Calvino wrote in "The Invisible City":"What you like about a city is not the seven or seventy views, but the answers it gives to the questions you ask. Or she can ask questions that force you to answer, just as Thebes does today through the mouth of the Sphinx." So Hangzhou is the same for me, not because there are many scenes, but because I can find the answer in Xiaoshan Strict of Hangzhou.

"Building views the sea day, the door is facing the Zhejiang tide", located in the southern wing of the Yangtze River Delta, where the county economy is most active in China, with a total land area of about 1420 square kilometers. In its 8000 years of civilization history, Xiaoshan is still in the vicissitudes of the sea and the rocks. In the years when the sea is dry and the rocks are rotten, I always open the southern gate of Hangzhou with the attitude of embracing all rivers. More than 3000 years of county establishment have given Xiaoshan a different vitality this autumn.

Schedule:

Day1: Hangzhou International Expo Center-Xu Tongtai Sauce Garden Factory-Seabird World B & B

Day2: Lihua Lace and Bead Embroidery Research Institute--Zhejiang Province Museum of Modern Ceramic Art--Hangzhou Kaiyuan Senbo Resort

Day3: Xianghu Bridge Site Museum-Xianghu Financial Town

Hangzhou International Expo Center takes you to understand the different G20

In 2016, a popular headline on Weibo said that people with meatballs tied when riding the subway in Hangzhou had to be pinched by security personnel before they could pass. They thought it was very cute. Such a Weibo post reflects the responsibility of security personnel during the G20 Summit, and also reflects the importance my country attaches to the G20 Summit held in Xiaoshan, Hangzhou in 2016.

The G20 summit is composed of China, Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, South Korea, Mexico, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Turkey, the United Kingdom, the United States and the 20 EU parties. It was first held in Berlin, Germany by the G8 in 1999, and then held annually. It was held in Hangzhou, China from September 4 to 5, 2016. At that time, Hangzhou's Xiaoshan Strict was the main venue and attracted worldwide attention.

I arrived at the "Hangzhou G20 Summit Gymnasium" in the autumn three years later (now named the "G20 Summit Experience Hall"). Many of the decorations in the experience hall are unique, such as the main conference hall, with the theme of "harmony". It is not a modern oval table for group office meetings, but tables and chairs in the style of the Ming and Qing Dynasties. There are three layers of gauze lanterns above your head, with floral patterns of plum blossoms representing "perseverance" and osmanthus flowers with the charm of Hangzhou. The two lights on the ceiling correspond, and the three colors are nine dyes, which is a metaphor for "heart-to-heart connection". The walls of the four corner spaces are carved in Jiangnan, and the outside of the carved windows are wood carvings with the theme of "Twelve Scenes of China", including "the Great Wall, Guilin Mountains and Waters" and so on.

The luncheon hall is a spherical building with a diameter of 60 meters. The screen behind it has mountains as the theme and clouds as the distance. My favorite design is that the decoration of the entire luncheon hall expresses the consensus between Eastern and Western cultures. and the same values in the face of nature and ecological respect.

People often say that "the country is strong when it enriches the people." Only when the country is rich can we have the comprehensive strength to hold such a summit. After visiting the G20 Summit Experience Hall, I am proud to be a Chinese.

Xu Tongtai Sauce Garden Factory polishes a century to add flavor to life

There is a multi-story wooden building with several lanterns hanging on the top floor, a large sauce vat is placed at the door, and a few strings of red lanterns are hung on the thick wall on the left side of the building, with the three characters "Xu Tongtai" engraved in the middle. There is still a little taste of sauce in the air. It is hard to imagine that such a simple and unpretentious place has a history of 100 years. This is Xu Tongtai Sauce Garden Factory.

In 1877, after the founder Xu Sanchun tasted the sweet noodle sauce of Yufeng Temple, he entered the temple for three years just to learn skills. After ten years of painstaking research on the craft and three years of hibernation, he quickly gained a reputation. In 1886, he named the established sauce shop "Xu Tongtai" with the meaning of "harmony in the world, peace and peace of the country and people." Over the past century,"real materials and materials win the trust of the people" has also been passed down from generation to generation. In the late Qing Dynasty and early Ming Dynasty, a small workshop has developed into a large workshop of "wine making, milk making, sauce making, sugar making, and grinding". After nourishing the land, Xu Sanchun and Hu Xueyan were equally famous at that time. There is a saying that "asking for medicine Hu Qingyu will moisten Xu Tongtai", which shows the influence.

The seemingly small "soy sauce" actually requires many steps. Select good soybeans, wash, soak and steam them, add mountain red yeast, mix with wheat flour for fermentation, then place them in a jar, seal them, expose them to the sun, and pound the jar. etc., every step requires good craftsmanship to make good soy sauce.

Inside the sauce garden factory, there are four large dark brown vats in the first place. There are bamboo hats on their heads. When the hat is lifted, there are bubbly sauce noodles inside. After whitewashing, the cylindrical-like stove is painted with Xu Tongtai's story. The jars erected layer upon layer in the yard are still telling the story of the past.

Today's Xu Tongtai still retains the vicissitudes of the past, the simple floor, the sun shines down from the patio, and together they talk about the silent past, the five flavors of life, and the heart of sauce...

Xiaoshan Anti-Japanese War Memorial Hall, Don't forget history

October 1st this year marks the 70th anniversary of the founding of our country. The whole country is in jubilation. Our grandparents 'generation often lamented that the years are peaceful and peaceful. In fact, there are predecessors who carry heavy burdens on our behalf. Looking back, an old house in Fengwu Village, Heshang Town, Xiaoshan has been around for a hundred years. During the Anti-Japanese War, the Xiaoshan County Government moved here three times. It was the command center of Xiaoshan's Anti-Japanese War, and the armed forces of the Communist Party of China also carried forward here with heavy burdens.

In the Xiaoshan Anti-Japanese War Memorial Hall, we saw rifles, telephones, telegraph machines, photos, lunch boxes and kettles for the captured Japanese army. There is also a paper photo that truly reflects the war-torn era and the difficulty of fighting. During the war of war and resistance, there were a group of people whose flesh and blood were built on every Great Wall, and whose blood was sprinkled on every territory, because they always believed that justice would win!

Fengwu Village, where the Xiaoshan Anti-Japanese War Memorial Hall is located, is very quiet and has a beautiful environment. Every flower and tree look prosperous. It is so quiet that only the birds in the sky can be heard. Many elderly people come to visit. Maybe they feel the war more deeply than we do. We should remember that era, just like the saying in the memorial hall,"As far as you can see the past, as far as the future is concerned."

Lihua Lace and Beaded Embroidery Research Institute, a matter of time between beads embroidery

The inheritor of the "bead embroidery" skills of Xiaoshan Lihua Lace and Bead Embroidery Culture Research Institute is called Wang Lihua. In 2015, she was identified as the representative inheritor of the "Xiaoshan Bead Embroidery" intangible cultural heritage project. She said that "Xiaoshan Bead Embroidery is a craft that works slowly, requires three hearts, care, meditation and dedication." It seems like a simple sentence, but it takes decades to do it.

Lace and bead embroidery are both intangible cultural heritage retained by Xiaoshan. Lace is like the table mat used at home when I was a child. It may seem simple to work, but it is actually not easy at all. It takes an embroidery needle, an embroidery thread, and a pair of skillful hands to embroider it. Come out.

Different from lace, bead embroidery requires the use of beads. On the basis of combining Hangzhou embroidery and Su embroidery, it develops various embroidery methods such as flat embroidery and string xiu. The scattered beads are embroidered one by one. On the clothes, the pearls are shining brightly, and the ordinary and ordinary fabric suddenly becomes noble.

The good-looking craftsmanship is inseparable from the efforts of the inheritor Wang Lihua. Her superb skills have been trained countless times through various methods. Just to better inherit these intangible cultural heritage, I can't help but praise her.

Seabird World B & B is still a dream in autumn

When traveling, I often choose a comfortable place to live, which is quieter, so that I don't have to worry about work, I can smell the wind blowing through the forest tip when I head up, and I sleep at night for half a year. Seabird World B & B is such a place.

The scenery of Seabird World B & B is very good, dotted with bamboo forests, white walls and black tiles, green trees and red flowers. The scenery is natural and far away from the hustle and bustle. When you arrive here, everyone who is in a hurry will slow down because of the atmosphere. Many of us are like this. No matter how busy and tired we are, we need to find a place. It doesn't need to be big, a place close to the countryside and can swim between heaven and earth.

Life is a long, long life. Whose passers-by are we, and whose return we are. A thousand people have a thousand answers to such a question. At this moment, the autumn scenery is thick in the distance, the wind nearby is too warm, and the wood-carved window lattice is simple and elegant. If you gently touch it with your hand, you can feel the exquisite carvings. Passing through your fingertips, all encounters will wait for a beautiful scenery.

The ancient building with a history of more than 100 years is in the shape of a courtyard house. There is a rickshaw, old newspapers, ink, landscape calligraphy and painting. Nothing is superfluous. Everything is just right. There are 12 independent rooms, 8 queen beds, and 4 duplex luxury suites. It is a characteristic Chinese layout, and it feels like returning to an old dream overnight.

A person can be as ordinary as us, looking for a place to live while busy. In Xiaoshan, seabirds soar between heaven and earth, and I am waiting for you at the B & B.

Zhejiang Province Museum of Modern Ceramic Art, sky blue and other misty rain

"The sky is blue and rainy, and I am waiting for you. The smoke from the kitchen is curling up and across the river. The inscriptions on the bottom of the bottle imitate the elegance of the previous dynasty, just as I am a foreshadowing for meeting you..." Jay Chou sang this song "Blue and White Porcelain" is my original imagination about porcelain making! After the rain, the sky is blue and the clouds are broken, and the colors are like the future. In fact, porcelain production can be completed with just one sentence: "The sky is blue and the rain"!

The museum located on Ceramic Art Island on Meishan Road, Xianghu National Tourism Resort, Xiaoshan Strict, Hangzhou City, Zhejiang Province has been established since 2016 and is open to the public free of charge. It has become a must-visit place for citizens and tourists to receive artistic edification. The former site of the museum was originally a large-scale brick kiln factory built in the 1860s. There are three ancient kiln sites covering an area of 1400 square meters: ten ancient kilns in the late Qing Dynasty, ten ancient kilns in the late Qing Dynasty, and ten ancient kilns in the water. Large brick kiln in the early ancient times inside the building. The surrounding area is shaded by trees and beautiful scenery, which is very suitable for taking photos.

The museum has more than 350 valuable ceramic art masterpieces. The museum also collects works by ceramic artists such as Wang Huaijun, a master of Chinese arts and crafts, Ning Gang, president of Jingdezhen Ceramics University, and Ma Yaoguang, a national second-level artist. At the same time, in addition to blue and white, underglaze red, new color, pastel, ancient color, etc., we also made many interesting small objects out of ceramics. Little hedgehog, pumpkin, and corn are very cute.

We all know that a piece of porcelain is made from kneading mud, making embryo, glazing, and finally firing. There are dozens of processes. This is a great invention in the history of mankind and a treasure of the history of Chinese civilization. There is also a place in the museum where you can learn to make ceramics. Think about it, making a unique ceramic here is also a kind of reward for yourself.

Xianghu Lake, a river with spring water flowing eastward

"If you want to compare the West Lake to the West, it's always appropriate to make up." When it comes to Hangzhou, one of the tourist spots that people always think of is the West Lake. There are ten scenic spots such as broken bridges and snow, flat lake autumn moon, double peaks inserted into clouds, and Nanping night bell. In fact, it is located in Hangzhou City Xianghu Tourist Resort in the west of Xiaoshan area is also beautiful. There are not many people visiting, so it is worth a visit.

If the Qiantang River is compared to a dragon, then Xianghu Lake and West Lake are the eyes of the dragon. These eyes are so bright. In the eyes of Xianghu Lake, there are stars and the sea. We are all wanderers on the sea, and everything we can see is the beautiful autumn scenery.

There is a pool of clear water and ten miles of green mountains. Boating on Xianghu Lake, the fragrance of flowers is fragrant. The autumn scenery on the nearby lake is charming, and the green mountains in the distance are still the same. I saw how charming Qingshan was, and I expected Qingshan to be like this when he saw me.

The cross-lake bridge civilization bloomed 8000 years ago, and Gou Jian, the King of Yue, hid his talents and lived his time here. Amid the long history, the Xianghu cross-bridge ruins museum is like a ship sailing through the long river of time. That's right, the overall shape of the museum is a ship, because the world's oldest canoe was discovered here. The Site Protection Hall is a place worth visiting in the museum. It is located 6.5 meters underwater and the lamp tube is dimly lit. The figure made of wax figures restores the previous living situation of the ancient people crossing the lake bridge. You can see the wisdom of the ancient people from it, and you must go and have a look.

Xianghu Financial Town is another place worth checking in when visiting Xianghu. 3.3 The square-kilometer financial town integrates tourism, culture, and industry. The town develops private equity finance, venture capital, angel investment department and other business formats. It is the Chinese version of the "Zurich Lake District." In the autumn financial town, there is no sign of decadence. It is full of vitality under the blue sky and is very worth checking in.

Xianghu Lake, Xiaoshan's mother river, no matter how far people in Xiaoshan go, they will miss this pool of spring water. Time is developing, and the pool of spring water in Xianghu Lake also brings local people forward.

Hangzhou Kaiyuan Senbo Holiday Park, a good place for parent-child play

With social and economic development, people's lives have become better and better. Many mobile phones and tablets can no longer be left. Think about it, after busy work every day, I still have to look at my mobile phone when I go back. It has been a long time since I have been with my children. Take the time to take my children to Hangzhou Kaiyuan Senbo Resort Park to relive the warm times at home together.

Hangzhou Kaiyuan Senbo Resort is located in Xianghu Scenic Area, Xiaoshan Strict, Hangzhou City. The resort covers an area of about 300 acres, covering a variety of leisure and vacation facilities such as hotel accommodation, 30℃ year-round constant temperature water park, and children's park. It happened that I was there on Halloween this time. The little jack-o-lanterns in the bakery were cute and smart, with warm lighting, and the baked desserts were very delicious and attracted many children. In addition, there are Peacock Garden, roller coasters and so on, which are all very interesting.

Kaiyuan Senbo Resort is based on "releasing nature and enjoying the four seasons". There are hair players, rainforest restaurants, mermaid slides and other projects. If you ask me where to take children in autumn, I will definitely recommend this place first.

A place is a good place as long as it can solve the psychological problems. In Xiaoshan Strict, Hangzhou, I can find answers in the past, present and even future. This answer includes the atmosphere of the G20 Summit, the beauty of inheritance of Xu Tongtai Sauce Garden, the justice of the Xiaoshan Anti-Japanese War Memorial Hall, the superb skills of Lihua lace and bead embroidery, the natural beauty of Seabird World B & B, the noble beauty of the Modern Ceramic Art Museum, the beautiful scenery of Xianghu Lake, the warmth of Kaiyuan Senbo's exclusive park, and so on. This trip to Xiaoshan was a complete one. Next time we will come here to find a different beauty.