Hangzhou’s Best-Kept Watercolor Painting

#chinatravel 🌿 A Hidden Chapter of West Lake Tucked between Yanggong Causeway and Hupao Road, this secluded wetland is where Song Dynasty poets launched boats to compose verses. Today, its willow-draped stone bridges and floating tea houses remain unchanged—a living museum of Jiangnan water town charm. 🦢 Why Few Tourists Find It ✔ "Three Mysterious Waters": Interconnected ponds named after herons, mandarin ducks, and egrets ✔ Song-Era Infrastructure: Intact fish-scale stone banks and 12th-century sluice gates