There is a hidden town in the southwest of Zhejiang. It is located at the transit point for tourist attractions in the four provinces of Zhejiang, Anhui, Fujian and Jiangxi. It is beautiful and low-key, but it is always surprising. It is Jiangjia Town.
While the name of “Lion City” presents the history carried by the ancient city — the over-one-thousand-year-old Lion City has been lying quietly under the emerald-green waters with ancient Muju Opera still vivid as before, the scene of Zhu Xi writing articles and lecturing in Yingshan Academy (瀛山书院) still fresh and alive like yesterday, the old stores hidden on the streets in the villages not yet in decline …
Scenic Areas
Jiangjia Town inherits the historical context of the thousand-year-old underwater ancient Lion City, and scenic areas including Wenyuan Lion City and Longchuan Bay are attractive. It’s quite appropriate to say that it’s an ancient new town, an enchanting homeland.
Wenyuan Lion City 文渊狮城
It recreates ashore the original scenes of the underwater ancient city that has submerged the bottom of Qiandao Lake for more than 60 years and also reproduces the splendid thousand-year-old Xin’an River Civilization. It adapts to the local conditions and utilizes the world-class lake and mountain ecology to focus on the organic combination of the one-thousand-year-old Xin’an culture and modern leisure culture, creating a cultural theme park integrating leisure tourism, hotel and B&B, health care, traditional experience, conference, group building, research and education.
Longchuan Bay Scenic Area 龙川湾景区
The scenic area is located in the southwest lake area of Qiandao Lake. The entire scenic area is about 2.31 square kilometers. Here, large and small islands are scattered around and rivers are winding. It is the only lake-type wetland in Qiandao Lake.
Han Hong Mo Xiang Museum 翰红墨香馆
At present, it is the only red culture museum in China that uses old newspapers as a carrier to reproduce the path of China's revival and show the development of the Chinese nation. A total of more than 70,000 precious old newspapers are in possession, of which 13,000 are with the theme of red culture. There are three exhibition halls including “Impression of the Old Time”, “Impression of the Time”, and “Miracle of the Current Time”.
Hi Sound Amusement Park 嗨声游乐园
Located on Shicheng Road, Jiangjia Town, Chun'an County, it is a large-scale amusement park mainly focusing on more than 20 game projects such as karts, ATVs, simulated tanks, internet-famous trampolines, corsairs, flying chairs, automatic control planes, and hi sound fountains. The paradise has rich and exciting amusement facilities and a beautiful environment.
Shuangxi Cocoon House Research Base 双溪茧舍研学基地
Relying on the Chun’an County Silkworm and Mulberry Exhibition Hall, the base is built to be the first silkworm and mulberry theme research and study base in Chun'an County. From the whole-process silkworm breeding experience to the deep processing of products, it adopts advanced education concepts, and research and study mutual assistance, and teaches through lively activities. At the same time, it integrates culture and innovation elements into hand-made creative products and local agricultural products and provides supporting accommodation and catering for tourists.
Food
Among all things in the world, only love and food cannot be ignored. Food is a culture and art.
Hill Side Qiandao Lake Ham Restaurant 西坡千岛湖火腿餐厅
The ideal life in one’s mind should include leisurely taking care of the plants and flowers in the yard with a gentle breeze blowing under the warm sun. Bring this vision and come to Hill Side Qiandao Lake to say goodbye to the bustling urban life for now and immerse in the serene and leisure life.
Longchuan Bay Army Canteen 龙川湾兵团食堂
The place is a cultural attraction associated with “People’s Commune”, “Army” and “Send-down Youth”. Through personally visit the place and experience it, visitors can know and feel the historical track of that era and see the scenes of people at that time eating from the same large pot, watching old movies and having general meetings of commune members together.
Accommodation
Lake wind isn’t as salty or wet as sea wind. It’s cleaner and more refreshing, and with a breeze blowing, your whole body will feel comfortable. Jiangjia Town has many beautiful guesthouses isolated from the outside world. Choose any one of them to have a sweet sleep near water and to feel the charm of Jiangnan Region on the banks of Qiandao Lake.
Ahn Luh Qiandao Lake 千岛湖安麓酒店
Ahn Luh Qiandao Lake adopts the artistic conception of Mr. Wu Guanzhong's "Ink and Wash Jiangnan": integrating the characteristics of both ancient and modern times, infusing both dynamic and static elements, and featuring clean and poetic scenes. Looking from the window of the 84 lake view villas, there is a landscape painting that blends seamlessly with nature.
Primus Hotel Wenyuan Lion City 文渊狮城铂瑞酒店
Qiandao Lake is blessed with lush mountains and elegant water. In the breathtaking scenery of cloud-shrouded mountains and crystal-clear lake, nature has created a wonderful health care resort through its uncanny workmanship. Inheriting the traditional essence of Huizhou-style architecture and bearing the cultural deposits of the five elements (metal, wood, water, fire, earth) of Feng Shui, craftsmen built the Primus Hotel Qiandao Lake in Wenyuan Lion City. The hotel provides 83 elegant and well-designed Huizhou-style villa guestrooms with area ranging from 46 square meters to 204 square meters.
Hill Side Village Qiandao Lake 西坡千岛湖
It is located on a peninsula surrounded by water on three sides in the southwest corner of Jiangjia Town, which is compatible with nature. It is equipped with an activity center, an infinity swimming pool, a children's paradise, multi-functional conference halls, yachts, a private fishing area, water canoes, afternoon tea and other rich outdoor activities. The Hill Side Village is renovated from vacant houses such as grain warehouses and oil mills. It perfectly combines the borderless rural lifestyle and modern comfortable living facilities.
Xuan Shan Yun Ju 玄山云居
One can only see the beauty of white walls and black tiles in a setting of lush mountains and clear water. Xuan Shan Yun Ju features simple design and normcore trend. It’s lightly styled and of oriental charm, creating a pure land for you.
36 Du Rural Guesthouse 36都乡宿
It is a quite characteristic hotel combining VR accommodation, cabin accommodation and container accommodation. It combines architecture, nature and culture and is enhanced with outdoor barbeque, self-service book bar, outdoor cinema, outdoor swimming pool and other supporting facilities to satisfy different needs of different customers.
Lion City Art Guesthouse
Every room in the guesthouse has its own theme. With the main theme of Lion City culture, Lion City Art Guesthouse takes the unique part of the local culture and invites domestically known designers and international trend artists to conduct cross-border designs, and by doing so, manifest its characteristics through the elegance of art.