杭州 Hangzhou

West Lake has set the standard for Chinese landscape beauty for a thousand years — ten classical scenes, willowed causeways and pagodas, inscribed by UNESCO in 2011.

西湖定义了中国山水的审美标准上千年——西湖十景、苏白二堤、保俶雷峰，2011年列入世界遗产。

Marco Polo called it the most splendid city in the world. The Southern Song made it a capital of a million people, and the Grand Canal still ends here.

马可·波罗称它为世上最华贵之城。南宋定都临安，百万人口冠绝当时，京杭大运河至今仍以这里为终点。

It is also a tea town and a tech town: Longjing hills inside the city, and the headquarters of China's e-commerce giants down the road.

这里既是茶乡也是数字之城：城里有龙井茶山，城外是中国电商巨头的总部。

In 1138 the Southern Song dynasty made Hangzhou its capital as Lin'an — then the largest city on earth, with firecracker markets, imperial gardens and a fleet on the Qiantang tide.

1138年南宋定都临安——当时全世界最大的城市，市井烟火、御苑湖山，钱塘江潮头千帆竞发。

Venetian traveller Marco Polo praised it as "the finest and most splendid city in the world" — canals, bridges and ten thousand shops.

马可·波罗盛赞其为「世界最美丽华贵之城」——河道纵横，桥梁密布，商铺万家。

The Lingyin grottoes, carved from the 10th century, still guard the old pilgrimage road to the temple.

五代起凿的飞来峰造像，至今守望着通往灵隐的古香道。