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Nanxun is a town located 30 kilometers east of the downtown of Huzhou City in north Zhejiang. It is a famous historical and cultural town with a history of 1400 years. In the Southern Song Dynasty (1127-1279), it was already a flouring town, and by the reign of Emperor Jiajin (1522-1567) of the Ming Dynasty, it became an important commercial town in Zhejiang because of the development of silk market and silk industry. In the poems the town is described as "thousands of households gather here on this water town market, and fishing boats and merchant vessels call at it side by side." and "On the night market, you can buy water bamboo shoots and lotus roots, and in spring ships carry silks and brocades to the town."

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