Perjalanan dari Hangzhou ke Xi Tang lumayan jauh, kurang lebih 2,5 jam. Sepanjang jalan gue asyik ngeliatin orang-orang pergi ke kuil buat sembahyang di Tahun Baru China. Gue paling excited banget pergi ke kota Xi tang ini. Soalnya menurut informasi yang gue dapet di internet, kota ini tempat syutingnya film “Mission Impossible III”. Kebayang kan ….. gimana exciting-nya gue yang maniak nonton film. Pengambilan gambar pertama kali “Mission Impossible III” di lakukan Tom Cruise di kota kuno ini tanggal 24 November 2005. Sayang ya … kenapa gue nggak pergi pas tanggal itu … he he he he he….
The way trips Hangzhou to Xi Tang take about 2.5 hour. All along the road I enjoy to see people go to temple for praying in the Chinese New Year. I really excited to go to the Xi Tang town because from internet I got information that “Mission Impossible III” is shot here. You can image … how really exciting I am. I really like watch movie. The first scene in China of Mission Impossible III was shot on Novemver 24th, 2005. Tom Cruise performs during the shooting of “Mission Impossible III” in Xi Tang, an ancient town. Pity ya… why I was not go to Xi Tang on that time :-(
Begitu sampai Xi Tang, kita lunch dulu di sebuah restaurant di pinggir jalan besar. Menu lunch hampir sama seperti lunch kemaren. Selesai lunch, kita diajak ke Galeri Zhang Chen. Sebuah galeri yang memamerkan koleksi ukiran unik dari akar pohon. Pemiliknya sudah turun temurun mewarisinya. Sayangnya kita nggak boleh bikin photo-photo di sini. Jadi kita cukup puas dengan ngeliat-liat ukiran-ukiran antik dan sangat mahal di galeri ini.
When we arrived Xi Tang, first time we were visiting to Zhang Chen Gallery. It’s a gallery where unique exhibition center for root carving. The owners passed down from generation to generation. Unfortunately we couldn’t take pictures here. So we have to satisfy to see very expensive ancient wood carvings in this gallery.
Dari Zhang Chen Galeri, kita jalan ngelewatin lorong-lorong sempit yang sangat terkenal di kota Xi Tang ini. Kalo nggak salah sih orang-orang nyebutnya Shipi Lanes. Seru banget jalan di dalam lorong-lorong sempit di antara bangunan-bangunan kuno. Serasa ada di film-film kungfu China ….. he he he he he….. Malah pertama kali masuk lorong cuma muat untuk jalan satu orang. Lucunya lagi, lorong-lorong jalan di sini seperti tali yang saling berkaitan satu sama lain. Nggak peduli dari mana kita mulainya, pasti tetep aja nyampe ke semua tempat di kota Xitang ini. Kalo digambar kayak sarang laba-laba kali …. he he he he he …. Amazing ya….. :-)
From the Zhang Chen Gallery, we walked to famous narrow lines in the Xi Tang Town. People call Shipi Lanes. So excited walk at Xi Tang Town Lines between ancient buildings. Feel like we are in the Chinese movie. He he he he he he…..Moreover the first time we started walk, we walked at the space line for only one person to pass through at a time. The Interest things with the Lines are rope connecting the whole town into an organic net and no matter from which point you start, you can find any other place in the town. Amazing, isn’t it?
Kota Xi Tang merupakan salah satu dari 6 kota tradisional yang terkenal di China, diantaranya Zhou Zhuang, Tong Li, Lu Zhi, Wuzhen, Xi Tang, dan Nan Xun. Kota-kota ini semuanya merupakan bagian dari UNESCO World Heritage. Model arsitektur kota ini berasal dari Dynasty Ming dan Dynasty Qing. Penduduk di sini masih mempertahankan gaya kehidupan tradisional mereka. Bahkan peralatan-peralatan kuno pun masih mereka simpan dan mereka rawat sebagai kekayaan kota ini. Kita sempat diajak masuk ke salah satu rumah yang dulunya merupakan tempat pembuatan kancing baju secara traditional dari bahan kulit kerang. Semua peralatannya sangat kuno dan sederhana, tetapi masih berfungsi dengan baik. Menarik juga sih ngelihat orang-orang tua di situ memperagakan ke turis-turis bagaimana orang-orang jaman dulu mempergunakan peralatan tradisional dan antik tersebut.
Xi Tang is one of the 6 famous traditional towns in China, which included Zhou Zhuang, Tong Li, Lu Zhi, Wuzhen, Xi Tang, and Nan Xun. They are all part of UNESCO World Heritage. The architectures remain the style from Ming Dynasty and Qing Dynasty. The residences in the town still keep their traditional way of living. Also their stuffs for living still keep as the town inheritance wealth. Our guide brings us to the traditional shirt button shell factory. All stuff factory in here very old and simple, but still working. It’s very interesting when we watch old people in here showing us how to make shirt button from shell using the traditional stuffs.
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