East Lake, Shaoxing 东湖Dōng Hú

About East Lake, Shaoxing

A small lake on the eastern edge of Shaoxing that fills an old quarry: from the Han dynasty onwards masons cut away half of a hill of grey stone, leaving sheer cliffs and deep pools, which the late-Qing local scholar Tao Junxuan enclosed with a long dyke and laid out as a garden. Small boats take visitors under stone bridges and into the cliff caves, such as Xiantao and Taogong caves, past pavilions along the shore, and the Tao She hall on the west side commemorates the 1911 revolutionary Tao Chengzhang.

How to get to East Lake, Shaoxing

In Gaobu, about 5 km east of Shaoxing's old city by road.

Nearby

• West Lake 西湖 50 km
  The lake that taught China what a perfect landscape should look like
• Lingyin Temple & Feilai Feng 灵隐寺 60 km
  A working Chan monastery beside a hillside of 1,000-year-old rock carvings

Also within 20 km: Bazi Bridge 八字桥 (under 10 km), Mausoleum of Yu the Great 大禹陵 (under 10 km), Lu Xun Native Place & Shen Garden 鲁迅故里·沈园 (under 10 km), Former Residence of Cai Yuanpei 蔡元培故居 (under 10 km), Dashan Pagoda 大善塔 (under 10 km), Qiu Jin's Former Residence 秋瑾故居 (under 10 km).

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