Travel || Encountering Xiangxiang Among Flowers and Books—Notes on Manxi Zen-Inspired Retreat

|| Encountering Xiangxiang Among Flowers and Books—Notes on Manxi Zen-Inspired Retreat. They say a beautiful hotel is a traveler's other perfect home. This is my second experience at Manxi Hotel. From my first stay at the "Return to Nature" Manxi Hotel at Changsha Wuyi Square IFS International Finance Center, the aesthetic space of Manxi style, the stay experience to the perfect smart system, and warm attentive service all demonstrate Manxi's founding vision of "Coming and Going - Appreciating the East."

Next, I'll share this stay experience through "Silk Scrolls of Xiang Clouds"—Manxi Hotel's spatial poetics, hanfu and exquisite four-grid afternoon tea, recording a different travel experience. Immersed in history, as the silk fabrics of Mawangdui awaken in the moonlight, we use the Xiang River as an inkstone and stars as ink, grinding the pine waves of Yuelu Mountain into the rhythm of lodging, diffusing Eastern sleepiness on the rice paper of the 35㎡ Tranquil Zen Super King Bed Room.

Location: Manxi Hotel (Hunan Provincial Museum Branch)
Room Type: Tranquil Zen Super King Bed Room
Price: Starting from 399 yuan/night
Address: Huaitong Building 1101, 160 Dongfeng Road
590 meters from Xiangya Hospital Metro Station
About 9 minutes walk to the hotel

The window frames capture the glaze colors tempered by thousand-year-old kiln fires. The celadon of Tongguan Kiln whispers with the morning mist. Within reach of the linen warp and weft flow the unfinished verses of Eight Views of Xiaoxiang. The incense burner vaporizes the tones of Chu Ci poetry. The old tea grinder holds the Zen of dusk. Press pause on the city's noise and let your body stretch into seal script characters in the cloud brocade waves.

Listen—
The morning bell of Yuelu Academy pierces through time and space, resonating with the electronic pulses of contemporary art exhibitions. Bronze vessel patterns stretch in the bedside lamplight, weaving the softest warp and weft of Star City. Taste buds wander in the tai chi of chopped chili and mountain spring water. Fingertips brush across the tactile philosophy of Xiang embroidery. A pillow of old dreams and new thoughts of the Land of Hibiscus blooms into Song porcelain crackle patterns on the textured concrete walls. This is not a post station but a loom of time, using local culture as the shuttle and contemporary aesthetics as the weft, weaving Changsha's two thousand years of history into a tangible Eastern ambiance. As the city lights up its neon at Orange Isle, we use moonlight as thread to string together the pearls of our five senses, and in the folds of flower shadows and book pages, reunite with that long-lost self.

Staying at Manxi Hotel (Hunan Provincial Museum Branch)

Exploring the Surroundings
Visit Changsha landmarks: Hunan Provincial Museum, Martyrs' Park, Ancient Kaifu Temple, Wuyi Square, Wuyi Square IFC, Orange Isle. One-stop experience to feel Changsha's unique culture and life.

Post by JuhoLepist? | May 10, 2025