Tea Hills and a Cup of Xinyang Maojian
Follow Xinyang Maojian from the named tea hills above Nanwan Lake to the gestures of preparing a cup.
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Four Seasons in Shihe
Shihe district holds the city's old core, its mountain, its lake and most of its A-level scenic areas; its own lists explain how the parts are meant to be read.
Courtyards, Rice and a Wall of Sayings
In Haotang, a village eighteen kilometres from Xinyang, the lanes hold gourd workshops and shadow puppets, and the fields still hold rice.
Sixty-One Islands
Nanwan Lake is a reservoir with a scenic-area name, a forested rim that filters its water and a pavilion on the dam that explains both.
The Hill That Was Built for Summer
On Jigongshan, a granite peak in southern Henan, a foreign summer colony of several hundred villas was built in three decades and has been counted three different ways since.