Learn about Hangzhou
West Lake
West Lake is located in Xihu District, Hangzhou City, Zhejiang Province. It borders the city center to the east and is surrounded by mountains to the south, north, and west. It is one of China's first national key scenic spots and the only lake type world cultural landscape heritage site in China. It takes "one mountain, two towers, three islands, three embankments, and five lakes" as the spatial skeleton, perfectly integrating artificial landscapes with natural mountains and waters, becoming the ultimate model of "poetic dwelling" in Eastern aesthetics.
Lingyin Temple
Lingyin Temple is located between Feilai Peak and Beigao Peak in Xihu District, Hangzhou City, Zhejiang Province. It is one of the top ten ancient temples of Chinese Zen Buddhism and has a history of nearly 1700 years. It is named after the "hidden place of immortal spirits" and was founded by the West Indian monk Hui Li. It is the earliest famous temple in Hangzhou and one of the "Five Mountains and Ten Temples" in Jiangnan Zen temples.
Xixi Wetland
Xixi Wetland is located in the western part of Hangzhou city, only 5 kilometers away from West Lake. It is a rare secondary wetland in the city and the first national wetland park in China. It is known as the "Three Wests of Hangzhou" along with West Lake and Xiling, with a total area of approximately 11.5 square kilometers. The total length of rivers in the ecological protection zone is over 100 kilometers, with a water coverage rate of about 70%. This is not a wild and primitive nature reserve, but a cultural swamp that has survived after thousands of years of farming, fishing, and urban expansion.
Hefang Street&Southern Song Dynasty Imperial Street
Hefang Street and Song Dynasty Imperial Street are two main roads in the south of the old city of Hangzhou, intersecting in a cross shape, forming the cultural backbone of Lin'an City in the Southern Song Dynasty. Hefang Street runs east-west and is 1800 meters long. It was the final development of commercial film in Hangzhou during the late Qing Dynasty and early Republic of China; The Southern Song Dynasty Imperial Street runs north-south and is over 4000 meters long, containing the remains of the imperial path of the Southern Song emperors.
Xianghu Lake
Xianghu Lake is located in Xiaoshan District, Hangzhou City, Zhejiang Province, on the south bank of the Qiantang River, facing West Lake on the north bank across the river. Its water area is about 6.1 square kilometers, which is 1.2 times that of West Lake. It is not the shadow of West Lake, but the ancient source of Hangzhou civilization -8000 years ago, the ancestors crossed the lake bridge and sailed alone here, 2500 years ago, King Goujian of Yue lay on the firewood and tasted gall here, and the navy of Wu Yue's struggle for supremacy once hid in the bay of the lake. Compared to the exquisite poetic quality of West Lake, the aesthetic keywords of Xianghu Lake are "wild", "ancient", and "empty".
Xiaohezhi Street
Xiaohezhi Street is located at the intersection of Xiaohe Road and Hushu North Road in Gongshu District, Hangzhou, at the confluence of the Beijing Hangzhou Grand Canal, Yuhangtang River, and Xiaohe River. It is the most complete group of commercial and residential buildings along the river in Hangzhou during the late Qing Dynasty and early Republic of China, and is also a living slice of the Grand Canal World Cultural Heritage.
Qiantang River
The Qiantang River originates from Liugujian in Xiuning County, Anhui Province, and flows through Anhui and Zhejiang provinces, with a total length of 588 kilometers. It is the largest river in Zhejiang Province and also the "Great Wall on the Sea" and cradle of civilization in Hangzhou. It is not known for its poetic landscape, but for defining itself through the physical violence of tides and the technical prowess of cross river bridges. This is the birthplace of the world's first wave, and also the testing ground for modern Chinese bridge engineers to overcome natural barriers for the first time.
Qiandao Lake
Qiandao Lake is located in Chun'an County, Hangzhou City, Zhejiang Province. It is an artificial lake formed in 1959 due to the construction of the Xin'anjiang Hydropower Station. It is not a blessed lake, but a product of human migration, inundation, reconstruction, and reconciliation with floods. There are 1078 islands scattered in the lake, hence the name Qiandao.
Hangzhou Botanical Garden
Hangzhou Botanical Garden is located in Taoyuan Ridge, Xihu District, Hangzhou City, Zhejiang Province. It is the earliest comprehensive botanical garden established in Zhejiang Province after the founding of the People's Republic of China. It is neither an internet famous park that attracts attention with exotic flowers, nor a serious and boring research forbidden area. The core aesthetic here is "forest like" rather than "garden like" - the 248 hectare park has over 2100 species of vascular plants, with 70% of the area being secondary forests that make you forget about being in the city.
Song Dynasty Town
Song Dynasty Town is located at 148 Zhijiang Road, Xihu District, Hangzhou City. It is China's first Song Dynasty cultural theme park built and opened in 1996, and a landmark that cannot be avoided in the history of Chinese tourism and entertainment. It does not rely on any real archaeological sites, and purely uses "Song culture" as its IP for commercial reconstruction.
Faxi Temple
Faxi Temple is located in Xihu District, Hangzhou City, Zhejiang Province. It is famous for the efficacy of Guanyin, praying for marriage, and offering a 5-yuan vegetarian meal. It is one of the most popular temples in Hangzhou. It is different from the "tourist feeling" of Lingyin Temple, but more like a spiritual sanctuary for young people in Hangzhou.
Wuzhen
Wuzhen is located in Tongxiang City, Jiaxing City, Zhejiang Province, on the west side of the Grand Canal. It is one of the six ancient towns in Jiangnan and the first ancient town destination in China to achieve "dual wheel drive of overall property rights development, sightseeing, and vacation". Wuzhen is a "Jiangnan water town specimen" that has undergone precision surgical transformation - with tourism economy anticoagulants flowing in its blood vessels, but its face maintains the specimen luster of the Ming and Qing dynasties.
Mount Putuo
Mount Putuo is located in the eastern waters of the Zhoushan Archipelago in Zhejiang Province. It is a small island among the 1390 islands in the Zhoushan Archipelago, but it enshrines the globally recognized Guanyin Bodhisattva Yinghua Taoist Temple. It's not a mountain, it's an island; It is not just a scenic spot, but the most complex symbiotic relationship between faith and tourism along the southeast coast of China.
Yandang Mountain
Yandang Mountain is located in Yueqing City, Wenzhou City, Zhejiang Province, and extends partially to Wenling in Taizhou. It is the most complete and typical Cretaceous rhyolite ancient volcano in the volcanic belt around the Pacific continental margin, known as the "famous mountain on the sea and the unparalleled masterpiece in the world". Together with Mount Huangshan (granite) and Zhangjiajie (quartz sandstone), Yandang is one of the three major geomorphological aesthetics in China, but the way to watch Yandang is "night view" and "shifting shape" - this is its grammar different from any mountain.
Shenxianju
Shenxianju is located in Baita Town and Danzhu Township, Xianju County, Taizhou City, Zhejiang Province. It is centered around the forest landscape of Mesozoic rhyolite volcanic peaks, with deep canyons, hanging waterfalls, and forest seas. It has been certified by geologists as a typical representative of rhyolite peak forest landforms. It uses a hundred meter elevator, a suspended cable bridge, and a glass observation deck to move the scenery that was originally only visible to mountaineers to the feet of ordinary tourists.
Tiantai Mountain
Tiantai Mountain is located in the northern part of Tiantai County, Taizhou City, Zhejiang Province. Its main peak, Huading Mountain, has an elevation of 1098 meters. It is the ancestral home of the Tiantai sect of Buddhism, the birthplace of the Southern sect of Taoism, the hometown of the living Buddha Jigong, the retreat of Hanshanzi, and the beginning of Xu Xiake's travelogue. A mountain is simultaneously authenticated by five identities: Buddha, Taoist, Confucian, Hidden, and Wandering, which is the only case in China.
Lu Xun's Hometown
The hometown of Lu Xun is located on Lu Xun Middle Road in Yuecheng District, Shaoxing City, Zhejiang Province. It is a well preserved historical block of Jiangnan water town and one of the most important spiritual landmarks in the history of modern Chinese literature. From Baicaoyuan to Sanwei Bookstore, from Xianheng Hotel to Shoujiatai Gate, from "Hometown" to "Kong Yiji", every inch of land here has been renamed by Lu Xun's writings.
Xitang Ancient Town
Xitang Ancient Town is located in Jiashan County, Jiaxing City, Zhejiang Province, at the junction of Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Shanghai provinces. It is one of the six ancient towns in Jiangnan and the only water town that still retains the title of "Living Millennium Ancient Town" in the early 21st century.