What are the attractions in Hangzhou Chaoshan Scenic Area?

Chaoshan Scenic Area is located in Yuhang District, 25 kilometers northeast of Hangzhou City. It is also a national AAAA-level tourist attraction. The scenery here is beautiful, the environment is quiet, the air is fresh, and it is also a popular place for leisure and sightseeing. So what are the attractions worth seeing in Chaoshan Scenic Area?

Plum blossoms

The planting of plum blossoms in Chaoshan has a long history. Planting began in the Jin Dynasty (936-946) five generations later, more than 1,000 years ago. The plum blossoms in the mountains are famous for their "wideness, ancientness and wonder". China is famous for its five plums, namely Chu plum, golden plum, Liang Meiwei, Tang plum and Song plum. There are two super mountains, Tangmei and Songmei. There are tens of thousands of varieties of plum blossoms, including more than 50 varieties such as Gulihong, white butterfly, red plum, white plum, green calyx plum, cinnabar plum, and apricot plum. The plum blossoms are old and withered, their shadows are thin and slanted, red, white and green, and all the flowers are in full bloom, just like the starry sky on a summer night. As the predecessors said: "White flowers spread out on jade, and the sky more than ten miles away reflects white, like flying snow scattered from the ceiling." It is known as "the sea of ??plum blossoms and fragrant snow for ten miles".

Current location The entrance hall of Jin Ming Tang Dynasty is a courtyard. Dozens of white and red plum trees are planted on both sides of the stone road. There is a stone altar along the end of the stone road with an old plum tree inside. The word "Tang Mei" is carved on the wall of the stone altar below. It is unknown whether Tang Mei was created by people from the Tang Dynasty. It is said that it was named in memory of Tang Jue, an upright scholar in the Song Dynasty. On both sides of Tang Mei, there are stone steps on the platform behind. There is a golden osmanthus and a silver osmanthus on the platform, and the rest are plum blossoms. Behind the tree is a two-story wooden building - "Piaoxiang Pavilion", with vermilion pillars and flower windows.

Tang Mei

A stone pavilion with upturned corners and flying eaves. There is a stone table in the pavilion, stone stools around it, and the plaque has the word "Song" inscribed by the famous calligrapher Yu. Seven couplets are carved on the stone pillars around the pavilion. It is said that in mid-spring of 1923, the calligrapher and painter was invited by Yao, a native of Tingzhou, to visit the mountains and rivers with Wang Shoushan, a scholar from Tangqi. In front of the Xianghai Tower (today's Daming Hall) of Baoci Temple, there are dozens of old plum trees planted around, with moss and fish scales, and the clumps are curved like dragons, which makes me very strange. So my friends and I agreed to build a small pavilion next to the Songmei tree. He also wrote to Wu Changshuo, inviting him to be a butcher. Mei Ting was completed at the end of the year.

Song Mei Pavilion

On the right side of the Chaoshan mountain top is the Shangsi Temple, with the Xintianwang Temple in front. Passing through the Tianwang Hall is an open space. Walk along the stone road in the middle, with a platform paved with stone in front. Climbing the steps, facing the stone wall, there are two large characters "——Chaofeng" inscribed by Zhang Zongxiang, a famous contemporary calligrapher, the third president of Xiling Seal Society and the director of Zhejiang Provincial Library. On the top of the mountain is the Xuanwu Hall, also known as Chunyiyuan, commonly known as the Shangdian, which is dedicated to the Holy Emperor Xuanwu. The left side of the main hall is the Sutra Hall, and the right side is the Prison Hall.

Chaofeng

In the temple on Super Mountain, there are rugged paths on both sides to go around to the back of the temple. There is the Eight Immortals Pavilion on the ridge behind the temple, which is the highest point of the mountain. There is a poem by the predecessors: "There is a pavilion with slightly higher wings, and the pine tops are always covered by clouds." When the mountain is empty, the gods come, and the eternal world is the leading enterprise. "When you board the Eight Immortals Pavilion, you will see a panoramic view dozens of miles away. The canal in the distance is like a belt, and tens of thousands of people living in the pond are hidden in the hazy smoke. In the middle are the water towns and wetlands," top "Shanhu Yang". There are fields, wells, rivers and harbors nearby, as well as hundreds of ponds of different sizes, like a mirror with thousands of faces.

Eight Immortals Pavilion

Qinglian Temple is one of the scenic spots in Chaoshan Scenic Area. After the Qinglian Temple was reopened in 1992, the foundation stone for the reconstruction of Qinglian Temple was laid in June 1993. Seven years later, the Shifang Hall, Daxiong Hall, and Tianwang Hall were built one after another.

Mahatma Ha