Recently, Shaoxing, Zhejiang, unveiled an all-new “Celebrity Hometown Citywalk” cultural-tourism route that strings together core landmarks—Lanting, Shen Garden, and Jishan Academy—using immersive experiences to awaken thousand-year-old memories of illustrious figures. Step by step, travelers converse with history and feel the ancient city’s cultural bedrock.
Enter Lanting: the “floating wine cup along the winding water” relic remains laid out in the original manner; the scene of Wang Xizhi and friends composing verse with brush in hand seems to travel across a millennium. The ink-fragrance of the “Preface to the Orchid Pavilion” seems to linger at the nose; the mottled grains of the bluestone slabs engrave the spirit and talent of Wei-Jin literati. Pause at a yellow-rice-wine workshop: sip the ancient Yue brew once praised by He Zhizhang; the amber liquid swirls in the cup, mellow and sweet on the tongue—every drop precipitates the city’s gentle texture and centuries-old brewing wisdom.
Within Shen Garden’s white-washed walls and black-tiled roofs, Lu You’s eternal line — “Pink soft hands, yellow tassel wine” — still drifts; beside broken walls, winter plum stands against the wind as if recounting a love that spanned a thousand years. Inside Jishan Academy, the echoes of Wang Yangming’s lectures on the philosophy of the mind seem still to ring; beneath blue bricks and dark tiles, Confucian grace soaks the heart, letting visitors immerse themselves in the uninterrupted pulse of Chinese civilization.
This Citywalk route uses celebrity stories as its thread, fusing cultural imprints with the city’s very fabric: every footstep lands on history’s artery; every vista hides a cultural code passed down for a millennium. Now fully open to visitors, this time-spanning journey waits for all to come and unlock it—to meet Wang Xizhi, Lu You, and other luminaries in a transcendent, era-defying cultural encounter.
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