Shitang - China's "Notre Dame de Paris"
We all know that France's "Notre Dame de Paris" is the world's art, paint spots, China also has a "Notre Dame de Paris", throughout the year, attracting a large number of artists across the country, photography enthusiasts and art faculty and students come here to paint, painting paintings, this place is a stone Town, Wenling City, Zhejiang Province.
In fact, Stone Town is just a fishing village, located in the southeast coastal city of Wenling Office, formerly known as tong mountains. According to "Taiwan state capital Chi" reads: "pond mud build more and less stone persons, provided that such pond stone puzzle alone, so that the islands that collectively."
However, this fishing village does have paintings of the scenery, highlighted in the sea cliff, sea cliff holding another ring, surrounded by a stone mountain, stone houses, stone roads, roof tiles are stone on the pressure, irregular scattered, twists and turns, while not tell you things, while finally hold out some hope, although as the maze, but it is good to see scenery.
Because this is called "painting the town" in Tong, living works of art, so it is natural beauty, architecture and the humanities are melting into one.
Layer upon layer upon layer of stone house built in the seaside cliff, the quaint modesty again, if you climb the sea, hill side of the see is a sea breeze rolled up whitecaps, surging beat the black cliff face, one side to see is a net-covered fishing town.
The town is a narrow valley, and from it on either side of the valley to the ridge-like radiation of the stone are filled with dense, curved Spin the streets, carrying net fishermen, lug Tam vendors, with bare feet of the children, pricing bargaining women, bustling, lively exception.
However, to smell the sea smell Shitang was doing a good job of preparation, because the one to shitang, you will see a lot of time in the street a lot of dried fish, shrimp, etc. This is the fishing village, who told it?
Shitang seafood is extremely rich in a wide variety of raw materials used to do fried seafood snack system, most of 6 yuan a catty, but where every household has a Yuyuan, shrimp, clams and other homemade food, especially Yu Yuan, is beating with wooden wooden club into fish cakes, cold outside air-dried and then made, non-and a bit of powder, is absolutely authentic.
People say that reflects environment Everyday, relying on water, drinking water, Tong, neither land nor the kiln, and some hillsides yellow soil stone, Tong, will chisel the stones a block down, brick structure housing, this is something that can save the cost of building materials , but also afflicted by terrible like a castle, even if in mid-summer typhoon to patronize that's sit back and relax, but also truly beautiful houses, a block of stone at the tile on the dotted like an oil painting abstract pieces.
The houses here are built to the mountain, along the road have changed the potential shape. Independent, there are contiguous, there are castle, and Guo Jielou type, gate type, as well as courtyard style, I actually saw a house has seven sides, both sides of the wall angle of less than 40 degrees really strange.
The house is generally within the wood structure, the floor more or less, building high and low, almost no flowers Shitang residential raise grass courtyard, the general parlor, playing, cooking, eating are the ground floor, second floor above is dormitory, which is the owner a place to sleep, the staircase is made of wood, very steep, but also off up shoes, so outsiders will not easily go.
In Shitang, you might have heard something about the story of Mazu Goddess of the Sea, plaintive, touching. According to legend, in ancient times there is a beautiful fisherman girl - Matsu, one of her father and brother to sea fishing at night she is turned into a bird, the population fell into the water mouth, fathers, brothers, clutching claws, just to save the shore, when they , burst of thunder awakened from a dream, her, father and brother will fall into the water, and they will really never came back. Since then, the beautiful and kind-hearted girl only grief and remorse Huaizhe sea fishermen for each prayer.
Author: ggrose
