Shaoxing is located in the north-central part of Zhejiang Province and the south bank of Hangzhou Bay. It is a cultural and eco-tourism city with the characteristics of a water town in the south of the Yangtze River, and it is also a famous water town, a bridge town, a wine town, a hometown of calligraphy and a hometown of celebrities. What are its interesting places? Let's have a look together.
1. Shenyuan Scenic Spot in Lu Xun's hometown
Shenyuan is a national 5A scenic spot, located in Chunbonong, Yuecheng District, Shaoxing City, which is a famous garden in the Song Dynasty. Shenyuan has a history of more than 8 years. Shen Garden, also known as "Shen Garden", was the private garden of a wealthy businessman named Shen in the Southern Song Dynasty. It was built in the Song Dynasty, and it was very large at the beginning, covering an area of 7 mu.
Gardens and pavilions, small bridges and flowing water, tree-lined and Jiangnan scenery. Shenyuan, a national 5A-level scenic spot, is the only Song-style garden preserved so far among many classical gardens in Shaoxing. Shenyuan Garden is divided into three parts: the historic site area, the East Garden and the South Garden. There are the solitary crane pavilion, the half-wall pavilion, the Shuangguitang, the Bayonglou, the Songjing, the Shepu, the Wenmei Threshold, the Hairpin Phoenix Monument, the Qintai and the Guangzhai.
2. Xiadong Drifting in Huiji Mountain
Xiadong Scenic Area consists of three blocks: tunnel crossing, rapids and water recreation. The total length of the drifting stream is 2 kilometers, and the overall drop is more than 7 meters.
From the dreamy colorful tunnel, it drifts down through the double S-whirling vertical cobblestone river rapids, and reaches a mirror-flat lake. After that, it once again sets foot on the ups and downs tunnel with a total length of more than 4 meters, crossing the rocks, and the whole drifting process takes about 1.5 hours, which brings different feelings to tourists.
It is also drifting, which gives you different passions. Drifting in mountains, canyons, tunnels and lakes will be your ultimate choice for "Happy Assembly".
3. Daxianglin Rural Leisure Tourism Area
Daxianglin Scenic Area is located 6 kilometers southwest of Keqiao District, Shaoxing City, bordering Lanting, the holy place of calligraphy in the south, and Hangzhou, the capital city in the west, with obvious traffic location advantages. With beautiful scenery and fresh air, the scenic spot has an ancient osmanthus tree community planted in the Song Dynasty, which is vast and boundless, and is known as "the largest ancient osmanthus group in China".
Daxianglin Scenic Area is committed to improving the quality of rich tourism resources, focusing on displaying rural food featuring "fragrance", taking "fragrance" as the main line of sightseeing landscape, and taking "fragrance" as the leading leisure way, offering tourists a journey of "Zui Xiang, beauty and nature".
4. Shaoxing Huiji Mountain Scenic Area
Huiji Mountain Tourist Resort in Zhejiang Province is located in the southeast of Shaoxing City, a famous historical and cultural city, with rich natural landscape resources and profound historical and cultural accumulation. Huiji Mountain in Shaoxing, China is the first of the nine famous mountains in China and the five major towns and mountains, which has an extraordinary historical position.
Huiji Mountain is a famous town mountain where emperors in China sealed sacrifices, and it is also an important birthplace of China's landscape poems. The worship of mountains in Chinese history began in Huiji Mountain.
5. Shaoxing Ke Yan Scenic Area
Shaoxing Ke Yan Scenic Area is a scenic spot with the connotation of ancient Yue culture and the characteristics of ancient quarrying, which integrates Shaoxing water town customs, ancient quarrying and forest ecology, including Ke Yan, Jianhu, Luzhen and Xianglin.
With the embellishment of natural landscape, the intervention of religious culture and the touch of literati, by the Qing Dynasty, the famous "Eight Scenes of Ke Yan" had been formed. Among them, there are Maitreya Buddha statue, Yungu, Qixingyan and Silkworm Flower Cave, as well as Wuqiao Buyue and Nanyang Autumn Pan, which show the water features of Jianhu Lake. It is a treasure house of tourism resources where natural scenery and human resources blend.
6. Lanting Scenic Area in Shaoxing
Lanting, together with Yuling and East Lake, is one of the three famous scenic spots in the suburbs of Shaoxing, and has always been famous at home and abroad because of the calligraphy masterpiece Preface to Lanting Collection. In recent ten years, Lanting Calligraphy Festival has become more famous because of its continuous holding.
From the perspective of cultural origin, Lanting Scenic Area and Yuling Scenic Area have internal relations, and they are two places of worship in one festival. In the 9th year of Yonghe in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, Wang Xizhi, a great calligrapher, invited 41 literati to hold a grand meeting in this place, and wrote "the best running script in the world"-Preface to the Collection of Lanting, and Wang Xizhi was honored as a calligrapher, making Lanting a holy place for calligraphy.
7. Tianmu Mountain Scenic Area
Tianmu Mountain is located in Xinchang County, Zhejiang Province, which belongs to the seventy-two blessed places of Taoism, and the sixteenth blessed place-Tianmuling-is in the south of Shan County, which belongs to the real person Wei Xianren.
is famous for tianmu Mountain Ascended in a Dream written by Li Bai, a poet in the Tang Dynasty. "in a straight line to heaven, its summit enters heaven, tops the five Holy Peaks, and casts a shadow through China, with the hundred-mile length of the Heavenly Terrace Range and which, just at this point, begins turning southeast." Li Bai described the momentum of Tianmu Mountain vividly in his poems.