Manjuelongcun
Terraced hillside village where every autumn's osmanthus harvest is candied, brewed and baked for sale.
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This guide to Manjuelongcun in Hangzhou opens with a Ming dynasty official's six-hundred-year-old account of a village that lived off a single flower, and follows the osmanthus trees that still ring these hills each autumn. You'll hear how growers turned a ten-day bloom into a year-round trade, packing blossoms into candied sweets, scenting West Lake Longjing tea and pressing cakes for winter. Listen for the knock of bamboo poles against the branches around you, still the sound of harvest today.
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