Streets and houses in Wuzhen are built along streams and rivers. The same is true of the so-called "people do their best to pillow the river." ?
The style of most Wuzhen folk houses is no different from that of other water towns, except that some folk houses along the river extend to the river, and the lower part is hit in the river bed with wooden stakes or columns, which is called "Shui Ge", and other towns are gone. Shui Ge is a real "pillow river" with windows on three sides. With windows, you can enjoy the scenery of urban rivers, dream back at midnight and listen to the sound of running water below, which is quite interesting. Mao Dun, a literary giant born in Wuzhen, described his hometown of Shui Ge in an article entitled Mountains and Rivers on the Earth. "... the river is outside someone else's back door, standing at the back door (that is, the door of Shui Ge), and you can draw water with a bucket. When you wake up in the middle of the night, you can hear the sound of water and float over ..."