Delights of GUSHAN Hill
1 min readJust a stone’s throw from the palace lies the Zhejiang Provincial Museum.Here，amid the cool stone blocks，visitors can wander through impressively large collections of ancient pottery，catch a glimpse into how aspects of Han culture evolved over thousands of years，and gain an insight into the archaeological finds that are dotted across the wider Zhe jiang area.
On the west of museum’s main hall，you will find a beautiful garden of courtyard of pavilions，corridors，pools，bridges，and artificial rockeries.Called Wenlan Pavilion，it is a famous imperial library built under the reign of Emperor Qianlong.The proudest collection in this library is Siku Quanshu or Complete Library in Four Treasuries），the largest encyclopedia in the world at the time.In a fire in 1861，the old library building was destroyed and part of the book lost.Over the years，local scholars recompiled it and copies were gradually restored to bring this collection back to its former glory.
To round out the trip around the island，visit the northern side.Amid the parkland and the statue of literary genius Lu Xun，visitors can find a number of monuments to literary wisdom，including the home of Lin Bu（林迪），a poet of the Northern Song Dynasty and avid devotee of cranes and plum flowers；the bird in many ways symbolizes the tranquil serenity he found on Gushan Hill.
