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Culture Development
Shangyu is the cradle of ¡°Yushun¡± culture. The people
in Shangyu, even the whole Chinese nation, are proud
of Shun the Great. Many cultural sites and names of
places in Shangyu are closely related to him. For thousands
of years, the people of Shangyu, prudent, industrious
and wise, pursuant to the spirits of Yushun-the leader
of ancient Chinese clans, have created glorious cultures
in Shangyu, demonstrated as its unique traditions, historical
sites, and outstanding people. ¡¡ ¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡
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| Since the Spring and
Autumn Period (770 BC-476 BC) in China¡¯s ancient times,
the technology of wine making, porcelain baking, tea
making and smelting in Shangyu has been famous throughout
the country. Especially in the middle of Shang Dynasty
(1562 BC-1066 BC), Zhangzhen Town of Shangyu started
to make hard pottery printed with vein by piling up
and dragon kiln and blue glazed porcelain, which directly
led to the creation of celadon wine cups by Yue Kiln
in Xiaoxiantan and made it the birthplace of China¡¯s
celadon wares.
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| Miss. Cao¡¯e, an ancient
filial daughter who sacrificed her life in order to
save her father, moved the god with her great piety.
To remember this dedicated daughter of Shangyu, the
Cao¡¯e Temple was built in 151 AD in East Han Dynasty.
Lying on the west bank of the Cao¡¯e River, the temple
is named as ¡°a palace of sculpture¡±, ¡°an artistic bright
pearl in the south of the Yangtze River¡± and ¡°the first
temple in the south of the Yangtze River¡±. The copper
bells, the weather-beaten eaves and carved colonnades
tell people the long history of Shangyu.
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| In the early 1920s, a
group of literary and artistic elites, including Jing
Hengyi, Xia Mianzun, Zhu Ziqing, Feng Zikai, Li Shutong,
He Xiangning, Ba Ren and so on, gathered and taught
in Shangyu Chunhui School by the side of the White Horse
Lake. Their cultural activities here made Chunhui the
most reputable high school in south China. The school
motto ¡°keep pace with the time¡±, put forward by Mr.
Jing Hengyi, one of the founders of Chunhui, has become
the spirit of contemporary China. And ¡°the White Horse
Lake Literature¡±, created by those outstanding men of
letters, has also become an important school of the
modern Chinese literature.
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