OVERVIEW OF LUCHEN :OVERVIEW OF LUCHEN
Located in the southeast of Zhejiang province. Lucheng District is the
political,economic and cultural center of Wenzhou city. It was firstly built year of Dongjing Taining(323A.D.) It is said that white deer passed by holding flowers in its mouth when the city was being built, because of which it is called the Lucheng. Since ancient times, a myraid of businessmen come together to Lucheng which has always been called “Famous Dongous Town” . During Southern Song period, a poet named Yangpan, wrote a poem like “Wenzhou is like small Hangzhou because of its prosperity. Lucheng is surrounded by mountains and faces rivers. Inside the city there are mountains and waters. It has the reputation of being as beautiful as a painting.
Writing style of Lucheng has been at the height of power and splendour, and talented people are produced by each generation from everlasting, for example, Xie lingyun, the originator of chinese landscape poems during East Jin period and Yeshi, the represen ative of Yongjia School of Thought during Southern Song period. It si also said that Wang Xizhi, a great callgraphy master has left relics like “Mochi” here.
As the central city district, Lucheng District is the earliest cradle of “Wenzhou Pattenrn” and it integrates great compendium of typical resources, long history,profound culture, fascination of Wenzhou Commercial City as well as Wenzhou spirit, The brand of “Culture Lucheng Charming Commercial City ”has been fostered gradually. Tourist resources inside the district have been tapped continuousliy. Being always called the “Cockayne of Oujiang River”, “jiangxin island” is one the four largest loney islands of scenic sprots in China and the national 4A grade tourism spot which is being upgraded to 5A grade. People are delinghted very much by numerous theme park, humanistic ancient sites and ecological landspces. “The dim light of night in Wenzhou” has become a new urban fashion of consumption,amusement and leisure. Lucheng is aslo famous for its industrial products such as garments, shoes, glasses, shaves and lighters. It has won good titles of national industrial production bases like “China Shoes City” , “China shaves Production Base ” and “China Metal Shell Lighters Production Base”.
“Making still further progress” ,Lucheng is presenting the idea of “Lucheng, great compendium of Wenzhou ” in an all-round way by means of brand new fascination and unipue culture.



