Wang Xizhi's Hometown + Experience the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Seal Cutting + Lu Xun's former residence, Baicao Garden and Sanwei Bookroom + Sculling Tour of West Lake + Intangible Cultural Heritage Inheritors Teaching Colored Drawing Techniques + Watching Customized Shaoxing Opera Performance + Shaoxing Yellow Wine Museum + Customized Dinner

Slow China | 6 Days 5 Nights | Calligraphy Art and Intangible Cultural Heritage Deep Experience Tour In Shaoxing and Hangzhou

Travel Theme: History and Culture
Best Travel Time: All Year Round
Wang Xizhi's Hometown + Experience the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Seal Cutting + Lu Xun's former residence, Baicao Garden and Sanwei Bookroom + Sculling Tour of West Lake + Intangible Cultural Heritage Inheritors Teaching Colored Drawing Techniques + Watching Customized Shaoxing Opera Performance + Shaoxing Yellow Wine Museum + Customized Dinner

Highlight Introduction

  • Deep tour about calligraphy – We specially invited professor Jin Zixue (professor of College of Arts and Sciences, who has studied calligraphy for 50 years, especially Huai Su cursive script) to explain the hometown of the master of calligraphy Wang Xizhi and teach calligraphy lessons. After that, we will have an appreciation Professor Jin's calligraphy together, play chess and discuss with each other.
  • Professional service: The Slow Time butler provides intimate international professional service throughout the journey.
  • Attractions for literati: Visit Lu Xun's former residence, Baicao Garden and Sanwei Bookroom. Listen to the Lu Xun's works interpretation, taste the scenery under Lu Xun's pen, and feel the real place where Lu Xun lived in those years.
  • Sightseeing experience: Visit Xixi Wetland in Hangzhou; Experience the Shaoxing Wupan Boat; Visit Shaoxing Yellow Wine Museum to learn about the long history and cultural essence of Yellow Wine, one of the three ancient wines in the world.
  • Food tasting: Enjoy the most exquisite and authentic local flavors in the high-end classical environment;
  • High-end accommodation: Accomodation in five-star brand hotels throughout the journey and the comfortable environment will allow you to get a good sleep in the journey;
  • Special cultural experience – We invited Mr. Yu Gueliang, Vice President of Lanting Calligraphy Museum to drink wine and recite poems. In Xiling Society of Seal Arts, experience the intangible cultural heritages -- seal cutting under the guidance of professional teachers. Tour the West Lake on the oar boat, enjoy the tea ceremony or pipa playing on the boat; Master Wang Wenjun, inheritor of intangible cultural heritage of Zhejiang Province, will be invited to teach the Colored Drawing technology in Guyue Longshan Huadiao Brewery. Watch custom social drama -- yue opera performance, and interact with actors, and learn Yue opera.
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Itinerary Overview

  • D1

    Other City - Hangzhou

    * Reference flight: Shenzhen Airlines ZH9879 Shenzhen - Hangzhou [13:50-16:00]
    When you arrive at Hangzhou Airport, we will pick up you by special person and car(1 hour by car).
    In the evening, we will prepare a welcome dinner for you.

    Other City - Hangzhou
  • D2

    Hangzhou

    In the morning, you will visit the West Lake and Three Pools Mirroring the Moon in Hangzhou by rowboat. You can enjoy the charm of classical Chinese landscape, accompanied by pipa/zither performance or tea ceremony performance on board.
    In the afternoon, you will go to Xiling Society of Seal Arts, to experience the intangible cultural heritage seal cutting technology and study the cutting technique of seal cutting under the guidance of professional teachers. You can and finish finish an exclusive seal of your own here.
    Xiling Society of Seal Arts was founded in 1904 by Ding Fuzhi, Wang Fuan, Wu Yin, Ye Weiming and other seal engravers of Zhejiang School. Wu Changshuo was the first president. Xiling Society is founded on "Preserve the Stone, Study the Seal, and Calligraphy and Paintings". It is an international folk art group with the longest history, the highest achievement and the most extensive influence in the study of seal and calligraphy in China and abroad. Xiling Society also has the reputation of "the Best Society In the World".
    Xiling Society covers an area of 7,090 square meters, with a building area of 1,750 square meters. Although the buildings of the society did not have the traditional vertical and horizontal pattern, the pavilions were arranged at different angles and well ordered, which can be called a masterpiece of gardens in the south of the Yangtze River.
    The main buildings are Bai Tang, Bamboo Pavilion, Yang Xian Pavilion, Huan Pu Jing Lu, etc.. Buildings here are decorated with plaques and couplets. The stone forest stands outside the building. Handwritten works by famous people abound here. The museum of Chinese printing is built inside, with a collection of more than 6,000 pieces of calligraphy, paintings and seals of all dynasties.

    Hangzhou
  • D3

    Hangzhou - Shaoxing

    In the morning, you will enjoy a tour of Hangzhou Xixi Wetland. Xixi National Wetland Park is located in the west of Hangzhou City, Zhejiang Province, with a planned total area of 11.5 square kilometers. The total length of rivers in the wetland is more than 100 kilometers, and about 70% of the area is river harbors, ponds, lakes, marshes and other water areas. The Wetland Park is rich in ecological resources, elegant natural landscape and profound cultural accumulation. Xixi Wetland, West Lake and Xiling, are known as the "Three Wests" of Hangzhou.
    In the afternoon you will go to Shaoxing (nearly 2 hours by car), and take a rest in hotel. After that, you will visit Lu Xun's former residence, Baicao Garden and Sanwei Bookroom.

    Hangzhou - Shaoxing
  • D4

    Shaoxing

    In the morning, you will go to Guyue Longshan Flower and Carving Distillery. We invited Master Wang Wenjun, inheritor of intangible cultural heritage of Zhejiang Province, to teach the painting technology. You can engrave it with your own hands and seal it in Shaoxing. (The design needs to be determined one month in advance).
    After that, we will visit the Yellow Wine Museum. Yellow rice wine, beer and wine are the world's three ancient wines. Only yellow rice wine originated in China and flourished in China. The Yellow Wine Museum is the first professional museum in China with the theme of yellow rice wine culture and industrial culture, covering an area of nearly 10,000 square meters.
    The museum fully displays the long history and cultural essence of yellow rice wine through various means of display, which is divided into wine history hall, wine art hall, three-dimensional film hall, underground wine cellar and so on.
    The Wine History Hall mainly displays the long history of Yellow Wine and various cultures and customs bred in the long history by means of text display boards, real objects display and three-dimensional scenes through historical clues. The wine art hall demonstrates the brewing technology of yellow rice wine through real objects and 1:1 real person 3D demonstration.
    In the afternoon, you will visit the hometown of Wang Xizhi (also known as Jiezhu Temple) in downtown Shaoxing. We specially invited professor Jin Zixue (professor of College of Arts and Sciences, who has studied calligraphy for 50 years, especially Huai Su cursive script) to explain the hometown of the master of calligraphy Wang Xizhi and teach calligraphy lessons. After that, we will have an appreciation Professor Jin's calligraphy together, play chess and discuss with each other (about 1.5 hours in total).

    Shaoxing
  • D5

    Shaoxing

    We invited Mr. Yu Gueliang, Vice President of Lanting Calligraphy Museum to drink wine and recite poems. After that, you can go the Orchid Pavilion Parkroom for learning calligraphy and communication (about 1 hour), and read the stories of Orchid Pavilion, and write calligraphy folding fans of Orchid Pavilion as a souvenir.
    Orchid Pavilion is a famous scenic spot in Shaoxing. It was once the residence of the great ancient calligrapher Wang Xizhi and a beautiful place on the Shanyin Road.
    Qu shui liu shang, is a traditional custom of ancient Chinese folk, and later developed into a kind of elegant activity of versifying and drinking. Everyone sitting beside the brook of Orchid Pavilion, putting the glass in the brook. If the glass spin or stop, the people in front of the glass has to drink or recite poems.
    In the afternoon,you can have afternoon tea at anlu hotel, and enjoy the customized Shaoxing Opera performance for you, and interact with the actors, learn about Shaoxing Opera (about 1 hour).
    In the evening, you will have a farewell dinner. We will arrange the welcoming ceremony of Master Ah Q to welcome you to.

    Shaoxing
  • D6

    Shaoxing – Other City

    In the morning, you will go to Hangzhou Airport (1 hour drive), to fly back to Shenzhen.
    *Reference flight: Shenzhen Airlines ZH9876 Hangzhou - Shenzhen [12:45-15:10]

    Shaoxing – Other City

Accommodation arrangements

  • Hangzhou West Lake Dielaiya Guquan Villa or other five stars hotel
    Located in the center of the scenic spots of West Lake in Hangzhou, it is a boutique hotel with a health theme. The hotel covers an area of 31,000 square meters, among which the green area reaches 27,000 square meters. The overall design has absorbed the essence of West Lake culture and combined with contemporary Chinese simple style. Elegant, delicate, comfortable eight types of rooms more than 100 sets of rooms, showing different private space. The hotel rooms are distributed in the main building and single-family guestrooms. In addition to the guest rooms, the hotel is also equipped with perfect high-end meeting services, wedding services, health therapy services, to meet the needs of different guests.
    It is full of a strong folk characteristics of Jiangnan water town. Each brick and tile wooden structure of the building are in the towering ancient trees and trees. A gentle and peaceful beauty of simple elegance and noble atmosphere is sent out here.
  • Shaoxing Dayu Kaiyuan Guantang Holiday Village or other five stars hotel
    Dayu Kaiyuan Hall of Shaoxing is located at the foot of Huiji Mountain, adjacent to Dayu Mausoleum Scenic Spot. It was the place where the descendants of Dayu Si family multiplied and lived, with a history of more than 4,000 years. The hotel covers an area of 64,100 square meters, with a construction area of 35,200 square meters, and has more than 200 guest rooms. A Yuling River divided the hotel into two sides of the east and west, while the east and west has different styles. The western buildings are based on the original natural ecological environment of ancient villages. The eastern buildings integrate bright modern style design and relaxed and comfortable natural characteristics. You can taste the beautiful south of the Yangtze River and experience the local customs here.
    The hotel has a swimming pool, a gym, a children's playground, and offers a variety of cultural experiences such as the Laodizi game and the Wu van boat tour. You can relax and remind the tradition here in Dayu Kaiyuan Guantang Holiday Village.

Visa Information

Chinese citizens do not need visas.



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