[2025 Hangzhou Attraction] Travel Guide for Yellow Dragon Cave Scenic Area (Updated Apr)

#discoverchina 🐉 A Living Daoist Sanctuary - Home to the Yellow Dragon’s Legend – Where a Song Dynasty monk tamed a drought-causing dragon - Still an active Daoist temple with morning chanting (6:30 AM daily) 🎭 Unexpected Gem: Yue Opera Hub - The Huanglong Yue Opera Troupe performs classics like 《梁祝》(Butterfly Lovers) at: - 10:00 AM & 2:00 PM (Weekdays) - Hourly 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM (Weekends) 📍 Location: No. 3 Huanglong Road, Xihu District, Hangzhou 🕒 Hours: 7:30 AM – 6:00 PM (Apr–Oct) | 8:00 AM – 5:30 PM (Nov–Mar) 🎫 Admission: ¥15 (Includes Yue Opera performance) 🚇 Transport： Metro Line 3 to Huanglong Sports Center Station, Exit B

📌Here's your guide to the Yellow Dragon Cave night tour!📌 👀The Yellow Dragon Cave Scenic Area has a unique charm, especially at night. Check out this night tour guide!🎈 📍Address: No. 69 Shuguang Road, Hangzhou (Ticket office of the Yellow Dragon Cave Yuanyuan Folk Culture Park) 🕙Opening hours: There are two shows, one from 7pm to 8pm and the other from 8:30pm to 9:15pm. 💰Tickets: 15 CNY during the day [no show], 88 CNY for the night tour [with show, Hangzhou Cultural Tourism Benefit Card accepted]. 🚇Transportation: Take Metro Line 3 to Huanglongdong Station and walk 10 mins to the scenic area. ✨Night Tour Highlights: 1️⃣ Yue Lao Temple: The scenic area has a Yue Lao Temple with a history of more than 400 years, dedicated to marriage. In the center of the temple is a statue of Yue Lao, holding a "marriage certificate" with a kind expression. Here you can pray for red ropes and lucky bags, hang them on the peach blossom trees behind the Yue Lao Temple, pray for your wishes to come true, and receive blessings from the Old Man under the Moon.💕 2️⃣ Immersive Interactive Performances: Integrating emotions into the scenery and using the scenery to guide the play, follow the program to experience the magnificence of the Yellow Dragon Cave at night. The programs are wonderful, including NPC park interaction, Zen questions in the bamboo forest, immersive holographic projection mapping show at Yue Lao Temple, Tree Whispers, and Yue Lao's Blessing, creating immersive and enjoyable opportunities to make friends and a social space full of interactive atmosphere.🎭 3️⃣ Photo Spots: There are many photo spots such as Bamboo Forest and Full Moon, Yuanyuan Butterfly Dream, Yellow Dragon Spitting Green, and Square Bamboo Garden. Beautiful, fun, and great for photos and strolling!📷 ⚠️Important Notes: 1. Plan your time in advance and choose the show time that suits you. 2. Pay attention to the weather and make corresponding preparations. 3. Follow the rules of the scenic area and be a civilized traveler. Come to the Yellow Dragon Cave and embark on a romantic night tour!🎉

Among all the scenic spots in West Lake, "Yellow Dragon Sprinkling Green" is probably the most low-key. It is also the only scenic spot without a hole among the three caves in Hangzhou. Coming here, I really experienced the beauty of the combination of nature and humanity. It is said that the origin of Huanglong Cave was that a Zen master named Huikai encountered a yellow dragon that split the rock and flew up to heaven, so it is also called "Flying Dragon Cave". Nowadays, a large number of different landscapes have been added, such as Liu Hai playing with the toad, Yue Lao Temple, and a stage of Huanglong Yue Opera Theater, making the scenery of the whole place more fulfilling. Even so, the ¥15 ticket price is still a very reasonable price. We sat down there for a while, and finally climbed up Qixialing to take a look and feel the natural atmosphere. It's already feeling a bit like summer, but it's still quite cool here. The brothers couldn't help but sigh that interacting with nature makes people feel relaxed and happy. This must be what the ancients called the spiritual energy of heaven and earth! Fortunately, I left behind a poem at the last moment: Huanglong is green but not competing for beauty, lying quietly in the stream beside West Lake. The whole courtyard is filled with green shade and the fragrance is refreshing. The matchmaker presented the rope of marriage, and Liu Hai offered the golden toad fairy. Huikai found a cave with no door, and the stage made a sound to cross the natural danger.

📍Address: No. 69 Shuguang Road, West Lake District 🚇Subway: Line 3 Huanglong Cave Station Exit C 🎫Ticket: 15 yuan, half price for the elderly/children/students Tour highlights: 1️⃣Yuan Stone (at the main entrance): There is often a matchmaking corner nearby. 2️⃣Yue Lao Temple: For those seeking marriage connections, besides Faxi Temple, there's also this place. 3️⃣Huanglong Tucui: Stele (see picture). 4️⃣Xi Garden Stage: Yue Opera performance (free). 5️⃣Touyuan Pool: Wealth fate, love fate, marriage fate, literary fate, career fate, child fate. If you're not watching the opera, it takes about an hour to tour Huanglong Cave, and after coming out, you can go directly to the Gem Mountain to overlook West Lake. Coming down from Gem Mountain, you will reach the edge of West Lake.

Unknowingly, the "New Year's flavor" in Hangzhou is getting stronger and stronger, and various "Benefit Tours to Songfu" activities inside and outside the city will be launched in the near future! According to incomplete statistics, the 2024 "Song" Blessings Hangzhou Year event has joined hands with various districts, counties (cities) in Hangzhou to launch Spring Festival couplets, market lantern shows, exhibitions and performances, intangible cultural heritage experiences, lectures and salons across the city... a total of more than 260 Spring Festival features Activities, no matter where you plan to spend the Spring Festival holiday in Greater Hangzhou, you can experience the purest "Song" New Year flavor of Hangzhou. In addition, this year is the Year of the Dragon. Hangzhou dragon dance, fish dragon lanterns, dragon pattern embroidery, dragon carvings and other traditional folk customs that have been passed down to this day are all available. You can participate in the Year of the Dragon New Year Aesthetic Art Exhibition at the Deoksugung Palace Ruins Museum of the Southern Song Dynasty and participate in the "dragon" Intimate interaction, try a variety of interactive gameplay such as "Deshou Ruyi Dragon" check-in, golden dragon seal blessing, finishing touch and so on. So the question is, where should friends who like some traditional culture go to experience the "taste of the New Year"? Uncle Cricket advises everyone not to be anxious, and recommends taking the subway to reach the scenic spot directly, which has the triple advantages of the Spring Festival and also has the "feeling of Chinese New Year opera"! The Huanglong Cave scenic spot in Hangzhou, whose full name is Huanglong Cave Yuanyuan Folk Garden, is located at the northern foot of Qixialing in the North Mountain of West Lake. It covers an area of ​​5.8 hectares. It is an elegant scenic spot with towering ancient trees and lush bamboos! Interestingly, the life story of Huanglong Cave in Hangzhou is a bit twisty. At first, Huanglong Cave was also known as "Wumen Cave" and "Flying Dragon Cave". Monk Huikai built a temple here to practice. One day, a loud noise affected Huikai. The monk Huikai took a closer look and found that a clear spring came out of the stone. It seemed that it came because of Huikai's arrival. Because he was destined to the dragon, he named it Huanglong Cave. After that, Huanglong Cave was a Buddhist resort in the Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties, and was changed to a Taoist temple in the 11th year of the Republic of China (1922). Unfortunately, in modern times, the fountains on the rock wall of the pool were smashed, and some pavilions and corridors collapsed due to disrepair. Huanglong Cave gradually lost its reputation. However, gold always shines. In the modern era, with an investment of 135,000 yuan in repairs from 1979 to 1980, Huanglong Cave regained its vitality. The gate tower, main hall and other buildings were repaired, the faucet was reshaped, the Huanglong spitting water landscape was restored, and the Huanglong Cave was renovated. Use its courtyard base to plant square bamboos. Gradually became known. What is gratifying is that in 1985, Huanglong Cave was rated as one of the ten scenic spots in the new West Lake in the name of "Yellow Dragon Spitting Green", as well as the performance of ancient music and Yue Opera in the park, as well as the Yuelao Temple, gradually becoming the old Hangzhou People's hearts are good. The blind dates held every weekend have made Huanglong Cave famous! After the friends came to Huanglong Cave, the scene was refreshing, with pine trees and green trees everywhere, vague pavilions, and "fate" highlights such as the Touyuan Pond, Liu Haixi Toad, and Yuan Yuan Terrace distributed among the details, which increasingly attracted people to seek secluded places. The interest in exploring the scenic spot is quite akin to a "hidden dragon and crouching tiger" spirit. Moreover, whenever the beginning of the year comes, Huanglong Cave also has a very special "New Year flavor", that is, you can "listen to the opera" on February 12 (the third day of the first lunar month) and February 14 (the third day of the first lunar month). 5) Specially organize Yue Opera performers to perform Yue Opera excerpts for everyone, such as "Three Looks at the Royal Sister", "Tang Bohu Spots Autumn Fragrance" and other programs, which are breathtaking! After communicating with fellow tourists, everyone felt that Hangzhou Huanglong Cave has three advantages and is worth visiting! First, explore ancient times. Huanglong Cave is both a Buddhist and Taoist resort. It has the Huanglong Cave historical site. Since the Southern Song Dynasty, it has enjoyed a high reputation as one of the five dragon worship sites on the West Lake. Second, Blind Dating, like Wansong Academy, is a famous "Dating Corner" in Hangzhou. There will also be random performances of shuttlecock kicking, diabolo playing, and square dancing to provide fitness exercises for ordinary citizens. There is also the Yuelao Temple in Huanglong Cave, as well as red koi carps, red lanterns, "fate" that can be seen everywhere on courtyard walls and plaques... Third, listen to the opera. In the middle of the park, traditional music such as Butterfly Lovers, Golden Boughs, Dragon and Phoenix Lock, Silver Ping, and Jade Dragonfly are often performed. There are usually three performances in the morning and afternoon. Overall, Huanglong Cave is a treasure park with fresh air and a feeling of "fresh green on the moss marks and bamboo marks, and the color of the grass and leaves are eye-catching"! Tips for visiting Huanglong Cave in Hangzhou: Tickets are 15 yuan. It is located at No. 69 Shuguang Road, Huanglong Commercial District, Xihu District, Hangzhou. You can take Metro Line 3 and get off at [Huanglongdong] station. Friends with strong physical strength can also climb the mountain trail on the right side of Huanglong Cave, passing by Baisha Spring-Chu Terrace-Baopu Taoist Temple-Agate Temple-Beishan Road. The challenging route is full of rewards! This article is the original property of the author "Uncle Cricket Loves Traveling". Any reproduction or plagiarism without authorization is prohibited. Violators will be prosecuted! For more fun, free, and novel attractions where you can eat, drink, and have fun, please follow "Uncle Cricket Loves Travel"! You look great, don’t forget to leave a like at the end of the article, it can help you make travel plans! Have you ever been to this attraction? Welcome to leave a message to exchange and discuss!