Don't Miss Spring! This Lush Green Jiangnan Town is Perfect for Off-the-Beaten-Path Cherry Blossom Viewing

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The spring light in green willows and red roses is already so dense and intoxicating that few are willing to forgo it.


Ningbo people's spring inevitably involves driving to the east,
Look, the flowers and grasses are flourishing like ink wash paintings, spreading out slowly. The spring of Dongting Lake is unstoppable – fresh air and an unshakeable sentiment.

Continuous tea mountains embrace Dongting Lake, while we flow through this cloud and dream, a curve is a scenic spot, and every spot we want to preserve and not regret.

It is the gift of time to this lake and mountains. Vast and boundless, like a sea of golden carp.
Clouds and mist dyed half the sky, the mountains awakening in the rosy veil.

Clouds and mist dyed half the sky, the mountains awakening in the rosy veil. Tourists occasionally pass by on bicycles, their laughter and voices scattered along the way.

Rain is a road without end, a rearview landscape, encounters with peach blossoms and trees, sparkling raindrops, the lake water splashing against the opposite bank, rippling with reeds, a clear and difficult-to-approach lighthouse.

The spring of Fuzhen tea seas, with emerald ripples and jade-white walls and gray tiles, is a magnificent chapter of the earth's exuberance.

Dongting Lake has China's rarest tea seas, over 3600 acres of 'Tea Ridge Ripples' are spectacular.

In spring, tea farmers harvest tea, seen from afar, scattered and quiet.

This place has Dongting Lake's most renowned tea – 'Donghai Long Gui'.

In ancient times, the area of Qian Lake, belonging to the ancient Feizhou county, was an important tea-producing area.

Peaks winding around, Fuzhen Mountain, thanks to its unique advantage of 'one mountain views the lake and sea, ten thousand emeralds embrace Fuzhen', gives 'Donghai Long Gui' tea from ancient Feizhou its superior quality.

Tea with a flat, glossy shape, resembling a dragon's tongue, narrow and long and beautiful, is no less than West Lake Longjing.

Brewing a cup of fresh, vibrant green tea doesn't disappoint.

Look at the subtle color of the tea, and between sips, the spring scene outside the window, pleasing to the eye and refreshing the mind.

The tea brewed evokes a feeling of going on one's own with the spirit of heaven and earth, which is indescribable.

If you happen to meet spring at Hanling, you'll have to buy a few bags of sweet rice cakes no matter how much extra travel it takes.

Picking and making sweet rice cakes is a traditional custom of Dongting Lake residents.

Previously, sweet rice cakes were simply a seasonal snack that everyone would make for themselves.

With more and more tourists, gradually, sweet rice cakes from Hanling were loved by tourists for their unique taste, sweet and delicate, and became famous throughout the area.

When the elaeagnus grass grows across the hillsides, it is picked and eaten immediately, and the flavor of spring comes with it.

Sweet rice cakes from Hanling are made to order and sold directly. In front of the house is a babbling stream, and behind is a brick stove, the custom of making sweet rice cakes during the Qingming Festival, and the beauty of food and seasonal celebrations also have a poetic feeling.

After spreading the sweet rice cakes, they are like a 'sweet rice cake quilt' of green, and with scissors, they are cut into uniform small pieces, green and vibrant, fragrant.

Year after year, this is a custom that has become established, as if it has a natural power to summon it, a plate of black-green sweet rice cakes, the sweetness of sticky rice, the fragrance of pine flowers and elaeagnus grass, a familiar and nostalgic memory of spring, gradually spreading in our minds.

Let time become warm and affectionate.

Nowadays, the commercial clichés in Dongting Lake area are also devouring the original ecology of the village, but after several walks and visits,

Emerald ripples and white walls and gray tiles still hold surprises.

Fuzhen Mountain: Dongting Lake Tourism Resort in Ningbo, China - Han Tian Line.

Hanling Village: Dongting Lake Tourism Resort in Ningbo, China