What are the places of interest and historical sites in Huzhou?

Feiying Tower

It is in Huzhou City. It consists of inner and outer towers. It was built from the fourth year of Zhonghe to the first year of Qianning (884-894). It was also built as a wooden pagoda cage during the Kaibao period of the Northern Song Dynasty (968-976). The inner tower is made of white stone, with eight sides and five floors, and is solid. The outer tower is a brick and wood structure, covering the stone tower, with eight sides and seven floors. In the 20th year of Shaoxing in the Southern Song Dynasty (1150), the original pagoda was destroyed by lightning, and it was rebuilt many times after that. The existing tower, the inner tower was built after the 24th and 5th year of Shaoxing in the Southern Song Dynasty (1154-1155). The outer tower was rebuilt in the early Duanping years of the Southern Song Dynasty and rebuilt in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. 36.32 meters high. This type of built-in tower is rare in the country.

Yunhai Tower

It is located in Huzhou People’s Park. It comes from the title of "Yunhai Jingyuan" edited by Yan Zhenqing, a calligrapher of the Tang Dynasty. Yan Zhenqing was appointed governor of Huzhou in the seventh year of Dali (772), and he was an upright official. Huzhou once built "Lu Gong Temple" and "Three Sages Temple" (the three sages are Yan Zhenqing, Su Shi, and Wang Shipeng) to commemorate him. During his tenure as governor of Huzhou, Yan Zhenqing used his salary to invite famous Jiangdong celebrities such as Jiang Donghai, Xiao Cun, Lu Zixiu, Pei Cheng, Lu Yu and others to edit 360 volumes of "Yunhai Jingyuan", which is one of the earliest large dictionaries in my country. Later generations specially built Yunhai Tower to commemorate it. There are 5 buildings and 3 attached bungalows, with an area of ??294 square meters.

Huanglong Palace

It is located at the foothills of Huanglong Mountain, 10 kilometers north of Huzhou City. Discovered in 1966. The main chamber of the cave is 45 meters long, 20 meters wide and 20 meters high. It is a limestone cave. The largest piece looks like a white jade Guanyin on the front and a weeping willow in the wind on the back. There is a stalactite on the top of the cave, winding for more than 30 meters, like a swimming dragon, hence the name of the cave. There is Huanglong Cave under the cliff 100 meters northwest of the cave. Looking down, it looks like a giant well, eerie and deep. Looking north to Taihu Lake, the sky and water are the same color.

Hu Yuan’s Tomb

It is located at Qingshanwu at the southern foot of Nandaochang Mountain in Huzhou City. Hu Yuan (993-1059) was a native of Hailing, Taizhou (now Taizhou, Jiangsu). Scholar and educator in the Northern Song Dynasty. He once taught Zhonglu, and later taught Huzhou as a professor in Baoning Jiedu. He believes that "the one who can rule the world is talent, the one who can become the world's talent is education, and the foundation of education is school." In the fourth year of Qingli in the Song Dynasty, the imperial court built a university and adopted Hu Yuan's teaching methods. The tomb has been damaged many times. The tomb is now round in shape, about 6 meters in diameter and 3 meters high. The back side of the tomb is a stone back wall, and the tomb passage is about 200 meters long.

Jiaye Hall

It is located in Nanxun Town, Huzhou City. It was originally the library of Liu Chengqian, a recent man. Completed in 1924. It was named because of the plaque "Qinruo Jiaye" given by Xuantong. It is a 2-story building with brick and wood structure. Together with the garden outside the building, it covers an area of ??30 acres. In addition to purchasing books sporadically from booksellers, Liu also acquired books from the "Baojing Building" in eastern Yongdong, the "Yingshan Caotang" in Dushan, the "Jie Yilu" in Renhe, the "Chijingzhai" in Fengshun, and the "Dongcang Library" in Taicang. , reaching 600,000 volumes. It also self-operated engraving and printing of 174 kinds of books and 1916 volumes. The collection before liberation has been lost, and the remaining books were donated to the country after the founding of the People's Republic of China.

Xiaolianzhuang

It is located in Nanxun Town, Huzhou City, adjacent to Jiaye Hall. It was built by Liu Yong, a wealthy local businessman during the reign of Emperor Guangxu of the Qing Dynasty. There is an ancient hanging gourd pond in the garden, which is about 10 acres wide. Lotus flowers are in full bloom in summer. Mountains, rocks and trees are arranged around the pond, with cloisters and pavilions built, and 46 square stones of famous people from past dynasties are embedded in the walls. At that time, people thought that Xiaoyingzhou looked exactly like the West Lake in Hangzhou.