八卦田遗址公园
Checkerboard field of eight ritual plots at the foot of a hill, its true origin still under scholarly dispute.
This guide to the Bagua Tian ruins park in Hangzhou opens with a claim that stuck for five centuries: guidebooks have long called this checkerboard field the Eight Trigrams Field, where Southern Song emperors dug a ceremonial furrow to bless the harvest. You'll hear how a Hangzhou researcher, Wei Feng, went back through the records in 2023 and began questioning that story, tracing the site instead to construction ordered in 1143 under an official named Yang Cunzhong. The guide follows how a Ming-dynasty pavilion and a later travel guide helped the farming legend take hold. Look at the eight wedge-shaped plots below the railing, planted red or green depending on the season.
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