Yellow Dragon Cave Dressed in Green
Cave park and folk-culture garden where a Song-era dragon shrine now hosts a famous monthly matchmaking gathering.
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This guide to Yellow Dragon Cave in Hangzhou centers on a monthly matchmaking market where parents trade photographs of their grown children, run for decades by a woman locals call Jin Dajie. It traces the site's older life as a Song-dynasty shrine where people prayed to a dragon for rain, and how that devotion drifted toward yuan, the idea of fated connection, before the park built shrines to a matchmaking god in 1995. You'll also hear from the Yue Opera troupe performing nearby, singing about lovers kept apart.
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