Qiandeng Ancient Town 千灯古镇Qiāndēng Gǔzhèn

About Qiandeng Ancient Town

An old canal town south of Kunshan, threaded by a stone-slab street. Its landmark is the Qinfeng Pagoda, a slender seven-storey brick-and-timber pagoda whose founding is traditionally dated to 503, restored to its Song appearance in 1994 and closed to climbers since 2007. The town was the birthplace of the Ming–Qing scholar Gu Yanwu, whose five-courtyard family house, shrine and tomb form one site, and the home of Gu Jian, credited with founding Kunqu opera, who has a memorial hall here.

How to get to Qiandeng Ancient Town

About 15 km south of central Kunshan and 40 km east of Suzhou, by road.

Nearby

• Zhouzhuang 周庄古镇 20 km
  Jiangnan's most famous water town, famed for its Twin Bridges and merchant halls
• Classical Gardens of Suzhou 苏州园林 40 km
  Whole landscapes of rock, water and pavilion folded into a city block
• Former French Concession 原法租界 40 km
  Plane-tree streets, garden villas and shikumen lanes for Shanghai's best city walk
• Shanghai Museum 上海博物馆 50 km
  Ancient Chinese bronzes, ceramics, painting and jade, now shown at Shanghai Museum East
• Yu Garden & City God Temple 豫园与城隍庙 50 km
  A Ming-dynasty garden of rockeries and dragon walls beside a Taoist city temple

Also within 20 km: Luzhi Ancient Town & Baosheng Temple 甪直古镇 (10 km), Jinxi Ancient Town 锦溪古镇 (10 km), Tinglin Park, Kunshan 亭林园 (10 km), Shanghai Auto Expo Park and Auto Museum 上海汽车博览公园 (20 km), Qinglong Town Site and Qinglong Pagoda 青龙镇遗址 (20 km), Zhujiajiao Ancient Town 朱家角古镇 (20 km).

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