Huagangguanyu

This spot is located at the southern end of Su Causeway. A clean stream flows from Huajia Hill to join West Lake here, and many flowers grow where the fresh water flows in, so it called "Flowery Harbor". This area now has been made into a 22 hectare (54 acre) park with many varieties of trees and flowers, featuring a peony garden which blooms in April and a goldfish pond which is the famous site for viewing fish. Southern Song Dynasty, the chamberlain official Yunsheng has spent away ... View Detail

Huanglong Tucui

This scenic spot is located at northern foot of Qixia Ridge in the North Mountain of the West Lake. In the "twenty-four scenes in Hangzhou" of Qing Dynasty, there was the scene "Yellow Dragon Cave Accumulated with Green", of which the scene name "Yellow Dragon Cave Dressed in Green" is born out. The word "pour out" highlights the peculiar scene that the mouth of dragon between the spring pool and the steep cliff pours out water and the water bead curtain ... View Detail

Lei Feng afterglow

By the end of 1999, Hangzhou Municipal Government and Zhejiang Provincial Government officially made a decision to reconstruct and extend the original Leifeng Pagoda according to the principle of preserving the cultural relics. The reconstruction project kicked off on Dec. 22. 2000 and was completed on Oct. 25, 2002. Since its collapse, there were more than 70 years that the Leifeng Pagoda was in ruins, a lot of domestic learners continually appealed for reconstruction. Huang Yanpei(1878-1965), ... View Detail

Wushan day wind (Wu Shanjing area)

Wu Hill is located southeast of the West Lake. It consists of the Purple Sunlight Hill, Cloud Sojourn Hill, Gold Land Hill, etc. There are more than ten small peaks, about 100 meters high, several kilometers long extending all the way to the city proper. Scattered among the hills are ancient trees, springs, grotesqu rocks, ancient temples, and historical relics. In front of Panoramic View Pavilion and Medicine King Temple are fifteen 400 to 500 years old camphor trees. The oldest one, " Song ... View Detail

Manlong Guiyu

This scenic spot is located at the region of Manjuelong Village and before the Stone House Hole. Manjuelong, commonly known as Manjianong, abounded in osmanthus and is famous scenic spot for appreciating osmanthus of the West Lake. During the time of Hangzhou falling into enemy's hands in the Anti-Japanese War, a lot of osmanthus trees were cut down, only several old osmanthus trees around the houses of a few farmers were left. After the victory of Anti-Japanese War, some of them were slightly ... View Detail

Jingshan

Jingshan Templelocated at Jingshan Hill, Changle Town, Yuhang District, Hangzhou, was originally built in Tang Dynasty. In South Song Dynasty, Jiangshan Temple was at its summit time and the top temple among five most famous Buddhist temples in Jiangnan region. The scale of Jingshan Temple was quite huge and significant, and had more than 1,700 monks and more than 1000 rooms. Due to the warfare and lack of reconstruction, the original building complex was mostly ruined. Currently, there is ... View Detail

Nan Ping Wan Zhong

Nanping Wanzhong literally means "the Chiming of the Nanping Mountain". Nanping Mountain is situated to the south of the West Lake. The main height of the Nanping Mountain is only several hundred metres high but the mountain range goes on for thousands of metres; it is covered in forests, and the cliffs are steep and look like a stone screen, hence its name, Nanping, meaing "the screen to the south". At the bottom of the mountain there is the Jingci Temple where the chiming comes from. At dust ... View Detail

Pinghuqiuyue

Though the Autumn Moon over the Calm Lake refers nowadays to a fixed location and one of the top ten attractions around the West Lake, it was in the South Song Dynasty a general reference to view the West Lake by boat, especially on an autumn night when the moon is full. The poetic reference stayed general until the Qing Dynasty when Emperor Kangxi summed up his sightseeing tour in Hangzhou and named the top ten West Lake attractions. A stone tablet was erected with the Autumn Moon over the ... View Detail

Longjing tea

Strolling around the famous West Lake, can you smell the sweet fragrance of tea from the mountains behind? It is the Dragon Well Tea, world famous for its "four wonders" - emerald green color, aromatic flavor, sweet taste and beautiful appearance. Because of its nutritional value and extraordinary effect on people's health, it is favored by both the domestic and foreign markets. Infusion of Tea Good tea must be made with good water, so its flavor can be totally infused. The Dragon ... View Detail

Super mountain plum

Chaoshan Scenic Area: 40 KM from Huangzhou urban area, which is famous for its plum blossom and ranked as one of the 3 best spots for poetically as the Sea of Fragrant Snow . The plum trees on Chaoshan Hill are noted for their unique shapes and two of China's five ancient plum trees still surviving are found here - Tangmei dating from the dynasty (AD 618-907)and Songmei from the Dynasty (960-1279) . When the plum blossom blooming in early spring , crowds of people will head out to Chaoshan ... View Detail