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How is Lanxi City?

Lanxi City is very good.

Lanxi is a national garden city, a provincial civilized city, and one of the earliest outstanding tourist cities in China. The urban area has the poetic landscape of "three rivers and six banks, two mountains and two towers, three islands and one ancient city". Jinhua River, Qujiang River and Lanjiang River meet in Lancheng. Two mountains, Yunshan Mountain and Lanyin Mountain, face each other across the river. Zhongzhou and Waiyuzhou , Nuertan is inlaid with Lanjiang River.

There are Zhuge Bagua Village, the largest gathering place for Zhuge Liang’s descendants in the country, the Liudong Mountain Underground River, which Xu Xiake praised as “the most unique place in the south of the Yangtze River”, and the Orchid Lake Provincial Tourism Resort, known as the “Switzerland of the East”. and other famous attractions.

Lanxi was founded as a county in AD 674 (the 5th year of Xianheng reign of the Tang Dynasty). It has a glorious history of nearly 1,400 years. It is a famous historical and cultural city in Zhejiang Province and the "Hometown of Provincial Folk Culture and Art". Historically, relying on the waterway transportation advantages of "the confluence of three rivers and the thoroughfare of seven provinces", commerce and trade prospered and merchants gathered. During the Song Dynasty, Lanxi was known as "Jiangnan in the world", and since the Ming and Qing Dynasties, it has been known as "the first commercial port in Qiantang".

In modern times, it is also known as "the first county in the Republic of China". On May 6, 1949, Lanxi was liberated and people's power was established. On May 15, 1985, Lanxi was removed from the county and established as a city, becoming the first batch of county-level administrative regions in the province to remove the county and establish a city.

Lanxi City Tourist Attractions

1. Zhuge Bagua Village: Located 18 kilometers west of Lanxi City, it was called "Gaolong" in ancient times. There are more than 3,000 people in the village who are direct descendants of Zhuge Liang, making it the largest village in the country. The place where the descendants of Zhuge Liang concentrated. The overall structure of Zhuge Village was designed and laid out by Zhuge Dashi, the 27th generation descendant of Zhuge Liang, according to the Nine Palaces and Bagua. The alleys in the village seem to be connected but not connected, and are twists and turns.

2. Liudong Mountain Scenic Area is located 8 kilometers away from the eastern suburbs of Lanxi City. It is named after the white clouds, purple clouds, surging snow, bottomless and funnel holes recorded in history. It is a scenic spot in the central and western part of Zhejiang Province. A pearl on the tourism line. The total area of ??the scenic spot is 8.5 square kilometers. It is characterized by beautiful mountains, beautiful water, strange caves, and secluded temples. It is dominated by karst cave landscape. It consists of four major scenic spots: Yongxue Cave-Yulu Cave, Jiaguo Tour, Qizhen Temple, and Jiangshan Mountain. .

3. Zhiyan Village Building Group: located in Zhiyan Village, Zhiyan Township. The village is the settlement of the Chen family. It was first built in the Song Dynasty. Commercial buildings such as inns and groceries appeared in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. There are more than 30 Ming and Qing folk houses, divided into two categories: ancestral halls and folk houses. Representative buildings include "Xiaosi Hall", "Yande Hall", "Jimei Hall", "Chengzhi Hall", etc.