http://www.chinatravel.com/rssRSS-BoardWed 10 May 2011 8:25:00 GMTfadrihttp://www.chinatravel.com/zhejiang/shaoxing/festival/yue-opera/SELECT top 1 Location + filename + '-s' + pictype as picurl FROM dbo.Web_Photo WHERE (VResourceSN = 2741) AND (ServiceType = 7) ORDER BY dateEdit DESCSun 22 May 2010 22:30:00 GMTdrwihttp://www.chinatravel.com/zhejiang/shaoxing/attraction/orchid-pavilion-scenic-area/ The Orchid Pavilion of literary fame (as if there were any other!) belongs to Qushui Garden, which is situated in a southwestern suburb of the city of Shaoxing, Zhejiang Province. The famous pavilion gets its name from the fact that the site in question had been a garden belonging to King Goujian of Yue, whose reign was from BCE 496 to 465, i.e., it overlapped the Spring and Autumn (BCE 770-476) and the Warring States (BCE 475-221) Periods of the Eastern Zhou (BCE 770-221) Dynasty, to whic...]]>SELECT top 1 Location + filename + '-s' + pictype as picurl FROM dbo.Web_Photo WHERE (VResourceSN = 5774) AND (ServiceType = 7) ORDER BY dateEdit DESCSat 22 May 2009 12:49:00 GMTdrwihttp://www.chinatravel.com/zhejiang/shaoxing/attraction/shen-garden/Shen Garden, located at the juncture of Yanghe Alley and Luxun Road, was the private garden of a wealthy Shaoxing businessman by the name of Shen during the Southern Song (CE 1127-1279) period of the Song (CE 960-1279) Dynasty. (The rest of Shen's name has long since been forgotten, the only memorable thing he achieved being the creation of the garden that would become famous for its connection to a revered poet from the same period, as will be seen immediately below.) The original garden was...]]>SELECT top 1 Location + filename + '-s' + pictype as picurl FROM dbo.Web_Photo WHERE (VResourceSN = 2748) AND (ServiceType = 7) ORDER BY dateEdit DESCWed 19 May 2009 23:04:00 GMTdrwihttp://www.chinatravel.com/zhejiang/shaoxing/attraction/former-residence-of-zhou-enlai/Not surprisingly, the Former Residence of Zhou Enlai at No 73 Sinan Road in the old French Concession quarter of Shanghai exudes a somewhat French colonial appearance, with its rounded (i.e., three-sided) roof sections, its shuttered windows, its lower-storey arcade and its ivy-clad exterior, yet the front of the main, arcade-like semi-enclosure at the base of the building is in the form of a single, large arch reminiscent of the typical islamic arch. The Former Residence of Zhou Enlai (usually ...]]>SELECT top 1 Location + filename + '-s' + pictype as picurl FROM dbo.Web_Photo WHERE (VResourceSN = 2751) AND (ServiceType = 7) ORDER BY dateEdit DESCWed 19 May 2009 13:48:00 GMTdrwihttp://www.chinatravel.com/zhejiang/shaoxing/attraction/former-residence-of-wang-xizhi/Though he was born in the city of Linyi in Shandong Province during period of the Western (CE 265-316) and Eastern (CE 317-420) Jin Dynasties, Wang Xizhi (CE 303-361), aka the Sage of Calligraphy, spent most of his life in the city of Shaoxing in Zhejiang Province. The famous calligrapher's former residence is located in the present-day Jishan Historic Block of Shaoxing's Yuecheng District. Wang Xizhi lived at the Yuecheng District residence while in charge of humanistic studies for the then Kua...]]>SELECT top 1 Location + filename + '-s' + pictype as picurl FROM dbo.Web_Photo WHERE (VResourceSN = 2740) AND (ServiceType = 7) ORDER BY dateEdit DESCThu 13 May 2009 21:34:00 GMTdrwihttp://www.chinatravel.com/zhejiang/shaoxing/attraction/former-residence-of-lu-xun/The former childhood home of Lu Xun - alternatively, Lu Hsun, but born Zhou Zhangshou on September 25, 1881 - is located at 208 Luxun Zhong Lu Street in Shaoxing, in Zhejiang Province. The former Shaoxing residence and private school buildings of the Zhou family - a once wealthy, well-established Shaoxing family - were quite large, consisting of over a hundred different rooms. The family had fallen on harder times already during Lu Xun's youth, partly due to an accusation of bribery, where Lu Xu...]]>SELECT top 1 Location + filename + '-s' + pictype as picurl FROM dbo.Web_Photo WHERE (VResourceSN = 2746) AND (ServiceType = 7) ORDER BY dateEdit DESCWed 7 Apr 2009 0:55:00 GMTdrwihttp://www.chinatravel.com/zhejiang/shaoxing/attraction/east-lake/Situated at the foot of Ruofen Mountain, about 3 kilometers east of the heart of the city of Shaoxing in Zhejiang Province, East Lake, along with West Lake in Hangzhou and South Lake in Jiaxing, make up the three most famous lakes belonging to Zhejiang Province, and, indeed, these three lakes are among the country's most prominent. East Lake is largely an artificial lake, though it was not expressly created as such. It got to be a lake by the quarrying of the bluestone (a bluish-grey sandston...]]>SELECT top 1 Location + filename + '-s' + pictype as picurl FROM dbo.Web_Photo WHERE (VResourceSN = 2744) AND (ServiceType = 7) ORDER BY dateEdit DESCThu 4 Feb 2009 1:07:00 GMTchinatravelhttp://www.chinatravel.com/zhejiang/shaoxing/attraction/big-buddha-temple-of-xinchang/The Dafo (Big Buddha) Temple of Xinchang (the geographical qualifier is necessary, since there are five such Big Buddha temples spread about China) was built during the early years of the first period of rule the Yonghe (CE 345357) period of Emperor Mu Di of the Eastern Jin (CE 317420) Dynasty. The Big Buddha Statue itself is located in a grotto, and is carved of a massive slab of granite which, thankfully, is less subject to time-induced degradation than other stone types such as sandstone. ...]]>SELECT top 1 Location + filename + '-s' + pictype as picurl FROM dbo.Web_Photo WHERE (VResourceSN = 157) AND (ServiceType = 35) ORDER BY dateEdit DESCTue 28 Jan 2008 0:00:00 GMTchinatravelhttp://www.chinatravel.com/zhejiang/shaoxing/product/aniseed-flavored-beans/As a small food of Shaoxing, Aniseed Flavored Beans are usually eaten as snack or with wine. Thanks to the description of it in the novel of Lu Xun, the beans gained a widely spread fame, becoming one of the commodities eagerly bought by tourists from other places of China. In order to orient the beans to the need of tourists, people have made great improvement in its package. So, the small aniseed flavored beans has formed a large market in Shaoxing....]]>SELECT top 1 Location + filename + '-s' + pictype as picurl FROM dbo.Web_Photo WHERE (VResourceSN = 172) AND (ServiceType = 33) ORDER BY dateEdit DESCTue 28 Jan 2008 0:00:00 GMTchinatravelhttp://www.chinatravel.com/zhejiang/shaoxing/food/babao-%28eight-treasures%29-dish/Its main ingredients consist of pickles made from cabbage with tall stalk and soybean sprout without root. Meanwhile, add dried bean curd crust (threadlike), rabbit (bar-like) and winter bamboo shoot (slice-like) etc. besides, put some dried mushroom and agaric etc, then fry them with oil. Because of the daily diet of much grease, it has won wide popularity....]]>SELECT top 1 Location + filename + '-s' + pictype as picurl FROM dbo.Web_Photo WHERE (VResourceSN = 166) AND (ServiceType = 33) ORDER BY dateEdit DESCTue 28 Jan 2008 0:00:00 GMTchinatravelhttp://www.chinatravel.com/zhejiang/shaoxing/food/baixiang-%28dried-fish%29-and-chicken/Baixiang refers to dried yellow-fin tuna, a kind of rare marine product with delicious taste and firm meat. Yue Chicken is a tribute and famous specialty of Shaoxing in the history, delicate and fat. Cooking Baixiang and Yue Chicken together into one dish is really the icing on the cake, accomplishing better taste. Both of them have the function of nourishing; the tastes of salted and fresh food mix together, chicken with the flavor of dried fish and the latter with the one of chicken, d...]]>SELECT top 1 Location + filename + '-s' + pictype as picurl FROM dbo.Web_Photo WHERE (VResourceSN = 159) AND (ServiceType = 35) ORDER BY dateEdit DESCTue 28 Jan 2008 0:00:00 GMTchinatravelhttp://www.chinatravel.com/zhejiang/shaoxing/product/bamboo-handicrafts/People may feel hard to believe that the exquisitely shaped handicrafts of vivid appearance are woven by bamboo. The bamboo handicrafts have four features of animals, flowers, bleached articles and blue lacquer-coated articles, 12 kinds including blue plates, bottles, boxes, pots, folding screens, animals, buildings, people, furniture, toys and lamps etc and over 6000 varieties. They are all bright in color and vivid in shape....]]>SELECT top 1 Location + filename + '-s' + pictype as picurl FROM dbo.Web_Photo WHERE (VResourceSN = 155) AND (ServiceType = 35) ORDER BY dateEdit DESCTue 28 Jan 2008 0:00:00 GMTchinatravelhttp://www.chinatravel.com/zhejiang/shaoxing/product/black-felt-hat/Black Felt Hat is the distinguished and widely worn hat of Shaoxing. Dark black inside and outside, it has a round top, folded sides and a former part shaped like a dustpan. Put on, it can shelter against wind and rain in winter and sunshine in summer, wearable in all seasons. The hat becomes the favorite of peasants and craftsmen, because it is carefully made, hard to be soaked by water, durable, thick, hard and cheap. Black Felt Hat of top grade should have equal thickness, soft handle and rig...]]>SELECT top 1 Location + filename + '-s' + pictype as picurl FROM dbo.Web_Photo WHERE (VResourceSN = 161) AND (ServiceType = 35) ORDER BY dateEdit DESCTue 28 Jan 2008 0:00:00 GMTchinatravelhttp://www.chinatravel.com/zhejiang/shaoxing/product/celadon-from-yue-kiln/China is the county initiating porcelain of the world and Shaoxing City, the hometown of Yue porcelain, is regarded as the famous cradle of celadon in China. Yue porcelain is a miracle flower in the garden of porcelain art in China. With graceful shape, thin wall and turquoise color and shinning luster, Yue porcelain becomes famous at home and abroad. The products have been exported to Japan, Korea, Pakistan and Iran etc. Nowadays, many foreign museums collect some rare works of Yue porcelain....]]>SELECT top 1 Location + filename + '-s' + pictype as picurl FROM dbo.Web_Photo WHERE (VResourceSN = 2317) AND (ServiceType = 16) ORDER BY dateEdit DESCTue 28 Jan 2008 0:00:00 GMTchinatravelhttp://www.chinatravel.com/zhejiang/shaoxing/restaurant/cherry-blossom-tavern/It is a relatively early-built Japanese restaurant in Shaoxing. There are lots of dishes, many of which are Chinese cuisines. Many Japanese cuisines are also localized. The taste is ok. It is suitable for a group of people to dine together (you can order a chaffy dish of Japanese style) but not for several ones to eat since the single dish is expensive. It has two floors but it is strange that the stairs are outside of the gate....]]>SELECT top 1 Location + filename + '-s' + pictype as picurl FROM dbo.Web_Photo WHERE (VResourceSN = 168) AND (ServiceType = 33) ORDER BY dateEdit DESCTue 28 Jan 2008 0:00:00 GMTchinatravelhttp://www.chinatravel.com/zhejiang/shaoxing/food/chicken-cooked-with-shrimp-oil/Shrimp oil is a flavoring of faint scent used to add flavor to salted and fresh food, especially fresh chicken, duck and fish. During the Spring Festival, it is the must for local people of Shaoxing because of its easiness of reservation and delicious taste, becoming one of the main courses to fill guests....]]>Tue 28 Jan 2008 0:00:00 GMTchinatravelhttp://www.chinatravel.com/zhejiang/shaoxing/food/dasheen-dumping/SELECT top 1 Location + filename + '-s' + pictype as picurl FROM dbo.Web_Photo WHERE (VResourceSN = 156) AND (ServiceType = 35) ORDER BY dateEdit DESCTue 28 Jan 2008 0:00:00 GMTchinatravelhttp://www.chinatravel.com/zhejiang/shaoxing/product/dried-vegetables/Dried Vegetables of Shaoxing is the most popular tourist commodity for tourists from other places in China, especially Shanghai people. Except for the ones of Xinchang, which are made by cabbage with tall stalk, most dried vegetables of Shaoxing are made by rape and leaf mustard. Since its fragrance is special and strong, if one people buy and bring the dried vegetable into the cabin of the flight, almost every passenger can enjoy this special treatment offered by him or her....]]>SELECT top 1 Location + filename + '-s' + pictype as picurl FROM dbo.Web_Photo WHERE (VResourceSN = 2749) AND (ServiceType = 7) ORDER BY dateEdit DESCTue 28 Jan 2008 0:00:00 GMTchinatravelhttp://www.chinatravel.com/zhejiang/shaoxing/attraction/former-residence-of-xi-shi/ As early as in the Tang Dynasty, there was a Huansha Temple in the Zhuluo Mountain of Zhuji, which was built by the local people in memory of Xi Shi. Since then, going through wars and dynastic changes for many times, the ancestral temple kept standing. During the process of restoring the Hall of Xi Shi, the government of Zhuji City collected over 10,000 folk works, including wood-carved brace girders, angle tables, sparrow braces, door windows, stone lions and stone steles etc, which were ski...]]>SELECT top 1 Location + filename + '-s' + pictype as picurl FROM dbo.Web_Photo WHERE (VResourceSN = 165) AND (ServiceType = 33) ORDER BY dateEdit DESCTue 28 Jan 2008 0:00:00 GMTchinatravelhttp://www.chinatravel.com/zhejiang/shaoxing/food/fried-bean-curd-with-odor/Fried Bean Curd with Odor is one of the great specialties of long standing in Shaoxing. Once tasting it, people usually cannot help eating more. Though lacking elegance in its name, Bean Curd with Odor has good taste covered by ugly appearance, presenting wonder through its commonness and attracting people by delicious flavor. Through choosing materials, confecting brine, marinating, fermenting, airing and frying, it is golden, crisp outside and soft inside, with strong fragrance....]]>