There is a county-level highway Yaozhen line running through the town, which can be connected with provincial salt lake highway, 320 national highway, 3 18 highway, Shanghai-Hangzhou Expressway, Shenjiahu Expressway and Zhajiasu Expressway. Wuzhen is 0/3km away from Tongxiang, 27km away from Jiaxing, 45km away from Huzhou and 60km away from Wujiang. The town area is 7 1. 19 square kilometers, and the urban area is 2.5 square kilometers.
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social customs and habits
1, Happy New Year, the first day of the first lunar month is the Spring Festival, formerly known as "Chinese New Year", which is the most solemn traditional festival. The day before was called New Year's Eve, commonly known as "New Year's Eve", and the whole family got together to eat "New Year's Eve". The bride presented shoes to her well-dressed elders and named them "Ci". The elders gave the bride and children lucky money and named it "Lucky Money". That night, there were activities, such as Bailly and meeting with Kitchen God.
From the morning of the first day of the Lunar New Year, people open doors to set off firecrackers and burn incense to worship the gods, which is called "receiving heaven". Then they worship their ancestors, the Hall of Advanced Learning, relatives and friends, and celebrate the New Year, which is collectively called "New Year". Modern times have been gradually simplified, and they no longer bow down. On the first day, I didn't have any guests, so I went out to "be happy with God". The next day, relatives and friends exchanged visits until the Lantern Festival.
2. Take the bridge during the Lantern Festival. The fifteenth day of the first lunar month is the Lantern Festival, commonly known as "the fifth day of the first month". Wuzhen people have the custom of walking bridges, and they have to walk ten bridges on the road at night. The route cannot be repeated. This custom originated from a popular activity in the old society called "Walking Ten Bridges" or "Eliminating All Diseases".
At that time, after the women were dressed neatly, they each walked in teams with a crock that usually decocted medicine. When crossing the bridge, they threw the crock into the river, thinking that this would ensure that there would be no diseases and disasters in the new year.
Qingming is one of the 24 solar terms. After the Tang Dynasty, it merged with the Cold Food Festival. Sacrificing ancestors to sweep graves, washing hair and arranging flowers, and enjoying flowers in spring are everywhere. In Wuzhen, there are many customs related to sericulture. The night before, on Qingming night, we made green balls, wrapped zongzi and offered sacrifices to the "White Tiger". We draw bows and arrows with lime in front of the door, pray for silkworms, cook snails and pick snails with needles, which is called "picking green". During the Qingming Festival, sericulture farmers from four towns went to Putin Temple to burn incense and pray, and named it "Shi Xiang".
Eating zongzi on the Dragon Boat Festival on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month is also called the Mid-Autumn Festival. Every family makes zongzi, and friends and relatives give gifts to each other. According to legend, this custom originated in memory of Qu Yuan. The ancients regarded "heavy five" as "evil day" and there were "poisonous ghosts".
So, hung a picture of Zhong Kui, pasted the symbol of Shi Tian, hung mugwort leaves, calamus, peach branches and garlic in front of the door to ward off evil spirits, ate yellow croaker and drank realgar wine, and even snakes and insects fought poison with poison. Children wear tiger-shaped clothes, and women cut chestnuts to store realgar to show their strength. At noon, Atractylodes lancea, Angelica dahurica, Carapax Trionycis and Rutin are used to "smoke mosquitoes", realgar wine is sprayed in the corner, and quicklime water is sprayed to repel insects, all of which have the nature of weeding.
5. Divide dragons into colorful rain. The 25th day of the fifth lunar month is "Dragon Divide Day", also known as "Dragon Divide Day". Legend has it that the dragon kings in Sri Lanka will go to their respective jurisdictions to pray for rain on this day, so it is also called the dragon parting. As usual, the Fire Dragon Society, a public welfare fire organization in Japan, held a fire drill. At that time, the hoses in each square will gather in a team, bring all the fire-fighting equipment and gather by the open river in the town.
6. Scorpius basks in insects, the sixth day of the sixth lunar month, which is in the hot summer. Wuzhen has the saying that "on June 6th, the duck eggs are ripe". This is a good opportunity to get in touch with insects and molds, because the dream talk carefully produced by Emperor Zhao Huan of Zhenzong was once designated as the "highest paradise season" in the Song Dynasty.
Later generations felt bored, so they moved the traditional "book exposure day" to the seventh day of July. Scholars dry books, temples and monks dry scrolls, and ordinary people dry clothes. It is said that it is a custom to take cats and dogs to bathe in the river every day. It is said that lice can be avoided. People in the town bathe their children with hot water, women wash their hair every day, and the custom of eating wonton in every household comes from mixed bath.
climate
Wuzhen, located in the southeast coast, has a typical subtropical monsoon climate. It is warm and humid, with abundant rainfall and abundant sunshine, with an average annual sunshine of 65,438+0,842.3 hours. It is characterized by long spring and short autumn, hot winter in Leng Xia, warm spring and cool autumn, and distinct four seasons. 78 days in spring, 90 days in summer, 64 days in autumn and 0/33 days in winter. The annual average temperature is 16. 1℃.
65438+ 10 is the coldest month with an average monthly temperature of 3.6℃; It is the hottest in July, with an average monthly temperature of 28. 1℃. The annual average precipitation is1233.9mm. There are three obvious precipitation periods throughout the year, namely April-May (spring rain), June-July (plum rain) and August-September (autumn rain), and it will snow in winter.
References:
Baidu Encyclopedia-Wuzhen