The bustling canal transportation center has transformed into a historical and cultural area

🚩Navigation: Guanding Zen Temple, No. 2336, Yushu Road, Songjiang District, Shanghai 🚘Parking: You can navigate to nearby parking lots, there are many parking lots nearby ⏰Recommended play time: 2-3 hours 🎟️Tickets: Free Cangcheng, once the canal transportation center of Songjiang Prefecture, 'the street in front of the door, and the sound of oars behind the house', is a true portrayal of its past prosperity. After hundreds of years of changes, the once bustling Cangcheng is no longer as prosperous as it used to be. After a series of renovations and reconstructions, it has become one of the historical and cultural areas of Shanghai: Cangcheng Historical and Cultural Area. 💯Highlights: 1️⃣📍Dacang Bridge, built during the Ming Tianqi period, is commonly known as Dacang Bridge because there is a canal grain warehouse in Songjiang Prefecture to the south of the bridge. Dacang Bridge is a five-hole stone arch bridge, about 50 meters long. 2️⃣📍Guanding Zen Temple, also known as 'Shuici Cang Guandi Temple', you can enter the temple for free to visit, the main hall is really very 'glittering'. 3️⃣📍Songjiang Cloth Exhibition Hall, formerly known as Kai's House and Kang's House, built in the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China period, the Kai's House, due to lack of protection in the early stage, has become no different from ordinary cement houses. After more than a year of renovation, the doors and windows of Kai's House were restored to their original wooden color in 2020. In order to rejuvenate the old house, the Songjiang Cloth Exhibition Hall was introduced into Kai's House and Kang's House. 4️⃣📍Du's Carved Flower Building, built during the Qing Dynasty Jiaqing period, was once the residence of the famous gentry Du Lingmei, covering an area of 611 square meters. This 'most beautiful carved flower building in Shanghai' has now become the Songjiang Intangible Cultural Heritage Training Base, integrating functions such as product display, production demonstration, skill training, etc., and systematically introduces Gu embroidery, Wugrass dragon, Sijing ten brocades fine gong drum three national intangible cultural heritages, etc. 5️⃣📍Graffiti, although the old houses are a bit dilapidated, the walls are full of graffiti, giving the old blocks a new vitality and breath.