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Hangzhou in the Spring 四月杭州 (2012)
chin:
More random pictures from the hotel gardens.
chin:
Hangzhou, one of the most storied Chinese cities, with history traced back almost 5000 years.
I have a book 吳越之間 by 余秋雨 in my office for more than 5 years. It's a book about Hangzhou (and the nearby Suzhou 蘇州), from the time of the Warring States (春秋戰國，吳越之爭) more than 2000 years ago, to... Well, I never finishing reading the book.
Many of the most famous buildings or locates in Hangzhou now date back to Song dynasty (about 1000 years ago!) Everywhere you go, there are buildings or courtyards or whatever that date back to Song, Ming, or the more recent Qing dynasty. We are talking about things that's 1000, 600, or at least 200 years old.
Yet, there I was. Spending most of my time in a bubble - inside the Four Seasons Hotel. My excuse was that many places are getting to tourisssyyy, too crowded, etc...
Am I getting too old or too energy-less? Why was I not even trying to get out and see something historic?!
chanchiwai:
wonderful!!
have you guys to a place where our famous Red Hat Merchand lived (紅頂商人，胡雪巖), i went there about 11yrs ago right after our Marlon introduced me the book....紅頂商人.....i wish i can go there again for 2nd time...but no time...if you can could update would be perrfect...
;D ;D ;D
wongyan:
a video to show the forging process of LongQuan Sword!
wongyan:
A map showing the highway systems around HangZhou. We went to QianDaoHu and LongQuan.
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