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Entries written here: the two accounts of the dialect boundary, the documentary basis of poems, the punctuation of an old gazetteer, and a survey of the heritage lists. Quotations carry juan and page; tradition and record are kept apart.

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Survey Poetry and Documents A Survey of Lishui's Intangible Cultural Heritage Lists The national, provincial, municipal and district lists, and the figures for each date Lishui has one national ICH item and 17 provincial or municipal ones as of November 2023, while district-level totals and bearer counts differ between two reported dates. This survey sets out the four tiers, the third batch and the fourth-batch public notice. intangible cultural heritageICH safeguardingDocuments Confidence: Qualifiedunchecked Long-form Textual criticism Poetry and Documents A Textual Study of Li Bai's "On the Road from Lishui" The gazetteer record and the doubt over what Lishui refers to The Kangxi Lishui County Gazetteer, juan 11, lists "Three Poems Mourning Wang Yan on the Road from Lishui" under Li Bai; a scenic-area page says he left poems in Lishui. Whether Lishui means Nanjing's Lishui or a waterway near Liyang is left undecided. Poetry and proseDocumentsTang dynasty Confidence: Unconfirmedunchecked Standard Education and culture Poetry and Documents Bai Juyi and His Lishui Connection Seeking out his uncle Bai Jikang, then county magistrate Bai Juyi went to Lishui to seek out his uncle Bai Jikang, then serving as county magistrate, and Bai Jikang died in office there. Bai Jikang's years in the post could not be verified and are not supplied here. Notable figuresPoetry and proseTang dynasty Confidence: Qualifiedunchecked Standard Survey Poetry and Documents Dragon-boat Racing in Lishui The fourth Honglan dragon-boat race, 2026 The fourth Lishui Honglan dragon-boat race, sponsored under the name Nongshanghang Cup, was held in 2026 with 27 teams; the report puts on-site and online onlookers together at 200,000. Dragon boatFestivalsthe present day Confidence: Qualifiedunchecked Standard Survey Poetry and Documents Publication of the Punctuated Edition of the Shunzhi Lishui County Gazetteer A year and a half of editorial work, reported in 2017 A 2017 report states that a punctuated and annotated edition of the Lishui County Gazetteer (Shunzhi edition) was formally published after about a year and a half of work. The publication year, publisher and editors could not be verified here. Old gazetteersDocuments Confidence: Qualifiedunchecked Standard Survey Poetry and Documents Spring Festival Customs in Lishui The great dragons of the 2025 festival and the customary performances At the 2025 Spring Festival, 40 great dragons are reported to have danced in Lishui, and the customary performances included dragon-lantern dancing, horse-lantern dancing, dragon-boat rowing and temple fairs. The figure applies to that year only. Folk customFestivalsSeasonal customs Confidence: Qualifiedunchecked Standard Education and culture Poetry and Documents Tao An's "Record of a Visit to Longming Mountain" and Wuxiang Mountain A mountain name and a ruined site in a travel account of the late Yuan and early Ming Tao An visited Longming Mountain at a friend's invitation and wrote "Record of a Visit to Longming Mountain", calling the mountain Wuxiang Mountain and noting the site of Han Xizai's reading hall and a surviving juniper; the identification is his own. Poetry and proseDocumentsNotable figures Confidence: Qualifiedunchecked Standard Dialect Poetry and Documents The Subgrouping of the Lishui Dialect Two conflicting accounts, set side by side Two accounts of the Lishui dialect exist: one places it in the Wu language, Xuanzhou group, with mixed Wu-Huai speech in the county seat; another puts northern Lishui in the Jianghuai Mandarin, Hongchao subgroup, Nanjing sub-group. DialectNotable figures Confidence: Unconfirmedunchecked Standard Survey Poetry and Documents Village History Halls, Worthy Halls and Traditional Village Protection Halls built in ancestral halls and old houses, and two separate lists of traditional villages By 2024 Lishui had built 12 village-history and worthy halls in ancestral halls and old houses, and its traditional villages fall under two separate lists, two Chinese and twelve provincial, with further villages listed later. Each figure is given with its date. traditional villageICH safeguardingDocuments Confidence: Qualifiedunchecked Standard Poetry Poetry and Documents Yuan Mei's Arrival in Lishui and "On First Arriving at the Lishui County Office" From the Hanlin Academy to the county magistracy, and the poem written on taking up the post Yuan Mei was transferred from the Hanlin Academy to serve as magistrate of Lishui, and wrote "On First Arriving at the Lishui County Office" when he took up the post. This entry records only his Lishui posting and that poem. Poetry and proseNotable figuresQing dynasty Confidence: Qualifiedunchecked Standard

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