Recently, the 2023 "Song Dynasty Charm Hang-Style Life Experience Bases and Spots" creation and evaluation activity, hosted by the Hangzhou Municipal Bureau of Culture, Radio, TV and Tourism and the Leisure Development Promotion Association, came to a successful conclusion with 16 units selected.
Song Dynasty Charm Hang-Style Life Experience Base: Deshou Palace Ruins Museum
Beyond the red walls lie the sky and the earth, while within them lie countless stories. Every brick, every tile, every blade of grass, and every tree here carries the weight of history. The Deshou Palace Ruins Museum of the Southern Song Dynasty is a thematic museum that protects, researches, collects, and displays the site itself and its unearthed cultural relics based on the original site of the Deshou Palace Ruins. The museum hosts exhibition and educational activities around the theme of "interesting Song Dynasty," including the Song Dynasty Lecture Series, Famous Figure Salon Series, and Study Tours of the Southern Song Dynasty Youth Museum.
Address: 226-228 Wangjiang Road, Shangcheng District
Song Dynasty Charm Hang-Style Life Experience Base: Qiaoxi Historical and Cultural Block
Hangzhou’s long-lasting prosperity since ancient times has been closely related to the Grand Canal. To the south of the canal lies Qiaoxi. The Qiaoxi Historical and Cultural Block is located to the west of Gongchen Bridge, at the southernmost end of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal. It is where the collective memory of "Old Hangzhou" resides, both as cultural heritage and contemporary life. The block has become a "Song Dynasty Cultural Museum Without Walls" with various activities such as Diancha Experiences, the Song Dynasty Elegant Utensil Exhibition, the Song-Style Woodworking Culture Exhibition, and Hanfu Parades.
Address: Qiaoxizhi Street, Gongshu District
Song Dynasty Charm Hang-Style Life Experience Spot: Jiangnan Copper House
In the hands of artists, hard copper is transformed into soft and flowing water. Every piece of copper artwork, large or small, exudes a lively flavor. Here, visitors can appreciate the masterpieces with the theme of "Song Dynasty Copper Elegance," which transport people instantly into "Song" paintings and allow them to marvel at the rich and colorful expression of melted copper. Additionally, visitors can experience being a "copper smith," feeling how copper goes from cold to warm, from hard to soft, from simple to elegant.
Address: 207-221 Hefang Street, Shangcheng District
Song Dynasty Charm Hang-Style Life Experience Spot: Southern Song Huji Cake Making Experience Spot
From "Hushi Dim Sum and Snack Store" of the Southern Song Dynasty to today's Southern Song Huji, it embodies the beauty of old times and the dedication of pastry chefs, bringing traditional cakes to everyone who seeks them out. Southern Song Huji continuously explores the pastry-making techniques of the Song Dynasty's Hangzhou School, combining modern flavors and ingredients with traditional recipes to produce a series of new Chinese-style cakes that convey the characteristics of Hangzhou's Song Dynasty culture, such as Longjing Tea Cake, Lotus Seed Cake, and White Lady Cake.
Address: 70 Pinghai Road, Shangcheng District
Song Dynasty Charm Hang-Style Life Experience Spot: Xuanhe·Wushan Residence
A pot of tea, a book, or a piece of music can bring a day of joy. Wushan Residence, themed with "Southern Song Dynasty Ancient Charm," expresses the artistic conception of the Southern Song Dynasty through its pink walls, black tiles, blue stone slabs, old doorways, and ink wash painting-like architecture. Here, there are diverse experience projects such as Diancha in spring, elegant fan-making in summer, paper umbrella painting in autumn, and paper cutting in winter, integrating the culture of Song Dynasty and intangible cultural heritage into the display and experience for visitors.
Address: No. 58, Shiwukui Lane, Shangcheng District
Song Dynasty Charm Hang-Style Life Experience Spot: Xiling Seal Society Song Dynasty Culture Gushan Hill Experience Spot
A piece of red stone stands on the table. With a five-inch carving knife, it is meticulously polished. Flying stone chips, and the vivid red seal jumps onto the paper. The incomparable beauty of seal engraving has been passed down from thousands of years ago to the present, while its glory still lingers. Xiling Seal Society, rooted in the "seal" culture, delves into the essence of Chinese culture and incorporates modern aesthetic concepts to create utensils for literati. It often invites seal carving masters for seal carving experience activities and elegant gatherings.
Address: No. 31, Gushan Road, Xihu District
Song Dynasty Charm Hang-Style Life Experience Spot: Yibentang Iron Art Museum
Yibentang takes the meaning of "a thousand branches, one root" and uses cast iron as a carrier to showcase the historical evidence of evolution from agricultural civilization, including iron pots, iron kettles, and old iron utensils, to modern civilization. Here, participants can not only use iron art utensils for flower arrangement, but also learn tea and incense ceremonies. They can also appreciate calligraphy, paintings and porcelain, and experience the cultural inheritance and artistic accumulation since the Southern Song Dynasty in a multi-dimensional way.
Address: No. 83-84, Huancheng East Road, Shangcheng District
Song Dynasty Charm Hang-Style Life Experience Spot: Songyi Aesthetic Museum
Savoring tea quietly, burning incense and meditating, pouring wine and arranging flowers, hanging paintings and playing the zither... Although these slow-paced activities of ancient people have long been gone, understanding these ancient elegant matters may help us find long-lost tranquility and peace. Songyi Aesthetic Museum offers a variety of experiences centered around the four elegant arts of the Song Dynasty, including flower arrangement, incense burning, tea tasting, Diancha, tea ceremony performances, calligraphy, painting, studies of classic Chinese culture, traditional handicrafts and clothing.
Address: No. 39-1, Zhongshan Middle Road, Shangcheng District
Song Dynasty Charm Hang-Style Life Experience Spot: Wangxingji Fan Intangible Cultural Heritage Workshop
In hand is an "elegant item carried in the sleeve." Shake it to bring gentle breezes and poetic sentiments. There has always been a saying of "Hangzhou Elegant Fans." Many fan-making artisans gathered in Hangzhou since the Southern Song Dynasty, and Wangxingji Fan is known as the "total collection of fans." The cultural park has launched the Song Dynasty Fan Art Hang-Style Life Experience Line. Guided by professional guides, visitors can learn about the process of handmade fans and painting, see the exquisite fans collected in the Fan Culture Museum, and make a fan by themselves.
Address: No. 118, Changban Lane, Gongshu District
Song Dynasty Charm Hang-Style Life Experience Spot: Huilu Qin Club
Huilu Qin Club inherits the Zhejiang School of qin music, taking history as the carrier and culture as the essence. And meanwhile it integrates with traditional Chinese culture such as qin, tea, flowers, incense, Kunqu Opera, calligraphy, and traditional Chinese painting, etc. Here, you can play a gentle tune on a guqin, appreciate the artistic style of the Zhejiang School guqin, learn about the evolution of tea drinking from ancient times to modern days, understand the instruments and steps of tea preparation in the Song Dynasty, learn about the formation and production of traditional fragrances and try burning a pot of Chinese incense...
Address: No. 141-3, Xiatang Road, Gongshu District
Song Dynasty Charm Hang-Style Life Experience Spot: Xiaofeng Bookstore·Maitreya Temple
Built against the mountain, Maitreya Temple has a history of more than 140 years. Xiaofeng Bookstore is located within Maitreya Temple Cultural Park, which is full of Song Dynasty charm. Xiaofeng uses "books" as a medium to connect people through "books," actively seeking various high-quality cultural resources. Millions of book lovers have participated in cultural public welfare activities organized by Xiaofeng Bookstore, such as lectures by famous scholars, cultural exhibitions, reading sharing sessions, and book fairs, etc.
Address: Fayu Nun, Maitreya Temple Park, Tiyuchang Road, Xihu District
Song Dynasty Charm Hang-Style Life Experience Spot: Xi Tea · Song Banquet
Each mountain, each river, each grass, each tree, each leaf and each stone exudes romance. It is filled with Zen everywhere and life is also everywhere. As a comprehensive catering service club that integrates tea ceremonies, dining services and conferences, Xi Tea combines distinctive features of the ancient Song Dynasty style with modern urban life concepts. It also offers performances of the four arts of the Song Dynasty, including flower arrangement, incense burning, painting hanging, and tea tasting, aiming to provide customers with an immersive experience of traditional Chinese culture.
Address: Building 3, Haichuang Technology Center, Yuhang District
Song Dynasty Charm Hang-Style Life Experience Spot: Xianlinbu Cultural and Leisure Pedestrian Street
With its ancient Huizhou-style architecture, small bridges, flowing water, lush vegetation, and charming night lights, Xianlinbu Old Street has a unique charm. Stepping onto Xianlinbu Old Street which is full of white walls and black tiles, the colors of mountains and the essence of culture blend with the charm of the water. Strolling through the streets, you can experience an immersive cultural feast, including live performances, cultural exchange meetings on ancient customs and studies of classic Chinese culture, storytelling, opera, guqin, Zen meditation, and other Song-style aesthetic experiences throughout the year.
Address: No. 291, Xianlin Middle Road, Xianlin Sub-district, Yuhang District
Song Dynasty Charm Hang-Style Life Experience Spot: Hangzhou Mushou Xixi Hotel
Fish by the river, brew spring water into wine, hide in the creek, and feast. Mushou Xixi Hotel aims to recreate the classic dishes of the Song Dynasty recorded in ancient books with modern cooking techniques, promoting Song culture. In addition to delicious food and wine, the hotel also recreates the four arts of the Song Dynasty, "tea ceremonies, incense burning, flower arrangement, and painting hanging." These four forms of Song Dynasty aesthetics allow everyone to participate through on-site observation, interactive experiences, and immersive learning.
Address: No. 33 Shoudi, Wuchang Sub-district, Yuhang District
Song Dynasty Charm Hang-Style Life Experience Spot: Xincangxiu Public Welfare Library
Xincangxiu Library in Baizhang Town focuses on literature and art, collaborating with famous writers, artists, and teachers to regularly hold literary lectures and art salons themed around "enjoying reading and appreciating beauty" and "reading, studying, and researching." Here, the distant mountains are like an ink wash painting, and the nearby water holds a hint of mist. The literary and artistic courtyard filled with the fragrance of books has become a great place for children to enjoy the pleasure of reading. The library is not only open to all children in mountainous areas for fee but also a paradise for urban children to study and play freely.
Address: No. 21 Yangqiaotou, Xikou Village, Baizhang Town, Yuhang District
Song Dynasty Charm Hang-Style Life Experience Spot: Lishangchun · Song Feast · Four Elegant Arts of the Song Dynasty
What kind of experience is it to embrace Song Dynasty culture as a way of life? At Lishangchun, the past elegance of the Song Dynasty is right in front of you. Lishangchun is an graceful place based on Song Dynasty culture. It focuses on cultural banquets and the four elegant arts of the Song Dynasty and allows you to travel through time and experience the culture and feasts of the Song Dynasty. Customized Song feasts can also provide very unique personalized experiences, such as wearing Song Dynasty costumes and makeup to taste the authentic Song Dynasty feast and appreciate the refined culinary lifestyle of the Song Dynasty.
Address: 6A Taolichunfeng Business Park, Jinbei Sub-district, Lin'an District