Cloth West

Author: Jiang Jin (Compiler)
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Publish Date: 2003-12-01
Features: Jiangnan Reminiscence, Reminiscence is Xitang. The flowing water at the steps, the distant oar sounds, the moonlit streets and bridge shadows in dreams, the fisherman's songs in the morning market. Xitang, a name that seems distant and unfamiliar at first glance; Xitang, a name that feels deeply familiar and close upon closer inspection. Located in Jiaxing County, Zhejiang Province, not far from the southeastern part of Jiangsu Province, it is the same poetic realm of fisherman's songs and kitchen smoke as the neighboring water towns like Tongli, Zhouzhuang, Lusi, and Lili. Ancient Xitang, pure and splendid, is like a watercolor painting of Jiangnan left behind by an old rural painter who had weathered the vicissitudes of time, depicting the simple and tranquil scenes of the water town.