Hanling Village by the Dongqian Lake

Hanling Village is a well-preserved typical ancient village of the eastern Zhejiang water towns by the Dongqian Lake. Streams wind around the village, with green hills in sight on both sides; the village has water streets like ribbons, with bridges seen everywhere... It is said that during the Northern Song Dynasty, Hanling Village had already formed a regular market on days ending in five or zero. When the Southern Song Dynasty's Prime Minister Shi Hao (born in 1140 AD) passed through Hanling on his way to his ancestral home in Xiashui Village, he left a sentence in his book 'Touring the Mountains by the East Lake' that reads, 'In the midst of it, there is a village called Hanling, where the sounds of fishing songs and woodcutter's axes intermingle,' indicating that the Hanling market was already somewhat famous at that time. Over the following centuries, Hanling was an important transportation hub and water-land transfer center connecting Ningbo's urban area to Xiangshan Port.