Liuke Hall

　　Liuke Hall is located in Feiying Park in Huzhou City and was originally built during the Northern Song Dynasty. Its original site was situated to the east of the back garden of the prefectural office, constructed by Li Gongze of the Song Dynasty. The hall got its name from the gatherings of six celebrated poets who once met there. In 1996, it was rebuilt in the southwest corner of Feiying Park. According to research, the six poets associated with Liuke Hall are: Su Shi, Zhang Xian, Chen Shunyu, Yang Hui, Li Chang, and Liu Shu. In September of the seventh year of the Xining reign during the Northern Song Dynasty, Yang Hui, then the governor of Hangzhou who was about to return to Nanjing to be promoted to Hanlin Academician, and Su Shi, who had been promoted from Hangzhou Tongzhi (an official position) to the governor of Hangzhou, invited Zhang Xian (who was living in seclusion in Jiaxing), Liu Shu (in Suzhou), and others to join them in Huzhou. There, they gathered with their old friend Li Chang, the governor of Huzhou, at Liuke Hall. Together, they composed poetry and lyrics, and the gathering was so enjoyable that they couldn’t bear to end it. Legend has it that Su Shi attended the gathering on two separate occasions.