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[2025 Ningbo Attraction] Travel Guide for Ningbo Hanling Old Street (Updated Mar)

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Hanling Old Street, known as "the first ancient street in eastern Zhejiang", is located on the south bank of Dongqian Lake. It is surrounded by mountains on three sides and faces the lake on one side. It has beautiful natural scenery and belongs to the Dongqian South Lake Attraction, about 20 kilometers away from Ningbo city. Hanling Village has a long history. It is said that it was named after a Han family who lived here in the early years. According to research, there were already residents here when the dredging of Dongqian Lake was completed in the third year of Tianbao in the Tang Dynasty (744 AD). When Wang Anshi governed Yin (the eighth year of Qingli in Bac Ninh, 1048 AD), he rebuilt the lake boundary. At that time, Hanling Village had formed a regular market every five and ten days. When Shi Hao, the prime minister of Nanning (1140 AD), passed through Hanling on his way to Xiashui Village, his ancestral home, he left behind a sentence in his book "Traveling in the Mountains of East Lake" that "there is a village called Hanling, where the sounds of fishermen's songs and woodcutters' axes are mixed together", which shows that the Hanling market was already well-known at that time. In the following hundreds of years, Hanling was an important transportation hub and water and land hub center connecting Ningbo City to Xiangshan Port. There are two old streets in Hanling, namely the front street and the back street, which run through the whole village. Commerce is concentrated in the front street, which is more than 500 meters long and is divided into the lower street, the middle street and the upper street. The more than 30 shops in the village are mostly concentrated in the lower street, and there is a street stream flowing slowly in the middle of the lower street. The whole street was originally paved with blue-black cobblestones, but now it is a cement road. In addition, the old street still maintains the style of hundreds of years ago: on both sides are two-story buildings with gray tiles, white walls, and red painted facades, one after another, stretching forward, and the place names left by the market at that time are still used, such as Zhupenggen, Chaichang, etc. There is also a small sand well in the village. The well water is warm in winter and cool in summer with a hint of sweetness. Although there is tap water in the village, the villagers still like to drink the water from the small sand well.
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Ningbo Hanling Old Street Address:

Hanling Village, Yinzhou District, Ningbo 315133, China

Ningbo Hanling Old Street Recommended sightseeing time:

1-2 hours

Ningbo Hanling Old Street Phone:

0574-88373737

Ningbo Hanling Old Street Ticket Price

Free entry
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