D1 trip: arrived in Hangzhou
After arriving in Hangzhou, it is recommended to live in the West Lake Liu Lang Wenying scenic area Liu Ying Hotel. Living near the water, enjoy the beautiful West Lake. Around the distance from the three pools and the moon, Leifeng sunset is not far away, the night accompanied by the evening bells of Nanping into dreamland. The whole family rests and adjusts.
D2 itinerary: Hangzhou West Lake
Hangzhou West Lake scenic area is relatively large in scope, the relative sights can be seen famous and relatively centralized: Yue Wang Tomb; Su Causeway, White Causeway stroll.
Hangzhou West Lake
Hangzhou is located in the southern wing of the Yangtze River Delta, the western end of Hangzhou Bay, the lower reaches of the Qiantang River, the southern end of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, the Yangtze River Delta is an important center of the city and the southeastern transportation hub of China. The geographical coordinates of Hangzhou city center are 30 degrees 16 minutes north latitude and 120 degrees 12 minutes east longitude. Hangzhou has a subtropical monsoon climate with four distinct seasons, mild and humid, abundant light and rainfall. The average annual temperature is 16.2℃, the average summer temperature is 28.6℃, and the average winter temperature is 3.8℃. The frost-free period is 230-260 days. The average annual rainfall is 1,435 millimeters and the average relative humidity is 76%. West Lake in the center of Hangzhou, 3.3 kilometers in length from north to south, 2.8 kilometers in width from east to west, the original area of 5.66 square kilometers of water surface, now along with the "West Lake West" expanded to 6.5 square kilometers, basically reaching the area of the West Lake 300 years ago. West Lake and the Qiantang River communication, the daily introduction of the Qiantang River about 300,000 cubic meters of water, the water of the West Lake from the original year to become a monthly change, transparency from the original less than 60 centimeters to 120 centimeters.
West Lake, is a poem, a natural picture, a beautiful and touching story, whether it is many years living here or hurry through the travelers, all for the world's unparalleled beauty. In March, the warbler flies and the grass grows. The two embankments of Su Bai are lined with peach and willow. On both sides of the rippling water, cruise ships point, the distance is the mountain color empty, green green. Walking on the embankment at this time, you will be amazed by the scenery in front of you, and even intoxicated, wondering if you have entered the world of fairyland.
And the beauty of the West Lake is not only unique in the spring, summer lotus blue lotus, autumn night drenched in moonlight in the three pools, winter snow after the shadow of the red plums, but also the willow willow willow in the warbler cries, drizzle in the building ------ No matter when you come to, you will appreciate the unusual style.
West Lake ten scenes formed in the Southern Song Dynasty, basically around the West Lake distribution, some are located on the lake. Su Causeway Spring Dawn, Qu Yuan Wind Lotus, Pinghu Autumn Moon, Broken Bridge, Willow Wave Wenying, Flower Harbor Fish Watching, Leifeng Sunset, Twin Peaks in the clouds, Nanping Evening Bells, Three Pools and the Moon, the ten scenic spots of the West Lake, each of which excels in its own way, combined together and on behalf of the essence of the ancient scenic beauty of the West Lake, so no matter whether the local people in Hangzhou or foreign guests are all enjoyable, the first to swim for the fast.
The new West Lake Ten Scenic Spots is 1985 after Hangzhou citizens and people around the active participation in the selection, and by the expert selection committee after repeated deliberation, they are: Yunqi Bamboo Path, Manlong Guiyu, Hupeng Dream Springs, Longjing Tea, Nine Streams Smoke Tree, Wushan Tianfeng, Ruandun Huibi, Huanglong Tujui, Yuhuang Flying Clouds, Jeweled Liu Xia.
Other attractions include the Baochuan Show, the Long Bridge, the old moon, the ancient pagoda, the lakeside green corridor, the Flower Garden, the Jinsha Style, the Nine Mile Cloud Pine, the Meiwu Tea Scene, the West Mountain Gathering, the Prince's Wild Interests, the Botanical Kingdom, the Ruins of Zhongshan, the Lingyin Buddhist Kingdom, and the Tomb Temple of King Yue.
West Lake scenic evolution:
Since the Southern Song Dynasty moved the capital, to the West Lake has brought unprecedented prosperity, the emergence of a thousand years of "West Lake Ten Scenic Spots", Pinghu Lake Autumn Moon, Su Causeway Spring Dawn, the Broken Bridge, Leifeng Sunset, Nanping Evening Bells, the Courtyard Wind Lotus, the Flower Harbor to watch the fish, Willow Waves hear the warblers, the Three Pools and the Moon, the Double Peak The clouds.
Yuan people followed the Song Dynasty set up six bridges of smoke and willow, nine miles of clouds and pines, woodcutting songs, Lushan Jixue, Beiguan night market, Geling sunrise, Zhejiang Autumn Wave, Cold Springs, two peaks of the white clouds and the night moon of the West Lake of the Yuan Ten Scenic Spots.
The Qing Dynasty added the Hushan Spring Society, Gongde Chongfang, Haixia Xishuang, Plum Grove back to the crane, fish swamp autumn hibiscus, Lotus Pond Pine House, Jewel Phoenix Pavilion, Pavilion Bay ride, banana stone sounding qin, Jade Springs fish jumping, Fengyeling Pines, the lake, Wushan Daguan, Dazhu incense market, Yunqi Fan Path, Taoguang Guanyuanhai and Xixi 18 scenic beauty.
Till the modern West Lake new ten scenic spots, Yunqi Bamboo Path, full of osmanthus rain, Hupeng dream spring, Longjing tea, nine streams of smoke trees, Wushan Tianfeng, Ruandun Huabi, Huanglong Tujui, Yuhuang Flying Clouds and Jeweled Haze all show people's favorite feelings about West Lake.
D3 Itinerary: Lingyin Temple, famous for Jigong; Liuhe Pagoda, where Lu Zhishen sat down in Water Margin; and Hu Qingyu Tang, an honest old pharmacy on Hefang Street, run by red-top merchant Hu Xueyan. As the saying goes, there is Tongrentang in the north and Hu Qingyu in the south. Phoenix Temple, one of the four major Islamic temples, are not to be missed.
Lingyin Temple
Lingyin Temple, also known as Yunlin Temple, was founded in the Eastern Jin Dynasty Xianheyuan year (A.D. 326), when the Indian monk Huili came to Hangzhou, see the peaks of this place is very beautiful, that is, "the spirit of the immortal is hidden", so it is here to build a temple, named "Lingyin." Qing Kangxi, during the southern tour, has climbed the temple after the North Peak tops to see the scenery. He saw the mountain below the cloud forest desert, the whole temple is covered in a light morning mist, seems very quiet, so the Lingyin Temple was given the name "Yunlin Zen Temple". Now in front of the Hall of the Heavenly Kings, the "Yunlin Zen Temple" four huge plaque, that is, when the Kangxi Emperor's "Royal Pen". Lingyin Temple in its heyday, there are nine buildings, eighteen pavilions, seventy-two halls, monks and disciples of more than 3,000 people. During the Northern Song Dynasty, some people ranked all the temples in Jiangnan, and the magnificent Lingyin Temple was listed as the first of the five mountains of Zen monasteries. Lingyin Temple is indeed y "hidden" the meaning of the word, the whole majestic temple is hidden in the West Lake peaks of dense forests and springs of a thick green. In front of the temple, there are cold springs and Feilai Peak. It is said that Su Dongpo guarded Hangzhou, often with poets and bureaucrats to this tour, and has been in the Cold Spring Pavilion quot;Drawing fan judgment" it.
Today's Lingyin Temple is rebuilt at the end of the Qing Dynasty on the basis of successive restoration and reconstruction of the entire temple building axis for the Heavenly King Hall, Daxiongbao Hall, Medicine Master Hall. Heavenly King Hall is facing the door of the niche for Maitreya Buddha statue, bare chest and belly, sitting on a pedestal, smiling; back to the door of the niche for the Buddhist god of protection of the Buddha statue, like two and a half meters high, wearing a gold helmet, body wrapped in armor, bright and energetic. This statue to the camphor wood carving, is a precious relic of the Southern Song Dynasty survived to this day. Heavenly King Hall is flanked by four heavenly kings colorful statues, each eight meters high, each clad in heavy armor. Two of them in the form of mighty, two look and good, commonly known as the four big King Kong.
Da Xiong Bao Dian formerly known as Jue Huang Hall, single-story three stacked eaves, imposing. In the middle of the temple, Buddha Shakyamuni statue perched on a lotus seat, the wonderful appearance of dignity, nodding and looking down, awe-inspiring. This is one of the tallest wooden statue of Buddha sitting in China. Shakyamuni statue of the back wall for the "fifty-three sen" painted group sculpture, *** there are different postures of the size of the Buddhist statues of one hundred and fifty, the performance of the scriptures in the Cai child through the trials and tribulations of worship fifty-three "good knowledge" (master), and finally achieved the fruits of the Buddha's story. The main statue of this rich and vivid wall sculpture is the Bodhisattva Guanyin with her foot on the back of an ao, holding a vase in her hand, and she accepts the worship of the Good Fortune Child in a dashing and peaceful manner.
Shakyamuni statue The original Shakyamuni statue at Lingyin Temple was destroyed in 1949 when the main beam of the Mahamudra Hall was hollowed out by termites and collapsed. Now this statue is in 1953 when the temple was rebuilt, by the Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts sculptors and folk artists using the Tang Dynasty Zen Buddhist statue as a model **** with elaborate design. Buddha is 19.6 meters high, more than twice as high as the original statue of Shakyamuni, with nearly 100 pieces of camphor wood carved. Statue of Buddha modeling dignified and heavy, low eyebrows and fine eyes, gas Shao vivid, extremely with style. Medicine Buddha Hall for the reconstruction in recent years, the temple enshrines the Medicine Buddha statue and the day, the moon day. The left side of the temple, there is the reconstruction of the Lohan Hall, displaying five hundred Lohan statues line carved stone. Towering halls, the ancient trees, accompanied by a number of precious cultural relics and monuments. Heavenly King Hall in front of the left and right each have a stone scripture building. The two blocks of scripture have "the world's military marshal Wu Yue King built, when the Song Dynasty Bao two years has been the age of leap May," the inscription. Daxiongbao Hall before the platform on both sides of an octagonal nine-story imitation wood structure stone tower, tower height of more than seven meters, the tower body of each side of the beautifully carved, by the ancient architectural experts Liang Sicheng life examined, the two stone towers are also carved at the end of the year of the Wu-Yue. Lingyin Temple collection of Buddhist cultural relics, there are ancient shell leaf writing scriptures, Eastern Wei gold-plated statue of Buddha, Ming Dong Qichang writing "Diamond Sutra", the Qing Yongzheng woodblock print Longzang and so on, are invaluable treasures.
D4 Itinerary: Stroll around Hangzhou's busy commercial streets
The main commercial streets in Hangzhou are Yan'an Road, Jiefang Road and Zhongshan Road. Buy some Hangzhou specialties. Besides, the most famous specialty in Hangzhou is silk and its products. From small silk fans to big clothes, they are quite beautiful.