Upon opening the map of Xiaoshan, what is shown to us is a great area of green mountains and water by extending our sight southward with the starting point from “the junction of three rivers”  as Qiantang River, Fuchun River and Puyang River. This enchanting and beautiful countryside tourist routine has clustered the featured resources at the 8 towns in the south, together with a wonderful trip to enjoyg the nature leisurely, taste cate and travel archaic Chinese rhyme.

Travel Fengwu Village with heart, walk through cultural rhythms

Here it is a thousand-year old village surrounded by continuous mountains and Fengxu Creek passes through the village. In the time of thousand years, a lot of traces have been left in Fengwu Village. When you walk here, you can see some old houses time and time again, and you can also hear some historical legends such as “Yanjiang Old Lady” etc.; the historical buildings including Yanjiang Temple, Dong’s Ancestral Temple, the county government ruins of the Anti-Japanese War period etc. enhance Fengwu Village with a massive and primitive sense.

Add: Fengwu Village, Heshang Town, Xiaoshan District (Zhejiang Province Grade AAA scenic area village)

Recommendation for tour: Wenchang Pavillion, Garden of Ancient Gingko Village Entry, Menuts Villa, Xiaoshan Anti-Japanese War Memorial Hall

Go for the tea feast and seek the Impression of Daicun

Daicun, by looking far and wide into the greem mountains and water here, it opens a tea feast each year when the garden is full of the beauty of flowers in spring. Taste tea in the tea field that covers an area of thousand mu, listen to the rustling from the bamboo sea and waves of pine trees, ride and roam in the Lion Mountain … With the completion of the first state designated fitness footpath in Xiaoshan, it has endowed leisure and sports genes to these villages in the mountains, fluctuating flowery flavor and charm.

Add: Shencun Village and Jianshanxia Village, Daicun Town, Xiaoshan District (both are Zhejiang Province Grade AA scenic area villages)

Recommendation for tour: Xiaoshan state designated fitness footpath, Sanqing tea

Pass through Loujiata, a thousand years pass ing by a glance 

The thousand-year old village Lujiata contains very rich and profound cultural heritage and it is the first upgraded intangible cultural heritage tourist area. Today’s Loujiata attracts tourists to come ceaselessly all over the year. Visitors stay at the countryside guesthouses, taste farmer’s delicous food, travel in the natural landscape, worship at Louying Ancestral Hall, tell stories about miracle-working doctors and listen to Shifan old opera … Here your thinking may return to thousand years before, your sight may connect to ten thousand miles away, your heart can inhabit, roam in the spiritual homeland, so you will enjoy yourself so much as to forget to leave.

Add: Loujiata Village, Louta Town, Xiaoshan District (Zhejiang Province Grade A scenic area village)

Recommendation for tour: Louying Ancestral Hall, Xishifan Performance, Loujia Old Street

Appreciate the splendid autumn flavor at the red Shengguang Village

Shengguang Village at Yiqiao Town, which was actually not a rich small village in the past in the south section of Xiaoshan, today it owns enchanting scenery which is longed for visiting by people; the green mountains, sheep yards, bamboo forest and farmer fields are surrounded here, while the Anti-Japanese War heroine Shen Peilan’s Tomb, the newly built revolutionary history memorial hall, Li’s Ancestral Hall, and Li’s Orthopedics Display Room etc. have all become one and another golden name cards for the red Shengguang Village.

Add: Shengguang Village, Yiqiao Town, Xiaoshan District (Zhejiang Province Grade A scenic area village)

Recommendation for tour: Yiqiao Revolutionary History Memorial Hall, Li’s Ancestral Hall, East Fuyuan Temple

At poetic Puyang, meet the Peach Garden suddenly

In Xiaoshan, there is a village that has the similar artistic concept of “the Peach Garden” described by the literature master Tao Yuanming; here it enjoys beautiful ecological environment, the mountain land, rivers and farm fields are well-spaced, the mountain coves embrace green plants, winding paths lead to secluded quiet places, and the peach forest is covered by dense shadow, setting off row and row of villas with white walls and black tiles in the green trees and red flowers. This village has been identified as a habitable place of the national comfortable housing demonstration project and is a town of its own flavor that is envied by people.

Add: Taobei Xincun Village, Puyang Town, Xiaoshan District

Recommendation for tour: Feixiang Temple

Melons and fruits emit fragrance at Suoqian, lingering about the song of the seasons

Suoqian is the only town level “Hometown of Waxberry” nationwide and has been very famous for the reputation of “Hometown of Tea and Fruit”. With meandering hilly land and surrounded green mountains, it is the so-called “Landscaping Suoqian”. In all seasons melons and fruits emit fragrance, which is the pastoral song to linger about the four seasons. Besides for leisure picking, it has a particular flavor to visit old sites in the mountain and walk in the primitive village, enjoying a leisure day by viewing the original scenery.

Add: Dujia Village, Lijia Village and Sanquan Village, Suoqian Town, Xiaoshan District

Recommendation for tour: Blue Sea Town, Loujia Walls, Ge Yunfei’s Tomb

Meet Beauty Xi Shi of the ancient Kingdom Yue by looking far into Zhuluo Mountain.

The mountains are verdant, the valleys are flat, and in such surroundings the area of Zhuluo Mountain, Linpu Town, Xiaoshan was once the hometown of the No. 1 beauty of China’s ancient beauty four – Xi Shi, the group of 14 Xi Shi sites are connected into a line along the banks of the clear and winding Huansha Spring: Pink Stone, Xi Shi Lane, Xi Shi Temple, Fan Li Temple, Houjiang Temple, Footbath Pool, Xi Shi Hill Slope, Field Snail Hill, Freshwater Mussel Hill, Beauty Bathing Point and Daily Missing Nunnery etc. It has become a good place for tourists to appreciate Xi Shi culture and the natural landscape.  

Add: Linpu Town, Xiaoshan District

Recommendation for tour: Xi Shi Culture Park, Group of Xi Shi Sites, Zhishan Garden

The charming small Jiuzhai, the beautiful Jinhua Town

Jinhua Town has been reputed as the small Jiuzhaigou Valley in Xiaoshan. Legend says the clear Kuquan Spring in Dayan Mountain has very beautiful waterr owing to it contains the mineral “selenium”, so the water shows ultramarine color. There are four wonders in the mountain: white plum, fragrant tea, moutain and water; between the valleys and along the floating spring, it is winding all the way with one scene by changing each step and with a waterfall in each ten steps, leaving very relaxed and happy feeling to visitors. In lunar February each early spring, the plums blossom all over the mountains in Jishan Village, the white petals spread over the ground like scattering jade, and reflect the sky in white in over ten miles, forming the Ten-li Scented Snow Sea here.

Add: Huantan Dayan Hill Scenic Area and Jishan Village, Jinhua Town, Xiaoshan District

Recommendation for tour: Dayan Hill, Huantan Old Street, the Ten-li Scented Snow Sea