Shen Yuan is located in Yanghe Lane, southeast of Shaoxing City. It is said that Shen Yuan was built by a gentleman surnamed Shen. Chitai was very prosperous in Song Dynasty, and it was a famous garden in Yuezhong. Because of the beautiful surroundings of the garden, there are terraces, pavilions, rockery ponds, and so on, the poets and painters of the past dynasties often come here to compose poems and paintings, most famous for Lu You and Tang Wan's "Chaitoufeng".