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Huzhou

In the southern suburbs of Huzhou, surrounded by mountains and rivers, the place where people flow like weaving, next to the bamboo forest, there is a beautiful "heaven and earth" written. In fact, this is known as the "heaven and earth" restaurant known as the beautiful scenery of the water town in the south of the Yangtze River, and the "Phoenix of the World" restaurant located in the northern suburbs of Huzhou.

Huzhou is located in the north of Zhejiang Province and on the south bank of Taihu Lake. It is 150 kilometers away from Shanghai in the east and 90 kilometers away from Hangzhou in the south, which is the intersection of Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Anhui, and is named because it is close to Taihu Lake. Now it has jurisdiction over Deqing, Changxing, Anji three counties and Wuxing, Nanxun two districts, with a total area of 5,817 square kilometers and a population of 2.57 million.

It is an ancient city in Jiangnan with a history of 2,300 years. In 248 B.C., Chu Chun Shenjun Huang Xie built the city here, and in 602 A.D., it began to be named Huzhou. Huzhou, which has entered the new century, is developing at an unprecedented speed and is gradually becoming a modern big city in the Taihu Lake Basin.

If you look at the picture below, it looks like a "poor mountain and bad water"!

In China's Yangtze River Delta region, Huzhou is an important city open to the outside world, and is one of the five cities identified by the State Council to "advance planning and development" with the development and opening up of Shanghai Pudong as the leader. The city's national economy has developed sustainedly, rapidly and healthily, its comprehensive strength has been significantly enhanced, and the people's lives have achieved the goal of being well-off. Huzhou City adheres to the strategic orientation of "connecting with Greater Shanghai and integrating into the Yangtze River Delta", and gradually builds Huzhou into Shanghai's "back garden", "vegetable garden" and "processing garden".

Huzhou is located in the south of the Yangtze River, belongs to the subtropical monsoon climate, the four seasons are distinct, famous for the clear mountains and rivers, the natural scenery is beautiful, the mountain water resources are very rich. There are stratigraphic profiles of the global Permian to Triassic boundary, commonly known as the "golden nail", as well as living fossils of paleontology, ginkgo biloba and Chinese alligator.

Mogan Mountain, one of the four major summer resorts in the country, is also in Huzhou, Moganshan is named after the famous swordsmith and cadre, Mo Xie couple cast swords here more than 2,000 years ago, and is famous at home and abroad for bamboo, clouds, springs "three wins" and clear, quiet, cool and green "four excellent", more than 200 villas dotted on the mountain have different architectural styles, and have the name of "the world's modern architecture museum".

Through more than ten years of construction, the South Taihu Lake has a pleasant scenery and complete tourism facilities, becoming a hot spot for leisure tourism. Especially in the Taihu Lake Tourist Resort, the National Extreme Sports Competition has been held continuously since 1999, and the South Taihu Lake Water Sports Base of the National Sports Federation has been built, which is known as the "Extreme Capital of China" by Chinese and foreign extreme sports enthusiasts.

Anji County has the reputation of "China's Bamboo Township", which won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, and the famous bamboo forest sword fighting scene in "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" directed by Ang Lee and starring Chow Yun-fat and Zhang Ziyi was filmed in Anji Dazhuhai. The Longwang Mountain, the first peak in northern Zhejiang with an altitude of 1587.4 meters, is in the territory of Anji County, known as the "green treasure house of northern Zhejiang", and is the source of the Huangpu River, the mother river of Shanghai.

Huzhou is known as the "State of Culture" in history, outstanding people, humanities, Huzhou people have made outstanding contributions to the history of Chinese painting and calligraphy and literature, and the unique humanistic atmosphere of the water towns in the south of the Yangtze River is still deeply hidden in the alleys and ancient houses in Huzhou.

Huzhou is the hometown of Hubi, which is listed as the first of the four treasures of Chinese study. According to legend, Meng Tian, the general of the Qin State, made significant improvements to the production process of the lake pen, and pioneered the "Naying in the tube", which has been passed down to this day. Hubi not only has the reputation of "Huying's skills in the world", but also gives birth to Hubi culture with distinctive regional characteristics. Hubi has made outstanding contributions to the spread of Chinese culture and the inheritance of civilization. In the past 50 years, Chen Yi, Zhu De, Dong Biwu and other national leaders and a group of literary giants and calligraphy and painting masters such as Guo Moruo, Pan Tianshou, Shen Yinmo, Sha Menghai, Tan Jiancheng, etc., have left precious ink treasures with the lake pen and formed an indissoluble bond with the lake pen.

The style of calligraphy and painting in Huzhou was quite prosperous. Cao Buxing during the Three Kingdoms period was the first painter in Chinese history to establish a biography; Wang Xizhi, known as the saint of books, has been an official in Huzhou for many years; Zhao Mengfu (fǔ), a famous calligrapher and painter in the Yuan Dynasty, founded the ancient Chinese school of scholarly painting and left a profound influence on the history of world art, and the International Astronomical Organization also named a crater on Mercury after him; Wu Changshuo, the founder of modern Shanghai-style culture, was also from Huzhou, who integrated "poetry, calligraphy, painting, and printing" and founded the Xiling Seal Society. More than 1,000 years ago, Lu Yu, the "tea saint", wrote the "Book of Tea" when he lived in seclusion in Huzhou, which was the first tea monograph famous at home and abroad, laying the foundation for the development of Chinese tea culture.

Huzhou is known as the "House of Silk", is one of the birthplaces of the world's silk culture, more than 4,700 years ago Huzhou ancestors began to plant mulberry silkworms. Huzhou's "Jili Lake Silk" was not only designated as a royal tribute of the Qing Dynasty, but also won a special gold medal from Queen Victoria at the first World Exposition in London in 1851.

In the dense river network of Jiangnan water towns are also dotted with countless stone bridges of different shapes and charming towns, Nanxun is the famous writer Xu Chi's heart of the crystal Jiangnan town. The ancient town of Nanxun Water Township has distinctive characteristics, has always been known for its garden gathering, strong economic strength, now not only preserves the largest collection of books in China's modern history of the private library - Jiaye Tang Library Building, but also preserves a large number of private gardens of the Ming and Qing dynasties, these houses are amazing with their unique combination of Chinese and Western style.

Huzhou also preserves many historical relics, the Tang Dynasty built the Feiying Tower in the tower, the architectural form is unique, the Song Dynasty's Tieguanyin casting skills are exquisite, the former site of the New Fourth Army Jiangsu and Zhejiang Military Region is also in Huzhou.

Huzhou is the famous "land of fish and rice", the ancients said: "Su Lake is ripe, the world is full". So far, Huzhou is still an important production base of grain and oil, silkworm cocoons, freshwater fish and moso bamboo, and is one of the three major freshwater fish breeding bases in the country, and the stock of moso bamboo accounts for one-tenth of the country. The original "Hundred Fish Banquet" and "Hundred Bamboo Shoot Banquet" created by Huzhou people enrich the connotation of Chinese cuisine. In recent years, with the transformation of traditional agriculture to modern agriculture, all kinds of special aquatic products, high-quality vegetables, famous and special melons and fruits, high-grade flowers and other agricultural products have been continuously transported from Huzhou to Shanghai and other large and medium-sized cities and many overseas regions.

In the southern suburbs of Huzhou, surrounded by mountains and rivers, the place where people flow like weaving, next to the bamboo forest, there is a beautiful "heaven and earth" written. In fact, this is known as the "heaven and earth" restaurant known as the beautiful garden, and the "world phoenix" restaurant located in the northern suburbs of Huzhou is equally famous.

Wow! What a place to be! Don't you want to go here? Isn't this Huzhou good? Who dares to say that this is "poor mountains and bad waters, shrews and people"? ”