| With the social and economic development, the tourism in the Liangzhe Area, which centered in Hangzhou, Suzhou and Shaoxing, was booming during the Song Dynasty. Tourism became an important social phenomenon not to be ignored.Tourism activities in Liangzhe area represented higher tourism development level in Song Dynasty. The abundant tourism landscape resources of Liangzhe area offered the solid basis for the development of tourist activity in Song Dynasty. The tourism landscapes had already expanded thoroughly from traditional mountains and rivers, flowers and trees, Buddhist temples and gardens to resources such as the rocks, caves, animals, oceans, etc. And the tourism landscapes showed multi-level, wide-range, and comprehensive characteristic. A large number of tourism landscapes had demonstrated obvious artificial transformation marks, thus humanity combined with natural resources of tourism landscape harmoniously. The participants of the tourism activities of Liangzhe area in Song Dynasty with extensive composition had already extended obviously to different social classes. Royal tourists, the literary intelligentsias and scholar-bureaucrats, monks and priests, foreign tourists and women tourists all took part in tourism activities. The view of tourists became wider and their aesthetic power became stronger. Among these participants, the literary intelligentsias and scholar-bureaucrats had clear purpose for tour, experienced tour skill and distinct landscape design consciousness. They put forward many relevant travel theories, and their travels had evolved from spontaneousness to consciousness already. The visitors of Liangzhe area had already paid attention to the material demands during the journey in Song Dynasty. They have done abundant preparations for the tourist activity, including the traffic tools, equipments for food and lodge, for amusement and delight, for medical treatment and the knowledge accumulation of the tourist destination. Visitors selected different methods for their travels according to individual needs. The tour activity showed divers types with the characteristic of distinct phases, outstanding universality and high concentricity. The posthouses, hotels, restaurants, temples, civilian houses and ambulatory diet stands of Liangzhe area spread all over the area and formed the complete network of diet in Song Dynasty, which offered great facility for the tourists' travel and guaranteed the harmony of the tourist activity. Except for the consumption for board and lodging, the tourists of Liangzhe area spent much in shopping and especially in entertainment during the journey in Song Dynasty. All sorts of expenditures consumed in the destination had promoted the development of local economy and increased the employment opportunity. All literary works of the tourists had made the landscapes famous promptly, which had important influence on the forming of the tourism landscapes of Liangzhe area for the coming period, especially the Dynasty of Ming and Qing. And it had promoted the development of culture of Song Dynasty in a certain meaning. In a word, the development and mature of tourist landscape resources, divers tourist-composition levels, diversity of tourist activity and complete travel facilities made up of the tourism characteristic of Liangzhe area in Song Dynasty. The appearance of these phenomena was not accident but the inevitability decided by the specific social background at that time. In the first place, it was the inevitable outcome for the social economy development of Liangzhe area in Song Dynasty. Secondly, it came from the prolonging social custom and tradition and ideal tour surroundings. Thirdly, the Government adopted the policy of emphasis on civilization, which made the literary intelligentsia and scholar-bureaucrat the core of tourism groups. It promoted the development of tourism activity in Liangzhe area. Moreover, the Government' supportings promoted the vogue evolution of tourism custom.
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