SHAOXING, CHINA / ACCESSWIRE / November 15, 2023 / On the occasion of the 40th anniversary of land withdrawal and city construction, the Shaoxing Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government recently held the 2023 Shaoxing Development Conference, and Shaoxing sages at home and abroad gathered in their hometown with 'letters from home'. On the warm scene, the secretary of Shaoxing Municipal Party Committee invited the sages to often go home for a walk, see the rippling Jianhu Lake water, the warm and mellow Shaoxing wine and listen to the refreshing hometown drama ...

Shaoxing has a history of more than 2,500 years, and is known as 'Jianhu Yuetai Famous Town'. The Jianhu Lake mentioned here is Shaoxing's 'Mother Lake', which was first formed in the ancient Yuedi lake group between mountains and seas. Inheriting Dayu's pioneering and creative spirit of water control, Ma Zhen put forward the idea of building Jianhu Lake in Han Dynasty, and built one of the oldest and largest water conservancy projects in Jiangnan area of China at that time. At its peak, it covered an area of 610 square kilometers.

With water conservancy, Jianhu Lake water is the cool source of Shaoxing rice wine; Jianhu Lake water nourishes Shaoxing people, and Qiu Jin, Lu Xun, Zhou Enlai and other people with lofty ideals come out of Jianhu Lake. Throughout the ages, Jianhu Lake, with its 'white water and green rocks, like a mirror, like a picture', is a veritable 'poem and future' of the ancients and has become the source of inspiration for literati. From Wei and Jin dynasties to Tang and Song dynasties, Li Bai, Du Fu, Meng Haoran and other poetic giants went boating to Jianhu Lake, leaving many poems.

Nowadays, Jianhu Lake Tourist Resort, hidden in Jishan Jianshui, ranks among the national tourist resorts, with the Huiji Mountains stretching for hundreds of miles, the vast Jianhu Lake water system and the 'Road of Tang Poetry in East Zhejiang' corridor with more than 200 Tang poems strung together. Racing, skiing, golf ... all kinds of fashion, sports, cool play projects, so that tourists can enjoy the unlimited future 'cool play' A cup of Shaoxing rice wine is warm and mellow, and the ancient Yue rice wine culture is enjoyed. Therefore, more and more tourists turn their 'intention' into 'action' and come here for sightseeing, leisure and vacation.

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SOURCE: Shaoxing Municipal People's Government