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[edit] Lake

Locally the lake seems to be called "West Lake", not "Western Lake", from what I remember. Egil 05:41 Mar 17, 2003 (UTC)

[edit] Temple

Lingyin Shi? What is this, some kind of irregular pronunciation? - Nat Krause 15:26, 26 Sep 2004 (UTC)

That is the name of a temple, which should be correctly translated to "Lingyin Temple". --Plastictv 08:34, 7 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Statistics

Statistics need to be clarified as to what rankings are actually being referred to, and sources should be cited. - Xgu 09:34, 27 November 2005 (UTC)

Lingyin Temple is very famuous in China!

Famous enough to charge a monster entry fee anyway... - NSD Student (Trust me, I'm from Hangzhou)

[edit] Hangzhou is Destination of the Month on Wikitravel

Hangzhou has been selected as the Destination of the Month for February 2006 on Wikitravel, so Wikipedians with time to spare might like to pop over and help improve the article. Please note that, due to incompatible licensing, direct copy-pastes from Wikipedia are not possible. Jpatokal 13:45, 2 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Quotes

I think the Chinese proverbs here are interesting, but I have no idea what they mean. I think a brief explaination of each would be helpful. (I checked the Chinese Proverbs page on Wikiquote, but didn't find these.) AdamBradley 07:43, 19 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Sights

The lake is called West Lake, or Xi Hu. I think the sights section of this article might be in need of improvement. It's just a bulleted list. Also, there are notes about geography in the intro, like how it's 180km from Shanghai, but shouldn't that be mentioned in geography? Lulu288 16:59, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Date of Mongol invasion?

The article says

Hangzhou was the capital of the Southern Song Dynasty from the early 12th century until the Mongol invasion of 1276

The articles Kublai Khan, Mongol Empire and Mongol invasions all give a date of 1279 for the invasion. So is 1276 a typo, or did the invasion take so long? AxelBoldt 00:26, 2 April 2007 (UTC)