The “four poetry roads” of Zhejiang run through eastern, western, southern, northern and central Zhejiang, connecting the cultural and natural landscapes of many regions, and adding a unique landscape and cultural charm to Zhejiang.
The road of Tang poetry in eastern Zhejiang takes the —— cao’e River —— Jiaojiang River as the main line, covering Hangzhou, Ningbo, Shaoxing, Taizhou and Zhoushan. Starting from the Qiantang River, through the ancient city of Shaoxing, from the Mirror Lake to the south through the Cao’e River, and travel along the river, into the famous creek in eastern Zhejiang, back up the river, through the Xinchang Wo River, Tianmu, to the Tiantai Mountain Shiliang Waterfall. This is a road of literature, landscape road, pilgrimage road. Over the course, poets wrote more than 1,500 excellent works of Tang poetry in eastern Zhejiang.
Qiantang River Poetry Road takes the Qiantang River —— Fuchun River —— —— River —— Wujiang River —— Qujiang River as the main line, which is a water gallery full of poetry and painting. The beautiful landscape of western Zhejiang has become the only place for the poet to “visit Wuyue”.
Oujiang Shanshui Poetry Road takes Oujiang —— Daxi —— Longquan Creek as the main line, with Oujiang River as the link, running through the whole southern Zhejiang region. Su Dongpo once lamented, ” Since the officer is like spiritual luck, can make the country like Yongjia.”With Xie Lingyun, the ancestor of Chinese landscape poetry, as the beginning, the literati of the past dynasties left many poems.
The Grand Canal Poetry Road mainly takes the Grand Canal World Cultural Heritage as the core, including the counties and cities along the canal of Hangzhou, Jiaxing, Huzhou, Shaoxing and Ningbo. This is not only a channel for Zhejiang to go north in history, but also the main channel for literati from all over the country to enter Zhejiang. Yuhang Tangqi, where the event is held, is at the southernmost point of the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal, and is one of the top ten famous towns in the south of the Yangtze River. It is the “Jiangnan Beauty Land” written by Feng Zikai. Yuhang has a wild mountain village, rural village, beautiful water town, full of poetic painting, there are 5000 years of Liangzhu culture, 2000 canal culture, 1200 years of Jingshan Zen tea culture, culture and history complement each other.