Prose? This is Lily.

When Zhouzhuang in Tongli, Wudi, Xitang and Wuzhen in Yuedi have long been famous at home and abroad, she is still simple, retaining the original features of the ancient water town, and maintaining a rare elegance in the cross-flow of material desires with her unique silence.

Lili Ancient Town, a small water town outside Suzhou, is located at the roof of Yue Wei. Although it has a history of 2500 years, it has a beautiful daughter in the water, just like being covered with pear flowers and green leaves, lying on the edge of the Grand Canal, hiding simply and quietly.

Before the Tang Dynasty, because the small village was surrounded by pear flowers, it was named Pear Flower Lane. Later, because the official surnamed Li renovated the river to benefit the people, everyone in Shuizhen appreciated its virtue, and the village was named Lili. "Wujiang River is three miles away, and the place is Lihua Village. Like a fisherman, I have come to ask Taohuajin ... "Hundreds of years ago, Yuan Mei's singing cast a mysterious color on Lili Town.

Walking into Lili, a clear river more than three miles long divides the street into north and south banks. The river flows quietly and gradually unfolds along the veranda by the river. From west to east, more than a dozen bridges of different shapes closely connect the north and south banks, drawing a beautiful picture of "small bridges flowing with water".

The river that passes through the town in Lili is called Shihe River, and its official name is Lichuan. In the early years, our ancestors lived by water and cared for it, and later they became cities because of their residence. The city is a trading market, and Lili was an important town in the south of the Yangtze River as early as the Southern Song Dynasty. In the early Ming Dynasty, Lili became a grain town, but there was also the marketing of silk and cotton, and Lili participated in the three major products in Jiangnan. At this moment, the commercial street came into being, wealth accumulated rapidly, and Li Feishui became the leader of grain merchants. As bosses, wealth is rolling, and squires invest in building or repairing bridges. At most, there are more than 30 stone bridges with various appearances.

The color of water is green, thick green and quiet, only occasionally, in a burst of autumn wind, there are faint ripples, unlike a girl's shallow smile, like a quiet scholar moaning softly. In the water, there are one or two boats, wooden boats, all tied to the water bank without saying a word.

Adjacent to the river corridor, boats in the water, pedestrians under the corridor, and rivers and ports are washed away. Under the sun, diligent women wash clothes and quilts, household items and vegetables. Old people drinking tea sat around talking about the land, shaking cattail leaf fans and whispering to each other.

Walking across the bank from the porch, the buildings scattered at different heights are reflected in the mirror water, clusters of erected horse-headed walls are swaying with the waves, clusters of green leaves are in full bloom with watercolors, red lanterns are painted with the black and white rouge color of the old house, and the first-order Mashi River port and the water are connected into a geometric triangle.

People in Lili are very particular about revetment. They put rows of piles under the water, with stones on them. The cost and labor intensity of this kind of revetment are many times higher, and it is also much more durable. Rivers and ports are dense, with a distance of ten or twenty steps and various patterns.

Merchants can't live without the river wharf, and the goods and goods are all borne by the river wharf. People can't live without Jiangdun, and they have to operate on Jiangdun to buy and burn at home. Only people who live in water towns all the year round will have such understanding and feelings about Jiang Wharf.

The spring river is rich and the autumn is thin, and the docks in the river know that the cable boats and stones in the distance are also intimate. If the veranda in Lili is the most abundant and complete place in the water town, then the cable boat stone in Lili is the most beautiful and lonely one in the water town.

Because of this river, the bridge came into being. As an ancient building, this bridge bears countless footprints of people coming and going in Lili in past dynasties. The bridge in Lili spans the banks of Lichuan River and the vicissitudes of history. Today, there are twelve ancient bridges of different shapes, most of which remain the same. Lunan Bridge, the beauty of the ancient town, she and the verandahs on the left and right sides have become the essence of the essence.

Most towns in the south of the Yangtze River are suitable for sightseeing by boat. The boat shuttled through the vertical and horizontal rivers, crossed the exquisitely carved stone bridge and admired the houses on both sides. You seem to see a colorful picture of Jiangnan.

I think Lili is suitable for walking. Those dozens of alleys, wide or narrow, long or short, are really suitable for walking slowly. Walking on the bluestone road in alleys of different sizes, you will feel that you are integrated into the picture scroll in the south of the Yangtze River, as if you have crossed time and space and returned to the era of slow traffic.

I slowed down, and I relaxed. Between the two rows of promenades, the river flows slowly, and duckweed is planted, which also carries time. Walking in the ancient town, the daily work, life and traffic are noisy, and it will be purified immediately. You can hear the hollow sound of your shoes stepping on the blue street stones, the sound of birds singing under the eaves and the creaking sound of wooden doors opening in narrow alleys.

Most of the tourists I met were alone, walking slowly, lightly and casually, as if they were not playing, but walking at home, informal and in no hurry. I met a young girl who enjoyed loneliness and happiness like me. I know her world and she can read my mind. They are all fellow travelers and have the same breath. Just look, think, listen and walk.

Lili, which has become a giant town, has become a river of cities and markets because of the deep influence of the market. With the reproduction of children and grandchildren, houses extend into the alley, and more houses are built, and the alley is getting deeper and deeper.

This poem, "Beside a small bridge and flowing water, a secluded place in a deep lane", is Li Li's. The names of alleys in Lili are very colorful, which are divided into bright and dark. The bright alleys are the dividing line between different families. Undercover, also called escort, is usually used by one household. Hidden lanes are the most distinctive, including double lanes, double lanes connected by two hidden lanes, and double lanes with light and dark side by side. Interestingly, the narrowest Hengfeng Tainong and Jia Fan Lane are less than one meter, and people in the old society were very thin?

I saw an old man walking slowly alone in an old corridor. He hunched his back, bent over and leaned on crutches. In the morning light, his shadow is long. He crossed a corridor and turned into an alley. I went in from a narrow alley, where there were many residents, and I still maintained the architectural characteristics of a hundred years ago, such as the door of the title page and the doors and windows of the wooden board. Walking in the alley away from Li, its terrain is always "step by step". The first entry is the lowest, the second entry is slightly higher, and then the second entry is higher. This is a practical need, but also a kind of oral color.

The names of the alley are Zhou Jia Lane and Chen Jia Lane among the eight surnames; Some are named after shops, floats are popular, and dyeing houses are popular. Slates were laid in the alley. Under the slate, there is a sewer with smooth drainage. The misty rain in the south of the Yangtze River makes the alley deep, and moss grows on the wall, which makes the gloomy old alley have an active flavor.

There is the former residence of Liu Yazi, a state-level cultural relic protection unit, whose real name is Fu Tang, a famous minister of Qing Dynasty, Zhou Yuanli. This house faces south and lives near the river. The hall is magnificent, the courtyard is regular, and the long windows and beams carved with dragons and phoenixes stand out among rows of ordinary houses.

The ancient town is just the home where the people in the ancient town live. There are no hawkers and endless tourists, and there are no billboards to attract tourists. There are only quiet corridors, quaint arch bridges and deep alleys. The beautiful scenery of the waterside teahouse depends on it. You can read books, see the scenery and stay for a while. The water delivery man is timid and afraid of disturbing the passengers.

Knowing a place is similar to knowing a person to some extent. Some people will be deeply attracted when they meet for the first time, and some people may have no impression when they meet for the first time. Slowly, there will naturally be a charm that you can't stop ... and so will some places, such as the ancient town of Lili, which may be the second case.