During October 1st to 3rd, Full Moon in Xishan – First Hufu Yangxian Xishan Mid-autumn Lantern Festival will be grandly held at Town Center of Yada Yangxian Xishan.

The Festival is not only an amazing gift to celebrate Mid-autumn Day and National Day jointly presented by Yixing Yangxian Ecologcial Tourism Zone Management Office, Hufu Town Government and Yada Health Ecological Park, but also the official debut of Yangxian Xishan Town Center.

◎South Entrance and North Entrance of Town Center

After three-year’s construction and opening preparation, Town Center finally made a stunning appearance.

Seen from the air, buildings of Town Center with white walls and black tiles are well arranged in the landscape of mountains afar, waters nearby and surrounding tea fields and bamboo forest, forming a delicate and graceful Jiangnan-style painting.

◎Town Center situated bedside rivers at the foot of a mountain

Although it enjoys endowed natural advantages with beautiful landscape, Town Center, as the life center and commercial center of Yada Yangxian Xishan as well as the Tourists Center of Yangxian Ecological Tourism Zone, has an inventive mind in landscape construction, commercial layout and bringing in enterprises, to create a destination of good life which offers both prosperity and landscape.

◎Tea field, bamboo forest and surrounding brooks around Town Center

Town Center covers the field of about 100000m2 with general floor area of 50000m2. Focusing on culture and life, it creates a commercial street that features slow lifestyle and is suitable to travel, enjoy, entertain, shop and live in.

◎Experience Center of Yixing Cultural and Creative at Town Center

◎Quest of Jiangnan at Town Center

The south-north touring route at Town Center is about 1000 meters long and is composed of three zones, south, center and north.

◎Guide Map of Town Center

As plan, South Zone features gourmet food, snacks, cultural experience and boutique homestay. Featured streets and hot scenes in South Zone are linked by rivers and gallery bridges. Featured streets include Yummy Yangxiang, Fresh & Fun Street and etc. Hot scenes include Floating Jade Pond, Crescent Bridge, Exi Bridge and etc.

◎Floating Jade Pond at south entrance of Town Center

◎Crescent Bridge at Southern Zone of Town Center

The name of Yummy Yangxiang is derived from the water town Yang Lane that was called living water wharf a thousand years ago. In the Lane, there are Tao of Rice, Yummy Yangxiang Restaurant, Tomato Commune, Quan Sheng Ji and Yummy Yangxiang Store. The local delicacies and folk custom products have been moved to Town Center, adding experience in local customs and practices and regional culture by tasting delicious food.

◎Exi Bridge in Yummy Yangxiang

◎Xishan Snack at Fresh & Fun Street

In South Zone, there are also many culture experience space, including Zhang Jianhua Cultural Space, Dayou Tea House, Dayao Wooden and Fan Mu. People will find fun of art in nature and daily life.

◎Zhang Jianhua Cultural Space at Town Center South Zone

Central Square is a commercial street integrating fashion, trend, culture, gourmet food and services. Center Square, the core of Central Zone, has the floor area of 3000m2. In the middle of the Square lies a music fountain. Around it, the enclosed space is an ideal place to hold large-scale activities at Town Center.

◎Central Square of Town Center

In addition, east-west orientation of Central Square is the in line with the axis of Dongpo Pavilion. Look Dongpo Pavilion from a distance, it is like an undulant skyline of Central Square and become a unique scene of Town Center.

◎Liyong Zisha at Center Square

Around Center Square, lie many stores, including Liyong Zisha Yixing China, Yixing Cuisines and etc. Liyong Zisha will be a museum reminding of teahouse and enjoying tea. Based on teapots, it offers purple sand culture exchanges and Chinese traditional opera performance. It will be a distinctive place for gathering, reception and entertainment.

◎Memorial Archway of Gate Tower and lanes at Central Square

Through the gate tower memorial archways in the south and north of Center Square, people can see several unique and modern glass-box shape buildings. Here will be a gathering place of fashion and creative culture. It will also be a hot place for travel.

◎Glass Box Building with unique shape

Go north from Center Square. You will find Xishan Life Market, Lequn Restaraunt, Agricultural Bank of China Yada Branch and Business Center. Here offers warm and convenient service to daily life.

◎Xishan Life Market operated by Yada

◎Lequn Restaraunt operated by Yada

Starting from Lequn Restaraunt and Business Center, you have entered into North Zone. North Zone has boutique hotels, featured homestays and culture experience places. To enrich tour experience, it is designed in the method of transition with many core space spots, including Viewing Deck, Romantic Pavilion, Osmanthus Plaza, and Destiny Bridge.

◎Viewing Deck of Town Center

The Viewing Deck at Town Center is a three-story building with glass curtain wall. On the top floor of it, you can have a panoramic view of the landscape and Town Center. How relaxed and happy!

◎Overlook beautiful landscape of Yangxian from Viewing Deck

In the north of Viewing Deck, you can reach Luobu House after lanes. Luobu Station is one of Tourists Service Centers and a window to introduce tour in Yangxian Ecological Tourism Zone. Here, tourists can get information on the Tourism Zone’s scenery spots, tour routes, accommodation and shuttle bus, and directly book tickets, which is very convenient.

◎Loubu Station at Town Center

Behind Luobo Station, rustic Romantic Pavilion leaps to the eyes. The Pavilion is derived from a sentence in Former Fu on Red Cliff of Mr. Su Dongpo, “it is inexhaustible that breeze on the river and moon in the mountains. That is infinite storehouse of the creator”. The name of the Pavilion mean refreshing breeze and bright moon.

◎Romantic Pavilion at Town Center

Around the Pavilion, there are many stores, including Quest of Jiangnan, Peiping Brewing Bar, Heart Retreat and Loong Retreat Resort.

◎Loong Retreat Resort at Town Center

Architectures with strong sense of modern design and rustic pavilions form artistic architectural space effect and become a view at Town Center.

◎Architectural space around Romantic Pavilion

Through the Pavilion and Xishan Gate, you have been Osmanthus Plaza – one landmark of Town Center.

◎Xishan Gate in the type of gate tower

Two flourishing camphor trees with a hundred years’ history are straight to the horizon, bringing strong visual impact.

◎Two centurial camphor trees on Osmanthus Plaza

The two camphor trees are ancient trees conserved by designers. Osmanthus Plaza is built up around them. Both of them do not only record one hundred years’ history of the land, but also witness the its transformation to better.

◎Osmanthus Plaza

On Osmanthus Plaza, look north to North Entrance Square on the other side of the river. Designers took full advantage of the Town’s physiognomy to create a sense of Jiangnan by ancient trees, gallery bridges, memorial archways and streams.

◎North Entrance Square of Town Center

A large gallery bridge links the North Entrance Square and Osmanthus Plaza. It is called Destiny that is derived from a well-known sentence in Ode to Chu, “Sailing into Jingxi, I was suddenly enlightened. Here satisfied my life of desire. If I passed away here, that is my fate.”

◎Destiny Bridge at North Entrance

Besides abundant business pattern and comfortable tour experience, Town Center has many details put our mind on. For example, content in the horizontal inscribed board of Town Center came from well-known poems of Mr. Su Dongpo and is displayed in his different calligraphies, such as Official Script of Han Dynasty and Regular Script of Tang Dynasty.

◎Horizontal inscribed board of Town Center

The planning of streets and lanes is also sophisticated. Different from crowd urban traffic, simple pedestrian streets in Town Center are built to create the life scenes of taking goods by carrying poles and mule carts among bustling crowds in childhood.

◎Streets and lanes of Town Center

Moreover, street size and building height are in proper proportion. Neither sense of repression nor sense of hollowness when walking through. It is used to reshape close relationship between street with people and people with people.

◎Streets and lanes of Town Center

To integrate with the surroundings, designers arranges the environment carefully. In the west of Town Center, undulant tea fields and mother chrysanthemum fields bring natural elegance to Town Center.

◎Mother chrysanthemum in west of Town Center

In general, people can have good time slowly in nature at Town Center due to rich business patterns, sophisticated architecture and landscape, comfortable tour experience and high-quality operation service.

◎Enjoy slow life in landscape of Town Center

At Town Center, enjoy the landscape and beautiful scenery of the Town during daytime. At night, resplendent lamps light up the Town, making a new impressive scenery.

◎Night view of Town Center

In particular, there will be Full Moon in Xishan – First Hufu Yangxian Xishan Mid-autumn Lantern Festival at Town Center, which further enriches tourism patterns of Yixing southern mountain area, promotes the night economy development and creates a light fair in landscape.

◎Night view of Town Center

In the Mid-autumn Lantern Festival, there are art performance, featured fairs, interactive experiences and other wonderful activities. During the Festival, 23 theme lantern shows will be exhibited at Town Center, including Full Moon at Xishan, Fantasy Starry Sky, Prelude to Water Melody, Jade Hare on Silver Moon and Lotus Pool by Moonlight.

◎Theme lantern effect of Mid-autumn Lantern Festival at Town Center

When night falls, music fountain at Center Square opens. Water column runs with the rhythm of music. How wonderful!

◎Music Fountain at Center Square

In addition to sightseeing, many stores at Town Center are still open at night. For example, Xishan Life Market run by Yada is open till 21:00 and Lequn Restaurant opens till 22:30.

◎Xishan Life Market Opens till 21:00

◎Lequn Restaraunt opens till 22:30

Happiness in life comes from our discovery and attentive creation by builders. We always expect Yada Yangxian Xishan could offer better lifestyle and bring more functions to the landscape of Yangxian.

◎Night view of Town Center

In the golden October, we will welcome National Day and Mid-autumn Day. Lying on the side of Yangxian Lake, Yada Town Center will also officially open in the golden autumn festival. We sincerely invite you to Yangxian Lake for a wonderful Party, We will taste Jiangnan food, listen to new tune of ancient music and enjoy neon lanterns together.