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Two villages in Jiaxing – Liuli village in Ganpu town and Maming village in Zhouquan town – were recently included on the sixth list of traditional Chinese villages released by the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development.

The city is now home to five national traditional villages, 12 provincial-level traditional villages and 64 municipal historical and cultural traditional villages.

Liuli village in Ganpu town, Haiyan county, Jiaxing, East China's Zhejiang province. [Photo/jiaxingren.com]

Liuli village in Ganpu town, Haiyan county boasts rich cultural and historical resources and ancient buildings.

In the Song and Yuan dynasties (960-1368), the village was the inland river transport dock of Ganpu Port, an important trade port.

Maming village in Zhouquan town, Tongxiang, Jiaxing, East China's Zhejiang province. [Photo/jiaxingren.com]

Maming village in Zhouquan town, Tongxiang, has a rich traditional folk culture, including sericulture customs, acrobatics on a high pole over a boat, Huagu Opera ("flower-drum" opera), and morning tea customs.

The Tongxiang sericulture ecosystem was selected as part of the sixth batch of China's important agricultural cultural heritage items, and acrobatics on a high pole over a boat were included in the third batch of national intangible cultural heritage items.

Acrobatics on a high pole over a boat are performed. [Photo/jiaxingren.com]