Hangzhou is a beautiful city. It is one of the seven ancient capitals in my country and the capital of Zhejiang Province. It has long been hailed as "Paradise on Earth" by the people.

Hangzhou has a long history, with a history of more than 2,200 years since Qiantang County was established in the Qin Dynasty.

Hangzhou is one of the birthplaces of Chinese civilization.

As early as 4,700 years ago, humans were thriving here and gave rise to the Liangzhu culture known as the dawn of civilization.

Hangzhou was once the capital of the Wuyue Kingdom in the Five Dynasties and the Southern Song Dynasty. It is one of the seven ancient capitals in my country.

Hangzhou was called Qian Tang in ancient times.

In the ninth year of Emperor Kaihuang's reign (5**) in the Sui Dynasty, Tang County was abolished and placed in Hangzhou. The name of Hangzhou appeared for the first time in history.

In the third year of Jianyan of the Southern Song Dynasty (1129), Emperor Gaozong traveled south to Hangzhou and promoted Hangzhou to Lin'an Prefecture.

In the eighth year of Shaoxing (1138), the Southern Song Dynasty officially established Lin'an as its capital, which lasted more than 140 years.

In the first year of the Republic of China (1912), Hang County was merged with the original Qiantang and Renhe counties.

In the 16th year of the Republic of China (1927), the urban area of ??Hangxian County was separated into Hangzhou City, and this was the first time Hangzhou was established as a city.

Hangzhou was liberated on May 3, 1949, which opened a new historical chapter for Hangzhou's development.

Hangzhou has jurisdiction over 8 districts: Shangcheng, Xiacheng, Jianggan, Gongshu, West Lake, Gaoxin (Binjiang), Xiaoshan, and Yuhang; 3 county-level cities: Jiande, Fuyang, and Lin'an; and 2 counties: Tonglu and Chun'an.

The city's total area is 16,596 square kilometers, of which the urban area is 3,068 square kilometers.

The total population of Hangzhou is about 6.6 million. It is also one of the cities with relatively high population density in my country, not to mention the thousands of tourists who come here for sightseeing every day.

Because Hangzhou has a long history and rich cultural and material heritage.

The earliest origin of the name Hangzhou is that Dayu once landed here when he was controlling the floods. Hang is the Ark, which means boat. Later generations called Hangzhou Yuhang. I don’t know when or why, but the common people called it Yuhang.

Yuhang is called Yuhang, and the place name Yuhang is still used in Hangzhou today. The story of the largest injustice case in the Qing Dynasty, "Yang Naiwu and Xiao Baicai", took place in Yuhang.

Bai Juyi, a famous poet in the Tang Dynasty, and Su Shi, a great poet in the Song Dynasty, worked in Hangzhou successively and wrote a large number of famous works about the landscape of the West Lake. They are very popular and have been handed down to this day.

The biggest contributor to Hangzhou's development and prosperity today is Qian Wangluo, the founder of the Wuyue Kingdom. His policy of protecting the environment and the people gave China a piece of land to recuperate in the war.

During the Wuyue Kingdom, Hangzhou's achievements in cultural construction were most prominent in the art of sculpture, and the Feilaifeng Statue is one of its masterpieces.

During the Northern Song Dynasty, Hangzhou had become the first state in the southeast, not to mention the Southern Song Dynasty. The central government established its capital here, and Hangzhou became the largest city in the world and the largest metropolis in the world at that time.

When the Song Dynasty moved south, artists from all over the country gathered in Hangzhou, which greatly promoted the prosperity here.

In the Yuan Dynasty, the Italian Marco Polo expressed his sincere exclamation and called Hangzhou "the most beautiful and luxurious city in the world". This was undoubtedly the highest praise for this city.

During the Ming and Qing dynasties, Hangzhou was the most prosperous city in the south of the Yangtze River. It not only produced numerous celebrities, but also had a particularly prosperous economy. As the largest city on the Hangjiahu Plain, trade was also very convenient due to convenient transportation. The most representative figure among them was the red-top businessman——

Hu Xueyan.

Hangzhou can be summarized in four sentences and sixteen words: paradise on earth, home of silk, capital of tea, and city of gourmet food.

When it is said that Hangzhou is a paradise on earth, there is no falsehood. The ancients said: There is heaven above, and there are Suzhou and Hangzhou below.

Comparing Hangzhou to a paradise on earth, literati and poets of all ages also left many familiar chapters about this paradise-like city.

Literati praised the beauty of Hangzhou as being more beautiful than West Lake. Bai Juyi, a famous poet of the Tang Dynasty, once said: There are thirty-six West Lakes in the world, and the most beautiful of them is Hangzhou.