It is still early spring here in Mid-February in my hometown – Hangzhou, China. I live in a community compound known as Shanglinhu, largely situated on a hillslope in the memerizing Fuyang District, west of Hangzhou. This afternoon, I spot several collared finchbills singing and dancing in a tree about 2 meters high. Collared…
The COVID-19 or the novel coronavirus silences China in many ways – from working, studying, trading, entertaining and more in all aspects of life. I happened to be in my hometown – Hangzhou for the Chinese lunar new year 2020 when the virus broke out. In a slight effort to contain the pathogen, I and…
Plan your Hangzhou tour? Hangzhou is a garden city well known for its local specialities of Silk and Green Tea. Hangzhou’s green tea is sectioned into three kinds: Spring Tea, Summer Tea and Autumn Tea. Spring tea is supposed to be the best of the three in terms of color and aroma. The green tea…
Plan your Hangzhou Tour in winter? Nowadays snowing has become a rare thing in many cities in China due to the effects of global warming. In my childhood memories there used to snow a lot in my hometown – Hangzhou. People in Hangzhou now expect snowing every year with fewer chances of snowing in the…
In the Chinese circle, home and abroad, Hangzhou has long been regarded as the “Paradise on Earth”. Surrounded by the undulating green hills on the three sides, its world famous West Lake is cut through two brocade-ribbon-like causeways with stone moon bridges, and dotted with three shady islands. The whole lake area is just like…
Plan your Hangzhou tour? If you happen to visit Hangzhou in spring, later March and early April, you will be intoxicated by the blooming peach flowers, the weeping willow trees that indicate the coming of the West Lake spring in Hangzhou. The preferable place to see the brilliant spring atmosphere is Bai Causeway and Gushan…
Plan your Hangzhou tour? Hangzhou ‘s West Lake dominates the psyche of the locals, even the whole nation of China and the Chinese around the world as well. West Lake epitomes the Chinese classic gardening, now a mix of traditional Chinese landscape and modern urban cityscape. You cannot afford to miss a trip to West…
For me, Grand Canal Hangzhou is the best preserved and most beautiful section of Grand Canal, China, starting from Beijing in the north and ending at Hangzhou in the south for a total length of 1776 km, the earliest and longest man-made canal in the world. As a Hangzhou native, each time back to Hangzhou,…