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Xiling Seal Engravers' Society 西泠印社Xīlíng Yìnshè
National heritage site · Hangzhou, Zhejiang
- Time needed
- 1–2 hours
- Days to budget
- Half a day
- City
- Hangzhou
- Region
- Zhejiang
- Type
- Culture
- Listed as
- National heritage site
About Xiling Seal Engravers' Society
The hillside home on Gushan of a society of seal carvers founded in 1904 by a group of engravers, with the master carver Wu Changshuo as its first president, and nicknamed "the foremost society under heaven". Its grounds keep an Eastern Han stele and a collection of inscriptions by noted artists carved on stones and rock faces, and the society's seal-engraving craft is on China's national list of intangible heritage.
How to get to Xiling Seal Engravers' Society
On Gushan Road beside Xiling Bridge at the western end of Solitary Hill, on the north shore of West Lake.
Nearby
- West Lake 西湖 under 10 km
The lake that taught China what a perfect landscape should look like - Lingyin Temple & Feilai Feng 灵隐寺 under 10 km
A working Chan monastery beside a hillside of 1,000-year-old rock carvings
Also within 20 km: Historic Buildings of the Zhejiang Library 浙江图书馆旧址 (under 10 km), Wenlan Pavilion 文澜阁 (under 10 km), Yue Fei Temple and Tomb 岳王庙 (under 10 km), 1954 Constitution Drafting Site 五四宪法历史资料陈列馆 (under 10 km), West Lake Expo Museum 西湖博览会博物馆 (under 10 km), Baochu Pagoda 保俶塔 (under 10 km).
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