Ranking of the top ten tourist attractions in Shaoxing, China
1. Lu Xun’s hometown
Lu Xun’s hometown has become a historical district with a unique Jiangnan style and an authentic place. Interpret Lu Xun's works, taste Lu Xun's hometown objects, and experience the real place of Lu Xun's life at that time. On both sides of a narrow bluestone road, there are a row of pink walls and black tiles, a bamboo gate, Lu Xun's ancestral residence, Lu Xun's former residence, Baicao Garden, Sanwei Bookstore, and Xianheng Hotel. A small river flows in front of Lu Xun's former residence, and a awning boat floats in front of it. Swaying on the river, this scene cannot help but remind people of some scenes in Lu Xun's works. After careful protection and restoration, Lu Xun's hometown has become a place for three-dimensional interpretation of Lu Xun, a great modern Chinese writer, and has become the "treasure of the town" in Shaoxing, Zhejiang.
2. Jianhu Lake
It is located 1.5 kilometers west of Shaoxing City. During the Yonghe period of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Ma Zhen, the prefect of Kuaiji, took the water from the 36th source of Shanyin and Kuaiji counties and turned it into a lake. It reached Jianhu in the east and Puyang River in the west, with a length of 127 miles and an area of ??about 206 An area of ????square kilometers can irrigate more than 9,000 hectares of farmland, and the people of the two counties have benefited greatly. After the middle of Tang Dynasty, the lake surface gradually silted up. There are embankments and bridges on the lake, and fishing boats are often seen. Surrounded by distant mountains, the water is as clear as a mirror. It can be called a typical water town in the south of the Yangtze River.
3. Lanting National Forest Park
There are high mountains and luxuriant forests and lush bamboos (the park is filled with high mountains and green peaks). The Holy Land of Calligraphy is well-known at home and abroad (the story of Wang Xizhi, a calligrapher of the Jin Dynasty who is a legend in the history of Chinese art, wrote the "Preface to the Orchid Pavilion Collection", happened in Orchid Pavilion). The ancient tombs of famous people will be remembered for centuries (the largest tomb in the south of the Yangtze River, more than 2,500 years ago, was excavated in the scenic area - the Tomb of the Yue King in Yinshan. It is another major archaeological discovery in Zhejiang after the Hemudu and Liangzhu cultural sites in Yuyao. It was listed in the list in 1998 "Top Ten New Archaeological Discoveries in the Country").
4. Qinwangshan Buddhist Cultural Tourism Area in Kuaiji, Shaoxing
Wang Xianzhi’s residence is a temple, which is known as “the most beautiful cloud gate in the mountains”. Wang Xianzhi and Zhiyong practiced calligraphy here, and Lanting The collection preface has been treasured here for hundreds of years. It is an important part of the Tang Poetry Road in Eastern Zhejiang. In front of the temple is Ruoye Poetry Creek. Behind the temple are Jiaxiang Temple and Qinwang Mountain, the ancestral home of the Three Treatises Sect of Chinese Buddhism. On the mountain is the Kuaiji Stone Carving (Li Si Stele), and the The ruins of the poet Lu You's "Lu You Thatched Cottage". Ranking of Tourist Attractions Yunmen Temple is famous all over the world, and emperors, celebrities, poets and countless hymns and articles of all dynasties have left behind.
5. Xishi’s Hometown
Xishi’s Hometown tourist area is The only national-level scenic spot in Shaoxing, Huanjiang Wuxie is an important part of the national key scenic spot. The planning goal is to take Xishi culture as the theme, fully demonstrate the ancient Vietnamese culture and hometown customs, and build this area into a scenic tourist attraction with beautiful natural scenery, rich cultural connotation, sound tourist facilities, good economic benefits, and vitality of the times.
6. Keyan National Scenic Area
Keyan Scenic Area, a national AAAA tourist area, is located eight kilometers west of Shaoxing City and 12 kilometers east of Hangzhou. It is based on ancient Yue culture. Keyan Scenic Area
A scenic spot that integrates Shaoxing water town customs, ancient quarrying heritage, and mountain forest ecology. It began in the Han Dynasty and has a history of more than 1,800 years. By the Qing Dynasty, it had It is known as the "Eight Scenic Spots of Keyan" and is a scenic spot in central Vietnam. Through modern and ingenious garden construction, four major scenic spots, namely Keyan, Jianhu, Luzhen and Xianglin, have been restored and formed. With a tourist area of ??four square kilometers, it is the largest and most comprehensive scenic tourist area in Shaoxing in recent years. In 2003, it was approved by the National Tourism Administration and rated as a "Famous Tourism Brand in China" by China Tourism News and other units.
7. East Lake
East Lake is a famous scenic spot in Shaoxing, known as "the best bonsai in the world". East Lake was originally Qingshi Mountain. Since the Han Dynasty, it has been a quarry. By the Sui Dynasty, the scale of mining was even larger. As time went by, springs in the rocks gushed out in the quarry, and river water overflowed from the outside, forming a lake from the quarry with rippling blue waves. This is today's East Lake. In the late Qing Dynasty, Tao Ruixuanxuan, a native of Kuaiji, saw the beautiful scenery here, so he built a lake embankment to divide the lake and the river into two. Outside the embankment is the Zhejiang East Canal, which runs through eastern Zhejiang; inside the embankment is the East Lake.
8. Wuxie Scenic Area
Huanjiang-Wuxie Scenic Area covers an area of ??72 square kilometers and consists of three scenic areas in the north and south with relatively concentrated landscapes. The Hangzhou-Jinjiang Highway serves as A link connects the three scenic spots.
The northern Wuxie Scenic Area is mainly developed on the basis of volcaniclastic rocks. It has a five-level waterfall, an ancient temple in the Tang Dynasty - the Buddhist Caodong Ancestral Temple Wuxie Temple, etc. The forest coverage rate in the scenic area reaches more than 90%. The Douyan Scenic Area and Tangjiangyan Scenic Area in the south are typical Danxia landforms. Their natural landscape consists of 16 scenic spots such as strange peaks and dangerous rocks, strange rocks and caves, and Douyan Lion Peak. The Tangjiangyan Scenic Area covers an area of ??14 square kilometers.
9. Cao'e Scenic Area
1. Shungeng Park is one of the main attractions of Cao'e Scenic Area. It is located on the southwest side of Shangyu City. The tourist attractions in Shungeng Park are mainly Shungeng Group Sculptures and Large Sculptures. Shun Temple, Shun Bridge and Shun Well are the main attractions, reflecting the history that Emperor Shun was born in Shangyu, and later avoided Danzhu here, so it was named after him. It exaggerates Emperor Shun's glorious life of putting filial piety first and serving the people diligently. The Shungeng group sculptures in the park were created by Chinese art master Han Meilin. The elephant group sculptures, made of granite as the main material, are 68 meters long, 27 meters high, and weigh about 800 tons in total. They are magnificent and large, and can be called the largest in Asia. . 2. Cao'e Temple is located in Xiaonumiao Village on the west bank of Cao'e River, 3 kilometers away from the urban area. It was built to commemorate the filial daughter Cao E who threw herself into the river to find her father during the Eastern Han Dynasty. Cao'e Temple has a history of more than 1,800 years. It has been built, destroyed and rebuilt many times. The current building was rebuilt in the 23rd year of the Republic of China. Cao'e Temple has a rich cultural heritage and elegant artistic taste. It is famous at home and abroad for its "four unique" temple sculptures, murals, couplets and calligraphy, and is known as the "No. 1 Temple in Jiangnan". There is a "Cao E stele" existing in the temple, which is "China's earliest crossword puzzle".
10. "Yingtai's Hometown" - Zhujiazhuang
"Yingtai's Hometown" Zhujiazhuang is the hometown of Zhu Yingtai in the classic love story "Butterfly Lovers", located in Shangyu Southeast of the city, 7.3 kilometers away from the urban area. Zhujiazhuang is located in the middle of the mountainous area, surrounded by mountains to the south, west and north. In front of the village is the "Yushui River", which is a long north-south river and connects with the Shishili River excavated in the Western Jin Dynasty. There are still monuments related to Yingtai culture such as Zhu's ancestral hall, Yushui River, Jingkong Spring, Yaoshi Temple and so on.