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The Life wheel around of Zhou-zhuangIntroductionThis essay aims at presenting historical information and festering desktop of Zhou-zhuang, judging which stage of development it is at and evaluating its succeeding(a) development trend. We utilize Butlers Model of Life Cycle to evaluate Zhou-zhuangs current stage and future development. The essay will be create into three parts. The first part will talk about Zhou-zhuangs exploration stage, the second part will be devoted to its development stage and the third part will be contributed to an evaluation on Zhou-zhuangs current stage in the life circle and its future development trend.ExplorationThanks to a famous painter Yifei subgenus Chens canvas, The Memory of Hometown, Zhou-zhuangs Double Bridge in brumous Rain has been a famous image of Zhou-zhuang and gradually publicized this lull village to the outside world since 1984. Zhou-zhuang, at that time, only had a race of 2000, most of which lived a life on planting rice. Thei r annual incomes rarely exceeded 800 Yuan. However, the development of Zhou-zhuang seems a little bit in the nature of things, because it goes genuinely smoothly as well as speedily.DevelopmentIn 1983, Wu Guanzhong, who was a very famous painter came to sketch in Zhou-zhuang, and he evince his emotionHuangshan Mountain concentrates the beauty of Chinese mountains and streams, while Zhou-zhuang concentrates the beauty of Chinese watery regions. These words put great colors to Zhou small towns fame.In 1988, the first township tourism service friendship was established in Jiangsu province, and 38 sceneries of humanities in about 0.47 form kilometers have undertaken restoration and reconstruction.The ancient town trio of Zhou-zhuangbecame one of the 16 hot itineraries which were promoted to international market. In 1989, Shen Hall open up to public, and Zhou-zhuang Tourism dish up Company issued entrance tickets for the first time with a price of 0.6RMB.In the course of 1994, Z hou-zhuang developed to a wider extend, for Zhang Hall, Chengxu Taoist Temple, and Mi Building opened respectively. In the same year, the entrance tickets with images of Shen Hall, Zhang Hall, Chengxu Taoist Temple, and Mi Building printed on were published, and the price surged to 10RMB.From the year of 1995, the number of tourists to Zhou-zhuang increase rapidly every year with an annually rate of more than 30%. Meanwhile, the incomes of residents there, which benefit from tourism, also increased at the rate of more than 30% every year.In 1999, Zhou-zhuang veritable visitors about 1.25million both abroad and home in 2000, the number was 1.