Dragon Boat Festival without crowds: One-day tour guide to Qingguo Lane, Changzhou

Day 1⃣️ 🍜 One soup, one noodle 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 ✅ One of Changzhou's top ten noodle dishes ✅ Liu Yijun's checked-in noodle shop ✅ Delicious, every strand of noodle is coated with sauce, rich pepper flavor topping, and thick fish soup ⬇️ 🏨 Hotel: Changzhou Wenpu Hotel 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 Room type: Wenyue Elegant Suite ⬇️ 📍 Panyue Mountain Changzhou Baolin Temple 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 ✅ 9:00-16:00 ✅ Free admission 🎫🆓 Built by Emperor Xiao Heng of the Southern Liang dynasty ✅ The name "Baolin" means "Pure Land forest, seven treasures in a row" ✅ Guanyin Pavilion is 91.9 meters tall, resembling a blooming lotus flower ⚠️ Must arrive before 15:30 ⚠️ No photography of statues 📷 ✅ Ancient architecture corridor, leisurely and serene ✅ Café: Wuyuan Coffee ☕️🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 Next to Emperor Liang Wu and the lotus pond (flowering season usually June-September) 🍑 Ordered a coffee and a drink, great for photos 📷. Because I was in a hurry to see the Guanyin Pavilion, the drink melted a bit on the way back. The barista kindly remade it and also gave me a new drink and a handwritten bookmark 🔖 ⬇️ 📍 Qingguo Lane 🌟 ✅ Free admission 🆓 Formerly known as "Qian Guo Lane," one of Changzhou's old streets, leading directly to the South Street commercial center ✅ Along the canal, now a local trendy street area featuring ancient buildings, various specialty snacks, bookstores, coffee shops, handicrafts, and some art markets ⚠️ The market is in the evening; few stalls were open when I visited ✅ The street has several celebrity former residences, known as "the first lane of Jiangnan literati" ⚠️ No entry allowed, only signs at the doors indicating whose home it was ✅ Must check in at the white wall at the entrance (West Gate) ⚠️ The square in front of the white wall has no water surface, so no reflection photos of the white wall atmosphere ✅ Boat tour reference: Time: 10:00-22:00 Price: 48 RMB/person (about 30 minutes, located at West Gate) ⚠️ Lots of mosquitoes ⬇️ 🍣 Zhushang Japanese Cuisine 🌟🌟🌟🌟 💰 288 RMB/person buffet ✅ Unlimited lobster, salmon, Arctic surf clam, sweet shrimp, foie gras, etc. ✅ Great value for money 👍 ⚠️ If you have a small stomach, don’t do the buffet. The two of us ordered two sashimi platters and were full ⬇️ Day 2⃣️ 📍 Tianning Zen Temple (next to Hongmei Park) 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 ✅ Admission: 50 RMB/person (includes tower access) ✅ Founded in the Tang dynasty, over 1300 years old, offers a panoramic view of Changzhou ✅ Opening hours: Tianning Zen Temple 6:30-17:30 (last entry 16:30) Tianning Pagoda 8:00-17:00 (last entry 16:00) ✅ Elevator inside the pagoda goes directly to the 12th floor, 13th floor has the Shifang Yuanrong Glazed Hall and 5th floor has the Dharma Source Hall (Agarwood Art Museum) 👍👍👍 ⚠️ No photography of statues 📷 ⬇️ 🥠 Changzhou Pastry Shop 🌟 ✅ Local breakfast snack shop ✅ Sticky and chewy, can be eaten quickly ✅ Chose three sticky varieties, not sweet, mild rice fragrance but not tasty ⬇️ 🥟 Huihui Potstickers 🌟 ✅ Recommended by a big sister ✅ Halal restaurant ✅ Close to Changzhou Pastry Shop, walkable ❌ Beef vermicelli and regular potstickers are ordinary, the bottom of the potstickers is not crispy at all