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Qibao Ancient Town, located in the southwest of Shanghai, is part of the suburb of Minhang District, it is a historic town with both natural scenery and long humanistic connotation. According to legend, Qibao has seven treasures, they are Buddha, bell, lotus scriptures, sacred trees, a gold chicken, a jade axe and jade chopsticks. The formation of Qibao can be traced back to the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period. During that time, a temple built in memory of the two literati was renamed Qibao temple. Since then, a small town gradually formed around the temple, hence the name Qibao ancient town.

On the other hand, Qibao Ancient Town is famous with its Qibao Old Street, as the downtown of Qibao, this old street had a wide variety of snacks and grocery stores, as well as offers visitors unique local activities, which is a good place for citizens to hang out together on weekends. The transportation to the ancient town is very convenient, and the metro line 9 goes straight to Qibao Station. Within the territory, Qixin road, Caobao road, Wuzhong road, Gudai road, Zhongchun road, Huqingping road, and other crisscrossing ring road network. The town covers an area of 21.3 square kilometers and has 56 neighborhood committees, 7 administrative villages, 2 economic cooperatives and a population of over 200,000.

In nowadays, Qibao Ancient Town is a popular tourism landscape.

The formation of Qibao
Relate to the formation of the Qibao, the first thing to mention is the Jin Dynasty famous literature: Lu Ji, Lu Yun two brothers. Both of them were born into the prominent nobles of Eastern Wu during the Three Kingdoms period. After the return of the Tree Kingdoms to Jin, the two of them received the tolerance of the Jin emperor and studied hard for ten years in their hometown. Later, they were killed in a battle, and Qibao temple was built for them. In the Five dynasties and Ten States Period, it was a period of historical transition between Tang and Song dynasties. In this period, Qibao temple was officially named as Qibao temple, mainly engaged in general Buddhism activities. The present Qibao town is a thousand-year-old town which 'remains of the northern song dynasty'.

Qibao town 'got its name from the temple'
The original establishment of "Qibao temple" covers an area of 60 mu, 6 mu temple rivers, the whole temple surrounded by green water and smoggy, and it attracted people from hundreds of miles around to worship in the temple, thus forming a popular situation of the temple.

Qibao Temple
The origin of Qibao temple can be traced back to the Five Dynasties and Ten states. During the Ming dynasty, the Qibao temple was expanded. The temple is magnificent in appearance and has its own story. Legend has it that it had seven treasures, each of which has its own unique use. On the other hand, the establishment of the Qibao temple also promoted the spread of Buddhism in Shanghai, because it advocated Buddhism.

Crickets-Fighting museum
Crickets-Fighting, one of the Chinese folk activity, but this leisure style is cruel. There are only males in the fight, and they bite each other to defend their territory or compete for spouse rights. The two-insect battle, the defeat of one party or the escape of the battle or the withdrawal of the battle. In today, crickets-fighting attracts a lot of citizens. Furthermore, Qibao Old Street has opened a museum for the public, it established and provide a platform to urban residents and peasant farmers to exchange and maintain the culture of crickets-fighting. On the other hand, due to Qibao's unique location, it allows crickets to have a good habitat with plenty of water and food, and the most famous crickets in Qibao are named according to their feet and neck's color, they called Blue and Iron Sand.

Qibao Old Street
Qibao Old Street is located in Xinjie Youth Road, Qibao Ancient Town, Minhang District, Shanghai. The town was formed by Han dynasty. It developed to the early Song Dynasty and flourished in the Ming and Qing Dynasties and has a history of more than 1,000 years. Qibao Ancient Town belongs to the thousand-year-old town in the Taihu Lake area of the south of the Yangtze River. It is picturesque and is the town close to the urban area of Shanghai. The street is divided into two parts, the north and the south. The main street is characterized by local snacks, and the north street is mainly composed of tourist crafts, antiques and calligraphy. There are antique buildings throughout the street. Qibao Old Street has become a bustling market with "leisure, tourism and shopping".

Qibao Sweet Dumplings
There are two branches of Qibao Sweet Dumplings, all of which cost 0.6 yuan each. Varieties of fresh meat, bean paste, jujube paste, sesame flavor. Fresh meat is the most characteristic of a bit out of the soup, fresh and not greasy; Black sesame is also delicious. While the flavor of jujube, jujube paste with dried dates after the core of minced sugar steamed rotten made. The most important thing is that Qibao Sweet Dumplings are very soft and delicate, they are handmade by workers, so they always have their own characteristics.

Qibao Mutton
Mutton is rich in nutrients and contains many beneficial substances per hundred grams, including water, protein, fat, calories, carbohydrates, ash, calcium, phosphorus, sodium, potassium, iron, riboflavin and niacin. Not only that, the mutton can also fill the stomach empty, treat empty cold, nourish the wind cold, rib-born, benefit fetal birth, more hernia pain. For Shanghai, it has a traditional dish - Qibao braised mutton, which was first spread from the Qing court. It is said to be the favorite palace meal of the Empress Dowager Cixi. Select refined mutton, rock sugar, American ginseng, red dates, superior soy sauce, etc., simmer for 4-6 hours, soft and tender texture, sweet as honey.

Metro
Shanghai Metro Line 9 can straight forward to Qibao Station. Exist 1,2,4 are near to Qibao Ancient Town within ten minutes' walk.

Bus
Take Bus 92, 92b,753, 748, 803, Hongqiao Hub Line 4, Nanjiang Line, Husong Line, Huchen Line, Minhang Line 33 and get off at Qibao Station. The bus stop is only a ten-minute walk from the destination.