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Orchid Pavilion (Lanting) 兰亭Lán Tíng
4A scenic area · National heritage site · Shaoxing, Zhejiang
- Time needed
- Half a day
- Days to budget
- Half a day
- City
- Shaoxing
- Region
- Zhejiang
- Type
- Heritage
- Listed as
- 4A scenic area, National heritage site
About Orchid Pavilion (Lanting)
The garden at the foot of Lanzhu hill where, in 353, the calligrapher Wang Xizhi and more than forty friends held a spring gathering, floating cups of wine down a winding stream and writing poems, for which he wrote the Preface to the Orchid Pavilion Poems, the most celebrated work of Chinese running script. The present site was rebuilt in 1548 and restored to its Ming and Qing layout from 1979, with the Goose Pond, the Lanting stele, the Liushang pavilion beside the winding stream, the Wang Xizhi memorial hall and a stele carved with inscriptions by both the Kangxi and Qianlong emperors. A calligraphy museum and stone copies of the Preface by later masters complete the visit.
How to get to Orchid Pavilion (Lanting)
About 13 km south-west of Shaoxing's old city in Lanting subdistrict, Keqiao, by road; the Yinshan royal tomb and Wang Yangming's tomb are both within 3 km.
Nearby
- West Lake 西湖 50 km
The lake that taught China what a perfect landscape should look like - Lingyin Temple & Feilai Feng 灵隐寺 50 km
A working Chan monastery beside a hillside of 1,000-year-old rock carvings
Also within 20 km: Yinshan Royal Tomb of Yue 印山越国王陵 (under 10 km), Qiu Jin's Former Residence 秋瑾故居 (10 km), Qingteng Studio (Xu Wei's Former Residence) 青藤书屋 (10 km), Lu Xun Native Place & Shen Garden 鲁迅故里·沈园 (10 km), Datong School and Xu Xilin's Former Residence 大通学堂 (10 km), Dashan Pagoda 大善塔 (10 km).
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