Kuaiji

IN 240 B.C., Lu Buwei, the Prime Minister of China under the first Emperor of the Qin dynasty, directed the compilation of an encyclopedia of all that was known. Called the "Spring and Autumn Annals," the encyclopedia included myriad tales, this among them: "The King of Yue stopped at Kuaiji. There, he poured wine in the river. His men drank from the waters and then fought with a hundredfold more energy."

Yu, the legendary king who founded China’s Xia dynasty, which supposedly existed from around 2070BC to 1600BC, told his ministers in his old age that after his death, he wished to be buried on the Kuaiji Mountain, which is around 150km (90 miles) southwest of Shanghai.