Ningbo Travel Notes | Cicheng to be developed

By the way, we finished preparing for the whole day at Xiangshan Film and Television City at 10:30, so on the way to Cicheng, we stopped by Ningbo City for a stroll and took in the highlights of Ningbo City before. It happened again after more than a week, and I even thought it was funny. When my roommate saw the green Marriott building by the river, he remembered the hard bed in Xiangshan the day before and asked why he didn't live there.

"How nice is the scenery in Ningbo?" I asked.

“It looks particularly beautiful against the silly scenery of the past few days,” he said.

Here it comes again, I continue to be patient.

It was already evening when we arrived in Cicheng, and the last B&B we stayed in—Cishe Aesthetics—was a very thoughtful place. The B&B was renovated from the former residence of Ren Shigang, a businessman from the Republic of China. It has 9 rooms in total, as well as a front desk and shop, an entertainment room and tea room and restaurant, a Japanese room where you can read scriptures, arrange flowers and do activities, and there is a very large lawn outside. There is also a trampoline on the lawn. How much do Ningbo children like jumping?

On the left is the first row of guest rooms. We stayed in the third one. On the right is the second row of guest rooms. If a group of friends can book the garden in the back row, the privacy will be better. The large room on the left is behind the floor-to-ceiling glass window. A large tatami tea room.

The B&B provided a breakfast and afternoon tea, and we enjoyed the afternoon tea in the evening - a pot of black tea, a plate of melon seeds, a plate of preserved peaches, and a plate of pastries.

On the table was a flower arrangement made by the girl from the B&B. One of their cats lay on the futon and licked it all over. The breakfast was "Japanese style".

At around nine o'clock in the evening, we wanted to take a walk around the ancient city. The housekeeper said,

"There is no one in Cicheng at night. There is no commercial development here like those ancient towns."

At this time, an uncle from the Northeast came and made a cup of latte, so the four of us chatted for a while. They said that although Cicheng had been rated as a national security for a long time and had many ancient buildings from the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the previous leader did not As a result, tens of billions were spent just to repair the surrounding roads. The newly appointed secretary of the Municipal Party Committee was "impatient" and only started development in August this year.

"Many shops haven't opened yet, and the old houses are all very good." The uncle said, drinking a cup of coffee in the middle of the night, how rich is the nightlife?

"Are there seventy-two tenants living in the old building?"

"No, the government has already taken back all the houses, but they just haven't figured out how to open them up."

"A while ago, an old construction expert came to Cicheng for inspection and thought that the repairs in Cicheng were not good. They were too new and not as old as before."

"When we were building this B&B, we tried to use whatever we had, even if it was just a piece of stone. If it was no longer usable, we would replace it with new ones, such as the tiles on the roof. Look at this window paper. We originally We bought antique paper, but when the kids came and poked it with their fingers, it broke. In the end, we had no choice but to replace it with paper that was harder and didn’t look as antique. "

The young man opened the Sanjian Hall next door and pointed out to us the old wood carvings on the beams. The most proud thing among them was a plaque with "Long Live Chairman Mao" in the middle. On the second day in Cicheng, we also saw many slogans.

On the bedside table, there is a guest book with many guest messages, which is much more interesting than Ctrip reviews. Some said that the room was too smelly, and some said that the room was too fragrant. One person wrote a paragraph: "Last time My best friend and I came to Cicheng, and that time we met to be alone together for the rest of our lives. Today I brought my husband to Cicheng, I love him so much blablabla..." Others commented below: "Have we broken up now? "

The second floor of the restaurant is an open-air terrace. Although it cannot overlook the entire old city, it is still very comfortable to sit there and bask in the sun. When we checked out, the boy also gave us a bag of Ningbo rice cakes, which was so cute.

I visited several tourist attractions where I bought tickets. The following is the Children’s Experimental Center, which was built in the Guangxu year. The wax figures inside are very lifelike. Look at the hair. The first half of the forehead is all short. I was surprised that such details were included. The place is loyal to its history. On TV, the men in braided costumes in Qing palace dramas have "bald heads" on the front half. In fact, according to natural principles, hair is constantly growing there. I saw some old photos from the late Qing Dynasty, and the men all had "bald heads" on the front. "Miscellaneous hair" is quite funny. He probably has to keep shaving. He is not as handsome as Hawick Lau at all.

I saw a very exquisite display of handicrafts in the Female Red Hall, from Chinese knots, to embroidery, to tie-dying, to various folk sewing crafts. The pomegranate on the left is made of beads + sewn cloth, and there are various hand-sewn ones. There are no stalls for fruits, otherwise I would really want to buy some.

What is the stick stuck in the window below? In fact, the windows are locked.

I personally feel that, firstly, Cicheng is not a water town. There are no criss-crossing waterways, and there are no ancient buildings built near the water. The old buildings that are undergoing investment promotion on both sides of the streets are too new and tend to have no characteristics; secondly, although the ancient buildings There are many, there are no gardens, the form is relatively monotonous, and non-professional tourists (such as me) cannot understand it; thirdly, the current few exhibitions do not reflect the thousand-year historical characteristics of Cicheng, whether it is the female imperial examination, there is something for everyone. There needs to be a general overview of the history of Cicheng. It is necessary to clearly explain what has happened in this place for a thousand years, and then dig into historical events and cultural celebrities, and tell some stories that only Cicheng people can tell.

But these sound pretty routine.

The boy at the B&B said that the descendants of the original owner of the old house, Ren Shigang, will come to live in a few days. Feng Jicai, whose ancestral home is here, has also been invited to come and make suggestions. The government is inviting the descendants of the old house to come back and have a look. At the end of 2020, Dongqian will Subway Line 4 from the Lake Tourist Resort to the entrance of Cicheng Ancient Town will be opened to traffic. This ancient town, which has not yet been fully commercialized, must not become the same. The uncle drinking coffee in the middle of the night is also worried.

This is the end of our trip to Ningbo. In memory of a friend, this series is not “finished”.