Fengyi in Haiyan: The Jiangnan Poetry in a Mine Pit!

📜 An Industrial Secret Forgotten by Time
Fengyi Village in Haiyan, northern Zhejiang, was once a limestone mining area that operated for half a century. When the roar of machinery faded away, the mine pit filled with water to form a lake, unexpectedly creating a "Little Jiuzhaigou of Jiangnan"! Standing on the Fengyi Scenic Area viewing platform and looking down, the crescent-shaped mine pit lake glows with an emerald sheen, and the quarry marks on the rock walls resemble the earth’s rings, telling a story of transformation from "selling stones" to "selling scenery." The best part is at night, when the warm yellow lights of the lakeside pavilion reflect on the water like a moon fallen to the ground, making it hard to tell whether the light softens the mine pit or the mine pit heals the eyes of city dwellers.
🏡 Living Inside a Painting
1️⃣ Duxing Residence
Location: 100 meters directly south of Jingshi Garden
Highlight: A new Chinese-style courtyard with white walls and black tiles just a stone’s throw from the mine pit lake. In the morning, you can see the moon lake shrouded in mist through the window, and in the evening, enjoy the sunset spectacle of "floating light leaping gold, still shadows sinking jade" from the terrace.
2️⃣ Huan Ting Fengyi Villa
Location: Next to Jiangjiayan Restaurant
Story: A loft-style homestay renovated from an old village house, with a standalone courtyard hidden among mulberry trees. The most delightful feature is the duplex room’s starry sky skylight, where you can lie down and watch the exceptionally clear Milky Way above the mining area. The owner’s homemade mulberry jam paired with breakfast toast offers a rare rural flavor hard to find in the city.
🌄 Scenic Spots Worth Staying For
Yuehu Viewing Platform (No. 278, Luoxu Line)
You must reach the top before sunrise! Morning light pierces through the thin mist, shining on the layered tea fields, and the silhouette of tea pickers wearing bamboo hats appears faintly in the fog, like a silent shot from a Zhang Yimou film. Walking along the wooden plank road to the bottom of the mine pit, you can touch marine fossils on the rock walls dating back hundreds of millions of years—this place was once underwater in ancient times!
🍵 A Gentle Transformation of Industrial Ruins
Locals call the mine area’s renovation "roses growing from wounds." The former crushed stone conveyor belt has become a flower corridor, the miners’ rest area has been transformed into a tea room, and even the cliffs formed by blasting have become a paradise for rock climbing enthusiasts. Flipping through an old photo album in the study of Duxing Residence, the black-and-white photos from 1978 show the red sandstone deep pit used for explosives, which now reflects the starry sky and moonlit lake.
Staying in Fengyi, you realize what it means for "time to leave marks but remain silent." The iron tracks of the mine carts are hidden in wildflowers, the towering crusher has become an art installation, and even the once deafening blasting sounds have turned into the tinkling of wind chimes under the pavilion eaves.

Post by Neon~Turner | Oct 1, 2025