Farewell to 2020 and Hello to 2021.
The new year is about to start.
Let’s greet it together in Hangzhou!
Hangzhou Song Dynasty Town New Year Adventure Night
December 31 New Year’s Eve
“New Year’s Eve Concert”, “Crazy Snow Making”, “Countdown to New Year”, “New Year Lucky Draw”, carnival, playing with snow, floating river lanterns to pray … The night will certainly be crazy and fun! It’s a must-have during the New Year holiday.
Grand Shows
Enjoy the 5D live-action performance “Great Earthquake (大地震)” to feel that although mountains fall and ground splits, love remains.
Enjoy the holographic show “Phantom (幻影)” to experience what is dreamlike.
Splendid Shows in a Row
“Shangganling (上甘岭)”, “Captain Cook (库克船长)”, “Tossing Embroidered Ball (抛绣球)”, “Time Traveling Flash Mob (穿越快闪)”, “Guo Zhuang (锅庄)” … We have everything that you desire to see.
Fashionable Party
The New Year holiday is time for a satisfying audio-visual feast. The “Magic Light Show”, “Electric Music Fashionable Party”, “Container Concert” and “New Year’s Eve Concert” are there to “wake up” your ears.
Time: December 31 to January 3
Place: Song Dynasty Town, No. 148, Zhijiang Road, Hangzhou 杭州市之江路148号宋城景区
2021·Xixi New Year’s Day Activity
God of Wealth Giving Gifts
The “God of Wealth” in a red robe is giving away “red envelopes” and gold coin-shaped chocolates. Let’s feel the strong flavor of the New Year celebration in Xixi.
Place: Jing Yuan Fang Gu, Water Stage on Fangtang Pond (方塘水上舞台—荆源访古); Shentankou, Hezhu Street (河渚街街口—深潭口)
Parade Time: 11:00, 13:00, 14:00 and 15:00
Xixi Intangible Cultural Heritage
The inheritors of Xixi 18 Martial Arts will bring splendid martial art performances, allowing you to meet intangible cultural heritage inheritors face-to-face and perceive the charm of traditional intangible culture while having fun.
Place: the Water Stage on Fangtang Pool (方塘)
Xixi Yueju Opera
In Xixi, the premiere place of the North School Yueju Opera, not only can you feast your eyes on picture-postcard scenery, but also can you enjoy the local special opera, which takes you on a journey to enjoy the quintessence of Chinese culture and revisit the classics, by doing so, experience the charm of Chinese traditional culture.
Place: the stage at Jing Yuan Fang Gu (荆源访古)
I Have a Big Fish Pond in Xixi
Now is time for Xixi Gantang (Drying the Pond) Festival (西溪干塘节). The activity of “owning a big fish pond” is now in full swing. This New Year holiday, why not team up and come to Xixi to capture fishes and shrimps, which is a nice choice for friends to hang out or for companies to do team building.
Activity Time:
November 21, 2020 to March 31, 2021
Price:
Team of 30 people: 5000 yuan per pond; the yield of fish is about 100 kilograms;
Team of 50 people: 8000 yuan per pond; the yield of fish is about 200 kilograms;
Team of 70 people: 10000 yuan per pond; the yield of fish is about 250 kilograms.
Place:
Yu Tian Li (余田里), Ouxiang Bridge (藕香桥), Misty Water Fishing Villa (pinyin: yan shui yu zhuang; simplified Chinese: 烟水渔庄)
Reservation & Consultation Telephone
+86 571 88106688
After drying the pond, you can dine at Misty Water Fishing Villa or Water Street Restaurant (pinyin: shui jie shi fu; simplified Chinese: 水街食府). The restaurants can provide free aquatic products processing service (limited to two dishes at every table). If wanting to make your fishes into crisp fishes, corresponding charges are applied.
Tangxi Ancient Town Scenic Area
塘栖古镇景区
Praying for Fortune Activities
Enjoy the warm camellia feast in cold winter; write down your wishes on lanterns to greet the new year.
First, savoring the warm tea and listening to ancient music
It feels extremely satisfying to savor a cup of warm and fragrant osmanthus tea in winter in the company of live old-style music.
Second, tasting Camellia
According to Compendium of Materia Medica by Li Shizhen, camellia can cool the blood and stop bleeding, dissipate stasis and reduce swelling. It can also nourish and relieve the liver, remove heat and cure cough. Shihuaji (literal meaning: camellia tasting record; simplified Chinese: 食花记) is a refreshing recipe for health in winter.
Third, making camellia fragrance and camellia scented tag
In ancient times, there are poets writing poems to praise camellia; now, there is Mrs. Wang who loves white camellia the most in Demigods and Semi-Devils by Louis Cha. This New Year holiday, let’s make a camellia scented tag, which you can hang in your car or carry around with you.
Fourth, making flower and grass lantern and write New Year wishes
At the beginning of 2021, let’s gather together and make a flower and grass lantern to bring light and warmth to dispel coldness, ignite hope and wave goodbye to the past.
Time: 18:30 to 20:30 on December 31
Place: the 2nd floor, Tangxi Story Hall, Xiyao House (西姚宅塘栖故事馆二楼)
Lion Dancing Parade 舞狮巡街
Time: 10:00 to 10:30 on January 1st
Place: inside Tangxi Ancient Town Scenic Area
Route: Shuinan Stage (水南戏台)→Guangji Bridge (广济桥) →Xincun Lane (新村弄) →Landison→Qianlong Imperial Stele (乾隆御碑) → the east end of Shuibei Street (水北街) → the west end of Shuibei Street
*The specific route is subject to adjustment according to the actual situation of the day
Guangji Bridge Praying Tour
Walk across Guangji Bridge to greet the New Year.
Time: December 31, 2020 to January 4, 2021
Place: the south end of Guangji Bridge (广济桥), the information pavilion of Shuibei Street
Content: Take photos in designated areas and share in the Moments of WeChat; walk across Guangji Bridge to the information pavilion of Shuibei Street where you can get a wish card by showing the post in the Moment of WeChat; write down your wishes on the card and hang it on the wishing wall.
Family Pastry Production
Now is time to make some pastries to pray for a better and better life in the coming new year.
Time: January 2, 2021
Place: Bai Nian Hui Chang Pastry Mold Hall (百年汇昌糕模馆)
Content: The head of Bai Nian Hui Chang will guide people to see the collected pastry molds, tell people the knowledge of pastry molds and teach people how to make pastries.
How to participate: Ten families will be invited to participate
Suzhou Pingtan* Performance
*Pingtan refers to the storytelling and ballad singing in the Suzhou dialect.
The beauty of Jiangnan Region is expressed in the Suzhou dialect.
Time: 13:00 to 14:00 from January 1, 2021 to January 3, 2021
Place: Tangxi Storytelling Bookstore (Pingyuan Teahouse) 塘栖书场（评元茶馆）
Price: 20 yuan per person (including tea)