng Old Street
Kongcheng Old Street is the best-preserved old street in Jiangbei area. Its scale is also second to none. It is 2.2 kilometers long and S-shaped, with one main street, two cross alleys, and seven alleys and thirteen lanes. There are not many tourists in the old street nowadays, so we can check in freely.
4:00 PM
End of the tour and return to Nanjing
7:00 PM
Return to Exit 1 of Andemen and happily end today's trip.
