Along Suzhou, Hangzhou received the title of "paradise on earth" and the truth is that it is justified.
Unlike other large Chinese cities, Hangzhou, which has six million inhabitants, has grown quite smooth, apparently because the former mayor had prohibited build homes high altitude to preserve its beautiful environment. Unfortunately with the change of mayor, has also changed estto regulation and, so far in the suburbs, also in Hangzhou start growing skyscrapers.
The jewel is the unique Hangzhou West Lake, a place of ensueñoe romantic stories, with four small islands, two dams, bridges such as the emblematic Puente Roto and beautiful gardens fifteen kilometers bordering its perimeter. Embellished by a poet to whom the emperor ordered the construction of one of its banks, "the city of love" is the scene of many legends among which the Lady White Snake. (With many variations, the story is a typical cSOURCES OF siren, which has shifted to the romantic: The White Snake longed to become human. Whether he got it and took the form of a beautiful woman. A rainy day in the Broken Bridge saw a handsome young man who offered his umbrella and fell in love with him. They married and lived happily until a monk suspected the true nature of the girl and persuaded her husband to give him a potion that devolveríaa its first form. This was the case and, seeing her in the form of a snake, her husband died in shock. The White Snake then began a pilgrimage in search of magic medicineas they could resurrect it, until finally a god took pity on her and gave her life for her beloved. The two young men were still in love despite their different nature, but the monk was also committed to ending the Snake. She begged to be allowed to live until the birth of the child she was expecting. Finally, when the child was born, was condemned to eternal captivity under the Leifeng pagoda. So the story ends, but other times he gives a happy ending with the reunion of two lovers. In fact, we heard that a few years ago suffered Leifeng pagoda collapses and the people of Hangzhou said the White Snake ibe) attend at night to show
Impressions of West Lake, directed by filmmaker Zhang Yimou, with music by Kitaro. A marvel of color, light, music and beauty in which some three hundred people move on a huge stage a few inches below the surface of the lake, so that they seem to walk on water. (In youtube there are some fragments of the show, like this: Tents and lotuses. After most of the morning touring the West Lake, we went to the Temple of Hidden Soul, a mountain with hundreds of Buddha sculptures crowned by a spectacular temple, but by then I was too dead even to take pictures. One of the most important Buddhist temples in China and, although surprising, it seems that hosts a large number of young monks even today opting for this kind of life of austerity and meditation . despuésy Some recovered a bit in the afternoon
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