Chen Xing walked around Zhouzhuang for another two hours before the sun was too bright for taking pictures. In fact, this place is pretty good. If Chen Xing were to choose, he would really prefer Zhouzhuang to Wuzhen, but the system's reaction was just as Chen Xing expected, without saying a word from the beginning to the end.
Sure enough, this long-term mission is not looking at the one hundred best ancient towns in reality, but the one hundred ancient towns that Chen Xing likes from the bottom of his heart.
After visiting the same style of scenic spots one after another in a short period of time, even those who like Jiangnan will be tired of aesthetics. Therefore, Zhouzhuang is just a good scenic spot for Chen Xing. It is not as shocking as when he saw Xitang and Chenjiacun before.
In this case, it is really a long-term task and cannot be completed in a short time. After leaving Zhouzhuang, the vehicle took the Changjia Expressway along the road in Zhouzhuang Town.
Chen Xing was no longer afraid after getting on the highway. Anyway, he would definitely be able to get to Suzhou before getting carsick. From time to time you can see lakes outside the window.
Lakes of various styles and sizes are how many northerners imagine the South. It is true that if you take a car from south to north, there will be fewer and fewer beautiful lakes, and instead you will see surging rivers.
Different geographical environments and cultural environments will bring different personalities to local people. Many modern people sneer at this and feel that it is too outrageous to divide people's personalities based on geography. Shouldn't this be related to family education and school education?
really. But how can we imagine speaking Wu Nong’s soft language and singing Pingtan in the Northeast? Even in martial arts, scenes like Bei Qiao Feng and Nan Murong appear in a formulaic way.
Heroes are easy to come out in the north, and men of letters are easy to come out in the south. There is no superiority or inferiority. It is purely due to the environment.
On the road, you can also see an entrance to the expressway with the words Tongli written on it. Chen Xing remembered that Tongli was also an ancient town named after water, and it looked a bit like Venice?
Having just left Zhouzhuang, Chen Xing didn't want to go to Tongli again. But if you go to Venice in the future, you must come back to Suzhou to see the difference between Tongli, the little Venice in the East, and the real Venice.
At that time, I should have forgotten many details of Jiangnan Ancient Town, and then I can get a wave of rewards from Jiangnan Ancient Town.
The bus stopped at the bus station in the North Square of Suzhou Railway Station. There are many modern buildings in the square outside the station that imitate the ancient town buildings. It sounds a bit awkward, but you just need to think of it as a creative building with black tiles, white walls, and black-rimmed round windows.
These buildings are quite beautiful when photographed in parts. Chen Xing often tells fans that if he wants to improve his skills, he should sweep the streets more and take more photos of beautiful women, but sweeping the streets in China is sometimes not easy.
Generally speaking, in the domestic environment, everyone is sensitive to their privacy and image, and do not like to be photographed or made public by strangers.
Even many people who don’t know much about street sweeping still have doubts about the quality and ethics of photographers, and feel that they will use photos to do something detrimental to themselves.
In fact, most of them have been deleted. Because Chen Xing is pretty good-looking and has always been photographed by young girls, they are relatively tolerant towards Chen Xing. At most, they will walk away with a side face and will not come up to argue with Chen Xing.
But if you shoot too much, you will always encounter some unreasonable people. When encountering such a situation, taking more photos of buildings can also improve your skills.
From shooting the whole building to gradually discovering some small architectural details, from big to small, from the whole to the parts, this is also a way to improve your photography skills.
He looked at it for a while and then looked for a bus to Pingjiang Historic District on the navigation system. This is an old street in the city center with a large population flow.
When Chen Xing got off the car and saw the scene outside, he felt that this old street was a bit like the Kuanzhai Alley in Chengdu, but it was not well built. It was better to say that it was an old street, but to say worse, it actually looked a bit different in many invisible places. It is chaotic and there are not as many tourists as Kuanzhai Alley.
However, compared to orthodox ancient towns such as Wuzhen and Zhouzhuang, the fireworks here surpass them. The fusion of modern and ancient times can often be seen here, which gives Chen Xing a lot of fun to shoot.
For example, under the carved ebony window, there is an air conditioner outdoor unit protected by wooden boards, with red flowers growing on the wooden boards.
Or the fences by the river, which are also used by local people, with many flower pots placed on them.
It is difficult for cars to drive in, but there is a battery car at the door of every house. Chen Xing found this contrast very interesting.
When he was passing by a store, he saw a new mailbox outside. It had just been painted. Chen Xing could still smell a little bit of paint.
In what age are you still using mailboxes? Chen Xing rarely saw mailboxes in China. He only saw report boxes and suggestion boxes that were hung up outside some office buildings but were probably useless.
Chen Xing has only seen pure mailboxes in Paris, but they are not used there either. It just hasn't been demolished.
Chen Xing looked up at the store. This is a bamboo weaving shop, and the name on the plaque is glowing, called Bamboo Art Platform.
The store is divided into two facades with wooden boards. One is the door, where a young man wearing glasses is playing with his mobile phone. The other side is the window. From the glass, you can see that it is filled with various bamboo artworks. .
There are small bridges and large and small bamboo boats that can be seen everywhere in Jiangsu. The boats are very beautifully made. The small ones have awnings, which can be seen in the ancient town or on the river outside Pingjiang River. The big one is 60 centimeters long. It is a large ancient boat. Maybe this is the painted boat in Jiangnan?
Chen Xing didn't know the boat either, so he didn't know what it was called. But absolutely exquisite. There is also a small light placed inside the hull, which makes the ship glow with warm colors and perfect details. It even makes Chen Xing feel like the ship can move when it is put into the water.
I'm so excited, this figure is so beautiful. Chen Xing is not a two-dimensional person and does not have figurines of anime characters at home, but he has little resistance to scaled-down models of such large objects. He even brought back a model of the Eiffel Tower made of iron from Paris.
I want this ship! But transportation is a problem. If it is put on a plane and transported by air, it won't break, right?
He has a grudge against airline shipping, whether domestic or foreign. So every time he takes his camera and lenses on the plane, he only leaves a few less important things in his suitcase.
Entering the store, the young man playing with his mobile phone looked up.
"Hello, do you want to buy something?"
"just looking around."
"Oh..." He was a little disappointed. Generally, people who say this don't seem to know how to buy things. Especially Chen Xing, who was holding a camera, maybe he just came in to take pictures.
There are many photographers entering his shop. If you don’t count them by year, he has seen no less than ten this month.
But this is also a compliment to their family craftsmanship, and to be honest, I feel a little proud. He put down his mobile phone and walked out to look at Chen Xing, and suddenly said: "Your camera is very nice, Hasselblad?" Hasselblad's appearance is not difficult to recognize, and his style is obvious.
But this was the first time Chen Xing heard this from someone other than a photographer, and he subconsciously took his hand back, but soon thought that the ban was about to be lifted?
Then he nodded indifferently and said, "Yes."
"It's really beautiful. When I was in college, I wanted to take out a loan to buy a Hasselblad or Laika. Fortunately, I didn't buy one. I later bought a d610."
"Are you still using it?" Chen Xing asked curiously.
"Yeah, luckily I was wiser at the time and didn't buy a Hasselblad or a credit card. Otherwise, I would have stopped doing anything for a few years in college and just work every day to pay off my debts." Chen Xing said with a smile, "Haha, that's not the case. "This guy is quite easy to chat with.
Chen Xing pointed to the mailbox outside and said, "That thing is a mailbox."
"Yes." He nodded.
"Quite good looking."
"My grandpa installed it. He also makes most of the things in this store. I come here every day to help him look after the store. After all, the elderly are getting older and sitting in the store every day can easily hurt their bodies." Chen Xing He nodded and asked about the price of the boat.
The price of "860" is acceptable to Chen Xing, but he is still worried about whether it is strong enough. Don't let it break before you take it back to Chengdu.
Money was the little things and he really loved the boat. Seeing that Chen Xing really wanted to buy it, the young man quickly recommended: "Don't think that our bamboo weaving is very fragile. Bamboo is tough, you know, right? Not to mention it is well packaged and shipped, even if you press it with your hands, there will be no problem." He asked Chen Xing to try it out.
Chen Xing pressed it carefully with two fingers and found that the deck sank slightly, but there was also a force of rebound.
Resilience indeed.
"The lights in the cabin are rechargeable. There is a small opening here. Just plug in the type-c charging cable. The quality is very good. The lights will not break down for at least one or two years."
"Is it broken?" the young man said with a smile: "It's just an ordinary bamboo weaving. Ordinary bamboo weaving doesn't have this kind of light. I added it to make it look better." At this time, an old man came in at the door. He snorted and said, "It's pretty but useless."
"Grandpa." The young man shouted politely.
"Hello, old gentleman." Chen Xing shouted. The old gentleman's surname is Wang. He looks like a Taoist priest under an overpass. He has a thin appearance with a white beard, but his eyes are bright and his waist is straight.
It is definitely considered healthy among the elderly. He felt that adding things to the bamboo leaves destroyed the lightness of the bamboo leaves.
And it’s just bamboo, so it won’t change much in two or three years, but if you put something inside, you don’t know how long it will last.
"Little brother, if you want to buy it, just take it away for 680 yuan." Boss Xiao Wang pursed his lips. Chen Xing looks like a rich man at first glance, but he still cares about these hundreds of dollars?
He also fixed a 40-yuan LED light inside. If he sells it like this, it will erase all its effects.
But after meeting the owner of the mailbox, Chen Xing became more interested in the mailbox. The development of China's Internet is very fast compared to the whole world. How can anyone still use letters to communicate?
