Talk:Hangzhou

message: Is the map that shows the province highlighted the right one?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.230.125.229 (talk) 21:25, 1 February 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: THAT MAP CAN'T BE RIGHT!!  The dot on the "Location in China" map isn't even in Zhejiang Province!! 24.18.218.123 (talk) 23:58, 6 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Map 

message: Locally the lake seems to be called "West Lake", not "Western Lake", from what I remember. Egil 05:41 Mar 17, 2003 (UTC)
:I mean, both are just variant translations of Chinese  but, yeah, "West Lake" is the standard English form for the place. — LlywelynII 12:11, 20 July 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lake 

message: Lingyin Shi?  What is this, some kind of irregular pronunciation? - Nat Krause 15:26, 26 Sep 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: That is the name of a temple, which should be correctly translated to "Lingyin Temple". --Plastictv 08:34, 7 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Temple 

message: 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)
thread_title:  Statistics 

message: 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)
thread_title:  Hangzhou is Destination of the Month on Wikitravel 

message: 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)
replies: text: Done. The page for Liuzhou already had a good explanation of the first quote, which I mostly lifted and put here. The second is fairly self-explanatory, but I've added a clarification.Rpine75 (talk) 15:55, 23 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Quotes 

message: 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)
thread_title:  Sights 

message: 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)
replies: text: The invasion of Southern China begna somewhere between the 1260's and early 1270's, depending on what you consider the starting point. The Mongols declared the Yuan Dynasty in 1271 after conquering northern China, then began invading the south. Initially, the Southern Song held their own against the Mongols, but started losing ground over time. Hangzhou (then called Lin'an) fell to the Mongols in 1276. The Southern Song Dynasty ended in 1279, after the decisive Battle of Yamen.Rpine75 (talk) 16:07, 23 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Date of Mongol invasion? 

message: The reference links are broken (link to the Forbes article in the Economy section is missing).  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.109.53.47 (talk) 00:53, 19 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Links

message: Per WP:MOS-ZH, since we already cover the Chinese characters and romanizations in the infoboxes (repeatedly), we should not duplicate that information in the lead sentence. It's unsightly and breaks up the flow of the article; we have those in most articles so the info is handy... but that's what's going on in the infobox.
Also, not sure who thought it was "Cross" or "Crossing Capital", but that's not what the name means. It's from the use of zhou (effectively, "county") to describe the seat of the county. ("Capital" is much too glorious a notion to capture the same idea.) The county was named Hang, which in Old Chinese meant 'sailing' or 'using a boat', but probably referred to a local Baiyue name with Austroasiatic roots. No idea what the original would've meant though. — LlywelynII 12:06, 21 July 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Lead

message: Are we sure about this? I saw it at Wuyue's article as well, but the Chinese version of this article and the mirror at Baidu Baike (the PRC's shanzhai wiki) have no mention of it at all. Can anyone provide Chinese characters for that name or is it just a mistake someone made for Xihu (West Lake) that has been passed down through various pages here? — LlywelynII 12:24, 21 July 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: It seems to be correct. Baidu Baike says "" and then "" and a search on Google books found many other sources such as  which says, "". Rincewind42 (talk) 07:58, 22 July 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks. Still seems odd—if it was the national capital—to refer to it by a name of a provincial capital. Or maybe they were using fu in some other sense? ("Western Government?") — LlywelynII 05:35, 24 July 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Xifu?

message: I've seen Qiantang listed as Hangzhou's "original" name, but if it was really in honor of the Qians who ran 10th-century Wuyue, it can't possibly predate the 6th-century name Hangzhou. The article originally claimed that the settlement was originally called Yuhang, which was obviously off since that was at an entirely separate location (albeit within the present municipality's borders). Was Yuhang the original Hangzhou and the present city only dates to the Wuyue period? or was there another original name for the settlement between the West Lake area and the river? — LlywelynII 07:52, 24 July 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Qiantang?

message: Or the curious:
* This work has an extended discussion of Hangzhou's city god temples (chenghuangmiao) and the character of the city since the Tang.
 — LlywelynII 00:29, 25 July 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Sources for article expansion

message: I think the current city montage is too dark, small and not very informative. -JesseW900 (talk) 04:48, 17 December 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: City Montage

message: What is missing from the recently created city timeline article? Please add relevant content. Contributions welcome. Thank you. -- M2545 (talk) 16:32, 19 May 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Timeline of Hangzhou]] 

message: This is reported as $12,447.  This is also the same number that is reported for China in the CIA factbook.  It should be noted that the Hangzhou gdp per capita is an imputed figures and as such is not necessarily an accurate estimate of the actual figure.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2607:F010:3FE:FFE5:0:0:0:2 (talk) 10:10, 7 September 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hangzhou gdp per capita 

message: under the Southern Song ("Sung") is given by the "China" article for the Encyclopaedia Britannica, 9th ed., as "King-sze, i.e., the Court". The second character is obviously 子, but any idea what the first one is? Searching Baidu for Hangzhou Jingzi isn't helpful at all. Maybe 政子？ — LlywelynII 11:09, 30 July 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Another alt name

message: Timeline of Hangzhou has a source saying the Taipings were only in Hangzhou 1861–3. Are they wrong? or is this article? — LlywelynII 04:25, 28 December 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: Taiping

message: Hahahahahahahahahaha ~ ~ ~ ~ 
No. 
I get that it's uncommon either way but it's Hangzhounese to the extent that it's anything. Any idea who put the current nonsense there or what source they provided? Otherwise, we should speedily fix this before it gets permanently attached to the Wikibarnacles.09:11, 17 May 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: Demonym: Hangzhouians

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