Berthing Stones

Wharf in Lili

The daily life of the waterside town people is inseparable from the wharf. They believe that water makes everything clean. If they want to wash clothes, vegetables, rice, carry water, etc., they must go to the wharf. Living here all the year round, people have an unusual feeling about the wharf. The sound of washing clothes from the wharf from the morning to the night, from spring to autumn, became the imprint of Lili.

berthing stone in Lili

The berthing stone in Lili Town is another famous thing in Jiangnanbesides the lanes. There are 254 berthing stones on the wharfs, and more than half of them are decorated with patterns, such as: Ruyi, Elephant Trunk, Pen Ingot, Rhinoceros, Banana Leaf, Gourd, Bat, Double Peach, Dark Eight Immortals, Buddha Eight Treasures Wait, no less than 40 kinds. Among them, the most desirable varieties of flowers, such as fox face ruyi, cat face ruyi, clam ruyi, and so on.