City walls
Grassy mounds.
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The ruins of a city built some 5,000 years ago by the Liangzhu culture, between 3300 and 2300 BC, in Yuhang, north-west Hangzhou; a World Heritage Site since 2019, with its walls, palace platforms and network of dams and canals it is seen as evidence of an early state in the Yangtze delta, and the Chinese call it «the first city of China». The ruins park is a green landscape of grassy mounds, moats and rice fields that traces the city's walls, platforms and cemeteries, and nearby the Liangzhu Museum, a separate free museum, shows the carved jade the culture is famous for, including cong tubes and bi discs, along with its pottery. The park costs CNY 60 for visitors from outside Hangzhou and is open from 9 am to 5 pm, last entry 4 pm, while the museum is free with a booking and closed on Mondays, per visitor guides. Book a day ahead.
Grassy mounds.
In the museum.
Around the ruins.
Yuhang District, north-west Hangzhou
Both if you can: the free museum shows the jade masterpieces and explains the culture, and the park shows the city's scale; together they need at least half a day.