Misty Jiangnan - Shaoxing City

Shaoxing, is a waterside city.
Bridges and boats are indispensable.
As the "elves" activing in Shaoxing,
boats are the soul of the misty rain in the southern river towns.
Aswell, they are a kind of indivisible water city complex .

More than 100 kinds of ancient boats in Shaoxing have faded away with the passing of time for example, luxurious and delicate official boats, simple and spacious theatre boats, fishing boats with sharp bows, quadrangular ferry boats and so on. However, there is a boat without the luxury of cruise ships or the elegance of barge. It is black, simple and unadorned, but shaking in the ancient city of Shaoxing for thousands of years. It's a black canoe, which is called Wu Peng Chuan in Chinese, a traditional “black-rooted boat”.

Wu Peng Chuan is known as "Shaoxing San Jue" and "Shaoxing San Wu". Because most of the canopy is painted black, black is said to be "Wu" in Shaoxing dialect, so it is named "Wu Peng Chuan". It is the spirit of the water town, but also a unique landscape of the water town.

Wu Peng Chuan used to be an important means of water transportation for Shaoxing people: Fishing and shrimp catching, visiting relatives and friends, marriage and funeral are inseparable from it... Nowadays, Wu Peng Boat has been far away from life and has become the "tourism image ambassador" of Shaoxing. Bearing the vicissitudes of the ancient city of Shaoxing for thousands of years, floating above the misty wave, it takes us to look for the small bridge, running water, people's primitive customs.

It's a different style to visit Lu Xun's hometown by Wu Peng boat. You can see Lu Xun's Sanwei Bookstore when he was a child, Baicao Garden with interesting childhood studies, Xianheng Hotel with antique flavor, and Shen Yuan to witness the sad love story between Lu You and Tang Wan.

It is a leisurely way to travel around the mountains and rivers in a black canoe. Along the Huanshan River by Wu Peng Boat, you can see the life of the old Shaoxing people. It is a quiet way to sit in a Wu Peng boat and visit the hometown of Wang Xizhi, a great calligrapher. You can see the Jiezhu Temple, Tishan Bridge and Duopo Long.

It is graceful and elegant to visit the historic block of Ba Zi Qiao by Wu Peng boat. It's a different experience to shaking a boat in the East Lake scenic spot. It is a leisurely way to visit Huiji Mountain Scenic Spot by Wu Peng Boat. It's a wonderful feeling to wander on Gujian Lake in a Wupeng boat.

The Wu Peng boat is swaying over the water,
Along the lanes of the years,
Yueju tune like humming and babbling all the way comes from the ancient style

This is the smart and graceful scenery of Shaoxing.
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