Classic Day Tour
These destinations around Shanghai weave the thousand-year cultural tapestry of Jiangnan—every step resonates with history.
Zhujiajiao has been a critical hub for grain transport since the Song and Yuan dynasties. The Fangsheng Bridge, first built in the Ming dynasty, arches not only over the river but also over the legacy of bustling merchant ships that once sailed during the Ming and Qing eras. Shaoxing’s cultural legacy runs millennia-deep—beside the winding stream of the Orchid Pavilion, Wang Xizhi composed the famed Preface to the Poems Collected from the Orchid Pavilion, while the flagstone paths of Lu Xun’s hometown still bear traces of footsteps from "Sanwei Study" to "Baicao Garden."The red boat on Nanhu Lake in Jiaxing carries a century-old revolutionary spirit, and the East Scenic Area of Wuzhen preserves scenes reminiscent of Mao Dun’s novel The Lin Family Shop. Huzhou’s Nanxun was once a gathering place for silk merchants in the Ming and Qing dynasties, where the scent of ancient books mingled with the mist of Tai Lake. The old villa clusters of Moganshan still echo with the lingering warmth of intellectual gatherings from the Republican era.
