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ShaoxingTravel Budget Guide

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When to visit

Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec
Super-peak (national holiday)PeakShoulderOff-season
Holiday surges
  • extremeSpring Festival· Lunar Jan 1–7 (late Jan / mid-Feb)
  • highQingming (Tomb-Sweeping)· Apr 4–6
  • extremeLabor Day· May 1–5
  • highDragon Boat Festival· Lunar May 5 (~Jun)
  • highMid-Autumn Festival· Lunar Aug 15 (~Sep/Oct)
  • extremeNational Day Golden Week· Oct 1–7
Taxi flag-drop:¥9starting fare

Attractions

Lu Xun's Hometown Scenic Area鲁迅故里景区5AHeritage Site$0.00 (CN¥0)
Shen Garden (Shen's Garden)沈园5AHeritage Site$5.91 (CN¥40)
Keyan Scenic Area绍兴柯岩风景区4A$13.30 (CN¥90)
Lanting (Orchid Pavilion) Scenic Area兰亭景区4AHeritage Site$10.35 (CN¥70)
East Lake东湖4A$7.39 (CN¥50)
Anchang Ancient Town安昌古镇4AHeritage Site$0.00 (CN¥0)
Xinchang Great Buddha Temple Scenic Area新昌大佛寺景区4A$10.35 (CN¥70)
Wuxie (Five Waterfalls) Scenic Area五泄风景区4A$8.87 (CN¥60)
Kuaiji Mountain Tushita Heaven Scenic Area会稽山兜率天景区4A$13.30 (CN¥90)
Xishi's Hometown Scenic Area西施故里4A$14.78 (CN¥100)
Shaoxing Ancient City绍兴古城$0.00 (CN¥0)
Shaoxing Wupeng (Black-Awning) Boat Tour绍兴乌篷船观光$16.26 (CN¥110)
Cangqiao Historic Street仓桥直街$0.00 (CN¥0)
Sanwei Study (Three Flavors Study)三味书屋$0.00 (CN¥0)
Oriental Land Cool Play Kingdom东方山水乐园酷玩王国$27.34 (CN¥185)
Wang Yangming's Hometown Scenic Area绍兴阳明故里$9.61 (CN¥65)
Lu Town (Luzhen)鲁镇$14.04 (CN¥95)

Hotels

Budget

$17.88 (CN¥121)
/night

Standard

$27.79 (CN¥188)
/night

Comfort

$55.72 (CN¥377)
/night

Tiers are grouped by hotel star rating — Budget ≈ 2★, Standard ≈ 3★, Comfort ≈ 4★ and up. Figures are citywide average nightly rates, so an individual hotel may sit above or below its tier.

Food

Budget meal

$3.19 (CN¥22)
/meal

Mid-range

$10.51 (CN¥71)
/meal

High-end

$39.91 (CN¥270)
/meal

Culture & Heritage

Time-Honored Brands (4)

MOFCOM-certified · cultural background, not a business endorsement
KuaijishanBatch 1
Est. 1743
A Shaoxing yellow-wine house tracing to the 1743 'Yunji' brewery, a first-batch China Time-Honored Brand.
Est. 1894
An 1894 Shaoxing tavern made world-famous by Lu Xun's short story 'Kong Yiji.'
A flagship Chinese yellow-wine brand whose family includes several China Time-Honored sub-brands.
Est. 1752
A 1752 Shaoxing traditional-medicine house, heir to the region's long 'Yue medicine' tradition.

Famous Snacks (6)

Glutinous-rice yellow wine winter-brewed with Jianhu water — Shaoxing's signature flavour, best served warm.
Broad beans slow-simmered with fennel and cinnamon — a wine snack made famous by 'Kong Yiji.'
Tofu steeped in aged amaranth-stalk brine then fried — crisp outside, tender within, pungent yet moreish.
Pork belly steamed with Shaoxing dried mustard greens until the two flavours soak into each other.
Fish balls, meat balls and egg dumplings steamed together — a Shaoxing banquet centrepiece.
Rolled tofu sheets left to ferment — a Shaoxing soy delicacy, clean and fragrant, steamed or fried.

Intangible Cultural Heritage (7)

A first-batch national ICH: the traditional craft of winter-brewing Shaoxing yellow wine with Jianhu water.
Yue OperaNational ICH · Batch 1
China's second-largest opera form, born in Shengzhou near Shaoxing; a first-batch national ICH.
Legends of Wang XizhiNational ICH · Batch 3
A body of folk legends about the 'sage of calligraphy' Wang Xizhi in old Kuaiji; a third-batch national ICH.
Shaoxing Lianhualao BalladNational ICH · Batch 1
A Shaoxing sung-storytelling art formed in the 19th century; a first-batch national ICH.
Shaoxing Pinghu TuneNational ICH · Batch
A refined Shaoxing storytelling art, sung to self-played three-string lute; a national ICH.
Shaoxing Mulian OperaNational ICH · Batch 2
A ritual opera on the 'Mulian saving his mother' theme, tied to Shaoxing's village-theatre custom; a national ICH.
Folk tales built around the Ming-Qing 'shiye' legal-clerk class of Shaoxing; a provincial-level ICH.
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