Southern Song Guan Kiln Museum

The exhibition hall three rooms by composition: the first exhibit showed in hangzhou, the history of the finest treasure unearthed fine; Second room showed the Chinese ancient ceramics history and guan kilns after established social, political, and economic foundation and development; The third exhibit shows domestic archaize ceramic research and use modern technology generic officials, the elder brother, ru, set in the song dynasty, jun five of ancient jun and build kilns etc, the products. ... View Detail

Qinghefang

You will find Temple of Soul's Retreat (Lingyin Temple) in a long, narrow valley between Peak Flown From Afar (Fei Lai Feng) and North Peak to the northwest of the West Lake at Hangzhou in Zhejiang Province. The temple is without doubt a premier showpiece in the West Lake environs and is notable also as one of the ten most famous Buddhist temples of China. In 1961 the temple was listed for protection as a key provincial historical and cultural site and is considered a leading centre for ... View Detail

Mao Jia Bu

You might pass this area a lot, on the way to the Green Tea restaurant or to Longjing, but it's easy to miss this little alleyway on Longjing Road. Mao Jia Bu, in the Ming and Qing Dynasties was a grassy quay, that's how it gets its name. In old times, it used to be the starting point of the road people would travel going to Lingyin Temple and Tianzhu (India) to pay their respects. Pilgrims would hire a boat on the opposite lakeside and come all the way to Mao Jia Bu. They ate their ... View Detail

Scenic spots in Hangzhou Shangougou

In the Yuhang Luniao town , called "home of PEAR in Zhejiang Province", with the first peak in Hangzhou--Yaotou mountain 1095 metres above sea level and hongtao mountain 1025 m above sea level, is one of the important sources of Taihu Lake. Scenic spots in the national rare and endangered plant Taxus Millennium Group, Black Muntjac, animal protection at the national level, is a national biosphere reserve. Scenic spot by "tangkeng", "Mao Tong" and "huaguo ... View Detail

Mountain people

The people in the mountains Hangzhou's most unique agricultural tourism. Here, from the slash and burn to a high-tech agriculture, have been showed . Small village has experienced centuries of wind and rain vicissitudes, still smoke, carrying the youth and dreams of a whole generation of educated youth points, old traces still exist, to stay in a small mountain village , enjoy the fruits of self hand-picked, opened up one of their own orchards. garden, to share the joy of harvest with the ... View Detail

Ruan Wan Bi

Northwest of Mid-Lake Pavilion lies a green islet called Ruan Gong Mound, the smallest and latest in terms of birth among the three man-made islands in the lake. It was formed with the silt dredged from the lake under the supervision of the imperial inspector Ruan Yuan (1764-1849) in the 5th year of the reign of Jia Qing of the Qing Dynasty(1800). The islet was named in memory of him. Being a pile of loose soil devoid of any construction, the place preserves its natural beauty of greenery. In ... View Detail

Qing Gu

Daqing Valley is a quiet place to go for a walk. Green, and at the moment hot, it's a blissfully quiet valley surrounding the Daqing Village, well over to the west of the lake. Easily accessible by bicycle through the hand dug tunnel in the north, it's a great place to stop for lunch and have a cup of tea. Most of the homes there will cook a delicious local lunch for you; our lunch at No. 4 Daqing, well known in the area for its Hong Shao Rou, was superb. There are a couple of ... View Detail

Dragon Well

It's the village famous for tea. To go there, you can enjoy the tea, have a country home style meal, watching the tea field, breath fresh air. Normally the price for a cup of tea is between 15RMB to 50RMB. It's about thirty minutes outside the city. You can take bus Y4 or K658. A taxi will run you about 30RMB. Every person, which is somehow connected to the Chinese Tea culture knows about the Long Jing (Dragonwell) Tea. The best Long Jing tea is Xi Hu Long Jing that grows on nearby the ... View Detail

Eight Dragon

Dragon Well (Long jing) is located on the Fenghuang Hill to the west of Xihu (West Lake), one of the good attractions for your Hangzhou tour. It is actually a spring and known as one of the three most famous springs of Hangzhou (the other two are Jade Spring and Tiger Running Spring). This well was found in the Three Kingdoms' Period (221-280 A.D.), and from that time the local people began to come here to pray for rainfall whenever there was a drought. According to the legends, the well ... View Detail

North Street Dreams, Lost

Beishan Street east Baochu Road, west of Shuguang Road, south of West Lake, north of gems Hill, GE Ling, Qi Xialing, and connected with the urban lake, length 2600 m, known as the "museum without walls" , West Lake Scenic Area is the only historical and cultural district. Xu Xian White Snake from the date of the bridge, then through the North Mountain Street westbound, less than hundred meters is the Hangzhou School of Shanghai Railway Administration, the thirties of last century, ... View Detail