Huzhou is a national historical and cultural city with a history of more than 2300 years, and has a profound cultural foundation. More than 60 years ago, the world's oldest silk fabric with a history of more than 4200 years was unearthed in Qianshanyang, Lucun Village, south of Huzhou City. For this reason, Huzhou was named "the source of world silk". Of course, Huzhou is also the birthplace of Hubi culture, known as the "Capital of Chinese Brush Writing"; It is the birthplace of tea culture, where Lu Yu, the "tea sage", completed the world's first great book on tea, The Classic of Tea; Nearly 200 items, such as sericulture and silk weaving skills, lake brush making skills, and lake opera, are listed as intangible cultural heritage. The profound culture and long history have nurtured and attracted celebrities such as Cao Buxing, Meng Jiao, Zhao Mengfu, Shen Jiaben, Wu Changshuo, Shen Yinmo, Wang Xizhi, Yan Zhenqing, Su Shi, etc. Huzhou has become one of the places with the largest number of top scholars in ancient China and the largest number of academicians in contemporary "two academies", and has the reputation of "half of the history of Chinese calligraphy and painting is in Huzhou".
Huzhou is the first city of rural tourism in China with 42 tourist attractions, and has unique geographical resources. "Ten thousand miles of water has become a flood, and two thousand years of embroidered fields have become a polder". 4000 years ago, starting from the excavation of the first Liugang, the system of polder fields in Liugang gradually took shape, achieving the reputation of Huzhou as "Suzhou Lake is ripe and the world is full". The Grand Canal of China (Huzhou section) has been successfully listed in the World Heritage List. Huzhou Sangji Fish Pond has become the oldest comprehensive ecological breeding model in China. Nanxun Ancient Town has a history of more than 700 years, and Mogan Mountain is one of the four major summer resorts in China... Today, Huzhou, with five mountains, four fields and one part of water, relies on green mountains, mountains, rivers, wetlands, lakes and other resources, From rural tourism to rural vacation, from scenic spot tourism to global tourism, it has become a leisure resort that domestic and foreign tourists yearn for.
Huzhou is the first prefecture level ecological civilization demonstration zone in China, with obvious ecological advantages. On August 15, 2005, when inspecting Yu Village, Anji County, Huzhou, Comrade Xi Jinping put forward the important thought of "Green water and green mountains are golden mountains and silver mountains" for the first time. Huzhou has integrated the ecological concept into the whole process of economic and social construction and development, and has become the birthplace of the important thought of "two mountains", the birthplace of China's beautiful countryside, the pioneer of "ecological+" green development, and the ecological conservation area of the Taihu Lake basin.
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(Editor in charge: Liu Jiangnan (intern), Zhang Wei)
