Destination guide
Shaoxing
Literary heritage · historic gardens · calligraphy landscapes
A closer look
Shaoxing
Shaoxing is a city of stone bridges, narrow canals and literary memory, linking old neighbourhoods and landscapes through the legacies of Lu Xun, Lu You and Wang Xizhi.
Selected attractions
Lu Xun Native Place
Lu Xun Native Place preserves the writer's family homes, childhood garden and school, connecting his literary world with Shaoxing's old city.
Shen Garden
Shen Garden is a historic Song-era garden remembered for the story of poets Lu You and Tang Wan and the verses of 'Phoenix Hairpin'.
East Lake
Shaoxing's East Lake grew from an ancient quarry, where sheer rock faces, grottoes and narrow waterways are explored by small black-awning boats.
Orchid Pavilion
The Orchid Pavilion is inseparable from Wang Xizhi and the 'Preface to the Poems Collected from the Orchid Pavilion', set among bamboo, winding water and calligraphic stonework.
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