Fuyang

Fuyang (富阳区) is the district that Hangzhou looks south-west toward, strung along the 富春江 where the river narrows between hills and the water is the reason the place is famous: it is the landscape behind 富春山居图, the fourteenth-century scroll that made this valley the canonical image of Chinese reclusion. Outdoor Fuyang divides into three very different days. The first is heritage and flat: 龙门古镇 in 龙门镇, the largest surviving settlement of Sun Quan's descendants, where more than 90% of villagers still carry the surname and the Ming-Qing building cluster is held together by a single clan's plan — a cobbled main street, seventy-odd lanes, forty-plus halls, three brick arches, a stream threaded through the middle. It is an easy half day and currently the district's published walk on this site. The second day is vertical: the 龙门山森林古道 leaves the same town via 瑶坞, passes a fall described as the largest in the Hangzhou region at more than 100 m, and climbs to 杏梅尖 at 1067.6 m, the highest point in Fuyang, for roughly seven hours return on unpaved ground. The third day is the valley. 黄公望隐居地 sits in 庙山坞, a bamboo fold above 黄公望村, and it has been free since 31 May 2025. The mapped path runs 2.7 km one way and 5.4 km out and back, climbing 240 m from the gate to 小洞天, the rock shelter where tradition places the painter at work. A rebuilt memorial holds a 45 m screen; the building burned in 2024 and reopened with the free gate in 2025, and the gate's hours rather than the weather set the day. 《富春山居图》 itself is split between the 浙江省博物馆 in Hangzhou and the 台北故宫, so the valley is the landscape rather than the painting's home. The 500路 reaches 黄公望森林公园南, 1.6 km below the gate; the walk is an easy half day, and the district's only route that needs no car and no ticket. Between them sit the river towns, the bamboo country and a metro line, which is what makes the district unusually reachable for what it is.