27th December 2007 – HangZhou 杭州

The first place we visited in Hangzhou after Lunch was LingYing Temple, 灵隐寺, where there is a Flew in Mountain飞来峰。Ling Ying Temple (sounds like Lim Yeen’s temple) is one of the oldest temple in China, which used to be even bigger than Shaolin. There is a Mountain in this area named Flew in Mountain. According to the Crazy Monk (济公) legend, there was one great morning when the Crazy Monk knows there will be a mountain flying in from somewhere, and he told people in the village but no one believe him. So He thought of an idea, he snatched someone’s bride and ran out of the village. Everyone in the village ran after him and got out of the village. So as soon as all of them left the village, the mountain landed and destroyed the village. So after this happened, they started to crave statues of buddha all over this mountain to prevent this mountain from flying away again. Angela is posing with the resting place of the Crazy Monk. And this place is Really beautiful!

Next we went to 岳飞灵Yuefei’s Muzeum and tomb. Yuefei is famous for being the first tattoo man in China. His mum tattoo 尽忠报国”- ”serve the country with the utmost loyalty” on his back in his teen. then he became a brave general who won a lot of wars. Howerver he died at age 39. Yue Fei was ordered to return twelve times in the form of twelve gold plaques. The Acting king knew that if Yue Fei won another war again could lead to internal strife. So they made him return and he was imprisoned and where Qin Hui 秦桧 eventually arranged for him to be executed on false charges. Not only yuefei was killed, his son YueYun was killed too. People Hate Qin Hui and wife so much that they made statues of them kneeing down in front of YueFei and Yue Yun’s Tombs. Later on they made YaoChaKuey which represent QInHui and wife.

Dinner time, check this out!! Crocodile Feet! at B$77 only. haha.. wanna try?

The best part of the day was when we were at Sung Dynasty Theatre 宋城。Its very beautiful here with a long Sung Dynasty style street. And the show was very good and lively. Look at WenJiunn, he got so excited! During ths show there were a short fake rain to the audience and other amazing things they made to make us so into the show! but towards the end, there was a man sitting right behind us spitted on the floor…. -_-!! this place really worth a visit