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Hangzhou Xixi National Wetland Park
Xixi National Wetland Park, located at the junction of Xihu District and Yuhang District, Hangzhou City, Zhejiang Province, is less than 5 kilometers away from the West Lake, with a total area of 11.5 square kilometers. The total length of the rivers in the wetland is more than 100 kilometers, and about 70% of the area is rivers, ponds, lakes, marshes and other waters. The wetland park is rich in ecological resources, elegant natural landscape and profound cultural accumulation. It is known as the "three west" of Hangzhou along with the West Lake and Xiling. It is the first national wetland park in China integrating urban wetland, agricultural wetland and cultural wetland.
Xixi National Wetland Park has "three dikes and ten views":
 
Three dike: Good Fortune dike, prosperity dike, longevity dike
 
Ten scenes: autumn reed, flying snow, fire persimmon, reflecting wave, Dragon Boat Victory, Lotus beach heron shadow, Hongyuan Garden,  Jianjia garden, the moon, misty rain in fishing village, winding water, plum, Gaozhuang morning trace, Hezhu listening to music.
 
Main scenic spots in Xixi
Xixi cultural atmosphere is quite strong, many emperors and scholars as a pure land, and left a large number of poems and poems; Xixi folk culture is especially rich and colorful, still retained, "dragon boat", "green fish", "bamboo shoots", "Qingming picnic" and " traditional folk culture; Xixi religious culture is quite developed, with temples, gardens and other carrier, added the cultural connotation of Xixi wetland.
 
Boan House: the manor of Zou Xiaozhi (famous teacher) from Qiantang in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties. At that time, the reeds were overgrown and full of wild interest. From far up from afar, the whole manor was like an immortal island moored on the water, hence its name. Among them, two groups of buildings echo the free hall and the empty Ming Xuan House, forming three Spaces from south to north.
 
Yanshui Fishery Village: Xixi Farming and Fishing Culture Exhibition Center. Drawing on the poetic artistic conception of "Autumn Snow Fishery Village", a literati of the Qing Dynasty, taking the beauty of willow smoke, smoke and hookah, hence the name. This scenic spot has silkworm stories, marriage folklore, Xixi family and other exhibition halls, showing the local characteristics of the water town dwellings and the simple farming culture of the residents.
 
Deep pool mouth: also known as deep pool port, according to Nan Zhuangzi records: " Deep pool mouth, not a boat crossing; heard of a dragon, and its depth could not be measured."Therefore, it is the main folk culture exhibition center in Xixi. The Xixi Dragon Boat Festival is held here every year. It is also a scenic spot for many film and television cultural works shot in Xixi, such as "If You Are the One" directed by Feng Xiaogang.
 
Hangli Two Respected Men Temple : Hangli Temple is one of the ancestral halls dedicated to scholars in Xixi, which is equal with the temple of Zhejiang poets in Qiuxue Nunnery. The two grandfathers, one is Li E, was the Juren official during the reign of Emperor Kangxi; the other is Hang Shijun, also the Juren offical during the reign of Emperor Yongzheng. Both men were famous scholars and poets of Hangzhou in the Qing Dynasty. The scenic spot mainly restores the function of literati elegant gathering, which can provide people to learn from poetry, painting, poetry and painting, with a strong cultural atmosphere.
 
Hezhu Street: named after its ancient name of Hezhu, it is a folk commercial street with leisure, trade market and tourism. In the street, tourist can enjoy the pattern of people's life and production at that time, the attic houses built near the water, the scattered boats passing through the bridge, and the folklore are full of the water style of the island as the home and the boat as the horse.
 
Gaozhuang villa: it is a villa of Gao Shiqi, a scholar of the Qing Dynasty (1645 AD.- -1704AD.), which has a typical characteristics of the official palace in the late Ming and middle Qing dynasties. Because the emperor Kangxi’s inspecting tour in Southern China had been here, so it was famous. The village is composed of high houses, bamboo Windows, banana poetry club and other buildings, which reproduces the historical scene of Kangxi's prosperity in Gaozhuang.
 
Plum Villa: The property of Qiantang literati Zhang Shui in Qing Dynasty (about 1777AD-1857AD). He planted a large number of plum blossoms and bamboo outside the village, which is both humane and noble, good at plum and bamboo, and good at calligraphy and painting. He often invited friends to compose poems and paint, hence the name. Xixi is the main plum appreciation area.
 
Xixi Mei Villa:  located in the Meizhu leisure area of Xixi, it belongs to the area along the chariot road of the Southern Song Dynasty. Since ancient times, the cultivation of plum blossoms has attracted many scholars to appreciate the plum blossoms. With the pastoral farmhouse as the background, the plum culture as the connotation, and the beauty of extensive environment as the feature, it is the main plum appreciation area in Xixi.
 
Xixi Water Pavilion: located in the Xixi Meizhu leisure area, near the water, is the residence of ancient artists. The water Pavilion is divided into two libraries, "Lanxi Library" and "Book House Library", which can not only feel the thick cultural atmosphere of Xixi, but also understand the feelings of the literati and hermit at that time to avoid the world.

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