Travelogue 2010-04-17 History & Culture Series 10 - Song Dynasty

Today’s programme will introduce the Hangzhou in Song Dynasty. Hangzhou is located in Qiantang River, the southern end of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal.

It was a beautiful city with a lot of love stories in the West Lake in ancient times. The streets of Hangzhou and the commodity markets will also be introduced.

 And then we visited the tea houses where people loitered away their free time. Finally we visited the tower and the temple in Hangzhou.