Siping

Zhejiang


Without its homestay program, the few visitors to the miniscule village of Siping would miss out on its collection of brick and wood carvings. Siping lies 30km west of Jinhua and is out of the way enough to stay uncommercial, preserving Qing dynasty ancestral halls arranged in the shape of the Big Dipper for those willing to make the trek to this 700-year-plus town.


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2. Liben Hall

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Libn Hall is an early Qing dynasty structure with some wood carvings that remain impressively vivid; keep an eye out for the bats (carvings of, that is)…

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Wǔjiān Huāxuān is the birthplace of Dai Yinniang, Siping's most famous historical resident, who became an imperial concubine. Flowery brick carvings hang…

4. Zhong Pond

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Eight (the number mirroring the eight trigrams of the bāguà) lanes radiate from this pond at the heart of the village. The feng shui symbol of the Zhuge,…

5. Dagong Hall

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This splendid memorial hall overlooking the tàijí diagram pond at the centre of the village is a huge, airy space with a pairing of huge black Chinese…

7. Tianyi Hall

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