[2025 Hangzhou Attraction] Travel Guide for Heshang Ancient Town (Fenghuangwu Village) (Updated Mar)

is located in the south of Xiaoshan District, Hangzhou City, Zhejiang Province, at the junction of Xiaoshan, Fuyang, and Zhuji. Heshang Ancient Town, also known as "Heshang Town" or "Monk's Shop," has a history of over 1,000 years! Heshang Ancient Town is also known as the "Hometown of Paper" and the "Hometown of Clothing." It is a strong town in education in Zhejiang Province and a nationally advanced town in mass sports. In addition, the Heshang Dragon Lantern Festival is listed as an intangible cultural heritage of Zhejiang Province and is a century-old local folk custom. In the first year of Tongguang in the Tang Dynasty (923 AD), Guangfu Temple was built. The monks in the temple went to the streets of Heshang to open shops, exchanging the grain they cultivated. Coupled with the monks' charitable nature, the "Monk's Shop" gradually gained popularity, spreading its fame far and wide, and even bringing Heshang Ancient Town into the spotlight! Ancient Town Attractions: Xutongtai Official Sauce Garden, Xiaoshan Imperial Examination Culture Museum, Jingquan Street, Dragon Lantern Festival & Ancient Town Cuisine: Tangerine Red Paste, Brown Sugar Shortbread, Rice Cake Slices, Reunion Cake, Colorful Steamed Cake, Big Cake. The noodles at Xiaohui Jun Noodle House at the entrance are also delicious. In addition, Xiaoshan's dried radish is a local specialty. It's fresh, salty, and crispy, and it's a perfect match with rice porridge! You can also try the century-old Xutongtai soy sauce and the clear Sanqing tea.

Heshang Ancient Town in Xiaoshan, originally known as 'Monk's Shop, Heshang Summit'. It is said that the monks from Lidu Village's Guangfu Temple came to Heshang to open shops and do business. The monks were kind and generous, and their reputation spread far and wide. Because it is located in the upper reaches of the Yongxing River, the villagers of Xiaoshao came by bamboo rafts, hence the name. Heshang is east of the remnants of Kuaiji, west of the Longmen Mountains, backed by Linpu, and adjacent to Zhuji in the south. It was once a gathering place for merchants and an important distribution center for dry goods in the north and south. Passing through the Moon Gate, on the old houses with flying eaves and carved cow legs, you can still see a number of signs and names. Every corner of the old street of Heshang is filled with the fragrance of time. This is a hometown of intangible cultural heritage, with Heshang Dragon Lantern Festival, Xishan Red Stone, Xu Tongtai's sauce-making skills, board dragon dance, running horse lantern (walking horse lantern), Zixia River Lantern Festival (Zhongyuan Festival), and the folk custom of 'live gold dead Liu'. There are many plaques of Tagore's poems on the old street of Heshang. Only then did I know that a litterateur Wei Fengjiang had come out of Heshang. He was the only Chinese student of the great Indian poet Tagore, followed Mahatma Gandhi, and devoted his life to the cultural exchange between China and India. Hangzhou has the title of Ten Scenic Spots of West Lake, and the ten scenic spots of Heshang are still fresh, such as Daolin Purple Qi, Xiyuan Morning Bell, Songting Snow, Yuxi Spring Dawn, Dongchao Autumn Color, Hundred Birds Facing Phoenix, etc. Heshang Town is also a red land, Xiaoshan Anti-Japanese War Memorial Hall, Qu Luanyun's former residence, etc., bearing the changes of historical years, calmly telling the great love in the years of war. Have a pot of Xu Tongtai's fresh soy sauce, make a cage of sesame glutinous rice cakes with orange red, walk in time, enjoy yourself, and eat happily. There is a unique meaning of life.

The Xiaoshan Imperial Examination Museum, located on the old street of the thousand-year-old town of He Shang, displays the physical objects of China's 1300-year-old imperial examination culture. The "number room" used for exams, red scrolls and carved editions, scholar flagpole seats, victory reports, etc., as well as the inscriptions of scholars from all dynasties, the ink treasures of the emperor's teacher Zhu Gui, the governor of Zhejiang Tang Shouqian and others. The imperial examination and the first place are the collective hopes of the local area. Government schools, academies, guesthouses, and charity schools will also provide part of the travel expenses and roll funds. The name of the rural examination began in the Yuan Dynasty, also known as "Autumn Examination". The Qing rural examination time was in August of the Zi, Wu, Mao, and You years, and those who were admitted to the rural examination were called scholars, commonly known as "filial piety". The first place in the rural examination is Jieyuan. When the rural examination list is released, it is when the osmanthus flowers are fragrant, so it is called "Osmanthus List". Tang Jinzhao, a native of Xiaoshan, is upright and takes the management of the classics as his duty. He is a famous minister of the three dynasties, a teacher of the generation, and has served as the chief examiner of the Jiangnan rural examination three times. The metropolitan examination is named because the scholars from all provinces gather in the capital for the examination. Because the metropolitan examination is a national examination hosted by the Ministry of Rites, it is also called the Ministry of Rites Examination, Liwei, and Chunwei. The admitted person of the metropolitan examination is called a tribute student, and the first place is called Gongyuan, Huayuan. The palace examination is presided over by the emperor's son, mostly in spring. The admitted person is called Jinshi, also known as the son of the emperor. The Ming Dynasty palace examination was held in the Huagai Hall, the early Qing Dynasty palace examination was at the Tiananmen Gate, and later it was changed to the Taihe Hall and the Baohe Hall. Entering the Hanlin Academy is called "Shang Ao Tou". The military examination system was initiated during the period of Wu Zetian (702 AD), and the Yuan Dynasty did not set up a military examination. In history, the military examination has been conducted about 500 times, and the status of the military examination is also lower than that of the literary jinshi. Among the military examination candidates who have made achievements on the battlefield throughout the ages, there are only Guo Ziyi of the Tang Dynasty, Qi Jiguang of the Ming Dynasty, and Ge Yunfei of the Qing Dynasty. The stones used in the military examination are 300 jin for the first number, 250 jin for the second number, and 200 jin for the third number. Candidates must dance with a knife before and after to be qualified. During the examination, the candidate must lift the stone one foot off the ground to be qualified.

Xu Tongtai Soy Sauce Garden, located on the west side of Jingquan Street in Hangzhou's ancient town on the river, was founded by Xu Sanchun in the third year of Guangxu (1877). The Salt Transport Commissioner of Liangzhe awarded Xu Tongtai the plaque of "Official Soy Sauce Garden", the soy sauce is rich and delicious, known as "the fragrance of soy sauce floats for a hundred years and a hundred miles". In the middle of the Republic of China, Xu Tongtai formed five workshops: wine making, dairy making, soy sauce making, enamel making, and grinding, and was known as "Ask for medicine from Hu Qingyu, and moisturize the taste of Xu Tongtai". In 2008, "Xu Tongtai" was rated as the first batch of old brands in Zhejiang Province and was included in the "Third Batch of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Hangzhou". The raw material of soy sauce is steamed soybeans and roasted rice flour, which has been sun-dried for 180 days. Today, Xu Tongtai still insists on the ancient soy sauce technique, which is the killer of the old base to make soy chicken, soy duck and soy meat, and is also the soul of the New Year flavor. The existing buildings from the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China are a business hall, a management room and a workshop, which have been included in the Hangzhou Municipal Cultural Protection Unit. The "Guan Gong Night Reading" and "Lao Tzu Riding a Cow" on the gatehouse are vaguely telling the old stories. The soy meat under the eaves is the taste of human feelings and the taste of the New Year passed down from generation to generation. I love the pot of glossy leaf evergreen in the Super Love Tourist Center. The stamens are particularly outstanding, the flower color is elegant, and just looking at it makes me feel good. The semantics of the glossy leaf evergreen flower is "Forge ahead, who will compete", may we all be able to ride the ship of the times and be invincible on the road to success.