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Thread: What is the most beautiful city in China?
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[quote=MARRIE,367674]I vote for Beautiful Ancient City Shaoxing-中国绍兴, one of the reason is that my father's grandpa is from there. ---------------------------- city, northeastern Zhejiang sheng (province), eastern China. It is situated in the centre of the eastern half of the coastal plain south of Hangzhou Bay. Shaoxing lies along the Hang-Yong Canal (the local section is also called the Zhedong Canal)—which joins Ningbo to the east with Xiaoshan on the estuary of the Qiantang River to the west—and it is also located on the Ningbo-Hangzhou railway, which follows the same route. Shaoxing is an ancient city; in the 7th century bce it was the capital of the state of Yue, which was later annexed by the state of Chu. In 221 bce it became a part of the Qin empire and was under the commandery of Kuaiji. The seat of this commandery was transferred to Shaoxing in 129 ce. With the reunification of China (589) by the Sui dynasty (581–618), it became the seat of Yue prefecture (605), which name it retained until 1131, when, after the fall of the Bei (Northern) Song dynasty in 1127, it became the superior prefecture of Shaoxing, using the reign title of the Nan (Southern) Song emperor Gaozong (reigned 1127–62) as its place name. [/quote]
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