Escape the crowds! Explore a 600-year-old caravan trading post

🌊 **Dragon-Patterned Embankment Underwater**
Beneath the crystal-clear river by the granary dock, **Ming Dynasty stone embankments** remain clearly visible. Carved dragon scales shimmer with the rippling water, while dense boat-mooring holes tell of a bustling past—where tea oil, timber, and wax-dyed fabrics were loaded day and night, shipped straight to Dongting Lake.

🏫 **Zhejiang University’s Wartime Cipher Wall**
On a crumbling wall in the Catholic church’s backyard, 1944 math equations intertwine with shipping price lists. As exiled students calculated here during wartime, cargo boats outside carried life-saving rice along the Qingshui River.

⛵️ **Living Waterway Batik Map**
Pass through the lively Yuwang Palace to dye workshops where indigo mist rises from hundreds of pottery vats. Swirling and boat-shaped patterns weave into mysterious charts—ancestors once used these designs to map the waterways.

📍 · **Xiashi Town, Kaili**

Post by EVAN CLARK | Jul 14, 2025