Shaoxing.
Orchid Pavilion, canals and the opening chapter of eastern Zhejiang’s poetry road.
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Shaoxing
Shaoxing brings writing and landscape together: canals threaded through an old city, the memory of Wang Xizhi at Orchid Pavilion, and the waterways that led generations of travellers deeper into eastern Zhejiang.
Start at Orchid Pavilion to understand why a gathering of writers became one of China’s best-known calligraphy stories. The East Lake and old waterways make a complementary landscape day. The historical poetry road was a network of river and overland passages, not a modern walking trail with a single fixed itinerary.
Orchid PavilionJourneys in
Shaoxing.
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Tea hills, waterside streets and cultural landscapes, from Hangzhou to a more personal journey through Zhejiang.
Read the guide ↗LITERATURE & LANDSCAPEEastern Zhejiang Poetry Road
Travel from Shaoxing through Shengzhou and Xinchang to Tiantai, following waterways, mountains and the poems that gave them new lives.
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