Amazing! Feels like walking in a poetic picture

Poetry of Tang Dynasty, as one of the most precious cultural heritage of China, is a bright pearl of Chinese cultural treasure which has been constantly polished by the river water- the Road of Tang Poetry.

So, what is the Road of Tang Poetry?

                        The Road of Tang Poetry in eastern Zhejiang

In Zhejiang, there is such a road.

During the Tang Dynasty, poets who started from Qiantang River, bypassing Shaoxing, Yanxi River and Middle Shan County, and reached Tiantai, Xianju or Linhai blazed out a road across seven prefectures in eastern Zhejiang. This road features landscape and humanity and was later named the Road of Tang Poetry in eastern Zhejiang by Zhejiang scholars.

Hangzhou

Xiaoshan District

Yupu Village, Yiqiao Town of Xiaoshan District is considered an important origin of the Road of Tang Poetry in eastern Zhejiang. The Yupu Village today locates at the converge of Qiantang River, Fuchun River and Puyang River. During the Tang Dynasty, writers and poets went to the Yupu Lake from the west of Yiqiao Town and then shift to Shaoxing.

Qiantang River

Fuchun River basin in Zhejiang

In this dream-like scene, when the water birds on the sandbank are singing lively and the boat is steadily pushed forward by the wooden paddle, your mood suddenly become open and clear. Hugged in such a wonderful landscape, poets reveled and tourists get enchanted.

Shaoxing

Shangyu District

The Kuaiji Mountain and Jianhu River in Shaoxing had attracted many poets. Shangyu has been a key stop along the Road of Tang Poetry in eastern Zhejiang for the exceptionally beautiful scenery.

The natural beauty of Dingzhai Town, Shangyu District

Shaoxing

Shengzhou

From Caoe River, passing Shining County, the road leads to the next stop Yanxi River. The glittering river water flowing through the town has nourished writers and poets and inspired the flourishing poetry of Tang Dynasty.

Yanxi River in Shengzhou

Shaoxing

Xinchang County

The fairyland Tianmu Mountain located in the old middle Shan County and Xinchang County of Shaoxing today was also an attraction of poets of Tang Dynasty.

Old Tianmu Post amid the Road of Tang Poetry in Banzhu Village, Xinchang County

Tianmu Mountain

Dafo Temple of Xinchang

Taizhou

Tiantai County

With ranges of mountains like a lotus of thousand petals, Tiantai represents the essence of this Road.

Tongbai Taoist Temple

The beauty of Tiantai and Chichen also attracted poets who had spoken highly of the Guoqing Temple and Tongbai Taoist Temple here.

Taizhou

Linhai County

Linhai is an old city with over two thousand years of history and has a good reputation of “the representative place in Jiangnan that have bred many learned scholars” and “the fairyland on the sea”.

Linhai

Recite the Tang poetry while enjoy the beautiful scenery along the Road.

Come here and experience the poetic and picturesque Zhejiang!