Xixi National Wetland, Like Chinese Lanscape Paintings

Xixi National Wetland Park is China's only official National Wetland Park. Located in Hangzhou, a city in east-central China near Shanghai, the park is one of the easiest attractions in the country to reach for traveling in china. Hangzhou's natural scenery inspired many traditional Chinese landscape paintings, and Xixi has more than its share of these iconic panoramas. The park is crisscrossed by navigable waterways, with lakes, smaller ponds and wetlands in between the natural canals. Popular tourist sites are located throughout the park, and many can be reached only by boat.

The landscapes in Xixi during Hangzhou Travel are famous for its nature and simplicity. Experts summarize its features like this: Coldness, Wildness, Simplicity and Elegance. Coldness is quietude, means it is a peaceful place in a noisy city. Wildness suggests nature and a primitive land in human world. Simplicity means back to nature. Elegance suggests grace, you can feel the profound culture flavor here. Xixi has always been a best place for artists and writers to produce poems, calligraphy, paintings and epigraphy.

There are three causeways named fu, lu and shou which carry the Chinese meanings of fortune, prosperity and longevity. Hangzhou Attractions include the Plum Villa, Yanshui Fishing Villa and Autumn Snow Temple. Two routes, one by land and the other by water take visitors on an excellent tour of the wetlands. Xixi is well-known for the annual Dragon Boat Festival held on Deep Pond where competitors continue a racing tradition begun in China over 2,000 years ago. The pond is said to be so deep that a dragon resides in the depths. The XiXi National Wetland Park is successfully preserving not only the ecology of the local area, but the cultural history as well.