The rich local color of Shaoxing culture is reflected in many works of Lu Xun, the literary giant of the generation, from the Hundred Grass Gardens to the Sanmei Bookstore, and from the aniseed beans of Kong Yiqi to the hometown opera, the hometown complex of Lu Xun's culture can be seen everywhere. Visiting Shaoxing may be a nostalgic journey of Lu Xun culture. Standing by the river, you can see boatmen wearing small felt hats and playboys wearing silver collars; stepping into the Xianheng Hotel, you can taste the authentic fennel beans; going back to the countryside to see a traditional social opera ......
Shaoshing is such a famous water city with a strong local color. of the famous water city. Long ancient fiber road, green water crystal, stone bridges flying, light boat shuttle, there are 1900 kilometers of rivers of all sizes, more than 4,000 bridges, constituting a typical Jiangnan water town scenery. East Lake cave bridge reflected, the water is blue in the sky; five leaks into waterfalls, five folding square down; Ke rock scenery, ghostly craftsmanship; Lanting to Wang Xizhi's "Lanting set of preface" and known as the calligraphy resort; Shen Garden is due to the love tragedy of Lu You, Tang Wan, so that the later sigh; in addition to the Tang Dynasty Slender Road, the six mausoleums in the Southern Song Dynasty, Ming and Qing Dynasty arch bridges, as well as with the associated Shaoxing local customs, in order to the Wupeng boat, Wufeli Hat, Wugansai as a representative of, and the water is the most important part of the water. In thousands of years of historical evolution, the accumulation of rich cultural connotation and present a unique local style, admirable and fascinating.
Shaoxing has a history of about 7,000 years, starting from the Hemudu culture in the middle of the Neolithic period. The ancient capital of Yue was built in 490 B.C., nearly 2,500 years after the city was founded.
During the Spring and Autumn Period, the Yue ethnic group built the Yue State centered around the area of present-day Shaoxing, and became one of the states during the Spring and Autumn Period. In the 25th year of Qin's reign (222 years ago), he decided to settle in the south of the Yangtze River, surrendered the Yuejun, and set up the Huiji County with the Yuejian land, which governed more than 20 counties in the south of present-day Jiangsu Province and most of Zhejiang Province, and ruled over Wu (present-day Suzhou). Western Han Dynasty Emperor Wu Yuanfeng five years (106), Huiji County under the supervision of Yangzhou Assassins Department, then led 26 counties, in today's Zhejiang Province, there are 18 counties. In the fourth year of Yongjian of the Eastern Han Dynasty (129), Huiji County was replaced by Wu County, and the south of the Qiantang River remained as Huiji County, with the rule of Shanyin (present-day Shaoxing). In the second year of Taikang of Jin Dynasty (281), Sun Xiu, a hussar general, was granted the land of Huiji, and the county became a state, which was called the State of Huiji. Sui Kaihuang nine years (589) Ping Chen, provincial counties, abolished Huiji County. At the same time and shanyin, yongxing, shangyu, shinning for huiji, and yuyao, qin, ancient into jujang county, set up wuzhou, rule huiji county, jurisdiction huiji, zhuji, heihe, jujang 4 counties. Sui Emperor Yang Daye first year (605), the abolition of Wu, the original Wuzhou territory set Yuezhou, is the beginning of the name of Yuezhou, the jurisdiction of the county remains unchanged. In the fourth year of Jianyan of the Southern Song Dynasty (1130), Emperor Gaozong bi bi bi in Yuezhou, and changed the name to Shaoxing in the following year, and elevated Yuezhou to Shaoxing Prefecture, which is the origin of the name of Shaoxing. The capital was located in Shanyin, with eight counties under its jurisdiction, namely Shanyin, Huiji, Zhuji, Xiaoshan, Yuyao, Shangyu, Shengxian and Xinchang.
Republic of China in the first year (1912) in February, the abolition of the government, the implementation of the province, the county two-tier system, the original shaoxing province under the jurisdiction of the county directly under the province of zhejiang. 24 years, set up shaoxing administrative inspectorate, jurisdiction of shaoxing, shangyu, yuyao, shengxian, xinchang, zhuji, xiaoshan 7 counties, the commissioner's office is stationed in shaoxing county. 25 years, change shaoxing for the third administrative inspectorate, jurisdiction of the county remains unchanged. 37 years, the name of the second administrative inspectorate, jurisdiction of the 14 counties. (change xiaoshan for the province directly under the jurisdiction of yinxian, cixi, tinghai, zhenhai, fenghua, xiangshan, ninghai, si ming 8 counties), commissioner's office in yuyao.
Shaoxing was liberated on May 7, 1949. set up in June of zhejiang province, the tenth prefectural area, jurisdiction of shaoxing city and shaoxing, shangyu, shengxian, xinchang, zhuji, xiaoshan, huiqi 7 counties. changed to shaoxing prefectural area in october. in january 1952, shaoxing prefectural area was abolished, the municipalities, counties, divided into the provincial government directly under the province of ningbo, jinhua prefectural area. in september 1964, reset the shaoxing prefectural area, shaoxing, shangyu, shengxian jurisdiction, In May 1968, renamed shaoxing area, and set up the shaoxing area revolutionary committee. 1978 September renamed shaoxing area administrative office. 1983 July, abolished the shaoxing area, set up the provincial shaoxing city so far, for the 68 provincial capitals and one of the center of the city, was listed as the national historical and cultural city and the Chinese excellent tourist city.
Administrative divisions
Shaoxing is one of the first batch of Chinese famous historical and cultural cities, with a history of nearly 2,500 years of founding the city, known as the water township, bridge township, wine township, book township and the hometown of famous scholars. Shaoxing is located in the south wing of the Yangtze River Delta, north-central Zhejiang Province between Hangzhou and Ningbo, economically developed, affluent people. Shaoxing County, Zhuji City, Shangyu City, Shengzhou City, Xinchang County and Yuecheng District are under the jurisdiction of Shaoxing County, Zhuji City, Shangyu City, Shengzhou City, Xinchang County and Yuecheng District.
In order to meet the needs of urbanization strategy, after in-depth research, public opinion, repeated arguments, Shaoxing City, six counties (cities, districts) townships administrative division adjustment plan all approved by the provincial government for implementation, so that the city's townships administrative division adjustment work is completed. County (city, district) of the urban area expanded from 447 square kilometers to 950.25 square kilometers; the city's central town scale expanded accordingly, the number of townships from 135 to 98, the number of streets from 6 to 20, laying the foundation for the city's comprehensive economic and social development.
Ethnicity and religion
Pre-Qin period, Shaoxing area is mainly for the Yu Yue clan settlement. After the Qin and Han Dynasties, with the large number of Han Chinese migrating southward from the central plains and the mutual integration of ethnic groups, the Han Chinese dominated Shaoxing. At the same time, there are a small number of ethnic minorities living in Shaoxing. 1978 onwards, the increasing interaction between various regions and ethnic groups, Shaoxing ethnic minority residents have also increased.
Shaoxing is the coexistence of a variety of religions, the masses of religious beliefs in a variety of places.
Taoism is the earliest. In the Eastern Han Dynasty, Wei Boyang, an alchemist from Shangyu, wrote a book called "Zhouyi Sen Tongqi" with reference to the three philosophies of "Daiyi", "Huanglao" and "Hearth and Fire", which was the first systematic exposition of Taoist alchemy, and was regarded as "the most important religion in the world" by the later generations. Later generations as the "ancient king of Dan"; Eastern Jin Dynasty Jianwu first year (317), the famous Taoist theorist Ge Hong, author of the "Hug Park Zi", had hut Huiji, alchemy and training.
Somewhat later, Indian Buddhism was introduced to Huiji. During the Middle Peace period of the Eastern Han Dynasty (184-189), An Shigao, a monk from Anshi Kingdom (present-day Iran), came to spread Buddhism in Huiji. Since then, Shaoxing monks, famous temples. Among the monks, the Liang Buddhist historian Hui Jiao, the founder of Sui and Tang Dynasty Sanlun Sect, Jiaxiang Master Jizang, the fourth ancestor of Huayan Sect in Tang Dynasty, Qingliang Venerable Cheng Guan, and the founder of Cao-dong Sect in the Fifth Generation, Dongshan Liang price is the most famous; among the famous Buddhist temples, the most influential ones are the ancestor of Sanlun Sect, Jiaxiang Temple, Cao-dong Sect, Yunmen Temple, Hepathe Daxin Temple which is the first Buddha in the south of the Yangtze River, Wulai Zen Temple in Zhuji City, and Dashanshi Temple, Kaiyuan Temple, Longhua Temple, and Rongzhu Temple in Shaoxing City. Various sects such as Huayan Sect, Ruling Sect, Pure Land Sect, Tantric Sect, Sanlun Sect, Zen Sect, etc. were spread in the territory. During the Tang Dynasty, Yuezhou became an important site for Buddhist activities in Jiangnan and a station for foreign exchanges, and the four families of the Japanese "Eight Families of the Tang Dynasty", namely, the most Cheng, Yuan Ren, Yuan Zhen, and Kung Hai, came to Yuezhou to seek for the law, and returned to their home countries to create and propagate their sects, which had a far-reaching impact on the Buddhist circles in Japan. 1982, a delegation of Japan's Kung Hai visited China to search for their roots and ancestors, which left a good story in the history of cultural exchanges between China and Japan. Cultural exchanges in the history of left a good story.
After the Opium War, Western religions were imported into China. Qing Daoguang thirty years to Tongzhi seven years (1850 ~ 1868), the British missionary Boulton, the French priest Xie Peide and others, has come to Shaoxing spread Catholicism, Christianity. Since then, missionaries from various countries came in droves, covering both urban and rural areas of Shaoxing, to give gruel, rice, cloth and other ways to develop members, and widely built churches. To the Republic of China 8 years (1919), Shaoxing area has a Christian church (place) 124, 2955 people.
After the establishment of the Chinese people's **** and the country, the territory of a number of Buddhist temples have been repaired, some famous priests ascended to preach, major Buddhist activities have been held; Taoism has been nearly obliterated; Christianity, the Catholic Church, free from the control of the power of foreign churches, after the patriotic love of religion, the innovation movement, to obtain a healthy development. According to incomplete statistics in 1990, there were more than 50,000 religious believers in the city, accounting for about 1.2 per cent of the total population, including 44,300 Christians, 365 Catholics, 252 Buddhist monks and nuns, and about 12,500 triple-converted believers; there are 18 patriotic organizations of various religions at all levels in the city, and there are 218 places where various religions are active. The believers labor, live and participate in religious activities in all fields, patriotic and comfortable.
Material resources
Shaoxing's water resources are very rich. Shaoxing is dotted with rivers and lakes, the main rivers are Cao'e River, Puyang River, Hangzhou-Ningbo Canal, and the main lakes are Jianhu Lake, etc. The total amount of water resources is 5.88 billion cubic meters. The total amount of water resources is 5.88 billion cubic meters, and there are 17,000 hectares of fresh water surface for breeding. The water of Jianhu Lake provides high-quality water for the production and life of Shaoxing.
Shaoxing mineral resources to non-metallic minerals. With the development potential and mining value of mineral resources are iron, copper, gold, silver, zinc, diatomaceous earth, kaolin, chlorite, limestone, granite, quartz sand and so on more than 60 kinds of, of which iron and copper reserves accounted for more than 70% of zhejiang province, diatomaceous earth reserves for the first.
Shaoxing human resources thick. Shaoxing has always been the development of education, science and technology as a municipal policy, and has borne fruit. Contemporary Shaoxing Chinese Academy of Sciences, engineers academicians there are 38, professor-level scientific and technological personnel nearly a thousand. The city's existing 123,000 people of various types of professional and technical personnel, well-educated workers 266.7 million people, can provide all kinds of professionals for economic and social development.
Shaoxing's tourism resources are very rich. Shaoxing is famous for its long history and culture, beautiful landscape and unique folk customs. The city's existing open to the public nearly 200 tourist attractions, famous Lu Xun's former residence, the ancient Slender Road, Dayuling, Orchid Pavilion, Shen Garden, Cai Yuanpei's former residence, Zhou Enlai's ancestral home, Zhuji Xishi Hall, Xinchang Dafo Temple, Cao'e Temple in Shangyu, etc., is now open to the culture of wine, stone culture, calligraphy, Buddhism, the waterfront and other tourism line. There are 42 hotels for foreign tourists in the city.
Economic and social
In 2004, the city's GDP of 131.39 billion yuan, an increase of 15.3% over the previous year, the growth rate of the highest in the past seven years; total revenue of 12.88 billion yuan, of which 6.44 billion yuan of local revenues, respectively, an increase of 20% and 27.5% (due to the adjustment of the tax rebate policy for exports and other reasons, the total financial revenue according to the new caliber of the calculation for 7.61 billion yuan, of which local revenues of 6.44 billion yuan, up 20% and 27.5%). 7.61 billion yuan, of which 5.09 billion yuan of local revenue); 62.5 billion yuan of investment in social fixed assets, an increase of 16.8%; disposable income per capita of urban residents 15,642 yuan, per capita net income of 6,970 yuan of rural residents, an increase of 18.9% and 13.5% respectively. Last year, the city was also named the best Chinese charm city and "Forbes" "2004 mainland China's best business cities list" No. 9, the center of the city's overall strength of the country's 42nd, Zhejiang Province, No. 3.
Over the past year, the city adheres to the scientific concept of development as a guide to the central government to strengthen and improve the macro-control as an opportunity to take the development as the first priority, highlighting the following aspects of work.
Actively alleviate factor constraints and promote sound development. We have carefully studied the new situation and new problems in economic operation, strengthened policy regulation and guidance services, and taken active measures to alleviate factor constraints. The implementation of expanding the increment, revitalize the stock, promote intensive use of policy measures, comprehensively carry out the land market governance and reorganization, development zones (parks) from 75 cut to 13, the investment density increased to 116.7 million yuan per acre, to retrieve the abandoned, unused land of more than 1.6 million acres. Increase the power supply and power grid construction efforts, more power generation of thermoelectric enterprises and enterprise-owned power generation and implementation of financial subsidies amounted to nearly 300 million yuan, the public thermal power plant to add 250,000 kilowatts of generating capacity, the enterprise-owned diesel generator capacity of 860,000 kilowatts of new capacity, the substation capacity of the new 3.38 million kilovolt-amperes. Actively expand financing channels, promote financial innovation and cooperation between banks and enterprises, local financial institutions deposits and loan balances than at the beginning of the year increased by 24.2 billion yuan and 20.8 billion yuan respectively, the enterprise loan of 17.1 billion yuan. Continue to strengthen and expand the "Shaoxing plate", Zhejiang Haiyue, Zhejiang Prospect, Jishan Holdings, Xinhecheng, Jinggong Science and Technology, Shion Environment, Jingxin Pharmaceuticals and other seven enterprises to achieve listing, the number of listed companies and the amount of funds raised to maintain the province's first prefecture-level cities.
Transforming the mode of economic growth and promoting intensive development. In accordance with the requirements of "differentiated treatment, with pressure", clean up fixed asset investment projects, and promote industrial upgrading. Around the construction of advanced manufacturing base, strengthen enterprise technological innovation, large enterprises and brand-name products cultivation efforts, and strive to improve the quality of industrial economic operation. Industrial investment of 37.8 billion yuan, an increase of 17.5%, the proportion of investment in non-textile industry above the limit increased to 62.2%; 18 new state-level high-tech enterprises, 21 provincial high-tech enterprises, the new China Well-known Trademarks and China's famous brand-name products 10; sales revenue of more than 3 billion yuan of industrial enterprises to reach 10, of which 2 more than 5 billion yuan; industrial enterprises, economic efficiency evaluation assessment scores 223.3 points, ranking second in the province. The construction market was further expanded, with the output value of 75.8 billion yuan, an increase of 26.6%. Conscientiously implement the 2004 Central Document No. 1, agricultural tax exemption, increased subsidies for food production, the city's financial budget to support agricultural expenditure reached 5.3 billion yuan, an increase of 20.3%. Grain production to achieve restorative growth, sowing area of 2.242 million mu, total output of 953,000 tons, an increase of 6.6% and 13.7%, respectively, the efficiency of grain has improved; the pace of industrialization of agriculture continues to accelerate, the new 67 leading agricultural enterprises, characteristics of the agricultural base of 2.01 million acres, the city of agricultural base of 1,537,000 acres. Strengthen the guidance and incentives for the development of the service industry, the development of Shaoxing city business services development plan outline and a number of opinions, strengthen the integration of tourism festival resources and publicity and promotion, and actively take measures to promote the healthy development of the real estate market, and promote the construction of service industry facilities and environmental transformation. The total retail sales of consumer goods amounted to 33.54 billion yuan, an increase of 14.9%; the number of domestic and foreign tourists received was 12.26 million, and the total income from tourism amounted to 9.52 billion yuan, an increase of 18.3% and 19.1% respectively; and the sales of commercial properties amounted to 7.57 billion yuan, an increase of 36.5%. Actively carry out investment activities, the implementation of export tax rebate policy, encourage the development of processing trade, improve the service environment, the open economy to maintain a better development trend. Contracted foreign investment of 1.67 billion U.S. dollars, an increase of 11.3%, the actual foreign investment of 820 million U.S. dollars, an increase of 10.9%; to achieve a total import and export of 8.66 billion U.S. dollars, of which 6.61 billion U.S. dollars of self-exports, respectively, an increase of 45.3% and 45.8%; the further expansion of foreign economic cooperation.
Elevate the level of urban and rural construction, promote integrated development. Compiled and completed the Hangzhou Bay Shaoxing industrial new town master plan, the southwest of the central city zoning plan and Didang New Town planning. Key project construction investment of 15.67 billion yuan, complete the adjusted annual plan tasks; "double ten" series of projects completed a cumulative investment of 6.75 billion yuan, 5.6 billion yuan of investment in the year. Ke gown fast trunk line, Hangzhou-Jinhua-Quzhou Expressway Shaoxing County Connector Phase I, West Shengli Road and People's Road and other urban road extension, Bazhajiao Historic District Core Protection Zone and the protection of the former residence of Qiu Jin, 220 kV Binhai transmission substation, Shaoxing County, Jianhu Middle School, the Lanting protection and remediation of a period of time, as well as the transformation of the urban village Jinjitang, Dashujiang and other groups of construction projects are completed or basically completed, the Cao'e River locks and the locks of the bridge before the Ningbo Golden Highway, 104 National Highway Shangyu and Xinchang section, Shengxin Sewage Treatment Plant, Zhuji Shibi Reservoir De-risking and Reinforcement and other projects have been started one after another. The development and construction of the new districts of Gaojiang, Keqiao and Jinghu were actively and steadily promoted. The construction of central cities in each county continued to increase, and the new industrial city in the west of Zhuji City, the new area in the north of Shangyu City, the new area in the south of Shengzhou City, and the new area in the seven stars of Xinchang City have further improved their functions and become new highlights of urban construction and investment attraction. The construction of the projects of "Hundred Villages of Well-being Demonstration, Thousand Villages of Reform and Improvement", "Thousand Miles of Clear Water Rivers", and "Thousand Miles of Green Forest Belt" progressed significantly. Urban areas to carry out urban management "ten rectification", urban village renovation and demolition of 1.07 million square meters, the demolition of illegal construction of 120,000 square meters. Efforts to promote the construction of ecological environment, the successful creation of a national water-saving city, small Sun River regional water supply project won the "China Habitat Environment Example Award.
Focus on strengthening social undertakings, promote coordinated development. "Strive to be civilized Shaoxing people, strive to create a national civilized city" activities in an orderly manner, "bold sword spirit" to promote the "spirit of Shaoxing" has been sublimated. Prosperous and active cultural undertakings, successfully held the "seven Arts Festival" branch and closing ceremony, Shao opera "true or false Wukong" won the "Wenhua Grand Prize Special Award". Education is actively promoted, the first in the province to achieve the creation of education county "full of red", six townships (streets) become the first batch of basic modernization of education townships, colleges and universities with more than 30,000 students, Lanting Calligraphy and Art Institute was completed. Implementation of the five-year plan for talent work, the introduction of various types of talent 1.72 million people. The construction of public **** health system continues to strengthen the prevention of avian influenza, SARS and other work has been effective, urban and rural community health service network gradually improved, the counties (cities, districts) new rural cooperative medical system is fully established, the participating population reached 2.93 million. Municipal Women's Hospital Phase II, public **** health centers and a number of health infrastructure has been completed, the city's People's Hospital, the main hospital, the seventh hospital relocation and other projects are progressing smoothly. National fitness campaign is widely carried out, Meng Guanliang won the gold medal at the Athens Olympic Games. Population and family planning work as a whole, launched a regional population development strategy study, passed the national population and family planning comprehensive reform mid-term assessment. There have been new developments in auditing, statistics, ethnicity, religion, foreign affairs, overseas Chinese affairs, Taiwan affairs, archives, meteorology, radio and television broadcasting, and press and publication, and new achievements have been made in the cause of women, children, the elderly, and the disabled.
Working hard to improve people's lives and promote harmonious development. New urban employment of 55,000 jobs, to help 25,000 unemployed urban re-employment, urban registered unemployment rate of 3.8 percent. The "One Million Farmers' Quality Training Project" was pushed forward, and 96,000 rural laborers were newly transferred. The participation rate of enterprise workers' pension insurance increased to 86 percent, the number of requisitioned farmers' pension insurance participants reached 300,000, and the number of urban workers' basic medical insurance participants increased by 11.5 percent. The minimum subsistence guarantee for urban and rural residents has basically realized the principle of "ensuring and supplementing as much as possible"; dynamic subsidies for price increases of basic consumer goods have been granted to the needy; and the centralized support rate for the "Five Guarantees" in the countryside and the "Three Have-nots" in the towns and cities has increased by 86 per cent. The centralized support rate for rural "Five Guarantees" and urban "Three Noes" has reached 97.6 per cent. The collective wage negotiation system has achieved full coverage in enterprises that have established trade unions. The city built 140,000 square meters of new affordable housing, solving the housing problems of 657 households in difficulty, the facade transformation of buildings along major roads was completed, and the food and drug "peace of mind project" was successfully promoted. Innovation "maple bridge experience", create "peace shaoxing", strengthen the stability team building, and solidly carry out social security, production safety, market economic order and wage clearance and other special governance activities, strengthen the cultural market and the yellow wine industry rectification, the establishment of the outstanding issues of letters and visits and group events joint meeting It has also established a joint meeting system to deal with outstanding petition issues and mass incidents. Production safety accidents fell by 39.8 percent, and the total number of letters and visits from the public fell by 20.9 percent. National defense mobilization, militia, reserves, conscription, people's air defense, national security and other work has been strengthened, the third round of the "national double embrace model city" to create a solid progress.
In 2005, the city's economic and social development of the main expected goals: the city's gross domestic product growth of 12%, 15% growth in investment in fixed assets, total retail sales of consumer goods increased by 13%, the total amount of self-managed exports increased by 20%, the local financial income increased by 13%, the per capita disposable income of urban residents increased by 7%, the average per capita net income of rural residents increased by 6%, the town employment More than 50,000 new jobs, urban registered unemployment rate of 4%, the natural population growth rate of 3.32 per thousand.
Shaoxing city flower
Shaoxing orchids have a long history of cultivation, written records began in the Spring and Autumn and Warring States period, which can be said to be the world's largest. China's earliest surviving local history written by Yuan Kang and Wu Ping of the Eastern Han Dynasty, "The Book of Yue Jie", has a record of "Goujian planting orchids in Zhushan".
The Eastern Jin Yonghe nine years (353) on the third day of March, Wang Xizhi invited Xie An, Sun Chuo and other social celebrities at the time, friends and relatives 41 people to the Lanting in Shaoxing to cultivate the Purification of Churches, in the "water flow" activities in the poem 37, Wang Xizhi for the 37 poems was known as the world's first line of the book of the Lanting Preface. 37 poems in the poem there are Several of the 37 poems were written about orchids. For example, Xu Fengzhi's poem, "I am still thinking about the guests, and I am looking forward to the winds forever. I still think of the guests, but I will always sigh in admiration of the wind." The highest peak of Yuan's poem, "People also have words, but if you get them, you will be happy. I am happy to see the guests, and I would like to travel with them. The faintest sound is sung over and over again, and the fragrance is like an orchid. I'm not sure if I'll be able to get it right, but I'm sure I'll be able to get it right."
Zhang Hao of the Song Dynasty, in the compilation of Baoqing "Huiji renewed" wrote: "Orchid, "Yue Jie Shu" said: sentence trample planted orchid islet mountain. The old scripture said: Lanzhushan, Jutian planted orchids of the place, Wang, Xie people cultivate Purification Orchid Pavilion."
Ming Dynasty Shaoxing governor Xiao Liang Gan, Zhang Yuanxuan, Sun Li compiled with the "Shaoxing Fu Zhi" contains: "Lanzhu Mountain, there is grass, long leaves and white flowers, flowers have the national warmth, its name is orchid. Sentence trampled by the tree. Lanzhu water out of the (Tongqu), Lanting, Shanyin Han old county pavilion, Wang Xizhi Qu Shui preface here."
Ming Dynasty Shaoxing famous wizard, the founder of the Qingteng School of painting Xu Pai, life wrote many poems about orchids, painted a lot of orchid paintings, he wrote in the "Orchid Valley Song", "Juchan planted orchids must choose the place, only now Lanzhu is its place. In his poem "Orchid Valley", he wrote: "Jujian planted orchids and had to choose the place, but now Lanzhu is the place. My Yue orchid genealogy was so, only this spring to comical mountains, orchids orchids hanging clouds of purple."
Shaoxing scholar-class writing orchids, chanting orchids, orchids, orchids, history far, in addition to the poetry, painting, but also in the prose notes, such as the Ming Dynasty Zhang Dai's "Taoan Dream Memory", the Qing Dynasty Li Ciming's "Yue Aman Hall Diary" and so on.
Mr. Lu Xun said in a letter to Hatsuie Yamamoto on Nov. 14, 1933, "Raising orchids is quite a troublesome thing, and my great-grandfather cultivated many orchids, and built three houses especially for this purpose." This is also recorded in The Failure of Lu Xun's Former Family, dictated by Zhou Jianren and written by Zhou Wow: "Lu Xun's great-grandfather, Mr. Baicalinian, did not do much else during his lifetime, except that he was a good orchid grower." .
The "Small History of Orchid Hui" published in 1923 is an influential history of orchids. The author Wu Enyuan met many orchid farmers in Shaoxing Tangdi, and recorded in "Small History of Orchid Hui" the contribution of Shaoxing Tangdi orchid farmers' orchid-growing experience and discovery of famous and valuable varieties. 26 famous and valuable varieties of orchids from Shaoxing County accounted for 26 varieties of orchids out of 40 varieties of famous and valuable varieties of orchids from Jiang, Zhejiang, and Shanghai recorded in "Small History of Orchid Hui".
On January 22, 1984, the second meeting of the Standing Committee of the First People's Congress of Shaoxing adopted a resolution to determine orchids as the city flower of Shaoxing. 1988 to 1992, Shaoxing's orchids won 13 gold medals and 27 silver medals in the three national orchid expositions and two national orchid exhibitions*** as well as 10 medals of excellent varieties, 3 medals of cultivation and 1 medal of science and technology. Science and Technology Medal 1. Comrade Zhu De, the old proletarian revolutionary, had exchanged experience of raising orchids with Shaoxing orchid farmers, and Shaoxing also has a special flower market. 1991, at the opening ceremony of National Spring Orchid Exhibition, Prof. Wu Yingxiang, honorary chairman of Chinese Orchid Society, said in his speech: Shaoxing ---- is the hometown of Chinese orchids.