Shaoxing
PreeChina · City Guide Shaoxing Where Wang Xizhi wrote the most celebrated calligraphy in Chinese history beside a mountain stream, […]
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Huzhou
PreeChina · City Guide Huzhou Where Nanxun’s ancient canal town preserves the most refined merchant architecture in Jiangnan, Moganshan’s forested
Quzhou
PreeChina · City Guide Quzhou Where three granite pillars rise like ancient guardians above the Jiangshan plain, underground caverns of
Xuancheng
PreeChina · City Guide Xuancheng The birthplace of Xuan paper — the most celebrated paper in Chinese cultural history, without
Maanshan
PreeChina · City Guide Ma’anshan The city of Li Bai’s final years — where China’s greatest poet drank wine at
Chuzhou
PreeChina · City Guide Chuzhou Where Ouyang Xiu wrote the most celebrated pavilion essay in Chinese literature, the forested ridges
Tonghua
PreeChina · City Guide Tonghua Where the ruins of a kingdom that shaped Korean and Chinese history lie scattered across
Chifeng
PreeChina · City Guide Chifeng Where the jade dragon that awakened Chinese civilization was found, volcanic crater lakes reflect birch
Taiyuan
PreeChina · City Guide Taiyuan Shanxi’s capital and one of China’s oldest cities — where a 3,000-year-old spring feeds the
Handan
PreeChina · City Guide Handan One of China’s oldest continuously inhabited cities — where Warring States earthen palaces still rise