Shaoxing Overview & Map Weather Transportation Information
Climate
Belonging to the subtropical zone with monsoon climate, the annual average temperature of the city is 16C (60.8F) and the annual average precipitation ranges from 1,200 - 1,600 mm.
History
Since the age of the Hemudu Culture, the people of Yue have lived here for about 7000 years. After his success of flood control, Yu the Great called a gathering of dukes to measure their merits and dispense rewards to them. Thus, Shaoxing had its ancient name - Guiji (Gui means a gathering and Ji means measuring). In the Spring & Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the nation of Yuyue founded the Kingdom OF Yue with its capital of Guiji (current Shaoxing City) as center, becoming one of the various stats during the Spring and Autumn Period. After unifying China, Emperor Qin Shihuang set up Guiji Prefecture (221B.C.) in the former territory of Yue Kingdom. In the first Shaoxing year (1131) of the Southern Song Dynasty, Yoo-hoo Prefecture was upgraded to Shoxing Superior Prefecture. Later in the Yuan Dynasty, it was called Shaoxing Lu (stably defined territory), and in the Ming and Qing Dynasty, it was recovered to be Shaoxing Superior Prefecture. Shaoxing Municipality was set up in 1949, which has Yuecheng District, Shaoxing and Xinchang Counties, and Shangyu, Shengzhou and Zhuji Cities under its jurisdiction at present, with an area of 7901 kilometers and a population of 4.35 million persons.
Tourism
Numerous historical sites, a beautiful landscape and exceptional lifestyle offer abundance tourism resources in Shaoxing, which has over 200 tourist attractions, 28 zones for tourism spots and a number of packages for wine, stone and bridge cultures and experience in calligraphy, Buddhism and riverside towns and villages. In 1998, it was appraised as one of China's first wonderful tourism cities.
Scenic Spots
East Lake: East Lake is located in the east suburbs of Shaoxing city, three kilometers from the city center. Featuring an elegant landscape of lakes and mountains and fantastic stones, it, together with the West Lake in Hangzhou and Nanhu Lake in Jiaxing, are known as the Three Famous Lakes in Zhejiang Province; Orchid Pavilion-the Mecca for calligraphers; Fushan Mountain; some Museums and Residences.
Cuisine
It is the important component of Zhejiang cuisine to Shaoxing dishes. Shaoxing cuisine offers fresh aquatic food and poultry that has a special rural flavor, sweet in smell, soft and glutinous in taste, thick in gravy and strong in season. Shaoxing dish to be characteristic distinct not merely, snack of Shaoxing is characteristically too. Famous fennel and beans are well-known in the whole country; Poor chicken, exceed chicken taste are unique also, make people aftertaste.
Economy
Based on common people economy, with visible regional features in industrial composition, Shaoxing has formed 35 blocks specialty economies with certain scale, such as textile, printing and dyeing industries of Shaoxing County, socks, shirt, pearl, hardware industries of Zhuji City, umbrella, chemical, mechanical and electrical industries of Shangyu City, necktie industry of Shengzhou City, medicine and axletree industries of Xinchang County, and furniture industry of Yuecheng District.
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