Lin'an · Hangzhou · Zhejiang
Lin'an Anthology
Beneath Tianmu’s canopy, in the old homeland of Wuyue. No itineraries here — only mountains, remembered.
Not promotion — remembrance
West of Hangzhou lies Lin’an, a town of mountains. Tianmu, Daming and Qingliang Peak fold in from the northwest, wrapping it in cloud and bamboo. It is also a town of history — eleven centuries ago Qian Liu walked out of these hills to found the kingdom of Wuyue, and centuries later the name “Lin’an” itself was borrowed by the Southern Song as the name of its capital.
This site sells no tickets and pushes no routes. It reads like an open local gazetteer: mountains, memory, one village and one craft at a time. If a mountain takes root in your mind after reading, it has done its work.
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“A canopy of great trees, famed across the land.”
— An old verse on Mount Tianmu