Pristine locale a short hop from modernity
By Raymond Zhou and Shi Xiaofeng | China Daily | Updated: 2016-09-04 08:09
You could feel nature's hand at Xixi wetland park in eastern China
In Goethe's Faust, the protagonist utters his last words: "Stay a while! You are so lovely!" after making a Faustian pact with the Devil, going through a lifetime of experiments and finally finding awe in nature's grandeur.
In 1129, Emperor Gaozong of the Southern Song Dynasty (1127-1279) said something very similarwhen he passed a town called Xixi to the north-west of what is currently downtown Hangzhou.
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