Apparently beginning to consider the idea of evacuating to south of the Yangtze River, he ordered that a major palace be built at Piling Commandery (毗陵, roughly modern Changzhou, Jiangsu), and that another palace be built at Kuaiji Commandery (會稽, roughly modern Shaoxing, Zhejiang).
The future Empress Dowager Xia was from Kuaiji Commandery (會稽, roughly modern Shaoxing, Zhejiang).
At age 42, he began travelling through China giving lectures, and ultimately settled at Jiaxing Temple, in modern Shaoxing (紹興), Zhejiang province.
After several promotions and demotions, Lu You retired in 1190 to live in seclusion in his hometown Shaoxing (紹興), then a rural area.
Tjian's father Tjian Tze-Ning (錢子寧), a native of Shaoxing, Zhejiang, was a famous capitalist in Shanghai and pioneer of China's modern paper industry.
Lu You (陸游), 1125–1210, poet and literati of the Southern Song period
In February 1997, she became the secretary of CPC Shaoxing committee.
Wu Mingji (吴明济) was a sixteenth-century Chinese scholar from the Shaoxing region.
Zhu died in Shaoxing Zhejiang Province on 18 November 1996, during an inspection of local agricultural development.
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