Deqing

Deqing is a county inside the prefecture-degree city of Huzhou, within the northwest of Zhejiang province. Located within the center of the obvious between the Hangzhou Bay and the Taihu, most of Deqing County is flat, criss-crossed via severa canals. The western end of the county is mountainous. There, the famous visitor areas of Moganshan is placed. Moganshan is a scenic mountain, an hour from Hangzhou, with many pre-World War II villas built by way of foreigners, together with certainly one of Chiang Kai-shek's Guomindang compounds.

Zisiqiao Village, placed within Deqing County's Xinshi Town, is famend as a middle of snake farming. The locals have been raising snakes since the 1980s; currently, approximately 800 humans in Zisiqiao paintings in snake farming enterprise, raising some 3 million snakes a year. Live snakes are furnished to specialty restaurants; dried or preserved in alcohol, they're offered to producers of traditional Chinese drugs; snake-infused wine is made as nicely. The village is nicknamed "Snake Village" with the aid of the media, and Deqing Snake Culture Museum is a nearby traveler attraction.