嘉兴历史悠久，文化灿烂。早在六七千年前，先民们就在这里繁衍、生息，孕育了长江下游早期的新石器文化—马家浜文化春秋战国时期，嘉兴是吴越争战之地。

　　嘉兴秦时置县，称由拳。三国吴时，更名为禾兴，后称嘉兴，地名已有1700多年。隋凿江南运河，穿城而过。至明代，嘉兴已有“江南—大都会”之称，历来被誉为“丝绸之府，鱼米之乡。”嘉兴历代名人辈出。西汉时有辞赋家严正、严助；晋代有“文澡宏丽，独占党时”的陆机、陆云；南晋有小说祖师干实；唐代有十大名相之一的陆执；明清之际有杰出的思想家吕留良；清代有一代文宗朱彝尊、晚清大儒沈曾植；近代有国学大师王国维、出版巨匠张元济；现代有伟大的爱国主义者沈钧儒、著名文学家矛盾、著名诗人徐志摩、著名漫画家张乐平、丰子凯及武侠小说大师金庸等。

Historic culture tourist scenery

Jiaxing is a place with long history and shining culture.6 or 7 thousand years ago, the ancient peasants made their lives here and gestated Neolithic culture in lower reaches of Yangtze River---Majiabang culture. During the spring Autumn and Warring state period, Jiaxing was an important place of the fighting between Wu and Yue kingdom.

Jiaxing was a country in Qin Dynaty and was called Youquan. During the 3 kingdoms period, in the Wu kingdom, it was called Hexing. The name of Jiaxing was made afterward and it has a history of over 1700 years. In sui dynasty, the canal was made through the city. Till Ming dynasty, Jiaxing gained the name of “ metropolitan in Jiangnan” and is well known for the “home of silk and land of rice and fish”. There are many famous persons originated from here, namely, Yanzheng, Yanzhu, Poet fo West Han Dynasty; Luji and Luyun, famous for their rich word capacity and power in Jin dunasty; Ganbao, novelist founder of south Jin; Luzhi, one of the most famous premier of Tang Dyansty; Lu Liuliang, well known ideologist of Ming and Qing Dynasties Zhu Lizun, master of literature of Qing Dynasty; shen Zengzhi, great publisher of modern times. In modern times, there are shen Junru, great person of patriotism; Maodun, famous man of literature; Xu Zhimo, famous poet; Zhang Leping and Feng Zikai, famous cartoon painter; and Jinyong, master of chivalrous novel.

从上到下依次为：
曝书亭Pushu Pavilion
春晖堂   Chunhui Hall
出土文物   Culture relics unearthed
矛盾故居  Former residential place of  Maodun

徐志摩故居  Former residential place of Xu Zhimo 

　　嘉兴人文景观、旅游资源丰富。潮、湖、河、海自然风光优美。城南有革命圣地南湖，嘉善有“生活着的千年古镇”西塘，平湖有东南沿海“夏威夷”九龙山海滨，海盐有江南“一片真山水”南北湖，海宁有天下奇观钱塘湖，桐乡有矛盾故乡乌镇等。全市共有县级以上文物保护单位130多处。

　　2002年，全市的旅游业继续快速增长，全年接待境外游客22.43万人次，比上年增长133.3%；接待国内游客859万人次，比上年增长22.5%。

　　嘉兴已通过国家旅游局验收，成为中国优秀旅游城市。

Jiaxing has abundant culture relics and tourism interests. There are beautiful tide, lakes and rivers. To the south of city, there are the rev revolutionary saint place of south Lake and other places like Xitangliving ancient town of thousands of years; 9 dragon sea shore of the south east coast of Pinghu, which is called the “Oriental Hawaii”; south and north lake of Haiyan, which is famous for “ a truly water and mountain”; Qiantang river tide, a wonder of Haining; Wu Zhen, the birth place of Maodun in Tongxiang. In addition, there are more than 130 country level culture relics protection places.

In 2002, the tourism industry of the city saw a sustained increase by receiving overseas guests of 224,300, which is 133.3% higher than that of last year; receiving domestic guest of 8.59 million, which is 21.5% higher than that of last year.

Jiaxing has passed the evaluation of the state tourism bureau and becomes and excellent tourist city in China.

烟雨楼  Building of  misty rain

从上到下依次为：
海宁潮  Haining tide
九龙山  Nine-dragon Mountain
乌镇      Wuzhen Town
南北湖   South and north lake