Normally，birders find themselves having to travel far outside the major cities to sate their appetite for avian voyeurism，but this is...
City Tours
After a spring of all manner of blooms，there is perhaps nothing more spectacular in pure scale than the lotus flowers...
Right when the plum blossoms start to give out，the peach blossoms pick up the slack. You might see them budding...
West Lake is big.Really big.Every drop of it is steeped in history，poetry，commerce，and nature.And，while all that might be very interesting，it's hardly...
Just a stone's throw from the palace lies the Zhejiang Provincial Museum.Here，amid the cool stone blocks，visitors can wander through impressively...
Further along the road you can find what's left of the Qing Dynasty temporary palace，mainly utilized by the Qing Dynasty...
It's a legend of love and learning-the“Butterfly Lovers"，or“Liang Zhu”，one of the most well known romantic folk legends of China.Having been...
When the famous Marco Polo entered Hangzhou, it was a different place-not just different from where he had been, different...
The porcelain-making techniques of the Southern Song guan kiln were once thought lost to history，but after four decades of research，guan...
Shaped like a bagua，or eight trigrams，symbols to represent the fundamental principles of reality in Daoist cosmology，this farmland at the southern...
Dawn's first rays warm the face，and the scent of peaches perfume the air as swallows chirp and whoosh overhead.Along the...
The legend of the White Snake has provided inspiration for countless artworks and traditional operas It was not meant to...
While West Lake rose，so too did the people who lived around it-notably as Hangzhou became a Chinese capital.Although the Tang...
Disembarking at Gongchen Bridge, one can comfortably come to grips with the captivating historical importance of this bridge and canal....
Between 1411 and 1415，the canal saw further expansion with 300，000 laborers dredgingit and building a new canal route through Shandong...
Opposite to Xiaohe Straight Street to the west bank of the Grand Canal，nestled in deep alleyways，is a monastery called Xiangji...
The four Baxia creatures guarding the main arch of Gongchen Bridge，legendary statues of the sons of the formidable Dragon Emperor...
West Lake's fate rose sharply during the Sui Dynasty（581-618）when the city experienced serious imperial taxation due to being designated the...
Her name was Xishi，also known as Xizi，or the Lady of the West.A great poet once compared the West Lake on...
Chinese historians generally point to Liangzhu Culture as the earliest form of Chinese civilization，but the Hangzhou area was home to...