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Orchid Pavilion Scenic Area
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| The Orchid Pavilion is a key point of interest. The attraction of the Orchid Pavilion not only comes from its magnificent landscape and graceful southern China gardening sights, but also from its profound historical culture and its unique and vast reputation in the calligraphic field. |
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Shen Garden
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| Shen Garden is the place where secret love found its expression. Here the poet Lu You let his feelings flow through the poem Hairpin of Gold Phoenix, for his wife Tang Wan. The beautiful gardens, ponds, and nice pavilions of the daytime, become a striking combination of lights and sounds of Chinese musical instruments and opera at night. |
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Former Residence of Xi Shi
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| Xi Shi, the lady who bewitched the enemy and saved her kingdom, was so beautiful that the fish were so dazzled that they forgot to swim and gradually sunk away from the surface while she was leaning over a balcony to look at them in the pond. |
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The Ancestral Residence of Zhou Enlai
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| The Ancestral Residence of Zhou Enlai is a traditional courtyard house in Ming and Qing styles. It comprises the ancestral and former residences, as well as a museum of the former Prime Minister of China, Zhou Enlai. |
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